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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Vining, Richard., Steigerwalt, Amy. and Smelcer, Susan. "Bias and the Bar: Evaluating the ABA Ratings of the Bush Judicial Nominees" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 02, 2009 <Not Available>. 2010-07-07 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p363529_index.html>

Vining, R. L., Steigerwalt, A. L. and Smelcer, S. N. , 2009-04-02 "Bias and the Bar: Evaluating the ABA Ratings of the Bush Judicial Nominees" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-07-07 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p363529_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In one of his earliest actions as president, George W. Bush removed the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary from its role in the recruitment and vetting of federal judges. The Committee was accused of unfairness toward conservative nominees motivated by a preference for liberal jurists. With the Bush years drawing to a close, we examine the ABA’s ratings (‘well qualified,’ ‘qualified,’ or ‘not qualified’) of the Bush nominees to the lower federal courts and their earlier counterparts from 1977-2008 to evaluate this claim. We examine, in light of Bush’s comments and other studies identifying bias in ABA ratings (e.g., Lindgren 2001), whether that holds true. We construct an ordered logit model to explain the roles of experience, career path, education, race/gender, and political affiliation in ABA evaluations of judicial nominees. In addition, we discuss whether the ABA has responded to criticism in recent ratings and whether it should be returned to its former role in the president’s evaluation of prospective judicial nominees.

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