News Article: Trump appoints young Alabama lawyer to be a judge

TIDE-HSV · Nov 16, 2017

Jon said:
please, a Whipple? Sounds easy------>googles----> nevermind I would kill anyone I tried to do that on

I'll reiterate from the other thread. I wouldn't care if Brett felt exactly the same way I did on every single topic he simply is not qualified for this job and he should remove himself from consideration.

A pathologist once replied to my identical question - "You end up with a pile of guts on the table beside you"...

CharminTide · Nov 16, 2017

This time Bazza's thread made the news:

Trump Judicial Nominee Brett Talley Appears to Have Disparaged Muslims in Message Board Posts

seebell · Nov 16, 2017

I don't know much about being a Judge. BiB has been a law clerk for several important Judges as well as assistant attorney general. Does a person really have to be a trial lawyer to be a judge? I thought BiB was for unrestricted immigration?

Tidewater · Nov 16, 2017

No one has asked this question, but I wonder how Stern et al. knew to look at Tidefans. I mean if a guy gets nominated for the federal bench, the first thought of most Slate journalists is not, "Let's see if he has an account on a sport message board."

TIDE-HSV · Nov 16, 2017

Tidewater said:
No one has asked this question, but I wonder how Stern et al. knew to look at Tidefans. I mean if a guy gets nominated for the federal bench, the first thought of most Slate journalists is not, "Let's see if he has an account on a sport message board."

You'd better bet we've been asking the question. The only logical answer is that someone who posts here tipped them off...

RTR91 · Nov 16, 2017

You guys do know Brett's been married for a few years, right? Not like he got married a few months ago, and then Trump nominated him.

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Jon · Nov 16, 2017

RTR91 said:
You guys do know Brett's been married for a few years, right? Not like he got married a few months ago, and then Trump nominated him.

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I had no idea, no. Must have missed it or forgot.

there was a very clear difference in him once Trump started to ascend. Honestly it shocked me at the time. A guy who I knew to be reasonable and willing to be honest in debate suddenly wasn't. And then he got smart and vanished

I suspect it was that he was too close with his wife a White House insider and all. He can't really come on here and talk Russia with us when his wife is being interviewed by the Special Consuls office as a part of the Russia investigation can he?

92tide · Nov 16, 2017

Tidewater said:
No one has asked this question, but I wonder how Stern et al. knew to look at Tidefans. I mean if a guy gets nominated for the federal bench, the first thought of most Slate journalists is not, "Let's see if he has an account on a sport message board."

sounds like the guy found it from the post where he mentioned the wapo article and his name here a few years back

Tide1986 · Nov 16, 2017

Tidewater said:
I was wondering how his name came up to Trump to begin with. I mean, he is a Harvard grad (did I read that correctly?), which ain't nothing, but having limited experience in the court room would mean waiting, finding jobs that would qualify him, doing well at those jobs, gaining a solid reputation, then, if the offer came a decade or two down the road, go for it.

Then, I saw on the Buzzfeed article that he's married "to a lawyer in the White House counsel's office, Ann Donaldson." I think that oversight will cost him more than any opinion he might have expressed on this forum.

Interesting to note that a recent Obama nominee to the Supreme Court didn’t have much trial experience. But maybe trial experience isn’t important to serving a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the land and hearing the most important cases.

RTR91 · Nov 16, 2017

Jon said:
I had no idea, no. Must have missed it or forgot.

there was a very clear difference in him once Trump started to ascend. Honestly it shocked me at the time. A guy who I knew to be reasonable and willing to be honest in debate suddenly wasn't. And then he got smart and vanished

I suspect it was that he was too close with his wife a White House insider and all. He can't really come on here and talk Russia with us when his wife is being interviewed by the Special Consuls office as a part of the Russia investigation can he?

Think he's been married for a couple of years now.

I figured he's not posted much (he hasn't much on any sports board) because he's too busy compared to previous jobs.

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Chukker Veteran · Nov 16, 2017

TIDE-HSV said:
You'd better bet we've been asking the question. The only logical answer is that someone who posts here tipped them off...

I haven't tried it, but googling his name might lead a researcher to the Washington Post write up about his fiction writing, as well as his post from tidefans that included his name when he started the thread about the article.

I wonder if the non-sports board has seen a spike in traffic now that we are in the news.

Tidewater · Nov 16, 2017

92tide said:
sounds like the guy found it from the post where he mentioned the wapo article and his name here a few years back

Yes, but finding his posts are like finding a needle in a field full of haystacks. How did Stern know which haystack to look in?

Crimson1967 · Nov 16, 2017

They may have gotten a google hit here in connection to him promoting his books.

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MattinBama · Nov 16, 2017

TIDE-HSV said:
You'd better bet we've been asking the question. The only logical answer is that someone who posts here tipped them off...

The other day I mentioned not surprised that Buzzfeed had google but after I said that I tried a few times to use my Google-Fu to search excluding any kind of mention of Tidefans to see if I could pull up one of the Tidefans threads where he mentions who he was in search and didn't have any luck. Was trying again just now and of course it's a lot harder because of how many new articles there are about him clogging up the search but still even going 10 pages deep on some searches I don't see anything. Granted someone more focused on journalism may have me outclassed at google-fu.

92tide · Nov 16, 2017

Tidewater said:
Yes, but finding his posts are like finding a needle in a field full of haystacks. How did Stern know which haystack to look in?

he's got a blurb at the bottom asking folks to email him with posts from bamainboston, so i think he's got a bunch of nerds searching the forum for posts he's in.

Tide1986 · Nov 16, 2017

Crimson1967 said:
They may have gotten a google hit here in connection to him promoting his books.

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In a cursory Google search the other day, the only TF thread that came up for me was someone asking about one of his books with no reference to him (book title only).

MattinBama · Nov 16, 2017

There we go, I feel a LITTLE better about my google-fu now (except for the fact that the second brett talley was supposed to have a j and no spaces like his website which I just now realized).

https://www.tidefans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=288837

Maybe 86's fault, :biggrin:

TIDE-HSV · Nov 16, 2017

seebell said:
I don't know much about being a Judge. BiB has been a law clerk for several important Judges as well as assistant attorney general. Does a person really have to be a trial lawyer to be a judge? I thought BiB was for unrestricted immigration?

Well, now. There have been many people with academic backgrounds appointed, just not any I can think of with a few years clerking and closing loans doesn't count at all. The ABA doesn't hand out "NQs" lightly. This year, the Trump administration departed from a custom set back when Eisenhower was in office in 1953 in refusing to submit potential nominees for review pre-nomination. They stated they would give them the names afterwards...

Tide1986 · Nov 16, 2017

TIDE-HSV said:
Well, now. There have been many people with academic backgrounds appointed, just not any I can think of with a few years clerking and closing loans doesn't count at all. The ABA doesn't hand out "NQs" lightly. This year, the Trump administration departed from a custom set back when Eisenhower was in office in 1953 in refusing to submit potential nominees for review pre-nomination. They stated they would give them the names afterwards...

I haven't studied all of the nominations, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump's nominees are trending on the younger side.

Tidewater · Nov 16, 2017

Wow, google the guys name and you'll see a guy in a KKK doing a Nazi salute,

(That is literally one of the photos that accompany a story on Talley), he was a ghost hunter.
If one of you guys wants to do me a favor, don't do me a favor.
Or, if you just can't help yourself, at least spell my name right: Edmund Drew.

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