1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i Evaluation Process and Ratings of Supreme Court Nominees by the American Bar Association March 22, 2022 This Insight provides information related to the evaluation and rating of a Supreme Court nominee by the American Bar
2、Association (ABA). Once a President nominates, or announces an intention to nominate, an individual to a vacancy on the Court, the nominee is evaluated by the American Bar Associations Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. The committee states that each evaluation “focuses solely on a nominee
3、s professional qualifications” and “does not take into consideration a nominees philosophy, political affiliation or ideology.” A nominees professional qualifications include his or her integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperament. According to the committee, it “conducts the most ex
4、tensive nationwide peer review possible of the nominee on the premise that the highest court in the land requires a lawyer or judge with exceptional professional qualifications.” Consequently, the evaluation process typically involves conducting hundreds of interviews with those “persons most likely
