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<h3 id="ra-headline"><span style="color: #808080;"><em>&#8216;All things messy in Alabama for Trump!&#8217;</em></span></h3>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>White House rescinds controversial judicial appointment of neophyte Alabama lawyer who&#8217;s never tried a federal case </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>Brett Talley&#8217;s nomination by President Trump to a federal judgeship has been under bipartisan fire for failing to disclose that he&#8217;s married to a White House lawyer</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>The 36-year-old Alabama native, has only practised law for three years &#8211; he also failed to disclose highly political and insensitive pro-gun blog posts </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>He called President Obama&#8217;s attempt to expand background checks after the Sandy Hook massacre &#8220;the greatest attack on our constitutional freedoms in our lifetime.&#8221; </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>His nomination was nailed finally when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Chuck Grassley [R-Iowa], called on the White House to pull Talley&#8217;s nomination</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-286761" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Brett-Talley-2.jpg" alt="Brett Talley 2.jpg" width="1200" height="799" />Brett Talley is seen at the Holy Rood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.</h6>
<p>Amid bipartisan backlash, the White House on Wednesday withdrew an inexperienced Alabama lawyer from consideration for a lifetime federal judgeship, according to a report.<br />
Brett Talley, who currently serves in the Justice Department&#8217;s legal policy office, made national headlines after President Trump appointed him to a spot on the U.S. District Court in Alabama despite the fact that he had never argued or tried a case in federal court.<br />
The news that Trump is giving up on trying to confirm one of his most controversial judicial nominees, was confirmed Wednesday by the White House.<br />
“Talley has offered to withdraw his nomination, thus it will not be moving forward,” said a White House spokeswoman.<br />
The Talley withdrawal comes just one day after the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley [R-Iowa], called on the White House to pull Talley&#8217;s nomination.<br />
Talley, who is a 36-year-old deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, has only practised law for three years and has never tried a case. He failed to disclose to the Senate that <span class="bn-clickable">his wife is chief of staff to White House counsel Don McGahn</span>, who oversees the judicial nominations.<br />
He’s tweeted about Hillary Clinton being <a class="bn-clickable" href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/brett-talley-criticism/index.html" data-beacon="{";p";:{";lnid";:";“rotten,”";,";mpid";:3,";plid";:";http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/politics/brett-talley-criticism/index.html";}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1"><span class="bn-clickable">“rotten,”</span></a> and said his solution to the Sandy Hook shooting massacre <a class="bn-clickable" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/a-trump-judicial-nominee-appears-to-have-written-about?utm_term=.tgx2EJRpj#.orPXL7Y0G" data-beacon="{";p";:{";lnid";:";“would be to stop being a society of pansies and man up.”";,";mpid";:4,";plid";:";https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/a-trump-judicial-nominee-appears-to-have-written-about?utm_term=.tgx2EJRpj#.orPXL7Y0G";}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1"><span class="bn-clickable">“would be to stop being a society of pansies and man up.”</span></a><br />
Talley, who also writes horror novels and was <span class="bn-clickable">a paranormal activity investigator</span>, earned the rare distinction of being rated <a class="bn-clickable" href="https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/uncategorized/GAO/TalleyratinglettertoGrassleyandFeinstein.authcheckdam.pdf" data-beacon="{";p";:{";lnid";:";unanimously “not qualified”";,";mpid";:6,";plid";:";https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/uncategorized/GAO/TalleyratinglettertoGrassleyandFeinstein.authcheckdam.pdf";}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:6" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1"><span class="bn-clickable">unanimously “not qualified”</span></a> by the American Bar Association. The fourth Trump judicial nominee to earn that rare professional thumbs down.<br />
Despite his lack of credentials, every Republican on the Judiciary Committee <span class="bn-clickable">voted to advance Brett Talley </span>to the Senate floor last month. The tide changed this week, as chairman Grassley unexpectedly told reporters he wanted the White House to withdraw Talley’s nomination. citing the American Bar Association&#8217;s unusual rating of Talley as &#8220;unanimously unqualified.&#8221;<br />
Also Wednesday, Grassley told reporters that another of President Trump&#8217;s judicial nominees, Jeff Mateer, won&#8217;t be going anywhere either.</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-286762" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Donald-Trump-25.jpg" alt="Donald Trump 25.jpg" width="1200" height="794" />President Trump nominated a critically under-qualified Brett Talley for a federal judgeship in Alabama</h6>
<p>Mateer, who had been tapped for a lifetime federal judgeship in Texas, has cited the existence of transgender children as evidence of &#8220;Satan&#8217;s plan.&#8221;<br />
Talley also has a history of invoking Satan, but in a fictional context.<br />
Trump nominee failed to reveal marriage to White House lawyer<br />
The 36-year-old has penned numerous horror books, several of which focus on paranormal activity and the occult. His latest, released this past April, is titled &#8220;The Fiddle Is the Devil&#8217;s Instrument.&#8221;<br />
Already facing flak over the American Bar Association rating, Talley came under additional scrutiny last month after he failed to indicate on publicly available congressional forms that he&#8217;s married to a White House lawyer.<br />
The Alabama native, who has only practised law for three years, also came under fire for failing to disclose highly political pro-gun blog posts, one of which called President Obama&#8217;s attempt to expand background checks after the Sandy Hook massacre &#8220;the greatest attack on our constitutional freedoms in our lifetime.&#8221;<br />
Sen. John Kennedy [R-La.], was the first Republican to raise problems with Talley, saying he would <span class="bn-clickable">vote against his confirmation</span> because he’s “never tried a lawsuit in his natural life … Give me a break.”<br />
Ironically, in his job at the Justice Department, Talley vets judicial nominees and helps them with their nomination paperwork.</p>
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Trump rescinds controversial judicial appointment of Brett Talley – Married to a White House lawyer, ‘Unqualified’ Talley has never tried a federal case
