Headline: Forbes, 4/18/2022
The ABA stated that their reasons for giving Mizelle a “not qualified” rating include that "since her admission to the bar Ms. Mizelle has not tried a case, civil or criminal, as lead or co-counsel."
Mizelle was admitted to the Florida Bar on September 12, 2012. When she became a judge, she had been an attorney for eight years. The ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary states that appointees should have practiced for a minimum of 12 years. Mizelle had five years of experience in the trial courts. The ABA noted that Mizelle’s lack of experience was “a rather marked departure from the 12 [sic] year minimum.”
In 2017, the Trump administration notified the ABA that they would no longer have access to background information on judicial candidates before their nominations. The last presidential administration to do this was under George W. Bush.
Don't you just love GOP transparency?
Mizelle confirms her 'not qualified' status.
The administration argued that masks qualified as "sanitation" under the law, but Mizelle disagreed, opting for a much narrower definition of the term that would exclude measures like face coverings. Legal experts say her interpretation missed the mark.
"If one of my students turned in this opinion as their final exam, I don't know if I would agree that they had gotten the analysis correct," said Erin Fuse Brown, a law professor at Georgia State University.
"It reads like someone who had decided the case and then tried to dress it up as legal reasoning without actually doing the legal reasoning," she added.
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