Sotomayor gets boost in bid for Senate approval

By GottaLaff

In other Not Michael Jackson news:

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor got a boost on Tuesday in what is expected to be a relatively easy road to Senate confirmation when an influential U.S. lawyer's group gave her its top rating.

The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary based its unanimous "well qualified" evaluation on a review of the integrity, competence and judicial temperament of Sotomayor, a federal judge for 17 years who seems headed to become the first Hispanic on the highest U.S. court. [...]

The ABA, with more than 400,000 members, describes itself as the world's largest voluntary professional membership organization. Founded in 1878, it has been providing evaluations of judicial nominees since 1953, a spokeswoman said.

That's great, but come on... I bet every nominee gets that rating from the ABA...

Clarence Thomas is the only current member of the Supreme Court not to receive a "well qualified" from the ABA. He was rated a notch below at "qualified," the spokeswoman said.

My bad.

And let's be honest, ABA, "qualified" was a little over the top.