Glover signed effusive letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett for 7th Circuit. Chaos at Judicial Selection Commission over March 31st vote.

Governor Ned Lamont’s nominee for the Supreme Court hailed Amy Coney Barrett’s 2017 nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Sandra Slack Glover joined other Supreme Court clerks to Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s ranking member, in a letter attesting to Barrett’s “conscientious work ethic, her respect for the law, and her remark legal abilities.”

The letter came from the Supreme Court clerks who served with Barrett in the October 1998 term. Glover and the other signatories assured Grassley and Feinstein that Barrett “is smart, honorable, and fair-minded….” Many will disagree with that judgment in view of her record on the Supreme Court, to which she was elevated at the end of the Trump administration.

Glover has more immediate issues before she is asked to explain her public assessment of Barrett. The secretive Judicial Selection Commission met on March 31st to act on Glover’s application for approval to the bench. It did—but only to the Superior Court, according to the commission’s minutes. The failure to approve Glover’s application for the high court—a write-in on the meeting agenda—is an embarrassment for Lamont and the commission.

The commission will write-in Glover again at Friday’s closed-to-the-public meeting.

Published April 25, 2023.