and the procedures relevant to being a circuit judge.
....and you got the impression that this moron being interviewed KNEW how to be a circuit judge???
Hell, he didn't seem to know all that well what a freaking motion was all about.
No, I didn't.
Again, I simply got the impression that the single metric presented here doesn't tell a complete story.
It's not a single metric, the guy has zero experience and he doesn't know basic legal terminology. Sure, maybe he can spell his name and he memorized his home address but who cares?
Sorry, but from what I can tell, it's still a single metric, that metric being his lack of experience in court. The terms he was asked about were all specific to litigating at the federal level. Call them basic all you want, I'm willing to bet you're no more qualified than I am to define what is basic knowledge for someone practicing any particular sort of law. As far as I know, the lack of experience in trying cases might be adequate explanation as to why he didn't know the definitions or concepts he was probed about.
That said, his lack of knowledge in these areas is potentially a problem, but this thread is full of people trying to portray this like it's some unprecedented move. Again, Elena Kagan had very little trigger time in actual court rooms when she got put on the Supreme Court, and thus far that hasn't proven to be a problem.