The most glaring example of this was President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Bork had taught law at Yale and served as solicitor general. He served as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. No decision for which he wrote the court's opinion was overturned. Bork was exceptionally qualified.
Senators are competent to assess judicial nominees on their own.
It's time to end the pretense that the ABA is an unbiased judge of potential judges.