On a day when the United States surpassed a quarter of a million people dead from COVID-19 , Senate Republicans were busy taking action on something else: confirming another one of President Donald Trump s judicial nominees rated not qualified by the American Bar Association.

The Senate spent Wednesday afternoon confirming Kathryn Kimball Mizelle to a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Every Republican present voted yes . Every Democrat present voted no .

Mizelle, 33, earned the ABAs embarrassing not qualified rating because of her lack of experience. She doesnt meet the ABAs requirement that a nominee to a lifetime federal judgeship have at least 12 years of experience practicing law. Mizelle has been practicing law only since 2012, which the ABA notes is a rather marked departure from its standard.

She has also never tried a case civil or criminal as lead attorney or co-counsel.

She presents as a delightful person and she has many friends who support her nomination. Her integrity and demeanor are not in question, the ABAs evaluation concludes. These attributes however simply do not compensate for the short time she has actually practiced law and her lack of meaningful trial experience.

Mizelle is Trumps 10th court pick to get the not qualified rating, an exceptionally high number for a president. None of President Barack Obama s court picks got the rating in eight years. Six of President George W. Bushs nominees earned the rating in his two terms.

More than 220 national human rights and civil rights groups opposed Mizelles confirmation, citing her stunning lack of experience along with her involvement in civil rights rollbacks at Trumps Justice Department.

During her time at the department, she supervised litigation for the Civil Rights Division and Civil Division, which, among other things, filed a Supreme Court brief arguing that businesses have a right to discriminate against LGBTQ customers and dropped the governments longstanding position that a Texas voter ID law under legal challenge was intentionally racially discriminatory.

This nominee has been put forward not only because she is an ultraconservative ideologue, but also because she is a Trump loyalist, having worked in the Trump Justice Department to dismantle many critical civil rights protections, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights wrote to senators in September. The Senate must reject her nomination.