Sentences with phrase «court judicial nominees»

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

Not exact matches

While his nominees have received blue slips from Democratic senators in Colorado, Michigan, and Indiana, Trump has mostly avoided naming judicial nominees for district and circuit courts from states represented by at least one Democrat.

On Thursday, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon announced that they will block a judicial nominee for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals who had been announced as Trump's pick just earlier that day.

While the denial of a blue slip does not legally restrict a judge from being approved, Glenn Sugameli, an attorney who is an expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email earlier this week that «no circuit court nominees have been confirmed over objection of one (or two) home state senators — including under Obama.»

That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number of judicial nominations made at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors.

Moreover, when the Senate changed its filibuster rules in 2013, so that judicial nominees were exempt, the change did not extend to Supreme Court nominees.

On November 21, 2013, the Senate used the so - called «nuclear option», voting 52 - 48 — with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against — to eliminate the use of the filibuster on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees, except to the Supreme Court.

The answer is that since November 2013 a simple majority has sufficed because of the Senate's decision to end the use of the filibuster in respect of all nominees to Federal judicial and executive branch positions other than to the Supreme Court itself.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate coCourts and, in some states, state appellate courtscourts).

Garcia is Cuomo's first Republican nominee to the court and officials have denied there was a trade between the governor and Senate Republicans for the judicial nominations.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday urged a state panel charged with the screening of judicial nominees to speed up the process of selecting potential candidates to replace the late Sheila Abdus - Salaam on the state Court of Appeals.

Long's proposition is that her work as a judicial activist organizing the opposition to non-conservative Supreme Court nominees will give her a particular advantage in attracting independent expenditures.

Long served as counsel to the Judicial Crisis Network (back when it was the Judicial Confirmation Network) and worked closely with a number of conservative ideological groups to support George W. Bush's court nominees, and later, to oppose, President Obama's picks.

In the case of the Supreme Court vacancy, the Judicial Delegates, also elected by Democratic voters in the Primary, then vote for the Democratic nominee from among the qualified candidates at a judicial conJudicial Delegates, also elected by Democratic voters in the Primary, then vote for the Democratic nominee from among the qualified candidates at a judicial conjudicial convention.

The state's Commission on Judicial Nomination on Thursday submitted the seven nominees to Gov. Cuomo, who has until Dec. 1 to pick one of them to replace retiring Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.

During the judicial primary elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their selections for Civil Court judge primarily on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the nominees, who are virtually guaranteed election in November given the borough's Democratic tilt.

MAYVILLE - The Democratic Nominee for Chautauqua County Family Court Judge has received an unfavorable rating for a local judicial commission — despite the fact that she received a favorable rating just two years earlier.

That is the question media writer Dan Kennedy asks at his blog Media Nation about Margot Botsford, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's nominee for a seat on the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Ccourt, the Supreme Judicial CourtCourt.

As a result, recent nominees to both the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals all admire Justice John Marshall Harlan II, judicial restraint, and all agree that Korematsu, Plessy v. Ferguson, Lochner, and Dred Scott are the worst Supreme Court decisions ever handed down.

Did not take long after the election for Gov. Patrick to name his nominee to succeed Margaret Marshall as chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court.

«Hearings on the nomination of the Honorable Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court are scheduled to begin March 20 and interest in the nominee's judicial record is high.

NationalJournal.com has an item headlined «Sessions Says He's Looking For Judicial Restraint; New Ranking Member On Senate Judiciary Panel Describes What He's Seeking In A Supreme Court Nominee.»

«A Deep Bench»: Today in The New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich (N.D. Ohio), along with her judicial law clerks, Alex Frondorf and Richard J. Hawkins, have an op - ed that begins, «To succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, President Obama should select a nominee with experience that no other sitting justice has — service as a trial judge on a federal district court.&rCourt, President Obama should select a nominee with experience that no other sitting justice has — service as a trial judge on a federal district court.&rcourt.»

For around 60 years, conservative and liberal judicial nominees praised the school desegregation decision Brown v. Board of Education as a groundbreaking statement of equality by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The site's founders intend that attorneys, judges, litigants and the public will use these forums to post candid comments, information and opinions about the nation's courts, judges, judicial nominees and cases.

There are forums for every court and judge in the federal judiciary, as well as forums for federal judicial nominees (here is the forum for John Roberts) and federal appellate court opinions.

and other one - world liberals who have persistently pressed judicial nominees in recent years to consider the legal opinions of foreign courts and other bodies when deciding cases here at home?

The judicial nomination process has turned up some embarrassing news about 4th Circuit nominee E. Duncan Getchell: Back in 2004, a Virginia appeals court dismissed his appeal of an $ 8 million jury verdict because Getchell and his firm failed to file the trial transcript.

But on the op - ed page of the Hartford Courant, Norm Pattis urges an end to the whispering campaign about another federal judicial nominee, Vanessa Bryant to the U.S. district court in Connecticut, who received a «not qualified» rating from the ABA earlier this week.

HB 420 (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the judicial selection commission to publicly disclose its list of nominees for appointment to the office of the chief justice, supreme court, intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, or district courts concurrently with its presentation of that list to the governor or the chief justice.

Links to relevant sites: Supreme Court of Canada Federal Court of Canada Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Ad Hoc Committee to Review a Nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada [no website yet] Canadian Judicial Council

The Third District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission has been asked to provide Governor Rick Scott with nominees for the vacancy in the Third District Court of Appeal resulting from the resignation of Judge Frank Shepherd.

The Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements (along with 13 co-sponsors) is recommending the House endorse use of bipartisan commissions to consider and recommend nominees to fill vacancies in the federal district courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals.

In 2012, Arizona voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have increased the number of judicial nominees submitted to the governor from three to eight, and in 2013, the supreme court struck down a statute that would have increased the number of nominees to five.

Opponents of court reform have targeted ethical rules aimed at promoting the integrity and independence of the judiciary; public financing for judicial elections; and the use of nonpartisan merit commissions to screen judicial nominees.

Today President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate an eleventh wave of judicial nominees as follows: If confirmed, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaiʻi will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

FRANKFORT, Ky., June 25, 2014 — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the vacant District Court judgeship for Anderson, Shelby and Spencer counties.

The state's constitution provides the judicial nominating commission must submit «a list of three nominees» to the governor for vacancies on the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals.

For more information about the Seventeenth Judicial District Court nominees, click here.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the vacant Warren County Family Court judgeship.

FRANKFORT, Ky., Oct. 25, 2012 — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., met today in Burkesville, Ky., to choose three nominees to fill the vacant Circuit Court judgeship in the 40th Judicial Circuit.

When a vacancy occurs before the expiration of any term of office in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission on Judicial SelecCourt or the court of appeals or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission on Judicial Seleccourt of appeals or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission on Judicial Selection.

As someone who can watch these developments unfold at something of a comfortable distance, what are your views on the judicial confirmation battles underway in the U.S. Senate, the use of filibusters, and the use of recess appointments to place filibustered nominees onto the federal appellate courts?

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