Sentences with phrase «court nomination hearings»
Norm Pattis has One Question for Alito in the Supreme Court nomination hearings that begin Monday, Jan. 9, with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The ongoing effort turned particularly hot this week as Democratic senators moved to block two of his circuit court nominations while two of his other nominees to top courts were grilled during a Capitol Hill hearing.
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.
In a statement personally signed by the presiding judge, Justice A. M. Liman, the court granted a restraining order on any member of the National Working Committee of the PDP who was removed from office by the Party's National Convention in Port Harcourt from receiving nominations and or submitting names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as officers or candidates of the PDP in whatever capacity pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice brought by the Party.
Of the 29 failed Supreme Court appointees, there seem to have only been two that didn't have Senate hearings, one being Merrick Garland (Barack Obama's nominee), whose nomination expired on January...
What will we be hearing next - that Andrew is in line for a Supreme Court nomination??
An Abuja Federal High Court will today hear the suit filed by a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji L'aziz Jimoh, challenging the nomination...
Meanwhile, an Accra High Court which heard the PPP's case ordered the EC to allow the party to correct errors in their nomination forms.
Then - President Barack Obama nominated Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat last year, but McConnell refused to hold hearings on the appointment, and the nomination expired earlier this year.
Following the ruling of the Supreme Court, which effectively extended the nomination period to November 8, 2016, and following the hearing provided you today, we should be grateful if you would do the following.
Westchester County DA Janet DiFiore, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pick for chief judge of the Court of Appeals, will have her nomination put to a hearing today at the state Capitol, where the Republican - led Senate Judiciary Committee will have the opportunity to question her and examine her credentials before making a recommendation to the full Senate.
Rep. Peter King is calling for hearings in the U.S. Senate to consider the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
Matthew Petersen, Trump's district court nominee who struggled to answer basic legal questions at his confirmation hearing last week, has withdrawn his nomination, a White House official said.
In testimony during the Senate's confirmation hearings last week, the local congressman for the 16th District, Jose Serrano, praised the nomination of native Bronxite Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A notable instance came in the congressional elections of 1992, a year after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas during hearings on his nomination for a Supreme Court seat of having sexually harassed her when they had previously worked together.
President Barack Obama nominated Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat last year, but McConnell refused to hold hearings on the appointment, and the nomination expired earlier this year.
Robinson's nomination now heads to the floor of the House and Senate for a vote, along with Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's last batch of 30 superior court judge nominees who had hearings on Monday.
Graham made his remarks during the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination.
WASHINGTON — Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave tepid support during hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court to the most crucial precedent that governs cases involving religion and the public schools.
Ten judges will hear the case en banc (Chief Judge Garland has recused himself due to his nomination to the Supreme 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.
As you've probably already heard, yesterday, the Senate confirmed the nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.
And Tommy Goldstein of Stanford Law School and Scotus Blog will be liveblogging the hearings next week at their spinoff Supreme Court Nomination Blog, where there is already a ton of great information about Roberts, including all the cases he argued in the Supreme Court and a round - up of the latest headlines on the hearings.
Roberts kept recusing himself from issues that he said could come before the Court, Schumer kept accusing the nominee of refusing to answer questions on day three of his nomination hearings.