Sentences with phrase «court appointee»

A special master is usually a court appointee whose job it is to assist with making sure the judgment is carried out properly.

In many ways, such a view from a Supreme Court appointee who has yet to take up his role is surprising.

While Winfree was Palin's one Supreme Court appointee, she has made 10 appointments to trial court positions, including three women.

Legal aid is under review again as the Government set out proposals for the reform of payments through the Litigators» Graduated Fee Scheme and changing rates for court appointee work.

With Republicans holding a 52 - seat majority, eight Democratic lawmakers would need to vote to end debate for the high court appointee, and only two have announced their support.

Yet opportunities to function in both French and English are unevenly distributed across the country, raising the possibility that the new bilingualism requirements will significantly alter the pool of potential Supreme Court appointees.

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...

Another rule shift in the Senate could signal that Republicans are open to an even quicker approval process that also strips Democrats of what's been their primary leverage in blocking court appointees.

Gascon will not be subject to the public hearings Harper introduced with Justice Richard Wagner's appointment and has required of all Supreme Court appointees.

The clear implication is that if criminal lawyers do not accept the MoJ's proposals for reform of the LGFS and Court Appointees scheme as set out in the consultation, the suspended cut may be reintroduced.

«If you don't like it, then take it to court» is a dare that can be thrown out cavalierly, because the parenting coordinator role permits these court appointees to hold over the head of objecting parties the power — baselessly presumed to be executed in good faith — to obtain the ear of the judge first, and to poison the well.

Not exact matches

In his decision today, Judge Thomas B. Griffith, a George W. Bush appointee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, writes:

Obama says he believes in an individual right to keep and bear arms, but if even one of the non-liberal Justices is replaced by an Obama appointee, you can be sure that we will have an anti-Heller and anti-individual right majority on the Supreme Court.

Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee to the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., said the proposal to end DACA was «arbitrary and capricious» and the Department of Homeland Security had failed to «adequately explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful.»

The lawyers were going into court to defend clients like the Little Sisters of the Poor, trying to resist mandates on abortion, and these lawyers were facing three - judge panels containing appointees of Clinton and Obama.

Policy would name Judge George White, a Carter - administration appointee to the U.S. District Court in Cleveland, director of the Cleveland Browns Foundation.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled before the election that the CFPB's leadership structure of a single agency appointee who could only be sacked for cause was unconstitutional and needed change.

An invitation obtained by Capital Tonight shows Faso has lined up prominent Republican donors in upstate New York, including businessman John Nigro, communications and publicity expert Mark Behan, developer Emil Galasso and former Court of Appeals Judge Victoria Graffeo, an appointee of then - Gov.

A long - serving president could eventually have a majority of his appointees on the Supreme Court.

President Akufo Addo promised he will not shield corrupt appointees under his watch, and that he will protect the public purse, this is a test case for the president to cause investigations into the matter by the appropriate body and to allow the perpetrators put before the law court.

A third judge, Pataki appointee Albert Rosenblatt, wrote a concurring opinion that said the court would be shirking its duty if it «punted» and left to future cases the determination of the bright line's location — even though that's exactly what it did.

I fully expect that Senate Democrats are going to use the filibuster as much as possible to stonewall Trump appointees to the courts.

DiFiore, a formerly - Republican prosecutor and former appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is the governor's pick to lead the state's Court of Appeals, Cuomo said Tuesday morning in Harlem.

Right now, the court consists of four Republicans (Graffeo and Associate Judges Robert Smith, Eugene Pigott and Susan Read) and three Democrats (Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman and Associated Judges Jenny Rivera and Sheila Abdul - Salaam, the latter two Cuomo appointees who replaced two Democrats, the late Theodore Jones and the retired Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick).

The meaning of a signature on a ballot access petition was explained well by U.S. District Court Judge Philip Pratt, a Nixon appointee, in Hall v Austin, 495 F.Supp.782 (eastern district of Michigan, 1980).

Republican appointees currently hold a 4 - 3 majority on the court, a balance that Cuomo could tilt toward Democrats by replacing her.

An ally of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to be confirmed this week as New York's top judge, with the governor's appointees now closing in on complete control of the state's highest court.

Janet DiFiore, a formerly - Republican prosecutor and former appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is the governor's pick to lead the state's Court of Appeals, Cuomo said Tuesday morning in Harlem.

Continuing a trend of cushy landings for high - level appointees who leave or are pushed out of their posts, Mayor de Blasio has nominated former Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor to be a Family Court judge.

His government has also been harshly condemned over the recklessness exhibited by some appointees and the raiding of courts and offices by the ruling party's vigilante groups.

John Cahill, former secretary to ex-GOP Gov. George Pataki; AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes (also serving on Cuomo's transition team this year); George Bundy Smith, former Court of Appeals judge (a Mario Cuomo appointee); ESPA Executive Director Ross Levi (also doing double - duty on the Schneiderman and Cuomo transitions); Sean Patrick Maloney (2006 AG contender, aide to Govs. Spitzer and Paterson); Marty Mack (former Spitzer / Paterson aide); Jerry Goldfeder (election attorney and former Cuomo aide); Richard Aborn (’09 Manhattan DA contender).

The court voted 5 - 4 to uphold the law including the controversial individual mandate, with Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of President George W. Bush, sided with the liberal wing.

He touted the 150 state Senate confirmations for appointees, including MTA Chairman Joe Lhota and Court of Appeals Judge Paul Feinman.

He has already made two appointments: Jenny Rivera, a Latina and law professor, (replacing Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, his father's appointee and the first Hispanic judge on the court); and Sheila Abdus - Salaam, an associate justice in the appellate division, who is the first black woman to serve on the court, (she replaced the late Theodore Jones, an African - American appointee of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer).

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Trump's attack on Robart, a 2003 George Bush appointee, would firm Democratic resistance to the presient's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Continuing a trend of cushy landings for high - level appointees who leave or are pushed out of their posts, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has nominated former Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor to be a Family Court judge.

Fisch, a former state Supreme Court judge from the Bronx who was appointed inspector general in 2008 by Gov. David Paterson, is responsible for investigating corruption and mismanagement in state offices run by gubernatorial appointees.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced the newest appointee to the City Court on Friday.

Bonventre says though dissents more than doubled under the dominance of the Pataki appointees, the New York Court of Appeals is much more amiable, overall, than the famously partisan US Supreme Court.

Asked about Roe v. Wade in an interview on «60 Minutes» last month, Trump said that his Supreme Court judges appointees «will be pro-life,» and that abortion protections would then «go back to the states.»

Read, an appointee of Republican Gov. George Pataki, joined the Court of Appeals in January 2003, serving until here retirement in August 2015.

This has been preceded by a flurry of media headlines, subjecting him to an open - air political trial and a trial in the court of NPP public opinion supported with earlier pressure from some leading Members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Government, to commence prosecution of former NDC Government appointees including Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni for alleged acts of corruption for over a year now.»

History shows that governors, as well as presidents, often find that their appointees to high courts do not always vote the way the executive might like them to, says court expert and Albany Law School professor Vince Bonventre, who attended the hearing.

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, and defence lawyers in the trial of some former government appointees for their roles in a supposed $ 6 million fraudulent deal between the National Communication Authority (NCA) and Infraloks Development Limited (IDL), argued in court today [Tuesday], about the number of days the case should be heard in a week.

WAMC's Political Observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts with David Guistina on the new lock box challenge which now includes WAMC's First Amendment Fund, President Trump firing his acting Attorney General and Obama Appointee Sally Yates, and President Trump naming his Supreme Court pick today.

As the personal appointee (Law Clerk) of Family Court Judge Anthony McGinty (9 years).

The proposed amendment establishes a redistricting commission every 10 years beginning in 2020, with two members appointed by each of the four legislative leaders and two members selected by the eight legislative appointees; prohibits legislators and other elected officials from serving as commissioners; establishes principles to be used in creating districts; requires the commission to hold public hearings on proposed redistricting plans; subjects the commission's redistricting plan to legislative enactment; provides that the legislature may only amend the redistricting plan according to the established principles if the commission's plan is rejected twice by the legislature; provides for expedited court review of a challenged redistricting plan; and provides for funding and bipartisan staff to work for the commission.

Flanagan said that in contrast, state Senate Republicans, who have had an icy relationship with Gov. Cuomo in recent months, nonetheless unanimously approved his recent «highly qualified» appointee to the state's top court.

Recall that members of the Delta Force had appeared before the court in connection with a precious act of attacking the president's appointee for security coordinator.

With no final decision on the lawsuit expected until well after the Trump administration takes office — and with administration appointees including the proposed secretary of labor and the Republican - controlled Congress apparently opposed to the change — observers believe that, even were the new rule to survive court scrutiny, it would likely be overturned.