Sentences with phrase «federal bench»

The phrase "Federal bench" refers to the group of judges who serve on the United States federal judiciary. These judges are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to preside over federal courts and interpret federal laws. Full definition
«Senator Schumer communicated to the White House this week his support for John Sinatra Jr. to serve on the Western District federal bench in Buffalo,» Jason Kaplan, a spokesman for Schumer, a New York Democrat, said.
In her article, Women Not Applying for Federal Benches, Schmitz reports the following previously unpublished statistics on who is seeking federal judicial appointments in Canada:
The intermingling of law and fact in the actual malice determination is no greater in state or federal jury trials than in federal bench trials.
Another question is whether a new administration also might reconsider the ABA's role in evaluating federal bench nominees, including those to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Represented John Lee Malvo, one of the two accused D.C. snipers, against federal criminal charges in Maryland at the request of the Maryland federal bench.
The burning of the blue slip is the latest product of what amounts to Trump's attempt at quickly reshaping the federal bench and build a legacy early in his administration.
The wild week is almost certain to see similar iterations in the coming weeks and months with Trump's impressive number of early nominations to the federal bench.
For while President Trump is incompetent at countless aspects of his job, he is proving wildly successful in one respect: naming youthful conservative nominees to the federal bench in record - setting numbers.
Would you have any hesitation about appointing a Muslim to the federal bench?
John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.
As I understand it, this committee room is a place for public inquiry by the Judiciary Committee into my qualifications for the federal bench.
Beyond stipulating that, I do not think it appropriate for a nominee to the federal bench to comment on issues on which I might have to rule.
Well, I certainly didn't mean to apply some sort of «religious test» to your qualifications for the federal bench, Professor...
In all these instances jurists are, according to the Times, disqualified from being considered for the federal bench.
For the last five years, a group of gifted teachers of philosophy and law has been meeting regularly with friends on the federal bench under the auspices of our James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding.
Collins and Murkowski have no track record of stopping President Trump's judicial appointments, picks that are generally improving the federal bench.
During his tenure on the federal bench in Chicago he was known more as a shameless publicity seeker than as a dispenser of justice.
I've told the White House that I think this would be a good nomination for the federal bench but they haven't made the name public so I don't want to,» Schumer said.
We are left with Mr. Trump's apparent resolve to appoint very conservative persons to the Federal bench.
«Based on Judge Boggs» ten - year track record as a state trial and appellate court judge, the President believes he is qualified for the federal bench.
And that's what broke out this week when Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer announced he would support the nomination of Buffalo attorney John L. Sinatra to the federal bench.
For the years before being elevated to the federal bench in 2015, Donnelly served as a state judge in New York, presiding over many criminal trials.
New York County jurists have also done remarkable things on the federal bench.
Judge Jones was one of the most respected jurists on the federal bench and remains one of the most respected lawyers in the city of New York.»
U.S. District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe has been on the federal bench since 1997.
Before her appointment to the federal bench in 1980, she served as a King County Superior Court judge for the State of Washington.
Sotomayor will write about growing up in the South Bronx; her relationship with her mother and the loss of her father when she was nine years old; her inspiration as a young girl to become a lawyer; her journey to Princeton University (on a full scholarship) and later to Yale Law School; and finally, to a life in the law, culminating with her appointment to the federal bench... The book will be published simultaneously in a Spanish - language edition by Vintage Espanol.
Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench.
In this autobiography, she details her journey from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench.
Kinkeade, who was appointed to the federal bench by former president George W. Bush in 2002, said he suspects Schneiderman and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey were motivated to open inquiries in the wake of an investigative series of stories first by Insideclimate News and later by the Los Angeles Times that disclosed Exxon was aware of the consequences of climate change as early as 1977.
Probably the best - known blogger on the federal bench — indeed, perhaps the only other blogger on the federal bench — is Richard Posner, judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Chicago, who has been co-author of The Becker - Posner Blog for nearly a decade.
It seems the federal government has pissed lawyers off again, this time over who's applying for spots on the federal bench.
Since 1953, the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary has conducted independent, nonpartisan peer evaluations of the professional qualifications for nominees to the federal bench.
The event, co-sponsored by the Women Lawyers Forum and Equality Issues section focused on providing practical information on the process of seeking an appointment to the provincial or federal bench.
In a federal bench trial, successfully defended a Vermont municipality against a former employee's constitutional claims premised on allegations of retaliatory discharge.
After I accepted the clerkship, I sought out all of the advice I could from faculty members who had clerked on the federal bench (Professor Roberts and Professor Sneirson).
Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, he worked in various county courts throughout the state of North Dakota, and even served as a state court judge for nearly a decade.
He went on the federal bench, and made a hell of a record.
The Leiter Reports offers a listing of the top 30 law schools with the most alumni on the federal bench.
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia: John Paul Stevens leaves behind a distinguished career of service on the federal bench, first on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and then, for the last 34 years, on this Court.
His understated literary flair made his opinions as quotable as those of any other judge on the federal bench.
The data reflects the ongoing need to compile statistics on the appointment of judges of color to the federal bench.
For over two decades, the Report on the Integration of the Federal Judiciary has charted the appointment and elevation of minority lawyers to the federal bench.
Not the best qualtities for a federal bench that should have a limited role in public and social disputes.
In a video interview with The Oklahoman (below), Henry said he looks forward to leaving the «monastery» of the federal bench and returning to greater participation in civic, political and academic affairs.
The chief judge of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Robert H. Henry, is stepping down, swapping his tenured position on the federal bench for a university presidency and tenured professorship.
All good things to bring new perspectives to the Court, and, in the case of (b), break a silly tradition [that Justices MUST be from the federal bench] that has evolved.»
Then again, the facts surrounding Judge Kent's impending departure from the federal bench aren't entirely commonplace either.
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