Sentences with phrase «federal judgeship»

In contrast, the administration sent multiple names for other positions, including for federal judgeships and US attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority.

Then, regardless of the strength of a Democratic majority in the Senate, use 51 votes to fill EVERY Federal judgeship qwith the most liberal judge immaginable.

Meanwhile, President George W. Bush is reportedly renominating 20 attorneys to federal judgeships who couldn't achieve approval from Senate Democrats last time «round.

Four candidates — two lawyers and two federal judges — have received high marks from the Virginia State Bar in their applications for an Alexandria federal judgeship.

Rep. Chris Collins is pushing his business partner's brother, John L. Sinatra Jr., for federal judgeship, stunning good government advocates and raising concerns among women lawyers because he would take the seat that the Obama administration wanted to fill with Buffalo's first - ever female district court judge.

José Alberto Cabranes, who later went on to become the first Puerto Rican to be appointed to a federal judgeship, published an exhaustive review of the legislative deliberations over the question of Puerto Rico's political fate following America's annexation of the island.

Landis insisted, however, on retaining his federal judgeship, deducting his $ 7,500 government salary from the $ 50,000 that baseball had agreed to pay him.

For Devine — Daley's top deputy in the state's attorney's office, former Chicago Park District Board president and now a highly respected trial lawyer in private practice — that could include a federal judgeship or even U.S. attorney in Chicago if Jim Burns steps down.

Tonight on the Senate floor, during a debate on the nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) attempted to read a letter from Coretta Scott King that had been persuasive in his previous hearing as part of an unsuccessful nomination to a federal judgeship.

Her crime: reading aloud a letter from Coretta Scott King criticizing sitting senator and Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions back in the»80s, when he was up for a federal judgeship.

Rep. Chris Collins, a Clarence Republican who has been one of Trump's most outspoken backers, expressed frustration about the new president's slow progress in appointing people to federal judgeships and jobs — including those in Western New York.

Wendy Vitter, an outspoken anti-abortion activist and Louisiana lawyer nominated by Trump for a federal judgeship, refused to affirm whether she's opposed to school segregation during a congressional hearing.

Mr. Crowley thus needed someone who would slip away quietly by the time the next election rolled around, and although Mr. Lancman said he had no designs on Mr. Crowley's seat — he suggested to some lawmakers that he would be up for a federal judgeship or a job in D.C. — the party named instead the plodding David Weprin, a longtime insider, who promptly went down to defeat at the hands of Republican Bob Turner.

After 24 years as a magistrate, Azrack was recommended to President Barack Obama for a federal judgeship by Sen. Kirsten Gilliband (D - N.Y.), and was confirmed by the Senate in 2014.

Glick says she's not backing any one specifically, but she says there are several openly gay judges in lower courts across the state, and at least one has been mentioned for a federal judgeship.

Allegations that Sessions spoke positively about the Ku Klux Klan, referred to a black prosecutor as «boy» and called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as «un-American» derailed his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 under then - President Ronald Reagan.

Outgoing Monroe County District Attorney Mike Green is no longer in line to receive a federal judgeship.

Last month, Sharpton ripped Trump's selection of Sessions for Attorney General, outlining allegations that he had spoken positively of the Ku Klux Klan, called a black prosecutor «boy» and recalling his description of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People «un-American» that hindered his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 under the late President Ronald Reagan.

And when the Senate Democratic leader announced in late March 2015 that he would not run for reelection, Sandoval returned the favor by praising his one - time patron for the federal judgeship.

Sessions» nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 under Ronald Reagan was derailed by allegations that he spoke favorably of the Ku Klux Klan, called an African - American prosecutor «boy» and the NAACP «un-American.»

Right now Collins, of Clarence, is under a cloud of ethical controversies including his sponsorship for a federal judgeship of John L. Sinatra Jr., the brother of a business partner and his sponsorship of legislation benefiting an Australian pharmaceutical company in which he was a leading stockholder.

During a Senate hearing for a federal judgeship this month, Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, pressed President Trump's judicial nominee Wendy Vitter on whether she believed «Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided?»

Warren has been in the news for being silenced when citing Coretta Scott King's letter during a debate on the nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship.

Davis, a Nassau County circuit judge, was first nominated for the federal judgeship in February 2012.

An appointment to a position for life (the moral equivalent of a «Life Lord» in England or a Senator in the Canadian Parliament, or a federal judgeship in the U.S.) is not prohibited.

Judicial nominating commissions screen candidates for judgeships in many local jurisdictions and for some federal judgeships.