Sentences with phrase «federal judicial appointments»

He has also served as a Commissioner on the State Bar's Commission on Judicial Nominee's Evaluation, and on Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee, which made recommendations for federal judicial appointments.

In light of the most recent round of federal judicial appointments announced last week, I wasn't surprised to find 24 women and just one man attending the Manitoba Bar Association's lunch & learn event, So You Want to be a Judge?

In November 2013, Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments other than those to the Supreme Court.

We write to urge that either the Ministry or the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs release demographic data about the pool of applicants seeking federal judicial appointment.

Not exact matches

Collins and Murkowski have no track record of stopping President Trump's judicial appointments, picks that are generally improving the federal bench.

In the past, the Senate deferred to the president's choice of justices, as well as other federal judicial officers, but since the Nixon administration that deference has declined and appointments have been seen as more political, particularly following the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the appointment of Clarence Thomas.

He has 700 - 800 federal and district judicial appointments to fill (twice the number Obama had in 2008), and Supreme Court nominations.

Laura Ross: Chief of Staff, Office of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams; member, Federal Screening Panel for regional judicial appointments; former Chief Counsel, New York State Senator Roy Goodman; Member, Board of Directors for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City; Presidential Appointee to represent US at 64th United Nations General Assembly.

The endorsement touts Long's recent work as a judicial activist promoting conservative appointments to the federal court, but says her «pro-life activism began on Capitol Hill,» where she served as press secretary to two pro-life senators, and says Long was subsequently inspired to pursue a law degree «to better defend pro-life principles,» and mentions she studied under professors like the late Victor Rosenblum and Mary Ann Glendon, two pro-life legal scholars.

He said Trump's judicial appointments will bring the federal government back inside the bounds of legislation passed by Congress.

He also led Sierra Club's work on judicial nominations, including the filibusters of 2003 — 2006 and litigation over the constitutionality of recess appointments for federal judges, and was counsel in In re Cheney.

With Justice Cromwell's surprise decision to resign this September, the Federal Liberals promising reform of Supreme Court appointments, and recent media discussion around the political edges of judicial appointments, The Law Society of BC yesterday offered recommendations to Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybould promoting four core principles for the judicial appointment process.

Law societies and bar associations have been calling on the federal government to appoint a wider variety of individuals to the bench, but as Rosemary Cairns notes in her recent paper «Deliberate Disregard: Judicial Appointments under the Harper Government»: «These calls for change have elicited little substantive political response.

Indeed, the most recent round of federal appointments of judges across the country included 9 new appointments, of which 3 were women, and in Manitoba, only 1 woman has been appointed out of 6 judicial appointments made in 2013.

British Columbia's Supreme Court is trailing behind other courts in the province in terms of gender balance, despite the federal justice department's proclamation that in 2017, it made 100 judicial appointments nationally, of which half were women.

Judicial selection in Massachusetts is very close to the federal - style system of nomination / confirmation / life appointment.

A similar survey conducted by The Globe and Mail revealed that only a small handful of judicial appointments by the federal government since 2009 were from equity - seeking communities.

The new process — through which qualified lawyers and persons holding judicial office in Canada may apply to the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments through the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs — was launched last year as Justice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this judicial office in Canada may apply to the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments through the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs — was launched last year as Justice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this Judicial Appointments through the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs — was launched last year as Justice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this Judicial Affairs — was launched last year as Justice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this process.

Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson - Raybould has announced another round of judicial appointments to Federal Courts and for Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta.

Last month, on the day before International Women's Day, the federal government announced seven judicial appointments.

Lawyers seeking a judicial appointment must submit an application to either the federal or provincial government.

The federal government has announced judicial appointments in four provinces.

It was nearly eight months after the federal election before the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced its first judicial appointments, in the wake of an increasing call, even from senior members of the bench, to fill a number of vacancies across the country.

The federal Justice Minister announced several judicial appointments in Alberta today: see http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1086309.

Another recent trend has been to require senate confirmation of judicial appointments, as in the federal system.

As part of its review of the judicial appointment process, the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs should expand the existing information on the gender of judges and include visible minorities and Indigenousjudicial appointment process, the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs should expand the existing information on the gender of judges and include visible minorities and IndigenousJudicial Affairs should expand the existing information on the gender of judges and include visible minorities and Indigenous people.

That committee's evaluation of federal judicial nominees is critical to appointment and confirmation of all federal judges including most particularly federal trial judges.

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?

Scholars, lawyers and bar associations have been nearly unanimous in condemning judicial elections; they support the federal system of appointment and «life tenure.»

Appointment by former Senator Mel Martinez as past statewide Chairman and Member of Federal Judicial Nominating Committee (four years)