Sentences with phrase «federal judicial nominees»

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

So it may be with the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which evaluates the qualifications of all federal judicial nominees.

Of the 35 federal judicial nominees awaiting a Senate confirmation vote, 17 are women, 15 are ethnic minorities, and five are openly gay.

There are forums for every court and judge in the federal judiciary, as well as forums for federal judicial nominees (here is the forum for John Roberts) and federal appellate court opinions.

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The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary provides comprehensive evaluations to decision - makers regarding federal judicial nominees» professional competence, integrity and temperament in the effort to seat the most qualified judges.

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Goodwin Liu, a federal judicial nominee, faced intense scrutiny from Senate Republicans over his liberal views and his preparation for his confirmation hearings.

A clip of a federal judicial nominee struggling to define legal terms and concepts, such as motion in limine and the Daubert standard, has received more than 5.5 million views.

Defended federal judicial nominee in publicized trial which was held during the course of ongoing United States Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings.

But on the op - ed page of the Hartford Courant, Norm Pattis urges an end to the whispering campaign about another federal judicial nominee, Vanessa Bryant to the U.S. district court in Connecticut, who received a «not qualified» rating from the ABA earlier this week.

Not exact matches

The answer is that since November 2013 a simple majority has sufficed because of the Senate's decision to end the use of the filibuster in respect of all nominees to Federal judicial and executive branch positions other than to the Supreme Court itself.

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?»

«A Deep Bench»: Today in The New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich (N.D. Ohio), along with her judicial law clerks, Alex Frondorf and Richard J. Hawkins, have an op - ed that begins, «To succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, President Obama should select a nominee with experience that no other sitting justice has — service as a trial judge on a federal district court.»

Normally Slaw would link to the cases of the new nominees, but since the Federal Judicial Commissioner has done so, here are the lists of cases.

Links to relevant sites: Supreme Court of Canada Federal Court of Canada Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Ad Hoc Committee to Review a Nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada [no website yet] Canadian Judicial Council

The Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements (along with 13 co-sponsors) is recommending the House endorse use of bipartisan commissions to consider and recommend nominees to fill vacancies in the federal district courts and the U.S. Court of AFederal Judicial Improvements (along with 13 co-sponsors) is recommending the House endorse use of bipartisan commissions to consider and recommend nominees to fill vacancies in the federal district courts and the U.S. Court of Afederal district courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals.

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 appoiJudicial Nominee's Evaluation, and on Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee, which made recommendations for federal judicial appoiJudicial Screening Committee, which made recommendations for federal judicial appoijudicial appointments.

The ABA's independent Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary conducts extensive peer reviews of each nominee's integrity, professional competence and judicial temperament.

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?