Sentences with phrase «first judicial nominee»

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While not entirely uncommon for senators to deny a blue slip — several of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees met the same fate — Franken's move was just the first of three refusals from Democratic senators this week.

Garcia is Cuomo's first Republican nominee to the court and officials have denied there was a trade between the governor and Senate Republicans for the judicial nominations.

Rep. Chris Collins, a Clarence Republican, first floated Sinatra's name as a potential judicial nominee last year.

The former White House counsel to the first President Bush heads up the Committee for Justice, an advocacy group that has worked closely with the White House to push Bush 2's most controversial judicial nominees through the Senate.

In Barack Obama's first year in office, 42 percent of his judicial nominees were women and 52 percent were minorities.