Sentences with phrase «for judicial campaigns»

Both parties saw judicial races as a means to get their political views entrenched as law, and between 1986 and 1996, spending for judicial campaigns increased 776 %.

Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics - related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures — a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor's inner circle — and a public financing system for judicial campaigns.

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During that campaign he issued criticized now - MP John Barlow and calling for a judicial inquiry into allegations that RCMP seized privately owned firearms during the High River floods of 2013.

Let's remember the roll call of shame - cuts to legal aid, curtailing judicial review, attacks on human rights legislation, making freedom of information request more difficult and legislating for the loathed gagging bill amount to a substantial onslaught on free speech, campaigning and democracy.

Huma Abedin, who worked her way up from White House intern to vice chair of Clinton's campaign for president, will be questioned under oath tomorrow by lawyers of the conservative group Judicial Watch about her involvement with her boss» private email system.

The laws that govern judicial campaigns and the behavior of candidates stipulate that a candidate may withdraw from a race for only three reasons: death, departure (moving out of the district) or nomination for another judicial office.

It was an abrupt kibosh on negotiations that concluded Friday with a framework for a legislative package that was said by sources to have included public financing of judicial campaigns, new Cuomo - appointed inspectors general at public universities as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

I admire his stance against the Patriot Act, as well as his efforts on campaign finance reform and against torture and indefinite detentions of terror suspects without any mechanism for judicial review.

County Legislator Jim Maisano is proud to announce that the New Rochelle Uniformed Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 273 has endorsed his campaign for Supreme Court Justice in the 9th Judicial District (Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess & Orange).

Ciampoli also alleged that Fitzpatrick paid a campaign staff person $ 2,500 for work she did on other campaigns that Fitzpatrick managed, including two judicial campaigns and some county legislature races.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

A complaint has been filed with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct by a town of Grafton Democrat angered by county Republican maneuvers to bolster Assemblyman Steven McLaughlin's campaign for county executive.

Gary Tilzer, a rep for five of the 11 candidates vying for six Brooklyn civil court judgeships, sent a letter to the state and city boards of elections, as well as to the Judicial Campaign Ethics Center with the Office of Court Administration, saying the borough Democratic chairman Frank Seddio is hosting an «illegal» fund - raiser.

On a related note, the party faithful are making noise about Family Court Judge Gerard Maney running for another term because he would bring baggage to the campaign stemming from his drunken - driving conviction and subsequent censure by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Albany lawyer Justin Corcoran comfortably won the Democratic nod for state Supreme Court in the 3rd Judicial District Friday --- fending off an insurgent campaign by Albany County Family Court Judge Margaret «Peggy» Walsh that sharply divided the party.

Fitzpatrick, 28, is campaign manager for the Republican mayoral candidate in Syracuse, Laura Lavine; an adviser for about a dozen Republican county legislators; and a top consultant for a handful of judicial candidates, including one who works for his father.

Gentile's top priority is running for district attorney and his judicial application «underscores his interest in continuing public service in a legal capacity,» his campaign spokesman Sam Powers said.

I have met many, many judges, I worked on two judicial campaigns in New York State, I have read the ethics laws for judges.

There were also deals, or near deals, to bar campaign donations from those seeking state contracts, create a public campaign financing system for state Supreme Court judicial candidates, and require state lawmakers to seek a formal opinion on whether their outside income represents conflicts of interest.

Michael Rebell is executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is the author of Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), in which he proposes a new functional separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to promote education reform and student achievement.

Joe Williams skillfully recounts the ways in which New York City and New York state, pushed by an activist private group called the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, have tied themselves in judicial, legislative, and budgetary knots for 12 years now - and with no end in sight.

Despite the courts having played an integral role in serving as a check against states not acting in the interests of all students for nearly four decades, Sessions» campaign against judicial oversight of legislative actions prevented the judiciary from resolving inequities in the Alabama education system.54

Margaret Tulloch of Comprehensive Future, a group which campaigns for equality of opportunity in education, confirmed they were taking advice on the feasibility of a judicial review of the decision in the High Court.

If he were to run for president, Christie «would face some challenges among the more conservative circles of our party... concerned about issues like Common Core and judicial activism,» Bill Gustoff, a member of the Iowa Republican Party's state central committee, said this month as Christie campaigned in the state that hosts the nation's first presidential nominating contest.

Last week, Comprehensive Future, which campaigns for equality of opportunity in education, said the group was taking advice on the feasibility of a judicial review of the Weald of Kent decision in the High Court.

The campaigns that Mr. Dick and Mr. Howard support ignore the effectiveness and purpose of a judicial system that allows injured persons the right to assert a claim for damages caused by another person's negligence.

The project aims to make judicial elections more transparent for journalists and researchers by creating online profiles of judges that show campaign contributions, judicial opinions and biographies.

The petition sought to amend the recusal rules when a party in an action — or the lawyer or law firm in an action — makes a campaign contribution to or spends money in a judicial campaign for a judge presiding in the case.

According to Justice Roggensack, to impose judicial recusal rules in such circumstances would «nullify the constitutional vote of the contributor, or the lawful choice of the appointer, or chill the lawful speech of those who make independent communications during the course of a campaign for judicial office.»

Most recently, Zac acted for a claimant in a claim for judicial review which argued that guidance issued by the Secretary of State was contrary to the IORP Directive (R (on the application of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (led by Nigel Giffin QC).

I mentioned last month the raft of legislation filed in the Wisconsin Assembly dealing with judicial recusal, including proposals to require recusal for certain campaign contributions as well as giving the supreme court the ability to force a justice off a case.

I have run the marketing or been involved in the marketing for campaigns for State Prosecutor, Associate Circuit Judge, Circuit Judge and supported candidates for Judicial Commissions.

In 2013, the legislature repealed the state's renowned public financing program for judicial candidates, leaving would - be judges to raise contributions from wealthy campaign donors.

So, the whole problem of judicial campaigns is... difficult for us to confront.

The problem of corporate money polluting state judicial election campaigns has long been recognized as a fundamental problem for our democratic government.

Afterwards, a state judicial elections oversight committee was formed to advise those running for judgeships on ethics and honesty in political campaigns.

Even though formal ethical rules may not apply for the most part, a lawyer who decides to contribute to a judicial campaign should consider the implications of contributing.

That tone can also be heard in the most recent campaign of BC lawyer Aniz Alani, who is getting a ton of press today around his application for judicial review of Harper's (in) activity around appointing people to Senate seats.

You might have thought that would have ended his judicial career for good, but Floro is fighting back, waging a campaign to return to the bench.

This case represents a notable departure from the Court's recent campaign finance jurisprudence, and opens an important window for efforts to protect judicial integrity in the 39 states that elect judges.

A candidate for judicial office wished to endorse other candidates for public office, as well as personally solicit funds for his own campaign and challenged the constitutionality of the amended provisions.

For example, rules limiting judicial campaign conduct have been attacked as unduly restrictive of candidate's free speech rights.

However, in 2010, Wisconsin Supreme Court had changed the state's recusal rules to exclude campaign contributions and independent expenditures as sole bases for judicial recusal.

In Defense of Florida's Flat Ban on the Personal Solicitation of Campaign Contributions From Attorneys by Candidates for Judicial Office PDF · Burt Neuborne · 68 Vand.

The court found that the challenged solicitation clauses only prohibited a judicial candidate from raising funds for another campaign, not in support of his own candidacy as the plaintiff proposed to do.

The plaintiffs challenged eight restrictions on judicial conduct: 1) the prohibition on judicial candidates campaigning as a member of a political organization, 2) the prohibition on judicial candidates making speeches for or against political organizations or candidates, 3) the ban on judicial candidates making contributions to political causes or candidates, 4) the prohibition on judicial candidates from publicly endorsing or opposing candidates for public office, 5) the prohibition on judges from acting as a leader or holding office in a policitical organization, 6) the prohibition on judicial candidates knowingly or recklessly making false statements during campaigns, 7) the ban on judicial candidates making misleading statements, and 8) the prohibition on candidates making pledges, promises, or committments in connection with cases, controversies, or issues that are likely to come before the court.

The Florida Supreme Court thus publicly reprimanded Williams - Yulee for violating the Canon, notwithstanding her complaint that the Canon violates the First Amendment «in that it limits a judicial candidate's right to engage in free speech by prohibiting a judicial candidate from directly soliciting campaign contributions.»

Since 2017 Rachel has been acting as Special Advocate in the judicial review proceedings brought by Campaign Against Arms Trade against the Secretary of State for International Trade in relation to the continuing supply of arms to Saudi Arabia for use in the conflict in the Yemen.

It allowed more campaign cash into North Carolina's judicial elections by eliminating the popular, nationally - renowned public financing program for judicial candidates.

Parents and carers have launched a crowdfunding campaign for a judicial review against cuts to Hackney's services for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).