Sentences with phrase «for judicial nominees»

The blue - slip rule — a traditional endorsement by home - state Senators for judicial nominees — has guided Senate confirmations for nearly a century.

'' [I] f I were a Democrat, particularly one running for office in the 2006 elections, I would be deathly afraid that the face and image of the party is going to be represented most prominently by Senator Leahy and his right hand person for judicial nominees, Senator Schumer (D - NY).

But earlier this month, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) threw out the process for some judicial nominees after Sen. Al Franken (D - Minn.)

Given the lack of any real competition for judicial nominees running on the Democratic ballot line, Ling - Cohan will most surely be returned to the bench in November.

The blue slip is a century - old Senate tradition in which senators can give or withhold their blessing for a judicial nominee from their state.

Not exact matches

While his nominees have received blue slips from Democratic senators in Colorado, Michigan, and Indiana, Trump has mostly avoided naming judicial nominees for district and circuit courts from states represented by at least one Democrat.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley just escalated the brewing judicial war to a new high, ditching what is known as the «blue slip» process for some of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees.

On Thursday, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon announced that they will block a judicial nominee for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals who had been announced as Trump's pick just earlier that day.

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.

By comparison, the Republican party emails over the past few months have largely been scare messages about Hillary Clinton (actual sample subject line, verbatim: «Waiting for Hillary's Judicial Nominees????») or MoveOn.org, tied to an explicit ask for cash.

Senators can hold up judicial and US attorney nominees they don't approve of via a system known as the «blue slip process,» although it's rarely used for US attorneys.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

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.

«Jim D * ke, a Republican consultant based in South Carolina and an adviser to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, called the nomination «an opportunity for the minority party to represent a majority of Americans who oppose judicial activism» but added that Republican would do well to wait until a nominee is chosen «before passing judgment lest they lose credibility with the American people.»

Michael Steele, called the nomination «an opportunity for the minority party to represent a majority of Americans who oppose judicial activism» but added that Republican would do well to wait until a nominee is chosen «before passing judgment lest they lose credibility with the American people.»

Jim Dyke, a Republican consultant based in South Carolina and an adviser to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, called the nomination «an opportunity for the minority party to represent a majority of Americans who oppose judicial activism» but added that Republican would do well to wait until a nominee is chosen «before passing judgment lest they lose credibility with the American people.»

In the case of the Supreme Court vacancy, the Judicial Delegates, also elected by Democratic voters in the Primary, then vote for the Democratic nominee from among the qualified candidates at a judicial conJudicial Delegates, also elected by Democratic voters in the Primary, then vote for the Democratic nominee from among the qualified candidates at a judicial conjudicial convention.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to invoke the so - called «nuclear option,» making it possible for Congress to confirm most judicial and executive nominees with just 51 votes (as opposed to the previous 61).

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

During the judicial primary elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their selections for Civil Court judge primarily on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the nominees, who are virtually guaranteed election in November given the borough's Democratic tilt.

MAYVILLE - The Democratic Nominee for Chautauqua County Family Court Judge has received an unfavorable rating for a local judicial commission — despite the fact that she received a favorable rating just two years earlier.

Today, as we continue to fight for true equity in our education system, we face federal judicial nominees who enter... https://t.co/nnCdENQCBT

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?»

After an initial primary, two recounts and a judicial order for a re-vote, the voters of Hartford and Windsor choose Brandon McGee over Leo Canty, to be the Democratic nominee in the General Assembly's 5th House District, on Tuesday.

And though it was Mr. McConnell who insisted that the entire bill be read aloud (as punishment, he said, for Mr. Reid's breaking a deal on judicial nominees) the Republican leader also said he hoped for a lengthy, perhaps weeks - long, debate on the climate change measure to highlight its flaws.

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.

That is the question media writer Dan Kennedy asks at his blog Media Nation about Margot Botsford, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's nominee for a seat on the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court.

Did not take long after the election for Gov. Patrick to name his nominee to succeed Margaret Marshall as chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court.

When we talk about defending and protecting our judiciary, none of our work is more important than the peer reviews we continue to perform on judicial nominees being considered for lifetime appointments by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

NationalJournal.com has an item headlined «Sessions Says He's Looking For Judicial Restraint; New Ranking Member On Senate Judiciary Panel Describes What He's Seeking In A Supreme Court Nominee.»

For around 60 years, conservative and liberal judicial nominees praised the school desegregation decision Brown v. Board of Education as a groundbreaking statement of equality by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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.

Vermont's constitution requires that for judicial vacancies, the governor appoints «from a list of nominees presented by a judicial nominating body established by the General Assembly having authority to apply reasonable standards of selection.»

HB 420 (Constitutional Amendment) Requires the judicial selection commission to publicly disclose its list of nominees for appointment to the office of the chief justice, supreme court, intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, or district courts concurrently with its presentation of that list to the governor or the chief justice.

The chairperson [of the judicial nominating commission] shall make the name of each person whose nomination is accepted available to the public whenever the commission stops accepting nominations for such appointment, but not less than 10 days prior to submitting the names of nominees to the governor.

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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 Third District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission has been asked to provide Governor Rick Scott with nominees for the vacancy in the Third District Court of Appeal resulting from the resignation of Judge Frank Shepherd.

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.

Opponents of court reform have targeted ethical rules aimed at promoting the integrity and independence of the judiciary; public financing for judicial elections; and the use of nonpartisan merit commissions to screen judicial nominees.

Today President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate an eleventh wave of judicial nominees as follows: If confirmed, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaiʻi will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

FRANKFORT, Ky., June 25, 2014 — The Judicial Nominating Commission, led by Chief Justice of Kentucky John D. Minton Jr., today announced nominees to fill the vacant District Court judgeship for Anderson, Shelby and Spencer counties.

The state's constitution provides the judicial nominating commission must submit «a list of three nominees» to the governor for vacancies on the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals.

Judicial Nominating Commission announces nominees for judgeship in Anderson, Shelby and Spencer counties

For more information about the Seventeenth Judicial District Court nominees, click here.

Nominees for the vacancy on the Seventeenth Judicial District bench are Tomee Crespin of Thornton, Sharon D. Holbrook of Broomfield, and Donald S. Quick of Westminster.

Contact information for the three nominees is available on the state judicial website.

The Code is designed to provide guidance to judges and nominees for judicial office.

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