Sentences with phrase «from judicial races»

Despite the new legislation, it is not possible to remove all traces of partisanship from judicial races.

Not exact matches

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.

Heading up the races was a contest for two judgeships in the NYS Fourth Judicial District, which stretches from Schenectady to the Canadian border and includes Warren, Washington and Essex counties.

Voters in the 3rd Judicial District will choose a new justice this year from a field of three candidates who bring varied and considerable experience to the race.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's office.

In the one judicial race on Staten Island the sole candidate — Acting Judge Joseph J. Maltese — has support from the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Independence parties.

North Carolina recently became the first state in nearly a century to switch from nonpartisan to partisan judicial races.

Not only does SB 650 end nonpartisan judicial races, it would also end all nonpartisan races from local board of elections to boards of education and the like.

With the expecting signing this week of a bill to transition West Virginia judicial races from partisan to nonpartisan, the number of states with partisan judicial races for their courts of last resort (usually called supreme court) will decrease down to 8.

There has been no attempt to change this from nonpartisan to partisan, although several bills were introduced to change the nonpartisan races to gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.