Sentences with phrase «from judicial selection»

While judicial elections in which the governor nominates and the legislature approves candidates provides for clearer accountability, they do nothing to remove the politics from judicial selection.

Coleman will have to win approval from the Judicial Selection Commission and then be nominated for a judgeship by his fellow Democrat, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

Not exact matches

But judicial precedent from Carl McCall's 1993 selection as comptroller suggests that attempt would be unlikely to succeed.

Here's Aaron Frazier from the Monroe County Democratic Committee Judicial Selection Committee on the importance of Family Court:

Opponents of commission - based appointment of judges — also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the judicial selection process originated — have obtained approval from the secretary of state for two identically worded proposed constitutional amendments that would establish contested elections for Missouri's appellate judges.

A reform of this nature could help diversifying judicial selection while at the same time preventing any national epistemic communities, be it academia, the national judiciary or politics — from monopolising judicial recruitment at EU level.

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.»

The proposed reform would amend Nevada law to provide for the appointment of judges by the Governor from a list of candidates selected by the Judicial Selection Commission, followed by retention elections whereby the electorate can choose to retain or remove those judges.

They attack her for her involvement in efforts to remove the grotesque amounts of money now flooding into judicial elections — often from out - of - state corporate front groups - and supporting a Nevada voter initiative that would replace such a system with merit selection of judges.

(judicial review arising from failures of due process in the Bar's disciplinary arrangements discovered by a report by COIC in 2012; time expired disciplinary judges — whether a tribunal «established by law» under ECHR Art. 6 and Art. 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; whether Art 47 now has direct effect in UK; whether laid down selection process of disciplinary judges had to be followed at all; whether prosecutor could partake in selection process of disciplinary judges; whether a disciplinary judge could properly receive an undisclosed salary from the prosecutor; whether logjam in Visitorial appeals process caused unlawful delay; whether proper Art. 6 security of tenure when BSB sits on committee (COIC) with the power to remove disciplinary judges from the «pool» at will; whether «discreditable» conduct should be defined).

«It is clear any efforts are meant to manipulate judicial selection to partisan advantage, from repealing judicial public financing to adding party labels on judicial elections to judicial redistricting.

Professor Jed Shugerman's history of judicial elections, «The People's Courts,» discussed how a few Southern states moved from judicial elections to merit selection in response to black voters regaining some power from 1950 to the early 1970s.

[3] Judges may participate in the process of judicial selection by cooperating with appointing authorities and screening committees, and by responding to inquiries from such entities concerning the professional qualifications of a person being considered for judicial office.

And perhaps our judicial selection mechanism, which means that judges are recruited from the ranks of experienced litigators and legal academics, two professions which prize and help develop one's ability to articulate one's thinking, helps limit the risk that judges will give insincere but easy - to - state reasons for their decisions.

When a vacancy occurs before the expiration of any term of office in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission on Judicial Selection.

Panelist, «The Challenge of Judicial Reform — Case Studies from the States, Rethinking Strategies for Judicial Selection Reform,» Cumberland Law School (February 24, 2006)

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«That approach could include a more broadly representative and inclusive judicial advisory selection panel, where no political party has a majority (as the government now gives itself), parliamentarians as a whole are in the minority, and the provincial attorney general and provincial bar are represented, along with the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Judicial Conference; a protocol of consultation published by the minister of justice, setting out whom the minister intends to consult and with whom the advisory panel will meet; a public announcement by the minister of the criteria by which each candidate will be evaluated; and a final hearing at which the minister of justice — and not only the nominee — answers questions from parliamentarians, notably regarding how the nominee meets the established criteria,» he wrojudicial advisory selection panel, where no political party has a majority (as the government now gives itself), parliamentarians as a whole are in the minority, and the provincial attorney general and provincial bar are represented, along with the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Judicial Conference; a protocol of consultation published by the minister of justice, setting out whom the minister intends to consult and with whom the advisory panel will meet; a public announcement by the minister of the criteria by which each candidate will be evaluated; and a final hearing at which the minister of justice — and not only the nominee — answers questions from parliamentarians, notably regarding how the nominee meets the established criteria,» he wroJudicial Conference; a protocol of consultation published by the minister of justice, setting out whom the minister intends to consult and with whom the advisory panel will meet; a public announcement by the minister of the criteria by which each candidate will be evaluated; and a final hearing at which the minister of justice — and not only the nominee — answers questions from parliamentarians, notably regarding how the nominee meets the established criteria,» he wrote then.

On the theme of diversity in Canadian legal institutions (see Omar Ha Redeye's excellent piece in Slaw yesterday), in the UK the Judicial Appointments Commission has just announced it will be running a selection exercise this summer by which it will recommend candidates for judicial appointments from «non-traditional» backJudicial Appointments Commission has just announced it will be running a selection exercise this summer by which it will recommend candidates for judicial appointments from «non-traditional» backjudicial appointments from «non-traditional» backgrounds.