Sentences with phrase «in judicial races»

Independent spending allows interest groups to circumvent campaign contribution limits, and if allowed to remain unchecked, they will continue to play a crucial role in judicial races.

In judicial races, on the other hand, candidates should only promise to fairly interpret and apply the law and the U.S. and Kentucky constitutions, to treat all litigants fairly and with dignity, and to approach every case with an open mind and without pre-judgment.

Voters in some areas will also be casting ballots in judicial races and for their next district attorney.

In the judicial races, eight candidates are seeking four state Supreme Court judgeships, each a 14 - year term.

Stevens supported his argument by citing Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., [39] where the Court held that $ 3 million in independent expenditures in a judicial race raised sufficient questions about a judge's impartiality to require the judge to recuse himself in a future case involving the spender.

In the judicial race, four candidates are seeking Conservative Party endorsements for a pair of seats left vacant by retirements.

Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs had until midnight to find Denenberg (D - Merrick) a spot in a judicial race, which would have allowed the party to replace him as a candidate against Nassau Legis.

The introduction of the right to life issue in a judicial race is a flagrant violation of the Ethics Code.

Not exact matches

We've been writing a lot about tomorrow being the deadline for Rick Lazio to decide whether he will indeed remain in the governor's race on the Conservative Party line because it's the last days parties can hold judicial nominating conventions.

Long, a judicial activist, has scored a broad swath of the conservative pundits and bold - faced names in the race, but the backing of Giuliani was an important get for Turner.

The little - known Long entered the race in February, but quickly worked to establish her street credentials as a conservative judicial activist.

FWIW, in decades of active political party involvement in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Colorado I've never seen a political party provide any support to a non-partisan candidate (not counting candidates nominated in partisan judicial race primaries whose affiliation doesn't appear on general election ballots which Ohio once did and may still do).

Now that he is formally no longer a judicial candidate after taking what he laughingly described as a «brutal» beating in the Bronx state Supreme Court race, Rick Lazio is «freed» — as he put it — to tell us how he really feels.

The Reform Party will hold a semi-open primary, giving about 15,000 people in Syracuse a chance to cast ballots for mayor in Tuesday's primary as well as several judicial races.

In November 2009, the Pennsylvania turnout for the statewide partisan judicial races was extremely low.

Congressional candidate Julian Schreibman and judicial hopeful Mike Kavanagh had something in common: they needed big wins in Ulster in order to have any chance in their respective races.

Most eyes may be on Buffalo's Democratic mayoral race, but there is also a hotly - contested Erie County Legislature primary, a number of judicial contests and some faceoffs in the suburbs for supervisor and councilmanic seats.

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.

As a result, Meyer will then be able to decline the Independence line in the executive race due to running for a judicial post; Meyer also is expected to decline the Reform Party nomination.

In Nassau, where judicial races are more competitive, about 10 percent of the judicial candidates in the past 10 years were cross-endorsed by the major partieIn Nassau, where judicial races are more competitive, about 10 percent of the judicial candidates in the past 10 years were cross-endorsed by the major partiein the past 10 years were cross-endorsed by the major parties.

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.

To date, the big news in the race has come during each candidate's party caucus and judicial convention processes.

Some voters don't even fill in any choices for down - ballot races like judicial seats due to a lack of familiarity with the candidates.

David Denenberg will remain on the State Senate ballot in November, as county Democrats said they would allow a deadline to switch him to a judicial race to pass.

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.

In the county judicial race, the Conservative Party also held a primary last week for its 4,700 members.

The county democratic party hardly focuses on judicial races and judicial candidates seldom reach out to local clubs for endorsements; however, I have elected to include their ratio in this piece because courts have the ability to deeply impact anyone who is involved in the justice system, and people in a lower socio - economic class are likely to have less control over and support with their legal matters.

In his national - tilted themes, Cuomo talked of an American economic transformation that has made a «handful rich,» of record homeless people living on the streets and a judicial system too often tipped «by resources or race.»

While I'm sensitive to the atrocities committed by the police and judicial system in DETROIT, I can't help but admit that I don't need its message to suddenly become aware of race relations in the United States.

Trust in our court system has also been undermined by judicial elections plagued with partisan and often - misleading information about the candidates because of the increase in special - interest financial contributions in the races.

It moves Supreme Court races to a merit selection system, but places much more power over the 15 member Judicial Nominating Commission in the legislature

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

«They have one of the more engaging races, and I think it might generate some public interest in judicial elections.»

For some of you, you will be voting in a handful of contested judicial races.

About 220 candidates are running in the state's partisan judicial races to be decided next week.

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Moyers: The concern that each of you expressed last year in Philadelphia was in particular about campaign contributions to judicial races.

The outcome of a supreme court race has led some to question the role of ethnicity in judicial elections.

Roy Schotland, a «Georgetown University law professor and expert on judicial elections,» succinctly sums it up: «[S] tate judicial races are increasingly becoming «floating auctions,» in which special - interest groups focus money and manpower in states where they can upend judges they don't like.

On that day West Virginia's governor formally signed HB 2010 ending partisan judicial races starting with the 2016 elections; the governor had issued a veto on HB 2010 previously not on the merits but due to typographical and reference errors in the bill.

Every effort West Virginia has taken in the last several years (enacting public financing of supreme court races and moving to nonpartisan judicial elections) North Carolina has done the opposite (repealing public financing of appellate races and efforts to move back to partisan judicial elections).

Mother Jones notes, «the Chamber spent $ 10 million on judicial races in 2000 alone.

Indeed, tort reform has become the primary issue in most state judicial races.

Let's wait and see what happens with this judicial race in Stevens County.

Concerns about the appearance of corruption in American courts have grown more urgent in recent years as spending on judicial races has exploded.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, handed down on Monday, strikes down many of the restrictions the Kentucky Bar Association places on judicial candidates and could open up this year's judicial races to the types of campaigning seen in other races.

The first pilot has explored the use of judicial mediation in complex disability, sex and race discrimination cases in employment tribunals.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.