Sentences with phrase «judgeship on»

After the judicial reorganization of 1788, Wythe became sole Judge of the Chancery Court of Virginia but refused offers from President George Washington of a judgeship on the new federal courts.

If Congress would get a judges bill through, adding the needed judgeships on the COAs (and / or if the president and Senate would at least fill the existing vacancies), that would help mitigate the need for over-reliance on district judges in the first place...

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

Not exact matches

José Alberto Cabranes, who later went on to become the first Puerto Rican to be appointed to a federal judgeship, published an exhaustive review of the legislative deliberations over the question of Puerto Rico's political fate following America's annexation of the island.

The conservative lawyers who screen the candidates for judgeships seek to be prudent by nimbly avoiding anything so plain and direct as asking the candidates exactly how they would vote on these matters.

Tonight on the Senate floor, during a debate on the nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) attempted to read a letter from Coretta Scott King that had been persuasive in his previous hearing as part of an unsuccessful nomination to a federal judgeship.

Lazio was the only candidate to get onto the ballot at the convention, but Carl Paladino went on to cream him in the GOP primary and he «ran» for a Bronx judgeship to get off the Conservative line and cede it to the businessman from Buffalo.

Cuomo actually does come up in the allegations, very tangentially: At one point in the U.S. attorney's complaint, Smith is quoted as having said to an undercover F.B.I. agent, as part of an explanation for why the Republican county chairmen were unlikely to go back on a bribe - based bargain with him, «I got them already asking me about judgeships, because judgeships now come through here, it comes through the governor.»

Three candidates are on the ballot for two Family Court judgeships.

The motion contains an affidavit by Town of Oyster Bay Republican Councilman Joseph Muscarella where he states that following the November, 2016 election, he and his brother, Thomas Muscarella, met at a Mineola restaurant with former Nassau Democratic Party official and now State Supreme Court Justice Robert McDonald, to congratulate him on being elected to a judgeship.

According to a news story on CBS in Chicago there was a judgeship worth $ 180,000 in the Cook County judicial subcircuit that was up for grabs in the November 8th 2016 election and it was uncontested.

They've got to let as many voters as possible know Padernacht is no longer actively campaigning, despite the fact that his name will still appear on the primary ballot (unless, of course, someone manages to get him nominated for a judgeship or lands him a great job outside the state).

Since Cynthia Nixon is not a lawyer and only played one on TV, a nomination for a judgeship could not remove her from the ballot

Doheny remains on the ballot as the Independence Party's candidate, but as an attorney he could be removed from the ballot if he is nominated for a judgeship.

«Whatever Gilbert Taylor's qualifications may be, the appearance of using a Family Court judgeship as a soft landing for someone who botched the city's response to the homeless crisis is concerning,» said City Councilman Rory Lancman (D - Queens), chair of the Committee on Courts & Legal Services.

But Denenberg's name remains on the ballot after Nassau County Democrats decided against the only option available to them to remove him from their line — nominating him for a judgeship.

Denenberg's name will remain on the November ballot, as Democrats abandoned their plan to nominate him for a judgeship and run a replacement candidate in his place.

Like district leader, the state committee position is unpaid — aspiring politicians may covet it, however, because committee members weigh in on decisions made in their Assembly districts, like who to nominate for a judgeship.

Two of the coveted judgeships will be on November's ballot as Justices Thomas Breslin of Albany County and Raymond Elliott of Rensselaer County hit the mandatory retirement age of 70.

A judgeship nomination for Grimm would allow the GOP to replace him on the congressional ballot with another candidate.

I asked Cuomo campaign spokesman Josh Vlasto about that, and was met with a «no comment» in response to all my questions — whether the AG is having second thoughts about running on Row C and might try to somehow bow out (a near impossibility, since he would have to die, move out of state or run for a judgeship — none of which seems likely to happen any time soon), and whether this changes his reluctance to accept the WFP line.

Dohney could either die, move out of state or be nominated for a judgeship (as an attorney with at least 10 years of membership to the bar, he is eligible to run for a seat on the bench).

(The WFP voted last week to endorse Amodeo and put him on Row D by nominating Davis for a judgeship, but it remains unclear if that will happen, thanks to some legal technicalities).

Cuomo could be placed on the WFP ballot if Schaeffer accepted the nomination for a judgeship later this month.

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?»

The figures I've seen show that there are over 1 million lawyers in the United States and even accounting for those who are retired, in academia or judgeships, 550,770 seems on the low side for the number of currently practicing attorneys.

Hopkinson went on to accept a U.S. district judgeship for eastern Pennsylvania, a position that he held until his death.

A proposal in Kansas to give the state's governor a longer list of names to select from in picking trial court judges via the state's merit / commission system was amended on the House floor yesterday to require all applicants for district court judgeships be released and male almost all nominating commission proceedings public.

A lawyer and U.S. Army colonel who has spent much of the last two years in Baghdad on a special assignment to improve the legal rights of women was named this week to a judgeship in Massachusetts.

In a recent Wyoming Lawyer article, former Judicial Nominating Commissioner Jeremy Michaels shared his observations from his tenure on the Commission and addressed some of the myths that might keep attorneys from pursuing Wyoming judgeships.

The Judicial Diversity Initiative — Providing diverse lawyers with details on how to apply for state judgeships and a listing of current openings across the U.S.

On Monday of this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the federal appellate court with the most current vacancies among its active judgeship ranks — four.

While it's never acceptable to lie on a resume, being factual and honest is especially important for a jobseeker looking for a judgeship.

Layoffs, furloughs and vacant judgeships are exacting a toll on divorcing and separated partiesâ $ ™ lives and their pocketbooks, according to many observers.