Sentences with phrase «judgeships who»
Meanwhile, President George W. Bush is reportedly renominating 20 attorneys to federal judgeships who couldn't achieve approval from Senate Democrats last time «round.
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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.
As with all their placeholder candidates — contenders tapped to keep Row D warm while the Democrats settled their differences for Row A — the WFP was sure to pick an attorney who would be eligible for a judgeship should the need to remove him arise.
Rep. Chris Collins, a Clarence Republican who has been one of Trump's most outspoken backers, expressed frustration about the new president's slow progress in appointing people to federal judgeships and jobs — including those in Western New York.
«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.
A lawyer who charges she was denied a judgeship in New York City as retaliation by Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration for her lawsuit against the Civilian Complaint Review Board is seeking to add a former judge of the state Court of Appeals, Carmen Ciparick, to the lawsuit.
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.
This cleared the way for Deputy County Executive Christopher Meyer, a Grafton resident who battled McLaughlin for the GOP line but lost, to be nominated to run for the $ 6,800 judgeship.
The state senate seats were left vacant by Democrat Eric Coleman, who resigned to pursue a judgeship, and Republican Rob Kane, who resigned to become state auditor.
Other convicted felons who receive fat pensions include former state Controller Alan Hevesi, who pleaded guilty in 2006 using state workers as his wife's chauffeur, and ex-Brooklyn Assemblyman and Democratic leader Clarence Norman, who was convicted in 2007 of selling judgeships.
Clearly the Conservatives, who had already given Stefanik their pre-primary support, did the Independence Party a favor here by nominating Doheny for a judgeship to get him off Row E after he lost the GOP primary.
We are treated to an unopposed election of two State Supreme Court Justices in the Third Judicial District, where such judgeships are brokered like poker chips, and thus, like it or not (or even if you have no idea who they are) you will elect Andrew G. Ceresia and Michael Mackey to 14 year terms.
Assemblyman Ron Castorina (R - South Shore), who began practicing law in 2007, announced that he's giving up his Assembly seat to seek the surrogate judgeship.
Three candidates are vying to fill the seat left vacant by Eric Coleman, who resigned in January to pursue a judgeship.
«It's outrageous that the Senate Democrats have sunk so low that they knowingly chose a candidate who was convicted of serious crimes and had his law license suspended, and now they are showing a total disrespect for our judicial system by nominating this criminal to a Supreme Court judgeship,» Skelos said.
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.
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.
Often a judgeship can be an attractive second act for many lawyers in their 50s and 60s who are unhappy in their practice but have dreams of a solid pension plan dancing in their head.
If the state were to create 45 new judgeships to replace the Senior Judges who are helping to handle the large caseload in our courts, the cost would be $ 15,750,000 a year.