Sentences with phrase «judicial committee voted»

The party's judicial committee voted to reject a request to have a NOW representative serve on its panel to screen judicial nominations.

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In plain English, if unelected members were given a vote on the standards committee, its decisions, such as the suspension of an MP, would lose their protection from judicial challenge.

Griffo said proper vetting takes time, and pointed to the process of judicial appointees — who often go through multiple committees in one day before reaching the floor for the final vote — as particularly problematic.

He was rejected by the Judicial Committee on a vote of 9 to 5 and by the Senate on a vote of 58 to 42.

Oklahoma's Senate Judiciary Committee has approved five measures that would replace commission - based appointment of appellate judges with contested elections, limit the role of the judicial nominating commission in identifying the best qualified applicants, allow the governor to replace some lawyer members of the commission, and require appellate judges to get 60 percent «yes» votes to be retained.

A plan to restructure North Carolina's entire judicial election map was approved in committee earlier this week but appears to have been blocked from a floor vote.

Article 40 contains provisions imposing liability on members of the adjudication / judicial committee for their comments and their votes.

The committee had been expected to vote in May on a motion calling for the federal Auditor General to audit the awarding and management of the relocation contracts, but indications now are that any vote will be delayed until the judicial review process has been completed.