Sentences with phrase «judicial leaders on»

The NCJFCJ partners with CJJ in the implementation of various programs and projects, but most notably on our Safety, Opportunity & Success (SOS) Project, helping with the identification and convening of judicial leaders on the deinstitutionalization of status offenders (DSO).

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that he pressed for the renomination of attorney Kathleen Sweet to be Buffalo's first female federal judge, but that the Trump White House insisted on nominating John L. Sinatra Jr. — a Republican being pushed by Rep. Chris Collins — for the judicial vacancy instead.

b. (l) The commission on judicial conduct shall consist of eleven members, of whom four shall be appointed by the governor, one by the temporary president of the senate, one by the minority leader of the senate, one by the speaker of the assembly, one by the minority leader of the assembly and three by the chief judge of the court of appeals.

Long, a judicial activist from Manhattan, early on cultivated support from upstate Republican county chairman, including Onondaga GOP leader Tom Dadey.

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct last month dismissed a complaint that Pines improperly awarded foreclosure work to a political party leader.

The legal fraud that party leaders will commit involves nominating Denenberg for a judicial post on a minor party line if an existing candidate declines a nomination.

Some close to the Working Families Party accuse Adler of having a longstanding political vendetta against the labor - backed political organization — dating back to his membership on the Kings County judicial screening committee for former Brooklyn Democratic Leader Vito Lopez, a frequent WFP advisary.

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Thursday that he pressed for the renomination of attorney Kathleen M. Sweet to be Buffalo's first female federal judge, but that the Trump White House insisted on nominating John L. Sinatra Jr. — a Republican being pushed by Rep. Chris Collins, R - N.Y. — for the judicial vacancy instead.

(3) Neither the Executive Committee nor the County Leader shall designate, nominate or propose any candidate for judicial offices which are to be elected county - wide in New York County, or which are to be proposed for appointment by the Mayor of the City of New York or by the Governor of the State of New York, exclusive of recommendations for interim appointment by the Mayor or the Governor, unless such candidate shall have been approved in that calendar year for such office by the independent panel., except that once a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an application.

A Brown victory would instantly deny Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid the 60 - vote super-majority he needs in order to prevent the Republican Senators from filibustering key votes on healthcare reform and the President's judicial nominees.

«We are calling on men and women of good conscience across the globe, Amnesty International and relevant human rights organizations to prevail on the Attorney General of the Federation and the judicial commission to drop the fabricated charges preferred against our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and others detained illegally alongside him in Kuje Prison because they committed no offense against anybody or Nigeria state».

He cited as one potential model the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, whose 11 commissioners are appointed by the governor, the four legislative leaders and the chief judge of the state's high court.

Her career comes full circle on Monday when she becomes director of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships Program, which, since 1973, has helped some 3,300 scientists and engineers ply their scientific knowledge and related skills in the policy arena, solving problems big and small facing leaders in Congress, executive agencies and judicial offices.

Today we are calling on our judicial and legislative leaders to take another courageous stand in the face of the grave racial inequalities that have persisted through to our educational system today.

And though it was Mr. McConnell who insisted that the entire bill be read aloud (as punishment, he said, for Mr. Reid's breaking a deal on judicial nominees) the Republican leader also said he hoped for a lengthy, perhaps weeks - long, debate on the climate change measure to highlight its flaws.

Only a handful of states (9) give the legislature or legislative leaders the power to name members to the judicial disciplinary commission; a tenth (Oklahoma) lets the legislature pick 2 out of 3 members of a body that conducts preliminary investigations only (Council on Judicial Compjudicial disciplinary commission; a tenth (Oklahoma) lets the legislature pick 2 out of 3 members of a body that conducts preliminary investigations only (Council on Judicial CompJudicial Complaints).

The plaintiffs challenged eight restrictions on judicial conduct: 1) the prohibition on judicial candidates campaigning as a member of a political organization, 2) the prohibition on judicial candidates making speeches for or against political organizations or candidates, 3) the ban on judicial candidates making contributions to political causes or candidates, 4) the prohibition on judicial candidates from publicly endorsing or opposing candidates for public office, 5) the prohibition on judges from acting as a leader or holding office in a policitical organization, 6) the prohibition on judicial candidates knowingly or recklessly making false statements during campaigns, 7) the ban on judicial candidates making misleading statements, and 8) the prohibition on candidates making pledges, promises, or committments in connection with cases, controversies, or issues that are likely to come before the court.

A plan to give legislative leaders picks on the state's judicial nominating commissions, at the expense of the governor, cleared its first legislative hurdle in late January.

Given that, what's the basis for the writer (s) claims that Justice Karakatsanis «is struggling to make an impact»; that she is «a long way from pulling her judicial weight»; or, even that Justice Moldaver has become «a leader on the [Supreme] Court.»

A national leader in judicial education, the NJC is hosting the panel discussion in conjunction with its What Judges Need to Know: Drugs in America Today course, which will be held on Oct. 10 - 12.

The report — released last week at CCJ's annual conference in Jackson, Wyoming — calls on state judicial leaders to implement 13 recommendations, and was produced in conjunction with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS).

Bowman and Brooke is a national leader in handling mass tort actions — including class actions, as well as actions consolidated by the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and state judicial authJudicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and state judicial authjudicial authorities.

For this special occasion, a reception with leaders of the legal, business and judicial community will be hosted by Frost Brown Todd LLC at Queen City Square in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Oct. 20, 2016.

Judicial leaders, such as Chief Judge Judith Kaye, who served on New York state's high court for 25 years, organized a national symposium on the need to «keep kids in school and out of court.»