In 2012, Arizona voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have increased the number of
judicial nominees submitted to the governor from three to eight, and in 2013, the supreme court struck down a statute that would have increased the number of nominees to five.
The Connecticut General Assembly is scheduled to hold hearings on Monday on the last set of
judicial nominees submitted by outgoing Governor Dannel Malloy, but there might be a hiccup at the hearings.
Not exact matches
That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of
judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be
submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number of
judicial nominations made at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors.
The state's Commission on
Judicial Nomination on Thursday
submitted the seven
nominees to Gov. Cuomo, who has until Dec. 1 to pick one of them to replace retiring Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman.
The chairperson [of the
judicial nominating commission] shall make the name of each person whose nomination is accepted available to the public whenever the commission stops accepting nominations for such appointment, but not less than 10 days prior to
submitting the names of
nominees to the governor.
The state's constitution provides the
judicial nominating commission must
submit «a list of three
nominees» to the governor for vacancies on the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals.
The Chief Justice then meets with the
Judicial Nominating Commission in that area to choose three
nominees to
submit to the Governor.