Sentences with phrase «judicial races»

Voters in some areas will also be casting ballots in judicial races and for their next district attorney.

About 220 candidates are running in the state's partisan judicial races to be decided next week.

For some of you, you will be voting in a handful of contested judicial races.

Indeed, tort reform has become the primary issue in most state judicial races.

Mother Jones notes, «the Chamber spent $ 10 million on judicial races in 2000 alone.

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Arkansas: Supreme Court could get merit selection if all other judicial races go back to being partisan ones

Despite the new legislation, it is not possible to remove all traces of partisanship from judicial races.

Both parties saw judicial races as a means to get their political views entrenched as law, and between 1986 and 1996, spending for judicial campaigns increased 776 %.

FWIW, in decades of active political party involvement in Ohio, Michigan, New York and Colorado I've never seen a political party provide any support to a non-partisan candidate (not counting candidates nominated in partisan judicial race primaries whose affiliation doesn't appear on general election ballots which Ohio once did and may still do).

The Reform Party will hold a semi-open primary, giving about 15,000 people in Syracuse a chance to cast ballots for mayor in Tuesday's primary as well as several judicial races.

Though judicial races are relatively apolitical, it never hurts to have a friend at court.

In Nassau, where judicial races are more competitive, about 10 percent of the judicial candidates in the past 10 years were cross-endorsed by the major parties.

In the county judicial race, the Conservative Party also held a primary last week for its 4,700 members.

Many state judges are elected, and national groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have been dumping huge amounts of money into otherwise obscure judicial races, seeking to throw off the bench consumer - friendly judges, replacing them with judges who will answer to these corporate groups.

After the most expensive judicial race in Alabama history, a race the winner and former Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb indicated made her «ashamed by what I had to do» there was for the first time in decades an interest in moving the state's elections from partisan to nonpartisan.

Roy Schotland, a «Georgetown University law professor and expert on judicial elections,» succinctly sums it up: «[S] tate judicial races are increasingly becoming «floating auctions,» in which special - interest groups focus money and manpower in states where they can upend judges they don't like.

On that day West Virginia's governor formally signed HB 2010 ending partisan judicial races starting with the 2016 elections; the governor had issued a veto on HB 2010 previously not on the merits but due to typographical and reference errors in the bill.

Not only does SB 650 end nonpartisan judicial races, it would also end all nonpartisan races from local board of elections to boards of education and the like.

Concerns about the appearance of corruption in American courts have grown more urgent in recent years as spending on judicial races has exploded.

In Suffolk, however, the cross-endorsements have morphed into toxic combinations, allowing minor parties the upper hand in judicial races and anomalies such as candidates being supported by both the Conservative and Working Families parties.

Since Judicial races are often under most peoples» radar, these endorsements can be very important.

At the same time it repeals nonpartisan elections for all other judicial races.

In November 2009, the Pennsylvania turnout for the statewide partisan judicial races was extremely low.

In the judicial races, eight candidates are seeking four state Supreme Court judgeships, each a 14 - year term.

When election season rolls around, voters do not usually pay much attention to judicial races.

First, know this: Contrary to what virtually anybody who has ever run for judge at some point has said, judicial races are intensely political.

There's a judicial race in Chemung County and a four - way GOP bout to represent Council District 2 in Colesville, but it mostly promises to be a quiet Tuesday in the Southern Tier.

With no town races and only a judicial race in which the candidates claimed they were barred from speaking of anything of interest, the main races of local interest were Congress and State Senate.

Robert White, well he can not be moved into a judicial race, it is true... but we could hope that Doug Hoffman gets off the ballot line by moving out of state or....

In the judicial race, four candidates are seeking Conservative Party endorsements for a pair of seats left vacant by retirements.

David Denenberg will remain on the State Senate ballot in November, as county Democrats said they would allow a deadline to switch him to a judicial race to pass.

Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs had until midnight to find Denenberg (D - Merrick) a spot in a judicial race, which would have allowed the party to replace him as a candidate against Nassau Legis.

In the one judicial race on Staten Island the sole candidate — Acting Judge Joseph J. Maltese — has support from the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Independence parties.

There are no judicial races — contested or otherwise — in the Bronx.

The county democratic party hardly focuses on judicial races and judicial candidates seldom reach out to local clubs for endorsements; however, I have elected to include their ratio in this piece because courts have the ability to deeply impact anyone who is involved in the justice system, and people in a lower socio - economic class are likely to have less control over and support with their legal matters.

So here's a wonderful Public Service Announcement about how voters can find these judicial races in non-partisan elections, and vote — courtesy of the West Wing!

North Carolina recently became the first state in nearly a century to switch from nonpartisan to partisan judicial races.

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Not sure who to vote for when it comes to judicial races?

Moyers: The concern that each of you expressed last year in Philadelphia was in particular about campaign contributions to judicial races.

With the expecting signing this week of a bill to transition West Virginia judicial races from partisan to nonpartisan, the number of states with partisan judicial races for their courts of last resort (usually called supreme court) will decrease down to 8.

In judicial races, on the other hand, candidates should only promise to fairly interpret and apply the law and the U.S. and Kentucky constitutions, to treat all litigants fairly and with dignity, and to approach every case with an open mind and without pre-judgment.

Judicial races are not like races for the executive or legislative branches.

Judicial races are non-partisan and if a candidate identifies himself or his opponents as Democrats or Republicans, then he / she violates the requirement that judicial candidate be «independent».

The introduction of the right to life issue in a judicial race is a flagrant violation of the Ethics Code.