Sentences with phrase «judicial races as»

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 %.

Not exact matches

The little - known Long entered the race in February, but quickly worked to establish her street credentials as a conservative judicial activist.

Now that he is formally no longer a judicial candidate after taking what he laughingly described as a «brutal» beating in the Bronx state Supreme Court race, Rick Lazio is «freed» — as he put it — to tell us how he really feels.

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.

As a result, Meyer will then be able to decline the Independence line in the executive race due to running for a judicial post; Meyer also is expected to decline the Reform Party nomination.

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.

L. Rev. 747 (2017); Brad Desnoyer & Anne Alexander, Race, Rhetoric, and Judicial Opinions: Missouri as a Case Study, 76 Md..

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 «independentJudicial 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 «independentjudicial candidate be «independent».

We note that Judicial races are listed on the ballot as non-partisan races and are not listed under the heading of any political party.

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

The debate about the judicial person, shall we say, often centres around typical markers such as race or gender or avowed political stripe.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.