Sentences with phrase «of judicial campaigns»

This special edition of Selection Snapshots provides an overview of the challenges to judicial retention, court - related ballot measures, supreme court elections, public financing of judicial campaigns, and judicial campaign oversight committees.

So, the whole problem of judicial campaigns is... difficult for us to confront.

To a civilian unaware of the cost of judicial campaigns, these figures might seem enormous.

Combine this with the Brennan Centers report on the financing of judicial campaigns by outside pacs, SuperPacs and who knows what other special interest groups makes me think OWS has the right idea; the system is rigged, owned and operated by the connected and rich.

It was an abrupt kibosh on negotiations that concluded Friday with a framework for a legislative package that was said by sources to have included public financing of judicial campaigns, new Cuomo - appointed inspectors general at public universities as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The Jekyll and Hyde of First Amendment Limits on the Regulation of Judicial Campaign Speech PDF · Charles Gardner Geyh · 68 Vand.

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During that campaign he issued criticized now - MP John Barlow and calling for a judicial inquiry into allegations that RCMP seized privately owned firearms during the High River floods of 2013.

Kraft Heinz and the Kraft Heinz PAC do not support Presidential campaigns, judicial candidates, super PACs or make contributions to independent expenditure committees, which is defined as money spent to support a political candidate, but not at the suggestion or request of the candidate, the candidate's authorized committee or a political party.

Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Long, a Manhattan lawyer and judicial activist, also serves on the Romeny campaign as a legal adviser, and has stopped short of calling on the expected GOP presidential nominee from doing the same.

Word spread Friday evening of a potential deal that could have also included ethics - related measures such as more oversight of procurement procedures — a discussion sparked by the latest public corruption scandal that reached into the governor's inner circle — and a public financing system for judicial campaigns.

Let's remember the roll call of shame - cuts to legal aid, curtailing judicial review, attacks on human rights legislation, making freedom of information request more difficult and legislating for the loathed gagging bill amount to a substantial onslaught on free speech, campaigning and democracy.

Now, thanks to a tireless campaign from the organisation North East London Migrant Action (NELMA), a judicial review of the policy began at the High Court yesterday.

Huma Abedin, who worked her way up from White House intern to vice chair of Clinton's campaign for president, will be questioned under oath tomorrow by lawyers of the conservative group Judicial Watch about her involvement with her boss» private email system.

In an open letter to senators, NYCF says Grisanti isn't worthy of a judicial post offered as a «reward» by Cuomo when the former senior's «most significant act was breaking a campaign promise made to his constituents.»

Judicial campaigns are waged largely among party operatives and out of sight of the public.

The laws that govern judicial campaigns and the behavior of candidates stipulate that a candidate may withdraw from a race for only three reasons: death, departure (moving out of the district) or nomination for another judicial office.

The bottom line is come November voters can do little more than cross their fingers and hope the winners of county - level and Supreme Court judicial elections serve in their home county and are assigned to the positions they campaigned to fill.

Did donors to her campaign know that a portion would wind up supporting a diverse group of politicians including the Grassroots political group, several different judicial candidates, Amherst Town Board hopefuls and the Democratic, Republican, Conservative, Independence and Working Families parties?

I admire his stance against the Patriot Act, as well as his efforts on campaign finance reform and against torture and indefinite detentions of terror suspects without any mechanism for judicial review.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

A complaint has been filed with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct by a town of Grafton Democrat angered by county Republican maneuvers to bolster Assemblyman Steven McLaughlin's campaign for county executive.

Gary Tilzer, a rep for five of the 11 candidates vying for six Brooklyn civil court judgeships, sent a letter to the state and city boards of elections, as well as to the Judicial Campaign Ethics Center with the Office of Court Administration, saying the borough Democratic chairman Frank Seddio is hosting an «illegal» fund - raiser.

Abinanti says the «matching contribution» structure not only would reduce pressure on judicial and district attorney campaigns to raise money but likely would expand the pool of candidates.

They certainly weren't essential to the success of the campaign, which instead relied on the hard work of a small but dedicated group and a Judicial Review made possible by legal aid and Leigh Day and Co. solicitors (currently taking on Hunt himself in Lewisham).

Fitzpatrick, 28, is campaign manager for the Republican mayoral candidate in Syracuse, Laura Lavine; an adviser for about a dozen Republican county legislators; and a top consultant for a handful of judicial candidates, including one who works for his father.

Campaign note: The Saugerties chapter of the League of Women Voters will host judicial candidates on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at the senior center at Cantine Field.

The contribution to Fertel is just one of what may have been a series of illegal campaign contributions by Kettner to Democrats while a judicial candidate and after she was sworn in as a judge on January 1, 2011.

Kettner may have violated New York State Judicial Ethics by making a $ 500 contribution to the campaign of New Rochelle City Council Member Barry Fertel this past April.

There were also deals, or near deals, to bar campaign donations from those seeking state contracts, create a public campaign financing system for state Supreme Court judicial candidates, and require state lawmakers to seek a formal opinion on whether their outside income represents conflicts of interest.

We are supporting the Fair Courts campaign, a coalition of local groups in North Carolina that are fighting this partisan attempt to gerrymander judicial districts in the state.

The iCivics games consist of several modules that include citizenship and participation (Activate), The Constitution and Bill of Rights (Do I Have a Right, Immigration Nation, Argument Wars), budgeting (People's Pie), separation of power (Branches of Power), political campaigning (Win the White House), local government (Counties Work), the Executive branch (Executive Command), the Legislative branch (Lawcraft, Represent Me), and the Judicial Branch (We the Jury, Supreme Decision).

Michael Rebell is executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is the author of Courts and Kids: Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming), in which he proposes a new functional separation of powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to promote education reform and student achievement.

Campaign group Comprehensive Future had previously said it was seeking advice on the feasibility of a judicial review of the decision in the High Court, but has delayed plans due to a lack of information.

Despite the courts having played an integral role in serving as a check against states not acting in the interests of all students for nearly four decades, Sessions» campaign against judicial oversight of legislative actions prevented the judiciary from resolving inequities in the Alabama education system.54

Margaret Tulloch of Comprehensive Future, a group which campaigns for equality of opportunity in education, confirmed they were taking advice on the feasibility of a judicial review of the decision in the High Court.

If he were to run for president, Christie «would face some challenges among the more conservative circles of our party... concerned about issues like Common Core and judicial activism,» Bill Gustoff, a member of the Iowa Republican Party's state central committee, said this month as Christie campaigned in the state that hosts the nation's first presidential nominating contest.

Last week, Comprehensive Future, which campaigns for equality of opportunity in education, said the group was taking advice on the feasibility of a judicial review of the Weald of Kent decision in the High Court.

After five years of campaigning by Lawrence's parents, the home secretary, Jack Straw, announced a judicial inquiry into the police investigations into their son's death.

In a 2000 report, the ABA Commission on State Judicial Selection Standards warned of the «alarming increase in efforts by special interests to influence the outcome of judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigningJudicial Selection Standards warned of the «alarming increase in efforts by special interests to influence the outcome of judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigningjudicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigning.»

Merit selection, endorsed by the ABA in 1937, helps remove the partisan politics inherent in a judicial election and the excesses of campaign rhetoric and cash.

A corporate - funded «Astroturf» campaign has pressed the fight in local judicial elections, in state and federal legislatures, and in the court of public opinion.

The campaigns that Mr. Dick and Mr. Howard support ignore the effectiveness and purpose of a judicial system that allows injured persons the right to assert a claim for damages caused by another person's negligence.

The project aims to make judicial elections more transparent for journalists and researchers by creating online profiles of judges that show campaign contributions, judicial opinions and biographies.

[4] The petitions sought to amend the Judicial Code of Conduct to provide that recusal is not required in a proceeding based solely on any endorsement or receipt of a lawful campaign contribution from a party or entity involved in the proceeding.

Specifically, the complaint alleged that Justice Gableman violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by running a television ad during the campaign falsely implying that his opponent's actions resulted in the release of a felon who committed a subsequent criminal molestation.

According to Justice Roggensack, to impose judicial recusal rules in such circumstances would «nullify the constitutional vote of the contributor, or the lawful choice of the appointer, or chill the lawful speech of those who make independent communications during the course of a campaign for judicial office.»

We play at bar fundraisers, and sometimes judicial reelection campaigns, that kind of thing, charitable things.

Under Proposed Model Rule 5.1 A, where there is no agency collecting the information, lawyers must inform the judge of the aggregate amount that everyone in the law firm contributed to the judge's last judicial campaign.

But on the op - ed page of the Hartford Courant, Norm Pattis urges an end to the whispering campaign about another federal judicial nominee, Vanessa Bryant to the U.S. district court in Connecticut, who received a «not qualified» rating from the ABA earlier this week.