However, several amendments were diluted or rejected outright:
selection of judicial candidates will likely continue to happen behind closed doors, the Brooklyn Democratic Party will continue to refuse to provide basic support for Brooklynites looking to organize their own Democratic clubs, and unlimited power via the proxies of absent County Committee members remain in the hands of the Chair.
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.
Republican Carl Belfiglio figures to be a favorite for Esopus town supervisor, where he faces Democratic newcomer Shannon Harris, former
wife of judicial candidate Julian Schreibman.
As of today, the site is tracking three current cases — a challenge to a Montana statute prohibiting political parties from endorsing, contributing to, and spending money in
support of judicial candidates; a Supreme Court challenge to the federal aggregation contribution limit, which the site says could have implications for state judicial elections; and an Arizona separation - of - powers lawsuit involving the state's Commission on Appellate Court Appointments.
The Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Evaluation Commission has posted the first of its
endorsements of judicial candidates, in preparation for the May 21 primary election.
This article reviews the facts of the Torres case, which was before the U.S. Supreme Court, in which a judge is suing the state's board of elections for violating the First Amendment's freedom of association
rights of judicial candidates.
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.