Sentences with phrase «on judicial nominees»

And a quiet pause on judicial nominees for our lame duck president.

«The purpose of the blue slip is to ensure consultation between the White House and home - state senators on judicial nominees from their states,» said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.

When we talk about defending and protecting our judiciary, none of our work is more important than the peer reviews we continue to perform on judicial nominees being considered for lifetime appointments by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

And though it was Mr. McConnell who insisted that the entire bill be read aloud (as punishment, he said, for Mr. Reid's breaking a deal on judicial nominees) the Republican leader also said he hoped for a lengthy, perhaps weeks - long, debate on the climate change measure to highlight its flaws.

The so - called blue slip process allows lawmakers to weigh in on judicial nominees in their states.

He has also served as a Commissioner on the State Bar's Commission on Judicial Nominee's Evaluation, and on Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee, which made recommendations for federal judicial appointments.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon announced that they will block a judicial nominee for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals who had been announced as Trump's pick just earlier that day.

While the denial of a blue slip does not legally restrict a judge from being approved, Glenn Sugameli, an attorney who is an expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email earlier this week that «no circuit court nominees have been confirmed over objection of one (or two) home state senators — including under Obama.»

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

On November 21, 2013, the Senate used the so - called «nuclear option», voting 52 - 48 — with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against — to eliminate the use of the filibuster on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees, except to the Supreme CourOn November 21, 2013, the Senate used the so - called «nuclear option», voting 52 - 48 — with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against — to eliminate the use of the filibuster on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees, except to the Supreme Couron executive branch nominees and judicial nominees, except to the Supreme Court.

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.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday urged a state panel charged with the screening of judicial nominees to speed up the process of selecting potential candidates to replace the late Sheila Abdus - Salaam on the state Court of Appeals.

A Brown victory would instantly deny Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid the 60 - vote super-majority he needs in order to prevent the Republican Senators from filibustering key votes on healthcare reform and the President's judicial nominees.

One of Trump's most controversial judicial nominees — Brett J. Talley — did not disclose on publicly available congressional documents that he is married to a senior lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office.

Even if Lieberman were to leave Democratic caucus, he would likely vote with them to get a floor vote on such issues as Obama's judicial nominees.

Washington (CNN)- A Republican lawmaker said Friday that senators should ask all judicial nominees about their views on the Second Amendment, which protects the right to keep and bear arms.

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.

Given the lack of any real competition for judicial nominees running on the Democratic ballot line, Ling - Cohan will most surely be returned to the bench in November.

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.

During the judicial primary elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their selections for Civil Court judge primarily on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the nominees, who are virtually guaranteed election in November given the borough's Democratic tilt.

During a Senate hearing for a federal judgeship this month, Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, pressed President Trump's judicial nominee Wendy Vitter on whether she believed «Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided?»

After an initial primary, two recounts and a judicial order for a re-vote, the voters of Hartford and Windsor choose Brandon McGee over Leo Canty, to be the Democratic nominee in the General Assembly's 5th House District, on Tuesday.

That is the question media writer Dan Kennedy asks at his blog Media Nation about Margot Botsford, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's nominee for a seat on the state's highest court, the Supreme Judicial Court.

The evaluator then produces a confidential report rating the nominee on specific criteria: integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperament.

«Hearings on the nomination of the Honorable Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court are scheduled to begin March 20 and interest in the nominee's judicial record is high.

Whether involved in the pre - or post-nomination vetting process, the hardworking members of this ABA committee have been unwavering in their focus on providing thorough, nonpartisan peer evaluations analyzing the competence, integrity and temperament of each judicial nominee.

The ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary provides comprehensive evaluations to decision - makers regarding federal judicial nominees» professional competence, integrity and temperament in the effort to seat the most qualified judges.

NationalJournal.com has an item headlined «Sessions Says He's Looking For Judicial Restraint; New Ranking Member On Senate Judiciary Panel Describes What He's Seeking In A Supreme Court Nominee.»

«A Deep Bench»: Today in The New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich (N.D. Ohio), along with her judicial law clerks, Alex Frondorf and Richard J. Hawkins, have an op - ed that begins, «To succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, President Obama should select a nominee with experience that no other sitting justice has — service as a trial judge on a federal district court.»

On his blog, Pattis notes that Bryant is the second judicial nominee tapped by Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell to suffer setbacks.

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.

There are presently, however, no apparent provisions that would preclude the attorneys on the commission to appear before the judicial - nominee - turned - judge they recommended.

The Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements (along with 13 co-sponsors) is recommending the House endorse use of bipartisan commissions to consider and recommend nominees to fill vacancies in the federal district courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals.

So it may be with the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which evaluates the qualifications of all federal judicial nominees.

Today President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate an eleventh wave of judicial nominees as follows: If confirmed, Mark J. Bennett of Hawaiʻi will serve as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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 ABA's independent Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary conducts extensive peer reviews of each nominee's integrity, professional competence and judicial temperament.

Nominees for the vacancy on the Seventeenth Judicial District bench are Tomee Crespin of Thornton, Sharon D. Holbrook of Broomfield, and Donald S. Quick of Westminster.

Contact information for the three nominees is available on the state judicial website.

When a vacancy occurs before the expiration of any term of office in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission on Judicial Selection.

As someone who can watch these developments unfold at something of a comfortable distance, what are your views on the judicial confirmation battles underway in the U.S. Senate, the use of filibusters, and the use of recess appointments to place filibustered nominees onto the federal appellate courts?