Sentences with phrase «on judicial races»

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

We've been writing a lot about tomorrow being the deadline for Rick Lazio to decide whether he will indeed remain in the governor's race on the Conservative Party line because it's the last days parties can hold judicial nominating conventions.

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).

Most eyes may be on Buffalo's Democratic mayoral race, but there is also a hotly - contested Erie County Legislature primary, a number of judicial contests and some faceoffs in the suburbs for supervisor and councilmanic seats.

Ciampoli also alleged that Fitzpatrick paid a campaign staff person $ 2,500 for work she did on other campaigns that Fitzpatrick managed, including two judicial campaigns and some county legislature races.

Because of this year's presidential race and the Legislature's failure to come to an agreement on recombining the congressional and state votes after a 2012 judicial decision split them, Tuesday will be the third opportunity for some voters to cast primary votes this year.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's office.

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.

An Order to Show Cause, adjudicated by Saratoga County's Supreme Court Judge Robert Chauvin, temporarily held up the ballot counting, which delayed the final vote tallies on all races throughout the state's Fourth Judicial District.

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.

An Order to Show Cause presented to Chauvin had temporarily held up the ballot counting, which delayed the final vote tallies on all races throughout the state's Fourth Judicial District.

In his national - tilted themes, Cuomo talked of an American economic transformation that has made a «handful rich,» of record homeless people living on the streets and a judicial system too often tipped «by resources or race.»

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Observers note that voters who lack information about judicial candidates often cast their votes based on race, sex, and other factors unrelated to qualifications.

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 bilOn 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 bilon HB 2010 previously not on the merits but due to typographical and reference errors in the bilon the merits but due to typographical and reference errors in the bill.

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.

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.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, handed down on Monday, strikes down many of the restrictions the Kentucky Bar Association places on judicial candidates and could open up this year's judicial races to the types of campaigning seen in other races.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is denying claims that it has been forced to undertake race equality impact assessments on legal aid reforms after judicial proceedings were launched against it.

Early indications so far show that judicial races this year are on pace, dollar-wise, with the record - breaking 2004 elections.

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.