Sentences with phrase «qualified appellate judge»
A well - qualified appellate judge, she would put another woman on the high court bench.
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They are not qualified to determine scientific issues: they are politically selected, regardless of whether they are state or federal or local judges, trial or appellate judges.
Judge Erickson is as qualified as they come for judicial candidates for the federal appellate bench.
Oklahoma's Senate Judiciary Committee has approved five measures that would replace commission - based appointment of appellate judges with contested elections, limit the role of the judicial nominating commission in identifying the best qualified applicants, allow the governor to replace some lawyer members of the commission, and require appellate judges to get 60 percent «yes» votes to be retained.
Their decisions must be subject to effective, independent review, and we know of no group better qualified for that review than the appellate judges of this country under the guidance of the Supreme Court.»
«I can't think of very many people I have met in this profession who are more qualified or more suited to be a federal appellate judge than she is,» Sinclair said.
In response, a remarkable coalition of criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors, civil litigators, current and former judges and appellate justices and 30 former San Francisco Bar Association presidents united to denounce this attack on the court and to re-elect these independent and qualified jurists.