Sentences with phrase «state judicial selection»

She has written and spoken on a wide range of judicial issues, particularly constitutional limits on government, the federal nomination process and state judicial selection.

Other Committee projects and priorities include revising the ABA Standards on State Judicial Selection, Defending the Courts / Response to Unjust Criticism, and setting national judicial standards.

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 campaigning.»

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Too much of the state's election process for judges revolves around raising money, said Dennis R. Hawkins, executive director of the Fund for Modern Courts, a New York City - based group that favors reform of the judicial selection process.

Referencing other articles, CREW sees the potential for cronyism in the selection of a judicial screening panel and the hiring practices of Empire State Development Corp..

Some states, like Colorado, [jokingly] describe their judicial selection process as merit - based, but there is no basis for that categorization.

Opponents of commission - based appointment of judges — also known as the Missouri Plan, for the state in which the judicial selection process originated — have obtained approval from the secretary of state for two identically worded proposed constitutional amendments that would establish contested elections for Missouri's appellate judges.

A state's judicial nominating commission is critical to achieving a more diverse bench, and the commission itself must be diverse and conscious of how bias can seep into the judicial selection process.

In early 2014, Minnesota's Democratic governor, Mark Dayton, met with representatives of the state's minority bar associations (Black, Asian, Hispanic, women, and LGBTQ) and urged them to recruit a greater number of applicants for judicial selection.

Governor Maggie Hassan signed an executive order establishing a judicial selection commission to advise her in filling vacancies on the state's courts.

They attack her for her involvement in efforts to remove the grotesque amounts of money now flooding into judicial elections — often from out - of - state corporate front groups - and supporting a Nevada voter initiative that would replace such a system with merit selection of judges.

Attorney John R. Orton has been appointed to chair the Judicial Selection Steering Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin, which is charged with developing and executing a plan to pass a constitutional amendment regarding the selection of Supreme Court justices in WSelection Steering Committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin, which is charged with developing and executing a plan to pass a constitutional amendment regarding the selection of Supreme Court justices in Wselection of Supreme Court justices in Wisconsin.

Trends to watch for in 2014 session: merit selection, retirement age, judicial salaries, retirement systems, int» l / sharia law use by state courts

AJS is also in the process of finding new homes for Judicature and AJS's internet accessible resource known as Judicial Selection in the States.

The nominating commission has long been described as the key to the judicial merit selection process, and we hope that its supporters in the thirty - three states that use nominating commissions will work to preserve their crucial role.

This is nothing new: the O'Connor Judicial Selection Plan, which calls for commission - based appointment (or «merit selection») of judges, has been under attack in a number of states, and there seems to be a pattern to theSelection Plan, which calls for commission - based appointment (or «merit selection») of judges, has been under attack in a number of states, and there seems to be a pattern to theselection») of judges, has been under attack in a number of states, and there seems to be a pattern to the attacks.

Week ahead: retention elections for NC appellate courts; Texas AG can get special 3 - judge courts to hear challenges to state laws; another TX interim study on judicial selection; broadcasting TN Supreme Court hearings online; mandate veterans courts in every CA Superior Court; guns in IL courthouses but not courtrooms

That plan was never formally introduced into the NJ legislature, however I did find one effort to change judicial selection in the state, specifically focused on the state's Supreme Court.

CIJ hopes to enshrine in the state's constitution the existing, de facto judicial selection process.

Professor Jed Shugerman's history of judicial elections, «The People's Courts,» discussed how a few Southern states moved from judicial elections to merit selection in response to black voters regaining some power from 1950 to the early 1970s.

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, has monitored judicial elections and other state court issues for almost two decades and published an extensive report last year about merit selection.

A Web site sponsored by the American Judicature Society, which has compiled comprehensive information on judicial selection processes in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

In 2008 Utah's Justice Courts were brought into the state commission - based judicial selection system.

The judicial nominating commission is the key to commission - based appointment, or «merit selection,» of state court judges.

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the governor's selection of Zachary Martin to fill a vacancy on the Ouray County Court, effective immediately.

Unlike laws allowing legislatures to override court rules or giving politicians more control over judicial selection, recusal rules govern the ethics of judges, and they are only necessary in states in which the high courts have failed to respond adequately to the swelling tide of campaign cash.

And perhaps our judicial selection mechanism, which means that judges are recruited from the ranks of experienced litigators and legal academics, two professions which prize and help develop one's ability to articulate one's thinking, helps limit the risk that judges will give insincere but easy - to - state reasons for their decisions.

Panelist, «The Challenge of Judicial Reform — Case Studies from the States, Rethinking Strategies for Judicial Selection Reform,» Cumberland Law School (February 24, 2006)

On Monday, December 19, 2016, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the selection of three finalists for a vacancy on the Mesa County Court.