Sentences with phrase «state judiciary committee»

Andrew McDonald, Governor Dannel Malloy's choice for Supreme Court Chief Justice speaks before the State judiciary Committee at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.

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Cuomo announced Garcia's selection came just minutes after the Senate judiciary committee unanimously voted to advance the nomination of another prosecutor, Westchester district attorney Janet DiFiore, to serve as the state's next chief judge.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the New York City Bar Association will host «The State of Criminal Discovery in New York State,» discussing «the current law applicable to criminal discovery in New York State courts; responses to the Criminal Law Committee's statewide survey of the judiciary, defense bar and district attorneys regarding current practices; criminal discovery law in other states; and proposed reforms.»

The Policy Committee shall advise the County Leader with respect to recommendations to be made for Borough, County, City, State and Federal governmental appointive positions, except candidates for the judiciary or for positions involving compensation of less than $ 6,500 per annum.

«His policies have often leaned to the left philosophically, and at times I felt he was a judicial activist who would rather have been a legislator than a judge,» said State Sen. John Bonacic, a Republican who has chaired the chamber's judiciary committee since 2011.

State Sen. John Bonacic, the Republican who chairs the Senate's judiciary committee, took issue with language in the bill that would make an exemption in the state's grand jury secrecy laws to allow the special counsel to hand over usually confidential information to the governor «or his designee» as part of the recommendation for acState Sen. John Bonacic, the Republican who chairs the Senate's judiciary committee, took issue with language in the bill that would make an exemption in the state's grand jury secrecy laws to allow the special counsel to hand over usually confidential information to the governor «or his designee» as part of the recommendation for acstate's grand jury secrecy laws to allow the special counsel to hand over usually confidential information to the governor «or his designee» as part of the recommendation for action.

Other Democratic candidates exploring a run for the office include state Sen. Paul Doyle of Wethersfield, another co-chairman of the judiciary committee and state Rep. Mike D'Agostino of Hamden.

«The Bronx has never had it so good on so many levels of government: an Assembly Speaker (Heastie), a judiciary committee chair (Dinowitz), a Council Speaker candidate (Torres), a US Supreme Court Justice (Sotomayor), and Independent Democratic Conference leader state Sen. Jeff Klein,» one party insider was overheard telling an organization veteran.

A state House judiciary committee heard public comment Wednesday on a bill that would allow magistrates and registers of deeds to opt - out of performing marriages altogether if they are opposed to same - sex unions for religious reasons.

«Having a sheriff stand up before the senate judiciary committee and talk about the cruelty he'd witnessed and the economic impact on his department and his community was invaluable,» says Leighann McCollum, HSUS Tennessee state director.

Back during his 2005 Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings to become the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts tried to allay Democratic senators» fears that he was a conservative ideologue by famously comparing the role of judges with baseball umpires and declaring, «It's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.»

Only three of twelve Republicans on the senate judiciary committee voted with their Democratic colleagues to advance New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent nominee to the state court of appeals, but they did so «without recommendation.»

In this role he supported staff counsel to the United States Committee on Financial Disclosure, processing and reviewing financial reports for the federal judiciary; he also produced documentation to be read and reviewed by judges and judicial officials...