Sentences with phrase «supreme court races»

Since the 2000 election season, state supreme court races have seen a surge in campaign cash.

Every effort West Virginia has taken in the last several years (enacting public financing of supreme court races and moving to nonpartisan judicial elections) North Carolina has done the opposite (repealing public financing of appellate races and efforts to move back to partisan judicial elections).

It moves Supreme Court races to a merit selection system, but places much more power over the 15 member Judicial Nominating Commission in the legislature

According to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network (MCFN), more than $ 18 million was spent in two Michigan Supreme Court races in 2012.

Now that he is formally no longer a judicial candidate after taking what he laughingly described as a «brutal» beating in the Bronx state Supreme Court race, Rick Lazio is «freed» — as he put it — to tell us how he really feels.

An ally of former Democratic Chairman Matthew Clyne, Mackey was also a member of the coalition of party leaders that backed Albany Common Council President Carolyn McLaughlin for party chair in the shake - up following the 2014 Supreme Court race.

On March 15, CPD Wisconsin affiliate Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC) moderated a conversation with Former Attorney General Eric Holder about the importance of redistricting and the upcoming WI Supreme Court race.

The rage against Walker and his still - infant gubernatorial tenure — hard to believe it's only going on four months — has resulted in an unexpectedly close state Supreme Court race that should...

• We went from losing virtually every New York State Supreme Court race to winning 11 out of the last 13.

Taylor previously worked for Rep. Biedermann in his Capitol office during the 2017 session and worked on multiple campaigns in the past including Rick Green's statewide Texas Supreme Court race.

As of noon today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court race between Justice David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg is still too close to call.

The outcome of a supreme court race has led some to question the role of ethnicity in judicial elections.

Not exact matches

The cases involve the use of a landmark voting rights law that led to the election of African - Americans across the South and Supreme Court decisions that limited the use of race to draw electoral maps.

With the president's party controlling the Senate by just one seat and the Senate holding not only the power to pass or block legislation, but also to confirm nominees to federal positions, including the Supreme Court, the race in Arizona to replace the departing Sen. Jeff Flake is one of several to watch this fall.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the use of race in college admissions is constitutional, so long as explicit «quotas» aren't used.

Working behind the scenes, members of the old establishment, some of them close to Mr. Mubarak and the country's top generals, also helped finance, advise and organize those determined to topple the Islamist leadership, including Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood; Tahani el - Gebali, a former judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court who is close to the ruling generals; and Shawki al - Sayed, a legal adviser to Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak's last prime minister, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Morsi.

Throughout U.S. history, the Supreme Court has played nearly as important a role as the presidency on the race question, and a more important role than the U.S. Congress.

I bet it is rehashed in the next gubernatorial race and other occasions until it gets passed and subsequently slapped down by the US Supreme Court, upon which not a single atheist has ever sat.

From rising filmmaker Jeff Nichols, Loving tells the moving real - life story of Mildred and Richard Loving, the interracial couple who's romance led to the landmark Supreme Court decision which made it illegal to prevent marriages on the basis on race.

That is what the defenders of conjugal marriage are saying after the brace of Supreme Court rulings issued yesterday on challenges to that truth that is as old as the human race, that marriage is between a man and a woman.

When George Bush announced his nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, he told the American people two things that almost no one believed: that race was not a factor in the selection, and that Thomas was the best - qualified person for the position.

What if Slavery was put on the Ballot for a Vote, state by state would it of passed???? You can vote on civil rights, and the Supreme Court will finally have to legalize it, just like they did when Blacks could not marry out of their race as recent as 1971 in some states.

Though Lincoln lost the Senate race to Douglas — their rematch, this time for the presidency, would come just two years later — the debates propelled Lincoln to national prominence for his stances against slavery, against Dred Scott, and against the «supremacy» of a renegade Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (who has a weather - beaten fishing shack in Washington's Quillayute River wilderness) considers the big trout the «champion of champions» and talks raptly of his «first great jump, and the maddening race downstream in fast water.»

After asking the Supreme Court to rule directly on whether President Nixon must submit 64 tapes, Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski took time off to relax at Pimlico Race Course.

Sen. John Bonacic, the chairman of the Senate Racing and Wagering Committee, said the hearing could help provide a «blueprint» pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block new congressional maps that could tilt several key races in Democrats» favor from being used in the midterm elections.

With ballot counting completed in the 8th Senate district, Democratic candidate John Brooks leads Republican incumbent Michael Venditto by 41 votes, an outcome that is almost certainly headed to state Supreme Court in the undecided race for the state Senate seat on Long Island.

State Sen. John Bonacic, Racing and Wagering Committee Chair, accelerated his push to legalize sports betting in New York by introducing a bill that would allow it, but only at upstate casinos, which hinges on how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a lawsuit to overturn the federal ban on sports betting.

A County Supreme Court decision has created the opportunity for a Conservative Party primary in Buffalo's mayoral race.

In the judicial races, eight candidates are seeking four state Supreme Court judgeships, each a 14 - year term.

The New York Times noted Friday the growing role of independent spending in the New York City races, including the groups associated with the Anybody But Quinn campaign, linking it to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

Former GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful and current state Supreme Court candidate Rick Lazio will make his first public appearance tomorrow since dropping out of the race almost a month ago following his big primary loss to Carl Paladino.

As Avi pointed out the Supreme Court has ruled against discrimination based on race but racial discrimination is protected by federal law and would have been illegal even outside of the primaries.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

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He gave the example of the Richmond v. Croson case in which the Supreme Court ruled that government programs that categorize people on the basis of race must be «narrowly tailored to remedy prior discrimination.»

Silver's 12 - page court claim, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last Tuesday, alleges that Lipp didn't get enough Republican signatures on her petition to become the GOP candidate in the Assembly court claim, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last Tuesday, alleges that Lipp didn't get enough Republican signatures on her petition to become the GOP candidate in the Assembly Court last Tuesday, alleges that Lipp didn't get enough Republican signatures on her petition to become the GOP candidate in the Assembly race.

1st Assembly District: Attorneys for Alessi and Losquadro are due in State Supreme Court at 9:30 a.m. Monday to discuss Alessi's request for a hand recount of the 42,028 ballots cast in the race.

And the race for comptroller isn't the only city election where we'll see the effects of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

A former North Carolina Supreme Court judge has filed complaints with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and a New York state ethics panel alleging that taxpayer - funded ads Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has run in North Carolina violated the Hatch Act by interfering with the gubernatorial and legislative races...

7th Senate District: State Supreme Court Justice Ira Warshawsky, who is overseeing the results in the Johnson - Martins race, on Friday expressed exasperation with the pace of the ballot count.

Absentee and affidavit ballot counting from last Thursday's primary race in the 63rd State Senate District will now be overseen by a State Supreme Court judge.

The Supreme Court decision last week lifting a ban on sports betting outside Nevada set off a race among states — led by New Jersey — to seize a new opportunity.

Here's the decision by four appellate court judges — two Democrats and two Republicans — dismissing Sen. Craig Johnson's appeal of a Dec. 4 ruling of State Supreme Court Justice Ira Warshawsky that handed the 7th SD race to Republican Jack Marcourt judges — two Democrats and two Republicans — dismissing Sen. Craig Johnson's appeal of a Dec. 4 ruling of State Supreme Court Justice Ira Warshawsky that handed the 7th SD race to Republican Jack MarCourt Justice Ira Warshawsky that handed the 7th SD race to Republican Jack Martins.

The Supreme Court also rejected a challenge to a race - conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students.

In his announcement, the governor called the decision of the Supreme Court's worst and said, «This decision ignited the equivalent of a campaign nuclear arms race and created a shadow industry in New York — maligning the integrity of the electoral process and drowning out the voice of the people.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN)- Minnesota's Supreme Court Thursday barred officials from including rejected absentee ballots in the recount of the state's hotly contested U.S. Senate race unless both of the candidates and elections officials agree the ballot was improperly rejected.

The Supreme Court has abridged the date for the hearing of an application filed by Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) challenging a high court decision which overturned its disqualification of flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) Papa Kwesi Ndoum from the December 7 presidential Court has abridged the date for the hearing of an application filed by Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) challenging a high court decision which overturned its disqualification of flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) Papa Kwesi Ndoum from the December 7 presidential court decision which overturned its disqualification of flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) Papa Kwesi Ndoum from the December 7 presidential race.