acslaw.org - 27 days ago
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Storm clouds appear to be gathering over two of President Obama's judicial nominees facing what Professor Carl Tobias calls an increasingly tight "bottle neck in the Senate." Apparently added to the hit-list for those obstructing nominations are Judge David Hamilton, nominated to the U.S. Court ...
On Judicial Elections and Judicial Recusal
legaltimes.typepad.com 10/12/2009 — Two Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices made the case for electing judges before an audience of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in Philadelphia on Friday. "Appointment is no less political. It's political at a back room level," said Justice ...
Nominations Archives
2009.weblogawards.org 24 days ago — The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition with over 930,000 votes cast in 2008 edition and nearly three million votes cast in all editions since 2003. For The 2009 Weblog Awards open and public nominations in 50 categories began on ...
Where Are Obama’s Judicial Nominees?
volokh.com 10/19/2009 — The Washington Post reports that liberal activists are upset that President Obama has yet to place his stamp on the federal courts. The Administration has been very slow to make judicial nominations and has not spent much political capital to get ...
Judicial Elections Revisited Once More
lawprofessors.typepad.com 10/13/2009 — Judicial elections seem to be the hot topic of the moment. The Blog of Legal Times reports that a panel at last weekend's meeting of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers discussed the topic in depth. The speakers quoted in...
EDITORIAL: Another judicial radical
washingtontimes.com 10/26/2009 — THE WASHINGTON TIMES Another day, another Obama nominee who doesn't appear to love America. Another nominee who thinks the United States is inherently racist. Another nominee who thinks that judges should let their "ethnic and racial background" have ...