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29 May 2016, 6:58 am
"Unlike the major party conventions later this summer where the nominees will likely be known well in advance, there's no telling who will come out on top of Sunday's Libertarian vote. [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 12:21 pm by Paul Gowder
What should we infer about the health of our democracy if the major party nominees in 2016 are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton? [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 6:00 am by Frank Pasquale
President Obama, here as in so much else, was playing the deliberative democratic game, trying to build political community around a centrist nominee who was relatively aged (63, the oldest Supreme Court nominee since Lewis F. [read post]
25 Jun 2016, 3:33 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
These precedents support the principle that it is up to a political party — and not state legislatures — to determine how to select a party’s nominees. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 6:59 am by Edith Roberts
When President Donald Trump selected his first Supreme Court nominee a year and a half ago, only one of the final four frontrunners had never served as a judge on a federal appeals court: Amul Thapar, then a district-court judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky and a favorite of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 5:45 am
" But far more fundamentally, there is very little political incentive for Obama to renominate any of Bush's judicial nominees. [read post]
20 May 2010, 8:34 am by Steve Hall
"This suggests a major shift in thinking on the death penalty ... [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 7:25 am by Marcia Coyle
In the past, both political parties have tried, often with little success, to make the court or certain decisions a major campaign issue in the eyes of the public. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 9:27 am
[T]he assumption that the parties will rally behind their respective nominees may or may not be reliable.... [read post]
21 May 2008, 4:19 am
What they are dedicated to is exhaustive, respectful discourse involving each major perspective in political and social disputes. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 4:21 pm
A majority of presidential candidates from both political parties may be lawyers, but that doesn't mean that lawyers are any more popular on the campaign trail than they are with the general public. [read post]
Kerala is notable for its political pluralism and has witnessed the rule of both major national parties and regional parties. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 8:19 am by Grabel & Associates
The current 4-3 Republican nominee majority might be in jeopardy this fall in the next elections. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 9:51 am
The populist emergence of Sarah Palin of Alaska as the Vice-Presidential nominee of the Republican Party in America is not an isolated phenomenon of the USA.The state elections just held on Sunday in Bavaria, Germany closed with a dramatic populist result as the ruling conservative CSU party (Christian Social Union) for the first time since 1962 failed to obtain an absolute majority of the Bavarian vote. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 5:39 am
If so, then before you chart your course, you should read “The Nominee: A Political and Spiritual Journey,” by Leslie Southwick, now a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. [read post]
6 Nov 2022, 7:30 am
"... and long-sought victories for his party’s base, like tax cuts, a long procession of conservative federal judges, a Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 4:30 am by Guest Blogger
For an important segment of both political parties, the federal courts have become a critical policymaking institution, and as a result both parties have been pushed to treat judicial appointments as an important political battleground.Political scientists have long argued that courts are inevitably political institutions. [read post]