"If an omnibus judgeship bill is enacted into law, it would be first new comprehensive judgeship legislation to take effect in more than 26 years," the conference said in a release.
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Sessions denied those allegations, but they cost him the judgeship.
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He supplemented his initial response to include the "withdrawn" judgeship.
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Gorsuch was nominated to his judgeship in 2006 by Bush.
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In 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee opposed Sessions' federal judgeship nomination .
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He's being considered for a federal district judgeship in the state.
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He was also rejected from a federal judgeship two decades ago.
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It was 30 years ago that Sessions was denied a federal judgeship.
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He supplemented his initial response on Wednesday to include the "withdrawn" judgeship.
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In January, she was nominated by Trump to a federal trial judgeship.
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Kozinski recently resigned his judgeship over claims that he sexually harassed women.
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The background investigation I underwent for a District Court judgeship was probing.
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Four years later, President Clinton nominated her for the district court judgeship.
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Schumer's office declined to comment on Jentleson's assertions or the judgeship deal.
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Gorsuch was nominated to his judgeship in 2006 by President George W. Bush.
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It isn&apost -- well, I think it&aposs against any Republican judgeship nomination.
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King's letter from 1986 had opposed Jeff Sessions' appointment to a federal judgeship.
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In the 1980s, racially charged accusations derailed his nomination to a federal judgeship.
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Trump-supporting blogger confirmed to lifetime judgeship Trump-supporting blogger confirmed to lifetime judgeship A Kentucky lawyer with a lengthy record of partisan writing was confirmed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday in a party-line Senate vote.
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Sessions' 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship was derailed over accusations of racist comments.
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These letters were penned in 1986 when Sessions was up for a federal judgeship.
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Neither opposed Mr Kavanaugh when he was up for his appellate judgeship in 2006.
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Jeff Sessions, who was denied a federal judgeship on accusations of being a racist.
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She first penned the letter during Sessions's failed confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship.
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In 1994 (shortly before the AMIA attack), Mr. Corach promoted him to federal judgeship.
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"He could've lost a judgeship on a story that was made up," he said.
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He's also been involved in local politics running for a judgeship in Texas in 2008.
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To today's youth, judgeship as an aspiration for a girl is not at all outlandish.
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That same year, she took senior status — semiretirement with reduced duties — from her regular judgeship.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That incident helped doom his nomination for a federal judgeship.
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The rule often stopped the Obama White House from nominating anyone to a vacant judgeship.
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Read: Trump-supporting blogger confirmed to lifetime judgeship In a letter to Vermont Democratic Sen.
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Ted Kennedy, a liberal lion who opposed Sessions' nomination for the federal judgeship in the 1980s.
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I'm also considering whether I want to pursue a judgeship, which would require additional professional considerations.
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He is one of Donald Trump's picks for a lifetime judgeship on a U.S. District Court.
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Thapar was the first South Asian American to be named to an Article III federal judgeship.
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In 1979, after Jimmy Carter signed legislation expanding the federal judiciary, Ginsburg began pursuing a judgeship.
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The attorney general's nomination to a federal judgeship was derailed in 1986 by accusations of racism.
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The Judicial Conference submits judgeship recommendations to Congress every two years based on caseload and workload.
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Two nominees — Charles Goodwin for a federal judgeship on the district court for the Western District of Oklahoma and Holly Lou Teeter for a federal judgeship on the district court in Kansas— also advanced after having received a "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association.
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"President Trump's nomination of David Porter to a federal judgeship is a direct affront to Pennsylvanians, tens of thousands of whom made it clear they were opposed to a judgeship for Porter when it was suggested just a few years ago," the group said in a statement.
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But in 1986, he appeared before the committee himself hoping to get confirmed for a federal judgeship.
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They rejected Sessions for that judgeship based on what they saw as a history of racial insensitivity.
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Sessions's judgeship was withdrawn after he allegedly made racially insensitive comments, charges the lawmaker has fiercely denied.
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Coretta Scott King penned the message during Sessions's failed confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship that year.
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Sessions's opponents have revived his failed '86 nomination for a federal judgeship under a Republican-controlled Senate.
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And they are revisiting allegations that surfaced when Sessions was rejected for a federal judgeship in 1986.
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Partners have more prizes to chase — a political appointment, a higher political appointment, maybe even a judgeship.
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"Thirty years ago, a different Republican Senate rejected Senator Sessions' nomination to a federal judgeship," she added.
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Sessions was also rejected for a federal judgeship in 1986 amid accusations of racism, which he denied.
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When Trump took office, he mockingly thanked President Obama for leaving him over 28500 federal judgeship vacancies.
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Edmund G. Brown of California appointed him to a judgeship in Los Angeles municipal court in 22005.
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Our letter reminds the Senate Judiciary Committee that they previously spurned Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship. Sen.
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I know; I went through one after President Bill Clinton nominated me for a federal judgeship in Massachusetts.
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His views on race were once sufficiently odious for a Senate committee to deny him a federal judgeship.
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Wade at least once before, during Kavanaugh's 2006 nomination hearing for his judgeship on the D.C. Circuit court.
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She decided to run for a judgeship, and she was instrumental in starting Summit County's first drug court.
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Her offense: quoting a letter Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986 opposing Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship.
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The Senate confirmed Gorsuch for his current judgeship in 803 by voice vote with no one voting against him.
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In 2007, Thapar was the first South Asian American to be named to an Article III federal judgeship. Sen.
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What is more, senate Republicans are employing this partisan abuse of power specifically to grant Brennan a lifetime judgeship.
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After Charles McBurney learned that he'd been passed over for the judgeship, he published an op-ed on Jacksonville.
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The Senate years ago turned down Mr. Sessions for a federal court judgeship because of his biased racial views.
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And when running for his judgeship, he boasted about the number of people he had sent to death row.
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In March 2017, seven weeks into Trump's presidency, the White House Counsel's Office interviewed Brennan for the appellate judgeship.
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Ironically, Sessions joined the very same Senate Judiciary Committee just a decade after it denied him a federal judgeship.
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He railed against "right-wingers" and spoke approvingly of the recently scuttled nomination of Jeff Sessions to a federal judgeship.
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Sessions's 1986 nomination to a federal judgeship was derailed by accusations of racism during his tenure as a U.S. attorney.
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The idea was that he defrauded the Senate, by providing false information, in order to get confirmed for his judgeship.
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In 2007, Thapar was the first American of South Asian descent to be named to an Article III federal judgeship.
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He did reportedly offer to nominate her to a federal judgeship during an Oval Office meeting in November, Politico reported.
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Petersen acknowledged during the hearing that his "background was not in litigation," even though he was up for a judgeship.
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His nomination was only the second in 48 years to be rejected for a judgeship by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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We've learned this lesson before: Wearing blinders when considering a former administration official for a lifetime judgeship presents grave risks.
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In his 2006 confirmation hearing for an appellate court judgeship he declared that he played no role in those decisions.
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Early Tuesday morning, Ohio's Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the poll closure by a candidate for a county judgeship.
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The following morning, Ohio's Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the poll closure by a candidate for a county judgeship.
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Democrats made inroads in Fort Bend County, winning the county judgeship in 2018 for the first time in modern memory.
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"Her lack of trial experience would make it difficult for her to transition to a district court judgeship," Collins said.
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Discerning that she was on the losing side of White House infighting, she left in 1985, rejecting a federal judgeship.
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Trump nominated Talley earlier this year to a lifetime appointment to a federal judgeship in the Middle District of Alabama.
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White House counsel Don McGahn has had an ongoing conversation with Gowdy over the past year about a potential judgeship.
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Even more significant, he appeared before the same committee when he was nominated for a federal district judgeship in 22019.
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Albert Turner, Spencer Hogue Jr. and Evelyn Turner resurfaced in 1986 during Sessions' confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship position.
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The Kentucky Republican called Gorsuch an "eminently qualified" judge who "with no Democratic opposition — none" was confirmed to his federal judgeship.
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Critics have pounced on Sessions's scuttled federal judgeship in 1986 as proof he is unfit for the role of attorney general.
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Grant gave him a federal judgeship in 1875, and he was appointed to the Supreme Court by Benjamin Harrison in 1890.
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The background of justices typically includes some combination of an Ivy League education, a Supreme Court clerkship and a federal judgeship.
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Just because Sessions started out as an Alabama prosecutor with a record on race so unsavory he couldn't get a judgeship.
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Another bill, already approved by Parliament, would ultimately give the government control over who can even be considered for a judgeship.
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In the 256s, he was nominated for a judgeship by Ronald Reagan but failed to be confirmed over accusations of racism.
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It included four judges who already had been confirmed or nominated to a federal judgeship under Trump: Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, Georgia Supreme Court Justice Britt Grant, who has been nominated for the Eleventh Circuit, and Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Patrick Wyrick, who has been nominated for a federal district judgeship.
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Elizabeth Warren from reading a letter her mother, Coretta Scott King, wrote in opposition to a 1986 federal judgeship position for Sen.
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In 1986, Sessions was denied a federal judgeship after issues were raised about comments he had made regarding the Klu Klux Klan.
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Warren was merely reading words written by a civil rights icon, who was opposing Sessions' appointment to a federal judgeship in 1986.
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US District Court Judge Amul Thapar was the first South Asian to be named to an Article III federal judgeship in 2007.
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Thapar, a US district court judge, was the first South Asian to be named to an Article III federal judgeship in 2007.
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In 1986, he was denied a federal judgeship after reports he made racist remarks that implied he supported the Ku Klux Klan.
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King opposed Sessions during failed confirmation hearing to a federal judgeship in 1986, arguing he had fought minority voting rights in Alabama.
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The House voted unanimously in favor of three articles of impeachment, and Kent resigned his judgeship before his trial in the Senate.
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Mr. Sessions, an Alabama conservative, was denied a federal judgeship by the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 because of racially charged comments.
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Facing term limits, Mr. McBurney was considered a very strong choice for a gubernatorial appointment to a judgeship in Jacksonville, his hometown.
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It could be something as minor as the vote this morning to confirm Scott Palk to a district court judgeship in Oklahoma.
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He went on to vote against him, making him only the second nominee in half-a-century to be denied a federal judgeship.
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The letter was written by the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1986, when Sessions was under consideration for a federal judgeship.
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The only major holdout to date has been Judge Lance Ito, who chose not to give up his judgeship by commenting in print.
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The Senate Judiciary committee, where he now sits, refused to confirm him for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of past racist remarks.
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The push in the Senate last November to confirm a White House lawyer for a top federal judgeship in New York unnerved Democrats.
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If these things are true, not only must he never be seated on the Supreme Court, he must also lose his current judgeship.
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Back in 1986, 39-year-old Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (then a federal prosecutor) was nominated to a federal judgeship by Ronald Reagan.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship in Alabama when President Ronald Reagan nominated him way back in 1986.
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When he failed to mention his previous hearings for the judgeship -- an omission seized upon by Democrats and opponents -- he immediately sent in supplements.
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But in 1969 he won a special election to replace Representative James F. Battin, a Republican who had resigned to take a federal judgeship.
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He took that job, however, only after resigning from a federal appellate judgeship for which he had been nominated by then-president Richard Nixon.
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The most glaring omission, though, was that Sessions was rejected by a Republican Senate for a federal judgeship in 1986 over allegations of racism.
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Persky's decision to offer leniency to convicted rapist stands in stark contrast with the platform he ran on for his judgeship on in 2002.
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He believed that the delivery of Marbury's commission was a mere ministerial deficiency and that, accordingly, Marbury had a legal claim to the judgeship.
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Sessions's 1986 nomination to a federal judgeship was derailed by accusations of racism, which reappeared during his fight to win confirmation as attorney general.
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I truly hope that he will not be confirmed for attorney general as he was not confirmed for a federal judgeship 30 years earlier.
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In 1986, before Mr. Sessions became a senator himself, a Republican-controlled Senate rejected his nomination by President Ronald Reagan to a federal judgeship.
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That doesn't even get to controversial racist comments, which Sessions claims were jokes, that derailed his nomination to a federal judgeship in the 1980s.
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To run this unit, Mitchell tapped Frank Schwelb, a veteran of the Kennedy administration who was later elevated to a judgeship by Jimmy Carter.
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He was a golf partner of Tip O'Neill, the longtime Democratic House speaker, who weighed in to support Martha Kavanaugh's nomination to a judgeship.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 against Sessions' nomination, making him the second nominee in 50 years to be rejected for a federal judgeship.
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Earlier in the day Thursday, Trump announced his intent to nominate Readler to a judgeship on the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
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He was nominated for a federal judgeship by former President George W. Bush in 2008, though his confirmation didn't pass through the Democrat-controlled Senate.
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Parker was appointed to the part-time judgeship in 2013 by former Governor Mike Beebe, and was ineligible to seek the office at the polls.
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President Reagan's justice department thought it was improper to defend the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Banker Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984.
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He said in November he would appoint Attorney General Brad Schimel (R), who also lost his seat in November, to a judgeship in Waukesha County.
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Joseph's routine order has almost certainly already cost her a judgeship; her law license and possibly even her freedom are now also on the line.
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It would be nice to report that Mr. Sessions, who is now 69, has conscientiously worked to dispel the shadows that cost him the judgeship.
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Mr. Sessions, who is white, was rejected by the Senate for a federal judgeship in 1986 after he was accused of making racially insensitive statements.
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Jeff Sessions for attorney general will almost certainly dredge up allegations of racism and voter suppression that sunk his 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship.
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It's expected to be a tough job interview, due in part to allegations of racial bias that cost him a federal judgeship 217 years ago.
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It's expected to be a tough job interview, due in part to allegations of racial bias that cost him a federal judgeship 19823 years ago.
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Most often, they stepped down to serve in the US Senate, join a president's Cabinet, or accept another appointive position such as an ambassadorship or judgeship.
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In 1986, a Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee rejected Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship after racist remarks he reportedly made came to light during the proceedings.
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When Sessions was blocked for a federal judgeship in 1986, his role in prosecuting a voter fraud case against civil rights activists factored in the decision.
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Democrats are also likely to hammer Sessions over past allegations of racist comments, which he has denied, that tanked his 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship.
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Democratic Senator Dick Durbin called him "the Zelig or Forrest Gump of Republican politics" during Kavanaugh's extremely contentious confirmation hearings for a federal judgeship in 2004.
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Bonner, who had been nominated for a federal judgeship, assigned the case to Schiff, who had just turned thirty, to try it for a third time.
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Chrissy Teigen, who as best we know never went to law school and was never appointed to a judgeship, arbitrates real legal cases in Chrissy's Court.
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That was when Sessions was rejected for a federal judgeship on the basis of an impressive record of racial insensitivity as a U.S. attorney in Alabama.
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The period includes the biggest political embarrassment of his career: the Senate's rejection, in 1986, of his nomination to a federal judgeship by President Ronald Reagan.
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One of those was the nomination of Brett Talley, a lawyer who was nominated for a lifetime federal district judgeship despite never having tried a case.
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In December, a judicial oversight committee in New Orleans ruled that a candidate for a local judgeship had made false statements about Mr. Reilly's employer, VOTE.
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Three decades ago, the civil rights issue derailed Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship, with the same Senate Judiciary Committee ultimately rejecting him for the job.
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Those familiar with his work describe him as a careful and cautious public servant whose career trajectory suggested he may someday vie for a federal judgeship.
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"It's just crazy, and I'm tired of dealing with the crazies," he said in 2011 when conservatives questioned his appointment of a Muslim to a state judgeship.
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Sessions was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 in part because of comments he allegedly made about organizations like the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union.
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The logline was, it seems, kind of misleading, in that this show seems to revolve around Missick's character, Lola Carmichael, who is brand new to a judgeship.
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Since Sessions' consideration for the Cabinet, new focus has gone to racially insensitive statements that surfaced when he was considered for a district judgeship in the 1980s.
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Jeff Sessions is remembered as having lost a federal judgeship because he might have called a black co-worker "boy" and made that joke about the KKK.
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Democrats have raised concerns over race-tinged comments Sessions made decades ago as a U.S. attorney in Alabama and later derailed his nomination for a federal judgeship.
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That lone black nominee, Terry Moorer, currently a magistrate judge in Montgomery, Alabama, had sought a US district judgeship in that state capital city where he sits.
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Sessions, of course, was denied a federal judgeship back in the 1980s precisely because he's a racist who does not treat all Americans equally under the law.
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Kozinski retired from his judgeship in December 2017 after multiple former employees said he showed them pornography, touched them inappropriately, or made inappropriate sexual comments to them.
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Under the commission's new rules, a judicial candidate needed five votes to be recommended for a judgeship; the commission was required to recommend four to six candidates.
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Calling it a "caricature," Sessions again denies the charges brought against him in his hearing for a federal judgeship in 1986 accusing him of being a racist.
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Thirty years ago, Sessions was nominated for a federal judgeship but during his Senate confirmation hearing he was accused of making racist remarks, a charge he vigorously denied.
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Sessions in 1986 was up for a federal judgeship when allegations he made racist comments to an African-American colleague caused a minor scandal, ultimately scuttling his nomination.
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Democrats have seized on allegations by former colleagues that he made offensive racial comments as a young attorney, which scuttled his nomination to a federal judgeship in 1986.
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One option would be for Collins to run for a local judgeship to fulfill the rule of running for another office, but Collins doesn't hold a law degree.
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He expressed regret for voting to confirm Brett M. Kavanaugh to a circuit court judgeship, offered his support for decriminalizing marijuana and amplified his criticism of President Trump.
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Partisans might argue that it is better to let a judgeship sit vacant, even for years, than to have it filled by a president from the other party.
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President Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship in Texas once described transgender children as part of "Satan's plan," compared homosexuality to bestiality and advocated for gay conversion therapy.
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They rose at seemingly regular intervals to rail against the Alabama senator, who was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 amid allegations he made racist comments to a colleague.
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Instead, Sessions' name has been dragged through the mud on the basis of 30-year-old accusations of racism made after his 1986 nomination for a federal district judgeship.
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He's opposed reforms to reduce mass incarceration, proposed stringent crackdowns on immigration, and he even has a history of racist remarks that ended his hopes of a federal judgeship.
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President Trump's pick for federal judgeship who was widely mocked for failing to answer basic legal questions at his confirmation hearing just became the latest nominee to drop out.
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"While I strongly disagree with the sentence that Judge Persky issued in the Brock Turner case, I do not believe he should be removed from his judgeship," Rosen said.
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"While I strongly disagree with the sentence that Judge Persky issued in the Brock Turner case, I do not believe he should be removed from his judgeship," Rosen said.
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Her husband, Billy, also a strong force in New Hampshire Democratic politics, left a judgeship to help her run, and her family was always together on the campaign trail.
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Martin Luther King Jr. In 1986, when Sessions was being considered for a federal judgeship, Coretta Scott King wrote to the Senate to urge them to reject his nomination.
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The Senate in 1986 opposed appointing Sessions to a federal judgeship in part due to disparaging remarks he allegedly made about the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union.
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The Alabamian lost a confirmation battle for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of those claims, but he was better prepared to respond to those accusations this time around.
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At the time, Warren was reading a letter by the late civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, who weighed in on Sessions's failed 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship.
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The allegations that Sessions harbors racial bias — the same allegations that cost him a federal judgeship 30 years ago — continued to dog his road to confirmation this time around.
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The jurist explained: of the country's ten biggest federal courts, "New Jersey is second in weighted filings per district judgeship," a number that assumes all seventeen judgeships are occupied.
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Rejected for a federal judgeship, passed over for a crucial Senate committee chairmanship and long considered too far right to attain a cabinet post, he has defied the odds.
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Mazie Hirono after authoring an op-ed in January accusing Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee of "religious bigotry" in their questioning of a nominee for a district judgeship.
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She wins a seat in the Arizona State Senate, tames that boys' club enough to become majority leader and then moves to a judgeship on the state appeals court.
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Brett Talley, whom Trump nominated for a district judgeship in Alabama, faced similar questions about his qualifications (he'd never tried a case and had only practiced law for three years).
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Judge Screnock, who was appointed to his judgeship by Mr. Walker, won support from the state's Republican Party, the National Rifle Association and a prominent business group, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.
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She trades campaign advice with one of her sisters, Mariam Bazzi, who was appointed to a county judgeship earlier this year and must run in 2018 to keep the seat.
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The panel also deemed Leonard Steven Grasz, whom Trump nominated to a judgeship on the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, not qualified late last month, with one member abstaining.
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Civil rights groups have urged Democrats to reject Sessions, meanwhile, over alleged racially charged remarks he made that were unearthed during his failed confirmation for a federal judgeship in 1986.
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Donald Trump's nominee for a judgeship in Texas has said that transgender children are evidence of "Satan's plan" and that allowing gay people to get married would lead to beastiality.
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If they do, it is hard to imagine that they will endorse a man once rejected for a low-level judgeship to safeguard justice for all Americans as attorney general.
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His ascent to a judgeship via law school and hard work is a fulfillment of the American dream, a story of playing by the rules and rising up the social ladder.
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The comment, and others like it, cost him a federal judgeship in 1986 and have been repeated time and again in summary form in newspaper and magazine articles over the years.
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First appointed to a judgeship by President Ronald Reagan, Sullivan was elevated to the DC District Court, the trial-level federal court handling cases in Washington, DC, by President Bill Clinton.
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"Thirty years ago, the Senate rejected Sessions' appointment to a federal judgeship because he was deemed too extreme then," Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile said in a statement Tuesday morning.
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The Trump administration had announced in May that Moorer -- a federal prosecutor from 248 to 2179, when he was appointed magistrate -- would be nominated for a Middle District of Alabama judgeship.
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According to the complaint, Mr. Michalek repeatedly asked for Mr. Pigeon's assistance in moving up to the Appellate Division of the court, where there was a vacancy for an associate judgeship.
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"Her clarity and intellectual strength in the Senate hearings for her current judgeship showed an intellect and a depth of thought that would be powerful on the Supreme Court," Gingrich said.
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The only ways for Collins to be removed from the ballot, Conklin said, are death or accepting the GOP's nomination for a separate office -- typically a judgeship or a town position.
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After an abortive foray into politics came to an end in 1798, Andrew Jackson returned to Tennessee, where he was given a judgeship in what was then a rough frontier state.
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Here's what to watch for: When the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee snubbed Sessions in 1986, he was the second nominee in 49 years to be rejected for a federal judgeship.
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Back in 2013, frustrated by Senate Republicans' blockade of then-President Barack Obama's judicial nominees, Reid changed the filibuster rules to not apply to federal judgeship below the Supreme Court level.
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Senyei's predecessor as head of the National Office of the Judiciary was Tunde Hando, the wife of a Fidesz lawmaker, who has moved on to a judgeship on the Constitutional Court.
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In 2010, he led the House team dispatched to Senate during the most recent impeachment trial of a federal judge, Thomas Porteous, who Schiff helped successfully remove him from his judgeship.
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In the debate Tuesday evening, after Republicans already blocked a Senate filibuster, Warren reignited that debate by reading from a 1986 letter Coretta Scott King sent opposing Sessions for a federal judgeship.
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If the Democrats try to block Neil Gorsuch, whom Mr Trump nominated for the vacant Supreme Court judgeship on January 31st, the Republicans will probably abolish its use in that case also.
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"While I strongly disagree with the sentence that Judge Persky issued in the Brock Turner case, I do not believe he should be removed from his judgeship," Rosen said in a statement.
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His long spell as a federal attorney there, before a short one as the state's attorney-general, also gave rise to allegations that derailed his nomination to a federal judgeship in 1986.
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Sessions was denied confirmation to a federal judgeship in 1986 after allegations emerged that he made racist remarks, including testimony that he called an African-American prosecutor "boy," an allegation Sessions denied.
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Democrats and some independent groups have raised concerns about Sessions' hard line immigration views and racially insensitive statements that contributed to him getting passed over for a federal judgeship in the 1980s.
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"You are the first African-American nominated for a federal judgeship in the State of Mississippi in 903 years, since Judge Henry Wingate was nominated by President Reagan in 1985," Durbin said.
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Elizabeth Warren, who occupies a windswept patch of real estate in Donald Trump's brain, was reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King in opposition to Sessions' nomination for a Federal judgeship.
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Read: Trump-supporting blogger confirmed to lifetime judgeship Brett Kavanaugh, 53, a former Kennedy clerk, is a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and a favorite of the GOP establishment.
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Jeff Sessions, a man rejected for a judgeship in the 1980s on account of racially insensitive remarks he made, is slated to replace Loretta Lynch, the nation's first black female attorney general.
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Sessions, a long-time denier of civil, immigrant and voting rights, was rejected for a federal judgeship three decades ago because of those biases and recorded comments and positions against black voters.
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While there is a growing movement online and in Santa Clara County to recall Judge Aaron Persky from his elected judgeship, the public outcry is making many in the legal community nervous.
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That arc of the universe seemed on track 23 years later when Alabama's Democratic senator Howell Heflin, Mr. Jones's old boss, cast the decisive vote against a federal judgeship for Jeff Sessions.
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Mr. Sessions, 71, got his start in politics as a United States attorney in Alabama, but his nomination for a federal judgeship was blocked by the Senate amid charges of racial insensitivity.
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The vice president can surely advise — but he can't sign a bill into law; he can't nominate someone to the Cabinet or to a judgeship; he can't call up the national guard.
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She noted that racist comments he allegedly made decades ago as U.S. attorney for Alabama prompted a Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee to reject his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986.
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Willett, who President Donald Trump has nominated for a federal judgeship in the U.S. Court of Appeals, was grilled over a tweet regarding same-sex marriage and bacon during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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He wasn't confirmed for a federal judgeship in 1986 after ex-colleagues testified he had made racist comments and joked that his problem with the Ku Klux Klan was its use of marijuana.
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Three decades ago, Sessions' history of racial intolerance denied him a federal judgeship after witnesses testified that he privately expressed admiration for the Klan and characterized the NAACP as a communist-inspired organization.
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Trump offered the job of attorney general to Senator Jeff Sessions, who was rejected for a federal judgeship in 1986 by a Republican-dominated Senate because of a history of racially charged statements.
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If a home-state senator can no longer put a hold on a nominee for an appellate judgeship, what's to stop a president from nominating a judge who isn't even from that state?
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A founder and chairman of the Federalist Society (of which I have been a member since 1984), Professor Calabresi promoted his "judgeship bill" as a way of "undoing" President Barack Obama's judicial legacy.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Talley's nomination to a federal district judgeship in Alabama, and he is expected to be confirmed by a majority vote in the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans.
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Read: 3 key ways the midterms matter for Robert Mueller's investigation His nomination was controversial, and during the confirmation process, Democrats highlighted the allegations of racism that once cost him a federal judgeship.
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Meanwhile, Sessions has been unable to shake off allegations of racism, which cost him a federal judgeship 30 years ago, making him a controversial pick for attorney general with a tough confirmation ahead.
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The Alabama Republican, facing criticism for past accusations of racially charged comments that helped to cost him a federal judgeship, pledged to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would uphold protections for African-Americans.
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In the 1980s, Sessions was considered for a Ronald Reagan-appointed federal district judgeship in Alabama, but was blocked by the Senate after a black former deputy accused him of making racially insensitive statements.
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Adalberto Jordan Jordan fits the bill of another Obama appellate nominee who has an engaging personal story, was recently vetted for a federal judgeship and won a large majority in the Senate when confirmed.
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The agency currently has just two members: Maureen Ohlhausen, the Republican acting chairwoman who was just nominated for a federal judgeship, and Democrat Terrell McSweeny, who has been serving beyond her term's expiration date.
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During his hearing earlier this month, records previously withheld by Republicans revealed numerous instances of Kavanaugh making apparently misleading statements to the Judiciary Committee during his 2006 confirmation hearing for the D.C. Circuit judgeship.
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When one of Trump's lower-court nominees has managed to penetrate public consciousness, it has usually been an outlier, like Brett Talley, whom Trump picked last year for an Alabama Federal District Court judgeship.
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His nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 was rejected because of racially charged comments and actions, which are very likely to become an issue as he faces another set of Senate confirmation hearings.
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In addition to his extensive paper trail, Kavanaugh also has a lengthy record of congressional testimony — consisting of two other confirmation hearings he participated in for a DC Circuit judgeship, in 2004 and 2006.
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Warren was rebuked Tuesday while attempting to read a letter written 30 years ago by Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship.
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It's horrible to send the message to the world that party politics matter in the U.S. more than a lifetime judgeship, multiple women's sexual assault experiences, and more than the integrity of the judicial branch.
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Of that number 30 are considered "judicial emergencies" defined by the office as vacancies with a high number of filings or where a there is more than one authorized judgeship and only one active judge.
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Jordan, who would have fit the bill of another Obama appellate nominee who has an engaging personal story, was recently vetted for a federal judgeship and won a large majority in the Senate when confirmed.
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When he met with Sessions, he said, he "got the feeling more and more" that the allegations of racism, including the purported remarks that sunk his 85033 nomination for a federal judgeship, were not true.
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One of the many reasons Sessions was rejected by the Senate for a judgeship in 1986 was his "joke" that he thought the KKK was OK until he learned some of its members smoke marijuana.
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The same issues that led the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 remain, and have only been reinforced by a more recent record of opposition to civil rights.
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Critics of his nomination have hammered Sessions over accusations of racial bias, pointing to his failed nomination for a federal judgeship more than three decades ago as disqualifying for the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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Three decades ago, the Senate rejected Mr. Sessions for a federal judgeship over questions about his failed prosecution of African-Americans in a fraud case and racially insensitive comments he was reported to have made.
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Jeff Sessions, denied a federal judgeship more than 30 years ago amid charges he called a black colleague "boy" and hinted at past sympathy for the Ku Klux Klan, sought to disarm critics on Capitol Hill.
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In 1986 he became only the second nominee to be denied a federal judgeship by the Reagan administration after his coworkers testified that he regularly used the n-word and joked about the Ku Klux Klan.
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On Tuesday night, Warren had attempted to read a letter that Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., had written 30 years ago opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship.
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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to express my strong opposition to the nomination of Jefferson Sessions for a federal district judgeship for the Southern District of Alabama.
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The liberal rap against US Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pretty well ossified at this point: He's racist, according to critics who point to the comments that got him rejected from a federal judgeship in 1986.
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In the 1980s, Sessions was considered for a Ronald Reagan-appointed federal district judgeship in Alabama, but was blocked by the Senate after a black former deputy, Thomas Figures, accused him of making racially insensitive statements.
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Grassley told CNN the White House should "reconsider" the nomination of Jeff Mateer for a district judgeship in Texas and "should not proceed" on the nomination of Brett Talley for a district court vacancy in Alabama.
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But the biggest assist he received was on the allegations of racism that have dogged the Alabama senator and former U.S. attorney for decades—allegations that scuttled a federal judgeship all the way back in 1986.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Maureen Ohlhausen, has been put on a list of people that President Donald Trump intends to nominate to a judgeship, the White House said on Tuesday.
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Avenatti told Reuters it is not appropriate for Judge Elizabeth Feffer, now in Los Angeles Superior Court, to preside over a case in which the president is a defendant, because she is pursuing a federal judgeship.
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They promised the Irish-American assemblyman at the time, John Walsh, who was slated to be the Democratic candidate for the next general election, that if he declined the nomination, they would give him a judgeship.
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She too became something of a conservative heroine when Dianne Feinstein foolishly decided to suggest that her Catholic convictions might make her unfit for a judgeship after Trump nominated her to the Seventh Circuit last year.
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Under New York law, Collins' name can be supplanted on the ballot at this stage of the cycle only if he dies, moves out of state or is nominated for another office — like a local judgeship.
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Bonding over their shared Southern names, Lindsey Graham gave Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions an opportunity to say how it felt for him to be called a racist and denied a federal judgeship in 1986 because of it.
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Reading a letter from civil rights icon Coretta Scott King opposing Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship in 1986, the liberal Massachusetts senator was reprimanded by Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader so loathed by Democrats.
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" Coretta Scott King wrote a letter of opposition to the Senate Judiciary Committee during Sessions's 1986 confirmation hearings for a federal judgeship, citing his record as a U.S. attorney in Alabama, particularly on voting rights. "Mr.
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King wrote the letter in response to Mr. Sessions's 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship, for which he was ultimately rejected in part because of accusations that he had been insensitive to minorities as a prosecutor.
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Mexican drug cartel target Before he was first appointed to a state-level judgeship in 20023, Curiel worked as a federal prosecutor in Southern California with a focus on drug cases -- and with them, the Mexican cartels.
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Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to a federal judgeship, McConnell ordered her to be silent, and Republicans voted to rebuke Warren for violating the Senate's Rule 19, which holds that no senator can insult another senator during proceedings.
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At the time McConnell interrupted her, Warren was reading a letter by the late Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr., denouncing Sessions's 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship.
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WASHINGTON — It has been practically a given that anyone nominated for a federal judgeship by a Republican president had to pass an unspoken litmus test — usually on abortion but often on any number of divisive social issues.
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A 36-year-old lawyer who has never tried a case and who was unanimously deemed "not qualified" by the American Bar Association has been approved for a lifetime federal district judgeship by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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I mean, this is the guy who in 1986 was denied a federal judgeship after it came out that he allegedly said he was okay with the Ku Klux Klan until he found out they smoked pot.
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Third, independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who was appointed to a federal judgeship by President Reagan and later served as former solicitor general for President Bush, had already investigated the Monica Lewinsky scandal in secret for a year.
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The fifth member of the commission, Republican Maureen Ohlhausen, had been acting chairwoman for the past 15 months and will stay on until her term ends in September or until she is confirmed to a federal judgeship.
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Outside groups have said that Obama is likely to consider someone who is a woman or a member of a racial minority and was previously confirmed to a judgeship by a strong majority in the US Senate.
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The hallways were suddenly filled with US Supreme Court contenders, soon-to-be Justice Department and White House officials, and lawyers whose dreams of a federal judgeship were much closer than they had anticipated a few weeks earlier.
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Here's the background: Earlier on Tuesday, Warren tried to read a letter by Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., written in opposition to Sessions's 1986 nomination to a federal judgeship.
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Sessions, who has been a member of the US Senate for two decades, was previously denied a federal judgeship because of his disastrous civil rights record while he served as district attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
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Recruited from a district judgeship late in George W. Bush's second term as a more professional-seeming replacement for Alberto Gonzales, he is now best known for his participation in and defenses of the Bush administration's torture regime.
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Warren quoted a 1986 letter from the late Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and widow of Martin Luther King Jr., that detailed some of the concerns that eventually helped tank Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship.
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After being wrongly denied a federal judgeship by the vote of his home state senator, Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, he picked himself up, continued his service as a U.S. attorney, and got himself elected his state's attorney general.
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They raised his civil rights record — the Senate rejected his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986, citing racially charged comments and actions — but focused more on his willingness to challenge Mr. Trump should he exceed his authority.
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She was awarded a federal judgeship not because she's qualified for it — she's obviously not — but precisely because she's devoted her career to undermining constitutional freedoms that the vast majority of Americans have long voiced their support for.
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King wrote during Sessions's failed confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship that he "had used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens" as a U.S. attorney in Alabama.
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His nomination for a federal judgeship was rejected by the United States Senate in 1986 after several of his former colleagues from the Justice Department testified about his comments and behavior as the United States attorney in Mobile.
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Jeff Sessions was rejected for a federal judgeship by the United States Senate on the grounds that he was too racist, and a couple of years later, Alabama Republicans nominated him for a Senate seat and he won.
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An attorney nominated by President Donald Trump for a lifetime federal judgeship left multiple items off her disclosure form to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including the fact that she moderated a panel on the alleged dangers of abortion.
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For 10 hours on Tuesday, Senator Sessions encouraged his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to ignore his words, his actions and even the history of this very same committee that in 1986 rejected his nomination for a federal judgeship.
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Here's some of what we've learned so far from Session's confirmation hearing: He was ready to talk about race Nowhere in Sessions' prepared remarks was a rebuttal of the accusations that sank his 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship.
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Sessions' nomination has been dogged by old allegations of racism and racially-charged comments he made as a US attorney in Alabama, which led him to be denied a federal judgeship 30 years ago, have continued to haunt him.
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Outside groups have said that President Barack Obama is likely to consider someone who is a woman or a member of a racial minority and was previously confirmed to a judgeship by a strong majority in the U.S. Senate.
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Several reporters and activists were tweeting from the hearing, and according to their accounts, Donnelly — who was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed to her judgeship in 2015 — seemed unimpressed by the government's arguments against granting a stay.
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In a controversy laced with race and gender, Warren was censured by the GOP majority for reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., opposing Sessions' nomination to a federal judgeship three decades ago.
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Greg Katsas Deputy White House counsel Greg Katsas, nominated for a powerful federal judgeship, declined to provide details at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday about his work on some of President Donald Trump's most controversial — and legally contested — executive actions.
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Talley, a Justice Department official nominated last year to a federal judgeship in Alabama, withdrew his nomination in December amid scrutiny of his writings as well as questions about whether he fully disclosed information about his background to the judiciary committee.
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Or it's not that Trump has unrealistic views about the problems facing African-Americans, it is that he has nominated someone to serve as attorney general who has already been rejected for a federal judgeship for saying openly racist things.
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For Acosta, a Harvard Law alum who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, continuing a career in the public sector—according to the New York Times, he had been eyeing a federal judgeship—seemed almost certainly out of the question.
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A week after the settlement was signed, Mr. Christie announced that he was appointing Ms. Dow to the counsel's office of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey until he could find her the judgeship that she desired.
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Democrats are raising questions about whether the Alabama Republican would be able to provide equal protection to all Americans, three decades after Sessions was blocked from a federal judgeship because of racism accusations that surfaced during his confirmation hearing. Sen.
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Mr. Johnson stepped down last fall to successfully seek a judgeship in State Supreme Court, part of a series of political moves engineered by Bronx Democratic leaders which also included tapping Ms. Clark to replace him without holding a primary.
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"[Sessions] had used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens," Warren quoted, referencing Sessions's work as a U.S. attorney in Alabama prior to his failed federal judgeship confirmation hearing in 1986.
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The president-elect ran and won as the law-and-order candidate and frequently seeks the counsel of hardline conservative white men such as his likely attorney general, Jeff Sessions—who was considered too racist for a federal judgeship in 1986.
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He had never held a tenured professorship or boasted an appellate practice, much less a judgeship, that required him to think deeply about weighty constitutional issues; he specialized in the comparably mundane and technical field of campaign finance and election law.
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His attorney general, Jeff Sessions — once rejected for a federal judgeship by a Republican-controlled Senate over accusations of racial insensitivity — has halted federal efforts to adjust local law enforcement practices in response to complaints of excessive force against minorities.
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"Judges who hear criticism of this sort are not going to be inclined to knuckle under; it's going to stiffen their spines to be even more independent," said Mr. McConnell, who was nominated to his judgeship by President George W. Bush.
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Under Leahy, a single senator of either party could veto any nominee to a federal judgeship in their state (although federal appeals courts typically oversee multiple states, each individual seat on these courts is traditionally assigned to a particular state).
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"You make a deal with a reform leader and the next year he's got a judgeship and there's someone new who doesn't know anything about past promises," he told The Times in 1972, suggesting that lawyers be disqualified from district leaderships.
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Hours earlier, as the hearing began, Sessions didn't wait for his record on race to be brought up before addressing it, diverging from his prepared statement to address "head on" the very allegations that helped sink his nomination for a judgeship in 1986.
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Sessions, who a Republican Senate refused to confirm for a federal judgeship in 1986 because of his personal comments on race, is an opponent of civil rights laws and an advocate for cracking down on the rights of immigrants, legal and illegal.
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Democrats plan to highlight his hardline stances on illegal immigration, as well as remind colleagues that a Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 amid allegations that he had made racist remarks, which he denied.
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The Republican senator from Alabama, facing criticism for past accusations of racially charged comments that helped to cost him a federal judgeship, is pledging to uphold protections for African-Americans, according to his prepared statement to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
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The report offers a list of recommendations to help diversify the bench, most of which involve diversifying the "pipeline" of law schools, judicial clerkships, and law firms that place young lawyers on the elite path that can end in a federal judgeship.
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Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986, during Sessions's failed confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship, that he "had used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens" as a U.S. attorney in Alabama.
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A lawyer for Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, argued in a court document filed earlier this month that his client could not get a fair trial from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Feffer, saying she was seeking a federal judgeship.
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And if Mr. Sessions, a relentless critic of illegal immigration, is nominated for attorney general, he can expect opponents to bring up the fact that he was once rejected for a federal judgeship after officials testified that he had made racist comments.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick for US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, the controversial senator from Alabama who was denied the same federal judgeship in 1986 due to documented accusations of racism—started his confirmation hearing on Tuesday again amidst swirls of controversy.
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Coretta Scott King wrote in 85033, during Sessions's failed confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship, that he "had used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens" as a U.S. attorney in Alabama.
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The response from the 53-year-old Mr. Moore, who had just lost his own effort to win a judgeship, was infused with the kind of crusading righteousness — his critics would call it sanctimony — that would later fuel his rise to national fame.
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And he has tacked leftward on a handful of issues, conceding that there's "no way in hell" he would have voted Brett M. Kavanaugh into a circuit court judgeship if he had known then what he does today about the Supreme Court nominee.
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Democrats who had pinned their hopes on flipping Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski probably aren't going to get their wish, since both Republican moderates voted to confirm Kavanaugh to his current judgeship in 2006 and have since spoken approvingly of his nomination.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote those Twitter posts after being halted by the majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, as she tried to read on the floor a 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King opposing Mr. Sessions's nomination for a judgeship.
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And they expressed doubt that Mr. Sessions, a legislative loner who represented the far right wing of the Republican conference, would quit his job, which he views as personal vindication for the Senate's refusal to confirm him to a federal judgeship in 1986.
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Black people are watching Jeff Sessions, a man who called the ACLU and NAACP "un-American" for "trying to force civil rights down people's throats" — and whose racist comments were once enough to deny him a federal judgeship — being elevated to power.
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Although he was confirmed by the Senate for his U.S. attorney post in 1981, he was denied a federal judgeship in 1986 when a Senate panel failed to advance his nomination amid allegations that he had made racially charged remarks, which he denied.
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You can see this in the recent actions and seemingly undiminished stature of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a man deemed too racist for a federal judgeship in the mid-1980s but kosher to serve as the nation's top cop 30 years later.
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RELATED: Who voted for and against Sessions Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, was ruled in violation of Senate rules for impugning another senator late Tuesday night after reading a letter from the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., opposing Sessions' 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship.
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WASHINGTON — Neomi Rao — President Donald Trump's pick for a powerful federal judgeship and a reported US Supreme Court contender — wrote a string of op-eds in college and just after she graduated, at times using inflammatory language to discuss race, date rape, and LGBT rights.
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President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Carl Nichols, a former senior official in the US Department of Justice under former President George W. Bush, for a federal judgeship that the administration failed to fill last year, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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Attorney General-designate Senator Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE was denied a federal judgeship for racist views.
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Although he became more sympathetic to Democrats in his college years, President Ronald Reagan nominated him for his judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and President George H.W. Bush named him US Solicitor General in 1989.
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The critics are also wary of Sessions because of decades-old allegations that he'd made racially insensitive statements as an Alabama state prosecutor in the 1980s — allegations that prompted a Republican-led Senate committee to reject Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986.
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Trump also named as his nominee for attorney general Jeff Sessions, a man once denied a federal judgeship over charges of racism, who fought for public school funding inequity in his home state of Alabama and who has been a stalwart foe of immigrants.
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The King letter criticized Mr. Sessions, a Republican, when he was up for a federal judgeship, for using "the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens" while serving as a United States attorney in Alabama.
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His defense against charges of racism that caused the Senate to reject him for a federal judgeship in 1986 was largely to say it hurt his feelings to be called racist, but his two decades in the Senate provide little hope that he has changed.
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On Thursday, Trump renominated them to the consumer protection agency along with a fourth, Delta Airlines vice president Christine S. Wilson, to fill the Republican opening that will be left by Maureen Ohlhausen, the current acting chair who was recently nominated for a federal judgeship.
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His first brush with prominence came in 1986, when he was nominated by Ronald Reagan for a judgeship but got shot down when it came out that as a US attorney in Alabama he prosecuted three activists who were registering black people to vote.
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" With the help of a new young factotum, Roger Stone, Cohn's last favor for Trump may have been securing his sister Maryanne Trump Barry a federal judgeship from the Reagan administration in 1983 despite her having received the tepid Bar Association rating of "qualified.
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The issue was a focal point throughout his hearings, after he failed to be confirmed for a federal judgeship in 1986 over concerns about racially-charged comments he had made and prosecutorial decisions he made -- though Republicans repeatedly defended him as a victim of character assassination.
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As Democrats held the Senate floor overnight to protest Sessions's nomination for attorney general, Warren quoted a 85033 letter that the late Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., wrote opposing Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship at the time.
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A former federal prosecutor and state attorney general in Alabama, the 143-year-old Sessions is a staunch conservative who already failed to pass a Senate confirmation process once before in his career — in 1986 when he was rejected for federal judgeship over allegations of racism.
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A former federal prosecutor and state attorney general in Alabama, the 70-year-old Sessions is a staunch conservative who already failed to pass a Senate confirmation process once before in his career — in 1986 when he was rejected for federal judgeship over allegations of racism.
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MORE and confirmed to her judgeship in 2015, ruled in the Eastern District of New York that "there is imminent danger that, absent the stay of removal, there will be substantial and irreparable injury to refugees, visa-holders, and other individuals from nations subject" to Trump's order.
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Maggio's petition for pauper status said he had worked for minimal wages at menial jobs since being stripped of his judgeship in 2014 by the Arkansas Supreme Court in an unrelated matter and essentially had no assets other than his home and a 13-year-old automobile.
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She then walked off the floor of the Senate right into a Facebook Live session on her official government account, where she read in full the 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., against Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship at the time.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, objected to a floor speech that Warren, D-Massachusetts, was giving in opposition to Sessions' nomination when she quoted a letter that Coretta Scott King wrote in opposition to Sessions during his attempted confirmation for a federal judgeship 30 years ago.
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Sessions' nomination to a federal judgeship was rejected three decades ago by the Senate Judiciary Committee after it was alleged that as a federal prosecutor he had called a black attorney "boy" and had said organizations like the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union were un-American.
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A person familiar with the lawmaker's plans said that Mr. Gowdy had turned down an offer by the Trump administration to nominate him for a judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and that he planned to enter private practice in South Carolina instead.
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Civil rights groups have been pushing Democrats to reject the Alabamian who lost a confirmation fight in 1986 for a federal judgeship over those claims, and lawmakers seized the opportunity over two days of hearings to question him about his remarks as well as his record on voting rights.
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He deflected questions about Mr. Trump with a calm stoicism, but he grew angry and emotional when Democrats pressed him on a more personal matter: accusations of racial insensitivity toward his employees and others as a federal prosecutor, which doomed his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986.
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The afterlife is clearly polytheistic — the Bad Place and Good Place operate separately from each other and the Bad Place seems capable of breaking into and manipulating the Good Place — but insofar as there's a top dog, a Zeus-style first among equals, it's her horny, Chidi-thirsty Judgeship.
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Alcee Hastings, but Messam could challenge the longtime congressman from the left, or could take a page out of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Sestak's book and primary Hastings on ethical grounds, given the allegations the congressman faces of sexual harassment and the loss of his judgeship due to corruption.
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The man's career was nearly derailed by accusations of bigotry: In 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee denied him a federal judgeship after a black former prosecutor testified Sessions referred to him as "boy" and warned him to "be careful what you say to white folks," among other glaring throwback remarks.
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It was a week of ups and downs for President Donald Trump, who got a nominee approved for a lifetime judgeship in Alabama — even though he's never tried a case in his life — and then called Kim Jong Un "short and fat," which led Pyongyang to sentence Trump to death.
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Democrats and outside pressure groups have criticized Sessions over allegations of racism, including purported remarks that sunk a 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship "As our nation's top law enforcement official, the U.S. attorney general bears a sacred responsibility to fight injustice and defend the defenseless," she said in a statement.
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For this reprehensible conduct, he should not be rewarded with a federal judgeship," she wrote, arguing that Sessions' appointment would "irreparably damage the work of (her) husband, Al Turner, and countless others who risked their lives and freedom over the past twenty years to ensure equal participation in our democratic system.
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Kavanaugh then landed a seat on the DC Circuit Court, though to do so, he had to offer testimony that we now know to have been misleading regarding his role in both William Pryor's nomination for a different federal judgeship and the handling of some emails stolen from Democratic Party committee staff.
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Judge Gorsuch replied that he thought his service at the Justice Department, where he had worked about seven months, was the most important issue, noting many of his former clients had said "nice things" about him when he was up for an appeals court judgeship, including the owner of a gravel pit.
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Here's a sampler of Sessions' views on key issues that should send shivers down your spine: Racism In 1986, when President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions to a federal judgeship, he was voted down by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, making him only the second judicial nominee in 50 years to be rejected. Why?
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Nicholas Kristof Early signs of what the Trump administration may look like: A man associated with white supremacy and misogyny will be White House chief strategist; a man rejected for a judgeship because of alleged racism will be attorney general; and an Islamophobe who has taken money from Moscow will be national security adviser.
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Judge Keith's tenure spanned more than a half-century, first as President Lyndon B. Johnson's choice for a district court judgeship in Detroit, with jurisdiction in Eastern Michigan (19953-1977), then as President Jimmy Carter's selection for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, presiding in Cincinnati over cases arising in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee.
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If you're the kind of person whose policy commitments have led you to repeatedly send Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions to the Senate — and to elect Moore to the chief judgeship on the state Supreme Court multiple times — then voting to put Democrat Doug Jones in office must conflict deeply with your ideological values.
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For every person that is nominated for a judgeship, a panel from the ABA — made up of 15 law experts known as the Committee on the Federal Judiciary — ranks their qualifications based on interviews with colleagues, a review of their past writings, a personal interview and an examination of their broader body of work.
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More to the point, why would Garland give up a lifetime judgeship and help move the second most important court in America — a court that handles countless regulatory and national security issues emanating from Washington and is currently considering a case on EPA climate regulations that are crucial for the future of the planet — substantially to the right?
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The latter in particular concerned Scott, who eventually voted down Farr's — a recent nominee for a judgeship in the Eastern District of North Carolina — nomination over concerns about his involvement in an effort to suppress the black vote during the 1990 campaign of Jesse Helms, as well as his subsequent work defending aggressive voting restrictions in North Carolina.
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" Later that decade, Sessions, when tapped by former President Reagan for a federal judgeship, apologized for a comment that he made during an investigation of an alleged Ku Klux Klan murder of a black man in 1981, where he stated that he thought that the Klan was alright "until he heard that some members smoked marijuana.
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In a move that is bound to have an impact beyond the symbolic empowerment of white supremacists, the nomination of Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General - who was rejected years ago for a federal judgeship after a history of racist comments surfaced - represents the most immediate threat to civil rights, voting rights, criminal justice reform, immigration and race relations.
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Given the recent withdrawal of Ryan Bounds's nomination for a US Circuit judgeship over his racist college writings, Democrats are quick to note that some of the documents in Kavanaugh's archives might be able to offer more insight into controversial past positions, not to mention his stances on hot-button issues like executive power, health care, and abortion rights.
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Conservatives are also pressuring Mr. Grassley to reduce one of the few remaining constraints on letting a president with an allied Senate majority appoint whomever he wants to a life-tenured judgeship: the Judiciary Committee's "blue slip" practice, named for the color of the paper that senators use to sign off on nominees for judgeships in their states.
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Once Trump secured his all access credential to the White House on January 20, he picked white supremacist Stephen Bannon as the Chief Strategist; plucked Jeff Sessions—a man deemed too racist to hold a federal judgeship in the 1980s—as the Attorney General; and nabbed Betsy DeVos—a billionaire Republican donor with no experience in education—as the Education Secretary.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE (R-Ala.), Trump's nominee to serve as attorney general, was blocked from a federal judgeship three decades ago over racism accusations that surfaced during his confirmation hearing.
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By way of making the point that Republicans are not the only ones who play politics with judicial nominations, a spokesman for Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, emailed a link to the Wikipedia page for Miguel Estrada, a lawyer whose nomination to a federal judgeship by President George W. Bush was thwarted by the Democrats through a filibuster 15 years ago.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE's (R-Ala.) nomination to be attorney general, Warren quoted a 1986 letter that Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., wrote opposing Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship at the time.
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Statement of Coretta Scott King on the Nomination of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for the United States District Court Southern District of Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, March 13, 1986 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to express my strong opposition to the nomination of Jefferson Sessions for a federal district judgeship for the Southern District of Alabama.
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As I said, President Trump had one of his biggest crowds in Mobile, and again, Attorney General Jeff Sessions (whom the US Senate once denied a judgeship over accusations of racism -- among other things, he joked a little too much about the Ku Klux Klan -- and who recently used the Bible as an excuse for his separating Latino parents from their children when they are seeking asylum) is from Alabama.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE's (R-Ala.) nomination for attorney general, Warren quoted a 28500 letter that the late Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., wrote opposing Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship at the time.
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Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE's (R-Ala.) nomination for attorney general, Warren quoted a 1986 letter that the late Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., once wrote to oppose Sessions's then-nomination for a federal judgeship.
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Vox's German Lopez wrote that Sessions will "be a massive setback for civil rights," and detailed how he stands to move the Justice Department in a conservative direction on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration enforcement to investigations of police brutality: [Sessions has] opposed reforms to reduce mass incarceration, proposed stringent crackdowns on immigration, and he even has a history of racist remarks that ended his hopes of a federal judgeship.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE (D-Mass.) read a letter that Coretta Scott King had written in 1986 that accused Sessions, a U.S. attorney at the time nominated for a federal judgeship, of using the power of his office to prevent blacks from voting.
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The focus from the left is on incomplete-at-best or misleading statements that Kavanaugh gave at hearings for when he was being considered for his DC Circuit judgeship — questions about his role in certain judicial nominations, whether he knew about the fact that Judiciary Committee Democrats' files were being stolen during the time when he was working with the people behind the theft, and when he knew about warrantless surveillance plans by the Bush administration.
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Donnelly, who was nominated by former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE and confirmed to her judgeship in 2015, ruled in the Eastern District of New York that "there is imminent danger that, absent the stay of removal, there will be substantial and irreparable injury to refugees, visa-holders, and other individuals from nations subject" to Trump's order.
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U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly, who was nominated by former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE and confirmed to her judgeship in 2015, ruled in favor of a petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday after Trump signed his order.
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