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Charleston lawyer Stephanie Thacker fielded questions from members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, a key stop on her path to the federal bench. Thacker was nominated in late summer by President Barack Obama to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Va. The March death of Judge Blane Michael, another West Virginia native, left a vacancy there. The judiciary committee hearing Tuesday was a key step in the confirmation process. It was unclear if or when the committee would vote on whether to recommend her for the post. The full Senate then would take up its recommendation. Judicial nominations have been a contentious political issue, and the Senate has served as a choke point for Republican and Democratic presidents alike, Obamas choices b...
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[...] die appointment of nontraditional (nonwhite and female) judges has become a political imperative; there is an expectation that appointments be somewhat representative - however symbolically - of the American populous. [...] presidents have sought to balance myriad factors, particularly their own policy preferences, with the need to diversify the bench. [...] we expect Obama, like his Democratic predecessor Bill Clinton, to be strongly committed to diversity, understanding both the symbolic and functional dividends of representation on the bench.
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What we do involves a lot of common sense," says District Judge David Barton, who handles cases in suburbs like Whitehall and Baldwin. While Barton himself is a lawyer, he says "Lawyers, as we know, haven't cornered the market on common sense." His own background, he acknowledges, allows him to "spot some issues that [district judges] might not see without formal training." But, "In most cases we're not looking for a hypertechnical solution. JUDICIAL HIGHLIGHT: [Leonard Hromyak] says he's heard almost every possible excuse from people trying to wiggle out of traffic tickets. But some defenses are more creative than others. Hromyak recalls a case that came before him six years ago, when he was running for re-election and had two large billboards posted in town. When a man approached Hr...
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A recent roundtable of senior managers in policing identified reasons as diverse as the increased complexity and demands of top level law enforcement positions, a desire to focus more on family obligations, perceived loss of prestige and respect, and the loss of civil service protection in senior management positions.5 According to Rick Michelson, in an article for Police Chief Magazine, many agencies are replacing veteran leaders with younger candidates who have not had the length of service in the field and have little experience in leadership positions.6 Consequently, the need arises for more concentrated efforts to identify leadership traits, to create a career path and to prepare those replacements as supervisors. According to Tim Little, Undersheriff of Marin County CA, when lead...
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ifteen minutes and a bench. Those are the rules. For local playwrights, experienced or not, getting a play into Benchwarmers, a festival of original one-act plays at the Santa Fe Playhouse, now in its 10th year, is an annual creative challenge. About 50 pieces were submitted this year, with eight selected to be produced and eight others to be offered during staged readings, according to Dan Gerrity, the producer of the event. Of course, a bench is not always just a bench. In previous years, the single piece of furniture onstage has become the deck of the Eiffel Tower, an overturned shipwreck, an antique piece of Biedermeier furniture, and a roller-coaster car stuck in midair. "The parameters of Benchwarmers do not limit creativity," Gerrity said. On the contrary, some writers find havin...
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When friends and colleagues surprised Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Lester G. Nauhaus on Thursday with a hand-crafted bench in honor of his late wife, U.S. Magistrate Amy Reynolds Hay, he was moved beyond words. Thank you. I appreciate it," Nauhaus said as he gazed at the Pennsylvania white oak bench outside his 17th-floor courtroom in the Frick Building, Downtown. "I don't know what else to say.
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Dennis Burke's resignation as U.S. attorney for Arizona may reverberate through the 2014 elections, when Democrats who eyed him as one of their strongest candidates for statewide office fall back on a bench that was thin to begin with. Burke's departure on Tuesday, as well as the gun-running fiasco that prompted it, may be an implacable roadblock to his unspoken- yet-rumored political aspirations, which pegged him as a likely candidate for governor or attorney general. If Burke runs for office in future years, the Fast and Furious scandal is likely to play a central role in his opponents' campaigns.
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When Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. was elevated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, no one envisioned that, six years later, his seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., Circuit would still be vacant. The empty chair is emblematic of what is wrong in Washington. During the Bush presidency, Democrats resorted to using filibusters to keep Bush from nominating conservatives to the bench. Today, Republicans are doing the same thing.
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WASHINGTON, May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) commends President Barack H. Obama for his nomination yesterday afternoon of The Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; Edgardo Ramos for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and The Honorable Robert Scola to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Diana S. Sen, HNBA President, noted that, "The HNBA is proud to support the nomination of these highly qualified candidates, and we now look to the U.S. Senate to take the necessary steps to advance these qualified nominees speedily through the confirmation process. Given the current judicial vacancy crisis present in our federal courts, th...
