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The U.S. Supreme Court might eventually overrule the Montana Supreme Court's decision. But even before Citizens United, judicial races were becoming increasingly expensive. Candidates for state high courts alone raised $207 million from 2000-2009 nationwide, a huge increase from the previous decade's $83 milHon, tapping "special interest" donors on both the left and right, according to a report by three nonpartisan groups - the Justice at Stake Campaign, based in Washington, D.C.; New York University's Brennan Center for Justice; and the National Institute on Money in State PoHtics, based in Helena, Mont. As that report noted, those figures do "not include the tens of milHons more spent on 'independent' TV ads" on top of the campaign contributions; an atmosphere of "nasty and misleading...
... face retention elections, their performance is evaluated in a bipartisan process. The U.S. Cha... of Arizona's judicial nominating commissions," reports Justice at Stake. But last year, the Ari...
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...," a CD of his "inspirational musical performances." He violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by mark...
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...Informed nominating commissions are more likely to present slates of quality judic...
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In accordance with section 712(a)(8), section 712(d)(1), sections 712(d)(2)(B) and (C), sections 721(b) and (c), and section 761(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'') and the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'') (collectively, ``Commissions''), in consultation with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (``Board''), are jointly adopting new rules and interpretations under the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'') and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'') to further define the terms ``swap,'' ``security-based swap,'' and ``security-based swap agreement'' (collectively, ``Product Definitions''); regarding ``mixed swaps;'' and governing books and records...
... terms or by law, as a condition of performance:. Requires the beneficiary of the agreement, ... the Commissions should seek expedited judicial review in the event the Commissions do not agree o...
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... on the role of judicial performance commissions that provide information to voters before non-cont...
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Former Republican Gov. Bill Owens appointed more judges in his two terms in office than any other governor in Colorado's history.
Owens' 174 appointments, from County Court judge up to Supreme Court justice, outnumbered both governors before him combined: Roy Romer appointed 114 and Dick Lamm named 59. Each served three terms.
...A Gazette review of Owens' judicial appointments during his eight years in office show...: it's one of the things the state's Commissions on Judicial Performance looks at when evaluating j...
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... prescribe methods for state utility commissions to use in setting rates for the sharing of those e... be read as prescribing more searching judicial review under the circumstances of that case. (Inde... for the management, control, and performance of its own network," id., ~ 203. This demanding ...
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..., argued that under the Clause, strict judicial oversight of government action should be reserved ... fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race." (86) A district th... practices, such as trials and truth commissions, for confronting past wrongdoing. Cf. id. at 86-87...
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...THE CONSTITUTION AND THE JUDICIAL TURN A. The Supremacy Clause B. Federalism in Poli...(248) Again, it must be noted that the performance of this tyranny-prevention function requires some ... of the Protection Under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 of Technical Classified Sources, Metho...
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... of a final judgment, and involve the performance of judicial functions and therefore the exercise o... rate orders of state public utility commissions, and the use of injunctions in labor disputes, a...