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Debra Bernes received 100,000 more votes than her nearest of five competitors in the July 20 election for Georgia Court of Appeals.
She was voted most qualified of the six candidates by the Georgia Bar Association.
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WASHINGTON - President Obama's candidates for the Supreme Court include a new name, federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, and at least six others who were contenders when Obama chose his first high court nominee last year, The Associated Press has learned.
Among the others under consideration are former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, federal appeals court judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
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..., Chief Justice Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slave... that a petition to form and nominate candidates for a new political party be signed by at least 20...615 (1915); Seaboard Air Line R.R. v. Georgia R.R. Comm'n, 240 U.S. 324 , 327 (1916). . Genera..., as in the famous New York Court of Appeals case of Seider v. Roth , in which the property s...
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's candidates for the Supreme Court include a new name, federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, and at least six others who were contenders when Obama chose his first high court nominee last year, The Associated Press has learned.
Among the others under consideration are former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, federal appeals court judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.