Sentence examples for nominated justice from inspiring English sources

After all, it's difficult to imagine Democrats, not to mention the media, being so tentative about such claims against a nominated justice today.

A chart on Wednesday about the nomination and confirmation of justices now on the Supreme Court misidentified the president who nominated Justice David Souter in 1990.

It caused a firestorm, one that was rekindled when President Ronald Reagan nominated Justice Rehnquist to be chief justice in 1986.

The phrase was a new twist on an idea Mr. Obama used last year when he nominated Justice Sotomayor and argued that judges must show empathy.

(AP) WATERBURY: CHIEF JUSTICE NAMED -- Gov. John G. Rowland nominated Justice William J. Sullivan of the Supreme Court to serve as the state's next chief justice yesterday.

Gov. David A. Paterson nominated Justice Jonathan Lippman on Tuesday to be the next chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.

If presidents nominated justices based solely on their qualifications, then senators could be expected to confirm or not based on the same criteria.

Reality: A Supreme Court dominated by Republican-nominated justices produced Roe vs. Wade.

The most recent broadly similar situation occurred in June of 1968 (an election year), when President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who had said he would not run for re-election, nominated Associate Justice Abe Fortas to take over as chief justice of the Supreme Court.

As many as 16 Republican senators have now said they would be willing to meet with Garland — many more than when he was first nominated to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative icon who died suddenly last month. .

He has routinely swiped at Perriello for his evolution on those issues, but two votes for Bush, who was staunchly anti-abortion and nominated anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court, and whose record on gun rights was equally stark, suggest that, at a minimum, abortion rights and gun safety have not always been priorities for Northam.