Sentence examples for pick judges from inspiring English sources

Bush said during the campaign that he was going to pick judges in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, but I thought it was just campaign talk.

The head of the authority can pick judges, including replacements for those just forced into retirement, and has a nine-year mandate.

But he has promised to pick judges for their "empathy" and "understanding" of "what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old".

A NATION that worried three weeks ago about which president would pick judges now confronts the prospect of judges picking a president.

Merit selection makes our courts less transparent and less accountable to the people they serve, while turning the power to pick judges over to legal special interest groups that have their own ideological leanings.

Power and money are found not so much in the voting booth as in the machine-controlled judicial conventions that pick judges, and in the courthouse on Sutphin Boulevard.

The president held the meeting Thursday with a small group of senators in a bid to build bipartisan support for his Supreme Court pick, Judge Neil Gorsuch.

But most court scholars say it has not extinguished the politics of picking judges.

A president or a governor who picks judges of high credentials gets political credit for it.

The governor picks judges from a list submitted by a nominating commission run by the University of New Mexico School of Law.

And in Missouri, Arizona and Florida voters rejected referendums that would have given politicians more say in picking judges.But plenty of problems remain.