Sentence examples for picking judges from inspiring English sources

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

They came up with what Mr. Hantler described as a multipronged strategy, involving advertising aimed at voters picking judges and continued lobbying of lawmakers.

The Bush administration has ceded its Justice Department to the extreme conservative wing of the Republican Party and has made ideology the primary consideration in picking judges.

It demonstrates the enduring influence of the Reagan administration, which put a premium on picking judges who would carry out its ideology and on countering liberalism with pointed conservatism any way possible.

Instead, if the past several years are any kind of prologue, politicians will continue trying to hollow out judicial freedom by weakening independent commissions and strengthening the hands of governors and legislators in picking judges.

For five years, Gov. Mike Foster of Louisiana has made no secret of his contempt for the state's trial lawyers, calling them "bad guys" who played too large a role in picking judges and influencing legislation.

President Obama seems to have made an inspired choice in picking Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

Senate Democrats have sent letters to the White House urging the president to consider their views more thoroughly than he did before picking Judge Roberts.

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.

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