Word: judgeships
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...grade. ''That's like getting a D,'' says Nancy Broff, a lawyer with the liberal Alliance for / Justice. Only three of Jimmy Carter's 56 appeals-court nominees were rated that low. After watching glumly as the number of Reagan appointees climbed to a third of the 761 federal judgeships, opponents in Congress have started digging in their heels and building support. Two weeks ago, in the first such defeat for the Administration, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 to reject the nomination of Jefferson Sessions, 39, the U.S. Attorney in Mobile picked for a federal district court...
...says she was promised it by earlier Democratic leaders; Pelosi says her term is up. But by shutting out Harman, Pelosi would be setting another trap for herself. The next in line after Harman is Florida's Alcee Hastings, who in 1989 was impeached and removed from his federal judgeship by Congress over allegations that he had conspired to take a $150,000 bribe (charges of which he was acquitted in court). If Pelosi passes him over, she is certain to infuriate the Congressional Black Caucus, with whom her relations are already strained...
...that Pelosi could go to the next in line, Florida's Alcee Hastings. That would please the black caucus, but there's no small political problem in the fact that in 1989 Hastings was impeached by the (Democratic) House and removed by the (Democratic) Senate from his federal judgeship for conspiring to take a $150,000 bribe (although he had been acquitted in court). Pelosi must also deal with a potentially bitter and ideological race for the majority leader's job, which is the No. 2 post in the Democratic leadership...
...Republican partisan in the mid-1990s after he served as special counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee that investigated a failed real estate deal involving the Clintons. Before becoming secretary of homeland security, Chertoff was appointed assistant attorney general for the criminal division and subsequently to an appellate judgeship in Philadelphia. The lone dissenting vote in his judicial confirmation was cast by Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, D-N.Y. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
When Noel Hillman, head of the corruption probe surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff, stepped down last week after President Bush nominated him for a federal judgeship in New Jersey, some couldn't help wondering whether the appointment's timing was just coincidence or the calculated removal of an aggressive prosecutor from an explosive case. Sources at the Justice Department tell TIME it's the former--the nomination had been in the works for nearly a year. Hillman, chief of the Office of Public Integrity since 2003, says he asked to be replaced once the nomination was announced. "The chief of Public...