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Circuit Court judge Removed on December 22, 1829 [85] December 24, 1829 [85] Tennessee: Joshua Haskell Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Tennessee Not removed (acquitted on November 30, 1831) [85] 1832 Illinois: Theophilus W. Smith: Associate justice of the Illinois Supreme Court: Not removed (acquitted) [99] 1853 [100] Wisconsin: Levi Hubbell
The Illinois Appellate Court is the court of first appeal for civil and criminal cases rising in the Illinois circuit courts. Three Illinois Appellate Court judges hear each case and the concurrence of two is necessary to render a decision. [6] The Illinois Appellate Court will render its opinion in writing, in the form of a published opinion ...
Judges can forfeit or resign their chief judgeship or acting chief judgeship while retaining their active status as a circuit judge. [ 7 ] When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known as senior status , or declined to serve as chief judge.
A resign-to-run law is a law that requires the current holder of an office to resign from that office before they can run for another office. This is distinct from a dual mandate prohibition, where a person has to resign from their old office to assume the new office, rather than to run for the new office.
CHICAGO — A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump’s name should be struck from the March 19 Illinois Republican primary ballot because he engaged in insurrection ...
After the Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 1921 in Berger v. United States, he was again elected and served three successive terms in the House, from 1923 to 1928. [8] Frank L. Smith (R-Illinois), was refused seating in the United States Senate due to allegations of election fraud in the 1926 United States Senate election in Illinois.
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A reprimand was once considered synonymous with censure, but in 1976 the House defined a reprimand as a less severe punishment. Members who are reprimanded are not required to stand in the well of the House and have the resolution read to them. Representatives can also be censured by their state legislatures and state party.