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If the voters reject the retention in office of a judge, or the vote is tied, the office becomes vacant. Otherwise, the incumbent judge is retained in office for a ten-year term. This requirement of voter approval is similar to provisions of the Missouri Plan , a non-partisan method for selecting judges which is used by 11 states.
Patrick Joseph Leahy OBE (/ ˈ l eɪ h i / LAY-hee; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023.
District Judge Anna M. Manasco: Birmingham: 1980 2020–present — — Trump: 42 District Judge vacant — — — — — — 43 District Judge vacant — — — — — — 28 Senior Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn: Birmingham: 1950 1991–2015 2006–2013 2015–present G.H.W. Bush: 29 Senior Judge Charles Lynwood Smith Jr. Huntsville ...
The other judges on the panel included U.S. Circuit Judge William Canby, an appointee of Democratic former President Jimmy Carter, and U.S. Circuit Judge Milan Smith, an appointee of Republican ...
Four Democratic senators have asked the U.S. Justice Department's Inspector General to investigate the resignation of a senior federal prosecutor in Washington who was being pressured to launch a ...
1999 – Bob Smith, U.S. senator from New Hampshire (1990–2003), left the Republican Party on July 13, 1999, while running for the party's presidential nomination; became an independent and declared himself a candidate for the U.S. Taxpayers Party presidential nomination and an independent candidate. On November 1, 1999, he returned to the ...
The new party is being formed by a merger of three political groups that have emerged in recent years as a reaction to America's increasingly polarized and gridlocked political system.
Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...