Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Research Blogs -> New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library

Legal Research

: New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library

Obama Election Will Have Impact On GOP Dominated Mississippi Bench

By David Badertscher, PLL

<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Crime and Justice News,</em> November 18, 2008.</font></p> <p><font size="2">"For decades, Sen. Thad Cochran and former Sen. Trent Lott, both conservative Republicans, helped pick the judges that sit on federal courts in Mississippi. But now, Mississippi's Democrats will influence the federal judiciary, reports the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. President-elect Barack Obama is likely to ask Reps. Gene Taylor, Travis Childers and Bennie Thompson for lists of potential candidates. Thompson's chief of staff Lanier Avant said the trio of Democratic House members will become an 'echo chamber as well as a springboard' for nominees." </font></p> <p><font size="2">"There is only one vacancy on the federal bench in Mississippi. In June, Bush selected Meridian lawyer Richard Barry to replace retired Judge William Barbour Jr. on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in Jackson. But the Senate did not act on Barry's nomination. Obama is expected to choose his own nominee. Other changes brought by the Obama administration could be felt in Mississippi's U.S. attorneys' offices. Incoming presidents usually ask for the resignations of at least some of the U.S. attorneys installed by a previous administration."</font></p> <p><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001k-AlIGsmcN9atJG2OYMiDQ3ePLrV0Q2mMuTDa1j4uYkdXiAxTIbxLJWAr-cbpcl0BC5b4fNJCKOcJWpdpmya1XAoH6ToRm95QvVzFTEukgz0JFaCrSLv1SMndqCPSCWXOcZ0kjM-84ecHVKK2p9wogoUR-YQevKQxZ5tKcFOBYNNMqwieeg2lcWOlAYOpIEf" shape="rect" color="#0000FF" target="_blank"><font size="2">Jackson Clarion-Ledger</font></a></p>

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).