As Secretary of State, he recommended judicial appointees to the governor.
And Mr. Bush's judicial appointees say they were never asked about their positions on issues like abortion.
The danger to a legislature is that the judicial appointees do not have the same interest in protecting incumbents.
The judicial appointee serves until the next general election, at which time a partisan election is held.
They worry that larger courts will result in reducing the quality of judicial appointees.
She is widely considered one of Bill Clinton's most liberal judicial appointees.
Elect a president whose judicial appointees you like and a Senate who will confirm those nominees.
During the second debate, he declared that his judicial appointees would be "strict constructionists."
As an interim judicial appointee, she cannot run for a full term as chief justice.
That cleared the way for the committee to approve several previously blocked judicial appointees in the next two weeks.