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Hispanic last names win judicial elections — that’s been the conventional thinking in Miami-Dade politics. So in races where voters usually know little about candidates and there are ethics ...
Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar, 575 U.S. 433 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the First Amendment did not prohibit states from barring judges and judicial candidates from personally soliciting funds for their election campaigns since that specific restriction on candidate's speech was deemed to be narrowly tailored to serve the compelling interest of ...
Five incumbent judges across Central Florida also won their respective races. With the majority of precincts reporting, Recksiedler garnered 57% of the vote compared to Mannion, who received ...
The Florida Judicial Nominating Commissions are 26 separately constituted bodies responsible for providing the governor of Florida with a list of possible appointments to the various state courts (the Florida Supreme Court, the five Florida District Courts of Appeal, and the twenty Florida Circuit Courts). [1]
2024 Palm Beach County Elections: Live Results County judges in Florida preside over misdemeanor cases, traffic offenses and civil disputes of $50,000 or less, as well as at first-appearance ...
[1] [2] [3] Perennial candidate and Fort Lauderdale lawyer Jim Lewis, [4] local activist Chris Nelson, [5] and Barbra Stern, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer, former Commissioner for the Florida Elections Commission and current member of the Broward Performing Arts Center Authority, ran as candidates.
Mannion reported $18,160 in contributions, including $10,010 in loans from himself, and $220 in in-kind donations as of July 15, Florida Division of Elections records show. He had spent $22,278 as ...
On November 14, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Thomas to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida [3] to replace U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan whose nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit was approved in February 2012. [4]