POLI 2051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: American Bar Association, United States Senate Committee On The Judiciary, Appellate Jurisdiction
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District courts: 94 district courts, contained within states, every state has at least one, only original jurisdicion (cases start there, in the book. Consituion authorizes the president to nominate and the senate to conirm. Process is the same for all federal judges. The way the nominee is chosen difers according to the level of federal court involved: usually meeings with senators. A general qualiicaion is that the nominee be a lawyer. District courts senatorial courtesy applies (the. President lets senators from that state, in his party, and asks them who to nominate) Presidents consider factors such as: (in order: ideology: judges cannot claim a poliical party, but they have their own ideology, representaional qualiies: making the court look more than the composiion of the country. Geography: including diferent regions of the country: professional competence. Fbi does a background check: checks for behavior. Raing of the nominee by the american bar. Nominee"s name is formally submited to the senate.
