POL 250 Lecture 9: POL 250 2-3-17 Class Lecture
2 Oct 2017
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People leave because they have relatives in college. Eight federal judges have been removed by impeachment out of the 15 tried. Congress put a legislation that said when your age and years of service as a judge equal 80, you can retire with full pay. Formal process for federal judge is when the president nominates and the senate confirms. Elevated means that the person has moved up to the circuit court because the senate nominated and confirmed them. You have to be in the top of your field to start the process. The average income of a partner at a law firm in the usa is 365,000. Informal process makes you figure out how you will come to the attention of your senators. No one on federal bench has voluntarily spent a night in jail. The weeding process weeds out folks who have something interesting in their background.
