Merriam, a federal district court judge, is one of two Connecticut nominees appointed by President Joe Biden to sit on the 2nd Circuit.
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Senate races to confirm CT judges to 2nd Circuit Court
The Senate will likely start voting this week on Sarah Merriam’s confirmation. CT’s senators hope to take up Maria Kahn’s nomination soon.
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Osten’s no vote against top Lamont aide echoes loudly
A state senator seemed to be taking a jab at the governor. She declined to explain.
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House endorses Clark nomination to Appellate Court
Robert Clark was briefly a Superior Court judge before joining the Lamont administration as the governor’s general counsel.
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Lamont to nominate diverse first class of trial judges
Gov. Ned Lamont is naming Robert Clark as an appellate judge and eight women and seven men as trial judges.
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Lamont put a quiet freeze on new judges. It’s about to thaw.
Gov. Ned Lamont’s first class of trial court nominations will fill 15 of the 50 vacancies.
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Once controversial, Justice Andrew McDonald backed for reappointment to CT’s high court
Blocked as chief justice, Andrew J. McDonald is a shoo-in for another term as a Supreme Court justice.
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Senate confirms Christine E. Keller to Supreme Court
Connecticut’s newest justice was confirmed unanimously in the House and on a 34-1 vote in Senate.
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House unanimously confirms Keller to Supreme Court
The House voted unanimously to confirm Christine E. Keller to the Supreme Court and three others to the Appellate Court.
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Lamont nominates Christine E. Keller to Supreme Court
Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated Christine E. Keller to the Supreme Court and three trial judges to the Appellate Court.
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Lamont nominates Robert Devlin to Appellate Court
Robert J. Devlin, a Superior Court judge for 26 years, was nominated Thursday as an Appellate Court judge by Gov. Ned Lamont.
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Legislators use calendar to kill a judge’s career
The House of Representatives stripped Superior Court Judge Jane B. Emons of her job Friday. There was no debate, no vote, no fingerprints. Her eight-year term expired at midnight, when Emons became the first judge in recent history — perhaps ever — forced from the bench in Connecticut by legislative inaction.
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House unanimously confirms Robinson as chief justice
The House of Representatives acted quickly and unanimously Monday to confirm Richard A. Robinson as chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, but Republicans pledged to oppose every new trial judge recently nominated by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as unnecessary and unaffordable.
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Senate GOP counsel added to judicial nominees
With Republicans suggesting they may oppose Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s last class of nominations to the Superior Court, the governor made two unexpected additions Friday, including the chief counsel to Senate Republicans.
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Expectations high for a ground-breaking court nominee
Not so long ago, the man now poised to become the first black chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court was grabbed by a white clerk in a Litchfield County hardware store on a suspicion he was a shoplifter. It was a misunderstanding, one that left Richard A. Robinson livid and humiliated. It was fodder Monday at Robinson’s confirmation hearing, which focused at times less on Robinson than the role of race in America and in the courts of Connecticut.