* Appoints the members of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, a special tribunal of seven sitting federal judges responsible for selecting the venue for coordinated pretrial proceedings in situations where multiple related federal actions have been filed in different judicial districts.

; Appoints the judiciary: The President appoints the judges to all Courts of the Republic of Ireland, on the advice of the Government.

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* Appoints the Chief Justice, Deputy Chief Justice, President and Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

* Royal Order Appoints Jubeir as Ambassador to USA, Saudi Press Agency ( SPA ), 29 January 2007.

* Appoints official spokesmen, such as Rabbi Avi Shafran, who respond to media articles and statements which concern the orthodox community ; Rabbi Shafran also organizes AIA members to do the same ;

* Hong Kong Monetary Authority press release, The People's Bank of China Appoints Clearing Bank for RMB Business in Hong Kong.

* Secretary-General Appoints Jan Egeland of Norway New Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, UN press release in 2003

* Appoints the Senators for Galicia in the Spanish Senate

Pope Sixtus IV Appoints Bartolomeo Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library, fresco by Melozzo da Forlì, 1477, now in the Vatican Museums.

* Appoints directors to 14 cabinet agencies, but most appointments are shared with the General Assembly.

; Appoints the government: The President appoints the Taoiseach ( head of government ) and other ministers, and accepts their resignations.

* Appoints all Cabinet ministers, and can dismiss them at any time.

The Mayor presides over Council with voice and vote, but has no veto powers ; Exercises executive power of the municipality ; Appoints Council committees ; Appoints municipal clerk, attorney, tax assessor, tax collector and the treasurer, all with Council confirmation.

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Appoints Sewakpal to administer the region.

* Appoints the President of the Xunta from among its members.

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The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Most of the U. S. federal courts of appeal have adopted a rule under which, in the event of any conflict in decisions of panels ( most of the courts of appeal almost always sit in panels of three ), the earlier panel decision is controlling, and a panel decision may only be overruled by the court of appeals sitting en banc ( that is, all active judges of the court ) or by a higher court.

At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.

There do exist checks on the prime minister's power: parliament may revoke its confidence in an incumbent prime minister ; cabinet or caucus revolts can quickly bring down a sitting premier, and even mere threats of such action can persuade and / or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with Jean Chrétien ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when Brian Mulroney's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) came before the upper chamber ; and, given Canada's federal nature, the jurisdiction of the federal government is limited to areas prescribed by the constitution.

Although the bill aimed generally to overhaul and modernize all of the federal court system, its central and most controversial provision would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U. S. Supreme Court for every sitting member over the age of 70½, up to a maximum of six.

On the other hand, federal midterm elections ( where only Congress and not the president is up for election ) are usually regarded as a referendum on the sitting president's performance, with voters either voting in or out the president's party's candidates, which in turn helps the next session of Congress to either pass or block the president's agenda, respectively.

On February 5, 1937, he sent a special message to Congress proposing legislation granting the President new powers to add additional judges to all federal courts whenever there were sitting judges age 70 or older who refused to retire.

Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge, ruled that the authority to suspend habeas corpus lay with Congress, not the president.

Those Australian States with an Upper House elected by PR-STV ( NSW, Victoria and South Australia ) copy the federal Senate model, except for Western Australia, which holds a recount of ballots with sitting members being immune from defeat ).

Some 149 sitting United States federal judges are Harvard Law School graduates ; six of the nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States attended the law school ( Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia and Elena Kagan ).

Schreyer also waded into the federal parliamentary dispute that took place from late 2008 into early 2009, wherein the members of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition threatened to revoke their confidence in the sitting prime minister, Stephen Harper.

Nixon's agreement with these views, being expressed by a readily confirmable, sitting federal appellate judge, led to the appointment.

For federal elections, Launceston falls within the Division of Bass, with the sitting member being Geoff Lyons for the Australian Labor Party.

Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election.

At its height in the mid-1940s, the party had fourteen sitting elected officials at the federal, provincial and municipal level.

Martens was a Chair of the Belgian Christian People's Party ( now renamed Christian Democratic and Flemish party ( CD & V )) from 1972 – 79, sitting as a Deputy in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives ( federal parliament ) from 1974 – 91, and serving as a Senator from 1991 – 94.

Meanwhile, the Progressive Conservatives were nearly wiped out, falling from 151 seats to only two -- the worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level.

In 1976 he ran for city council, representing Ward 3, but lost ; in 1978 he also lost the Liberal nomination for the federal riding of London-Middlesex, but was elected to London City Council later in the year and served there until 1988, sitting on London's Board of Control from 1985 to 1988.

Bishop won pre-selection for the Liberal Party for the seat of Curtin, Western Australia in 1998, and went on to win the seat at the federal election later that year against the sitting member and former Liberal turned independent, Allan Rocher, who had held the seat since 1981.

Therefore, some of the best lawyers in the land were prohibited from sitting as judges in the upper house simply because of their parentage.

The Supreme Court, in a sitting of at least five judges, may find the President " permanently incapacitated ", while the Oireachtas may remove the President for " stated misbehaviour ".

As such, they were allowed to act as counsel in international cases where they were not sitting as judges.

The essence of common-law is that law is made by judges sitting in courts, applying their common sense and knowledge of legal precedent ( stare decisis ) to the facts before them.

The number of full-time judges sitting in the Court is equal to that of the contracting states to the European Convention on Human Rights.

In the Courts of England and Wales judges of the High Court and Court of Appeal are addressed ( when sitting in those courts ) as " My Lord " or " My Lady " and referred to as " Your Lordship " or " Your Ladyship ".

Judges sitting in courts of equity in common law systems ( such as judges in the equity courts of Delaware ) are called " Chancellors ".

There is always a judge sitting at C, although for upper-level competition, there are up to five judges at different places around the arena — at C, E, B, M, and H — which allows the horse to be seen in each movement from all angles.

Extremely rarely a bout can go on for many minutes ( up to four minutes ), in which case the referee or one of the judges sitting around the ring may call a mizu-iri or " water break ".

Judges are either appointed by the governor after being reviewed by the Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation ( JNE ) if a vacancy is created during a sitting judges six-year term, or elected by the county residents in nonpartisan elections if the vacancy occurs at the end of a six-year term.

The essence of English common law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts, applying their common sense and knowledge of legal precedent ( stare decisis ) to the facts before them.

This meant that the crown court for Westminster's judges sitting there were transferred to the Southwark Crown Court, hence the senior judge holds the honorific title of the Recorder of Westminster.

John Reed, Hugh Shannon, and Jacob Testerman sitting as judges under appointment by Lilburn Boggs the Governor of Missouri.

Bench warrants are traditionally issued by sitting judges or magistrates.

The Sanhedrin ( Hebrew: sanhedrîn,, synedrion, " sitting together ," hence " assembly " or " council ") was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Biblical Land of Israel.

Chief Justice Vaughan, sitting on the Court of Common Pleas, discharged the writ, released them, called the power to punish a jury " absurd ", and forbade judges from punishing jurors for returning a verdict the judge disagreed with.

All judges sitting in the Old Bailey are addressed as " My Lord " or " My Lady " whether they are High Court, Circuit Judges or Recorders.

Under the civil law systems of European countries such as Italy, Belgium and France, " magistrat " ( French ) or " magistrato " ( Italian ) is a generic term which comprises both prosecutors and judges ( distinguished as ' standing ' versus ' sitting ' magistrature ).