Eight of the nine justices are Republican appointees.

Six of the 12 voting members are Republican appointees.

She said the board's four Republican appointees voted against him.

But one of the panel's two Republican appointees said the report's conclusions of discrimination were not supported by the evidence.

The office's approach brought criticism from some Federal judges, including many Republican appointees.

And with a panel of three Republican appointees, she wins just 31 percent of the time.

If anybody interfered, he implied, it was probably Republican appointees.

Today at least five judges, all Republican appointees, indicated in their questioning that they would vote to uphold the regulations.

Ronald was a Republican political appointee in the Reagan administration.

Republican appointees now hold the majority in seven of the 13 courts, Democrats on two.

But it might speed the day that Republican appointees become the majority in the new, smaller circuits.

Mark Kissinger, for instance, a longtime Republican political appointee with expertise in social services, had been employed since 1999 as "program associate" in the governor's office, making $93,926, payroll and budget division records show.

He said it was common knowledge that "people who are politically well known had an absolute entree" to Republican appointees who directed a low-income housing program that is a focus of Congresssional scrutiny.

Another Republican appointee is Janet DiFiore, the Westchester County district attorney and successor to Jeanine F. Pirro, who was Mr. Cuomo's opponent in this month's general election.

No matter what the composition of the panel, Republican appointees are much more likely to vote to uphold restrictions on abortion and to permit executions to go forward.

Judge Charles S. Zane, the Republican appointee of Chester A. Arthur, handed down harsh sentences to church leaders, beginning with Rudger Clawson.

He balked at Republican appointees because they were political, and appointed a compromise candidate H.H. Corbin proposed by former Republican Governor Nathan L. Miller despite objections by the jurors.

Prosecutors questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton today on an issue that embarrassed her husband's Administration during the 1996 election year: the gathering by White House aides of confidential background files on former Republican appointees.

At his news conference this afternoon, Justice Blackmun said that he and Justice John Paul Stevens, another Republican appointee who is now considered to be the Court's other liberal, were musing recently about their unexpected positions.

Another Republican appointee, Bradley A. Smith, said the panel had "rejected the extreme approaches on both sides."