These forces, he said, had combined with the conservative court appointees of the Reagan and Bush Administrations to jeopardize black progress in the political process.

Biden gives a mildly obscure answer about changing his view about the importance of taking into account the judicial philosophies of court appointees.

In 1984, President León Febres Cordero tried to physically bar new Congressionally appointed supreme court appointees from taking their seats.

Senator Faulkner says the court will be independent of the military, but all court appointees will either have past military experience or knowledge of the services.

Mr. Buchanan added that when candidates could not commit to court appointees who are anti-abortion, their "pro-life position is utterly hollow."

Upon Souter's nomination, Bush made clear that he had no litmus test for court appointees.

It is being reorganized by a court appointee from outside the union, Mr. Tamarin said.

Following this, the airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 6, 2008, in order to separate itself from the other Petters companies that were being taken over by a court appointee.

Law-enforcement officials said yesterday that the materials had been subpoenaed as part of the Federal inquiry into court appointees.

Later that year, the state legislature, responding to irritation over Brownlow's court appointees, called for elections to choose new justices to the court.