But it is a fact that conservatives have lately made ideology a much more significant factor in federal judicial appointments.

It is a crime to offer someone a federal appointment as a reward for withdrawing from a primary election race.

That may very well have been so, but no federal appointment followed.

He was appointed surveyor-general for Utah, a federal appointment, in 1901.

Elston became interim leader when Nixon from the legislature to accept a federal appointment.

Previously, many of the important city positions were assigned to individuals through federal appointments because Congress governed the District.

But federal appointments should not be subject to backroom deals.

The law made illegal the long-time practice of giving money or service to obtain a federal appointment.

His first actions as a deputy were aimed against the federal appointments of city mayors and regional governors.

However he then held a federal appointment for much of the mid-1840s.