midnight appointments造句

• On April 1, 1801, Lewis was appointed as an midnight appointments " made by outgoing president John Adams in 1801.
• Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, in her dissenting opinion, stressed that the Court can function effectively during the midnight appointments ban without an appointed Chief Justice.
• As president, Jefferson worked to cleanse the government of Adams's " midnight appointments ", withholding the commissions of 25 of 42 appointed judges and removing army officers.
• Instead, Aquino formally requested Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines Conchita Carpio-Morales, who opposed the midnight appointment of Corona, to swear him into office.
• Notable acts during his term include the implementation of the K-12 program, the revocation of midnight appointments, the founding of the Priority Development Assistance Fund ( PDAF ) scam.
• He kept his promise of a smooth power transfer by creating transitional committees to assist the next president, instead of making the normal midnight appointments, elevating second stringers to full Cabinet positions.
• Corona points out that the Court already categorically held in De Castro that section 15  confined the prohibition to appointments made in the Executive Department,  which means that the bar on midnight appointments applies only to executive positions.
• The decision penned by Justice Lucas Bersamin reasoned that  The framers [ of the Constitution ] did not need to extend the prohibition to appointments in the Judiciary, because their establishment of the JBC and their subjecting the nomination and screening of candidates for judicial positions to the unhurried and deliberate prior process of the JBC ensured that there would no longer be midnight appointments to the Judiciary .