Who are our candidates and more about the courts

Who are our candidates:

A list of the candidates who filed Tuesday for Congress by district and State wide for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals: My picks are in blue just like my party. Since I am in the 1st Congressional District, I will only share my picks for that Congressional race. The truth is that I know too many of the candidates in the third congressional district and since I don’t have to I don’t want to pick between them.

U.S. Senate:

Democrat: Tom Udall
Republican: Steve Pearce, Heather Wilson

1st Congressional District:

Democrat: Michelle Lujan Grisham, Martin T. Heinrich, Robert Pidcock, Rebecca Vigil-Giron, Jessica Lynn Wolfe
Republican: Joseph J. Carraro, Darren White

2nd Congressional District:

Democrat: Albert D. Kissling, Bill McCamley, Frank McKinnon, Harry Teague
Republican: Aubrey Dunn Jr., C. Earl Greer, Terry T. Marquardt, Monty Newman, Edward R. Tinsley, Greg Sowards

3rd Congressional District:

Democrat: Jon Adams, Ben Ray Lujan, Rudy Martin, Harry B. Montoya, Benny J. Shendo Jr., Don Wiviott
Republican: Daniel K. East, Marco E. Gonzales

Retention:

State Supreme Court: Charles Daniels and for Retention Patricio M. Serna

Court of Appeals: Retention Ira Robinson and Jonathan B. Sutin

Note to Republican Bloggers:

Give it a break already will you. Our party has moved on and we are looking forward to the November election. The Caucus is over finished and the results are official. Senator Hillary Clinton won the state with 73,105 votes and Senator Obama came in a close second with 71,396 votes. Brian Colon is our State Party Chair and we are not going to let the Republican Party dictate to us who leads our Party now or anytime in the future. So, give it a rest already unless you truly want to be trashed in November.

Learn more about voting for your state courts—New Mexico Court of Appeals

In November Ira Robinson is running for retention on the New Mexico Court of Appeals. Judge Robinson was first elected to serve on the New Mexico Court of Appeals in November of 2000.
How does the New Mexico Court of Appeals work?

The Court of Appeals is the intermediate court between the State Supreme Court and the State District Courts. There is one Court of Appeals for the whole state of New Mexico just like there is one Supreme Court for the whole state. The court has ten judges. The law of the state maintains that the Judges act in panels of three on all appellate opinions, and agreement of two judges is required for an opinion. The court reviews all appeals excepts for criminal cases involving sentences of death or life imprisonment, appeals from the Public Regulation Commission, and cases involving habeas corpus. The court handles about 900 cases per year. The court has two offices one in Santa Fe and one in Albuquerque. The judges are divided up 6 in Santa Fe and 4 in Albuquerque.

To find out more about the New Mexico Court of Appeals check out this website: http://coa.nmcourts.com/index.html

Late note, what is habeas corpus? It is Latin for “you have the body.” It requires law enforcement to produce the individual being held for a public trial where you have the right to representation of a lawyer and to question why you are being held and what law or laws you have violated. It is a fundamental legal right for all Americans.