appointee
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She also would challenge in court the new state law that transferred most of the post’s authority to an appointee of the governor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Becoming Justice Gorsuch explores the early years of Donald Trump’s first high-court appointee and his precedent-shattering path to power.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
In that case, Judge Paula Xinis, a President Barack Obama appointee, criticized the government, saying, “You have taken the presumption of regularity, and you’ve destroyed it.”
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Torres, an appointee of President Barack Obama, said, “I struggle, I struggle to compare Mr. Guo’s case with any other.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Another Reagan appointee, Judge Stanley Marshall, told a reporter, “I’ve always been considered a fairly harsh sentencer, but it’s killing me that I’m sending so many low-level offenders away for all this time.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
