{"id":221245,"date":"2016-02-19T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=221245"},"modified":"2016-02-19T06:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:06:41","slug":"camacho-lone-judge-retention-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/camacho-lone-judge-retention-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Camacho is lone judge up for retention this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph Norita Camacho will be the only one who is up for retention election this November. <\/p>\n<p>Camacho was appointed to the bench in November 2011. His term expires in November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Under the CNMI Constitution, the question whether justices or judges will be retained shall be put to a vote at a general election immediately before the end of that justice\u2019s or judge\u2019s initial term of office. <\/p>\n<p>Camacho has yet to announce if he is interested to submit to the retention election.<\/p>\n<p>At the November 2014 election, majority voted for the retention of Associate Justice John A. Manglona, Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja, and Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Juan T. Lizama became the first judge in the CNMI to be retained on the bench. <\/p>\n<p>Timothy H. Bellas and Virginia Onerheim-Sablan were the only former judges who were not retained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph Norita Camacho will be the only one who is up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-221245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}