Jonathan Lippman was the selected chief judge of the State of New York Court of Appeals in 2009. As far as his career in the Courts goes he has been able to turn the Court of Appeals into a more divided and liberal panel. When he wants to get the rulings that he desires, he has built alliances in each case, that he has received, with the four judges who were nominated by George E. Pataki, the last Republican governor. Lippman was on a panel to be appointed a lieutenant governor. The vote was passed and he was then the first lieutenant governor in New York State. In 2011 Lippman suggested the idea of adoption of a measure, which is to stop the number of elected judges from hearing cases about lawyers and others who make major changed to their campaigns. The proposal is possibly going to change how the courts are and transform the judicial elections, by being able to take out the cases that are not contributing to the courts.

This article relates to the unit we are studying by the similarities. In the things that we are studying now (like Murbary v. Madison) it is talked about how Murbary went to try and get his commissions that were never sent to him. Even though the Sectary of State would not allow him to the commissions, he still fought for it. In the end he did lose, but if he had been able to get those commissions he might have been a help to the Senate, though the President must have seen that he was not qualified and he lost.