Usually means: Senators influence judicial appointments locally.
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  1. senatorial courtesy: Merriam-Webster
  2. senatorial courtesy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. senatorial courtesy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. senatorial courtesy: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. senatorial courtesy: Dictionary.com
  6. Senatorial courtesy (New Jersey), Senatorial courtesy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. senatorial courtesy, Senatorial courtesy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Senatorial courtesy)

noun:  a long-standing, unwritten, unofficial, and nonbinding constitutional convention in the U.S. describing the tendency of U.S. senators to support a Senate colleague opposing the appointment to federal office of a nominee from that senator's state.
noun:  an unwritten rule practiced in the Senate of the U.S. state of New Jersey under which a State Senator can indefinitely block consideration of a nomination by the Governor of New Jersey for a gubernatorial nominee from the Senator's home county, without being required to provide an explanation.


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