At a recent company retreat, a colleague and I were nerding out (as is our wont) and debating a question: Just how many elected officials are there in the United States in total? It's an easy question to start answering—you begin with the president and ...
While it's true that many judges on lower courts (state, appellate, and local courts) are elected by popular vote, just like any politician, the nine justices that serve on the United States Supreme Court are not. When the Supreme Court has a v...
Many judges have their own rules governing conduct in their courtrooms. See pictures from civil rights history. Photo courtesy of © Bill Fritsch/Brand X/Corbis The United States is renowned for having one of the most sophisticated judicial systems in the world. Every day thousa...
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Indonesia's appeal remains in limbo due to the paralysis of the WTO's Appellate Body, which the United States deliberately blocked. The United States has repeatedly refused to approve the appointment of new judges, citing concerns over the body's handling of disputes, including the so-called ov...
In contrast, many judges in the United States and Canada have concluded to the contrary, that jurors lack sufficient understanding of the behaviour of sexually abused children and the underlying dynamics of child sexual abuse so as to necessitate the use of expert evidence at trial. Such stark ...
16th symposium of European patent judges. In European Patent Office (Ed.), Special Edition of Official Journal 2013. 16th Symposium of European Patent Judges’, Official Journal (pp. 59–92). Lanjouw, J. O., & Schankerman, M. (2001). Characteristics of patent litigation: A window on ...
请根据下面短文回答题: How will they go to the Mystery Caves from the center of the town [A] By ship. [B] By train. [C] By bus.
Oscar Wilde said that work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. If so, Americans are now among the world's saddest refugees. Factory workers in the United States are working longer hours than at any time in the past half-century. America once led the rich world in cu...
approving federal judges and justices, passing the national budget, and declaring war. Each state gets two Senators and some number of Representatives, depending on how many people live in that state. The executive branch is described in Article 2 of the Constitution. ...