Speaker Anatoly Chubais's assessment of the general state of the judicial system; Extraordinary nature of the congress; President Boris Yeltsin's signing of a decree on stabilization of the judicial system; Internal Affairs Ministry's issuance of personal weapons to judges; Discussion on the ...
The Connecticut judicial branch includes four types of courts, each with specific jurisdictions.Probate courtsdeal with cases involving children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities in addition to their roles in overseeing estates.Superior courtsare trial courts that hear criminal and civil cases...
the stakes of governors’ races are just so incredibly high between abortion rights being relegated to the states, to the economy, to voting rights, to future judicial appointments. The next governors of Washington and North Carolina, New Hampshire will all appoin...
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The Senatorsand Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several StateLegislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the UnitedStates and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation,to support this Constitution;but no religious Test shall ever be ...
21 in which due attention would, arguably, have prevented the loss."40 In the former class of cases, director action is analyzed under the business judgment rule, which prevents judicial second guessing of the decision if the directors employed a rational process and considered all material ...
Senator Mitch McConnell has asked the Court to apply strict scrutiny –the highest level of judicial review – to contribution limits. Many court watchers think this request, if granted, would open the door to striking down all contribution limits. Not all states cap aggregate contributions. At ...
Rep. Denny Rehberg (who seems to be running a full-throated teabagger campaign despite not having any primary opposition anymore), while appearing before the state legislature yesterday, remarked that he’d like to “put some of these judicial activists on the Endangered Species List.” That ...
Sheriff's officers positioned outside the courtroom would visually inspect any handbags, packages, or briefcases belonging to any person seeking entry. Security personnel employing those procedures would clear all persons entering the courtroom, including jurors, counsel, judicial staff, spectators, and...
I find it pretty gross and unseemly that high court judges are elected in the first place, and to see them speaking of judicial decision-making in such nakedly political terms is disturbing. But it’s the system we’ve got – and with any luck, Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg will have a ...