The Guardian Council, a group of six civil jurists and six Islamic jurists who approve the designation of the Supreme Leader, are in part appointed by the Parliament.
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" It started with liberal jurists and eventually spread to the conservative jurists as well, which Mr. Abrams called "one of the most remarkable developments of the last 20 years.
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Both men were skilled lawyers, jurists, and dedicated public servants.
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Liberal jurists often favor antitrust action, and conservatives avoid it.
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Others oppose allowing specific jurists to fill the vacant seat.
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The jurists were very qualified, moderate nominees, whom Pennsylvania Sens.
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CONWAY: Well, I&aposm not going to comment on individual jurists.
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Its jurists have approved mortgages, despite the Islamic prohibition on interest.
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The Pennsylvania jurists would only need panel ballots and floor votes.
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The jurists that replace them could be the ones that bring change.
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His first 11 candidates offered during the campaign are all white jurists.
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Gorsuch pointed to two jurists in particular: Merrick Garland and John Roberts.
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Enhancing Reagan's sheer numbers was the impact of the jurists he chose.
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Kagan was appealing to textualism—an approach generally associated with conservative jurists.
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First and foremost, we need pro-life jurists on the Supreme Court.
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However, some jurists said the move could backfire, resulting in lesser sentences.
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And then Brett Kavanaugh is one of the most distinguished jurists in America.
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Such a court could include lawyers and jurists selected by the international community.
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It's why he promised to name only jurists who would overturn Roe v.
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Trump has already put forth a list of conservative jurists as potential nominees.
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The North Korean Jurists Committee did, however, deny any responsibility in his death.
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But he faced a barrage of resistance from the court's energised liberal jurists.
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But queer Americans may not get sympathy from federal jurists for much longer.
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Jurists are humans who can be influenced by the accompanying expectations and acclaim.
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) welcomed the verdict as an important step.
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Public comments are more difficult to address, since federal jurists hold life tenure.
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Still, the phenomenon is more pronounced for some jurists than it is for others.
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Federal Trade Commission had been cited in other jurists' decisions more than 480 times.
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" She added, "There are some great other people, great jurists and lawyers and advocates.
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Several of the jurists previously clerked for conservative Supreme Court justices after law school.
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Mr. Trump has sought to ease conservative discomfort with vows to appoint conservative jurists.
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They seem not to have noticed that conservative jurists tend to be, well, conservative.
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Just as jurists make ample use of the written record, Robin does the same.
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Jews were jurists and government officials; one was even the first minister of finance.
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The most recent salvo seems to be that AB jurists are paid too much.
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" "Some jurists thought it was not something that a Supreme Court justice should do.
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That court is often a proving ground for jurists on the Supreme Court shortlist.
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The year before, jurists heard substantive legal updates and trainings on bias in the courtroom.
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The jurists are highly qualified, mainstream nominees, who possess the strong support of Pennsylvania Sens.
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Instead, they repeat largely empty mantras of "respecting precedent" and remaining "open-minded" as jurists.
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Indeed, its history is rife with controversies over the health or capacity of its jurists.
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Ultimately, tackling partisan gerrymandering will require a sustained effort from jurists, legislators and citizens' groups.
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Op-Ed Contributor JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA was among the greatest jurists in our nation's history.
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It also established a nonbinding truth commission composed of international jurists to observe the case.
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Thus, President Trump should promptly renominate the jurists, and the Senate must rapidly confirm them.
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Since then, Republican presidential candidates have repeatedly promised to appoint conservative jurists to the court.
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Democratic presidents tend to appoint more liberal jurists while Republican presidents favor more conservatives judges.
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Experts said the government was increasingly hiring only Chinese for jobs as lawyers, advisers and jurists.
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For Chief Justice John Roberts, America's top jurists are umpires with no skin in the game.
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For years, Republicans have lobbied aggressively and strategically to get conservative jurists appointed throughout the country.
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We are "at the cusp of a really serious problem", Mr Smith told the nine jurists.
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The Pennsylvania senators introduced the nominees, recounted the jurists' exceptional qualifications, and urged rapid Senate confirmation.
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But the Guardian Council, grouping hardline conservative clerics and jurists, has already disqualified thousands of candidates.
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It also ensures that visitors will learn nothing about one of our nation's most significant jurists.
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According to the International Commission of Jurists, "the separation of powers is non-existent," in Venezuela.
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He's stocked the judiciary, including the Supreme Court, with jurists in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
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Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were never the robotic jurists portrayed by their foes in their confirmation hearings.
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Worse than that, medieval Muslim jurists invented severe blasphemy laws to punish anyone who insulted Islam.
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Anyone he picks will come from a list of conservative jurists approved by the Federalist Society.
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I mean, the fact is the Federalist Society has vetted these people, they are all distinguished jurists.
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Resolving cases without two-fifths of the judgeships authorized correspondingly imposes greater burdens on the court's jurists.
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Pennsylvania jurists have suggested that this doctrine may apply in criminal cases to agreements not to prosecute.
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But this is not an instance of ideologically motivated jurists pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
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The majority of judges on the 4th Circuit bench aren't the only jurists who feel this way.
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Yet Muslim women have a right to an education, to be scholars and in some cases jurists.
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Mr. Trump has released a list of 10 conservative jurists he might consider for court vacancies. Mrs.
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It would allow jurists to pick from an array of public comments as determinative factors in review.
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Resolving cases without one-fifth of the judgeships authorized correspondingly imposes greater pressure on the court's jurists.
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But he was never a reliable conservative and evolved into one of the court's most unpredictable jurists.
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Resolving disputes without half of the judgeships authorized can also place greater burdens on the tribunal's jurists.
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The Pennsylvania senators introduced the nominees, lauded the jurists' superb qualifications and called for swift Senate confirmation.
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Deciding cases without one seventh of the judgeships authorized concomitantly places increased pressure on the court's jurists.
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MCGURN: I think the truth is that people will be satisfied whichever one of these jurists are picked.
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He appointed record numbers of women and minorities to the bench, as well as several openly gay jurists.
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called on the authorities to immediately disclose the whereabouts of the pair.
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He "remains deeply committed to identifying and selecting outstanding jurists in the mould of Justice Gorsuch", it said.
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Perhaps one of the most quotable jurists to serve in the early 20th century was Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Opinions may become mere placeholders for a future emerging majority, as opposed to a true dialogue between jurists.
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With five originalist-minded jurists now sitting on the high court, Stevens's rebuttal is more salient than ever.
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Both right-wing and left-wing jurists have largely adopted jurisprudential theories that broadly endorse their policy preferences.
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A group of former federal judges, including prominent jurists like Richard Posner and Shira Scheindlin, went even further.
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Meanwhile, Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, in tandem with liberal jurists Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
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Gorsuch said he doesn't recognize the court reflected in media hinting at deep divisions among the nine jurists.
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Both jurists served as law clerks to Kennedy and were appointed to appeals courts by George W. Bush.
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Will this stronghold of conservative jurists stay its hand as Democrats embark on their plans and agenda items?
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Ivy League liberals pushed for more critical decisions to be made by Harvard-trained jurists than prejudiced lawmakers.
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Trump made the appointment of conservative jurists to the Supreme Court a key promise during the 2016 presidential election.
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To take just one difference: A court's job is to establish the facts so that jurists can decide accordingly.
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Two of the bench's conservative jurists, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, voted to skip the case.
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Then, as now, Neil Gorsuch was recognized as one of the most brilliant and qualified jurists of his generation.
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Hong Kong jurists should be asked to come up with proposals if necessary, not politicians, bureaucrats or Beijing's representatives.
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And, in recent days, some jurists have come forward to say that people should wait for a court decision.
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On Wednesday, the candidate released a list of 11 conservative-approved jurists he might nominate to the Supreme Court.
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For years, legal scholars and some of his fellow jurists have disparaged Justice Kennedy's opinions as muddled and vague.
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Fortunately, other Sunni jurists, such as those at Al-Azhar University in Egypt, have been a bit more amenable.
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Trump's selections included Diane Sykes and William Pryor, a pair of jurists he has frequently praised as model candidates.
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In an effort to sooth concerns on the right, the real estate tycoon has promised to appoint conservative jurists.
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Wade ruling has been denounced by jurists from across the political spectrum and with diverse views about legal abortion.
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The court, consisting of jurists nominated by congressional allies, ruled that term limits were a violation of his human rights.
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Jurists who find these questions perplexing are more likely to find clarity in basic moral philosophy than in case law.
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But groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists, called that a delaying tactic.
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But, as several of the jurists involved in the case have said, why not rewrite the order to be clear.
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And these life-tenured jurists will continue to influence constitutional, administrative, criminal, and business jurisprudence well past a Trump presidency.
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Also interesting, and distinctive, is the large number of potential nominees who have experience as state, but not federal, jurists.
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It is a system in which jurists police themselves and an accurate assessment of the prevalence of misconduct remains elusive.
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The impact of these jurists will be lasting; on the circuit courts, they are on average just 203 years old.
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The First Amendment protects the media, and today — unlike in the past — that amendment is a darling of Republican jurists.
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But two of the most conservative jurists on the court, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, rounded out the majority.
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One after another, the viewer is assailed by news of kidnappings, killing of magistrates, jurists, and journalists, and train bombings.
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Gorsuch interpreted the immigration provision based on the original understanding of the Constitution, a view held by many conservative jurists.
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To alleviate the burden, two retired federal judges have proposed a solution: bring jurists like them back to the bench.
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According to news accounts, President Trump picked Judge Brett Kavanaugh from a list of jurists prescreened by the Federalist Society.
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Hence Muslim jurists saw no problem in "protecting the religion" by executing apostates and blasphemers, and by enforcing religious observance.
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It first stacked the Constitutional Tribunal, a top body tasked with reviewing the constitutionality of the law, with loyal jurists.
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The crackdown by the Chinese authorities on lawyers and their associates has drawn condemnation from foreign jurists and legal societies.
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Most jurists, most of the time, follow modern judicial precedents rather than pondering first principles of constitutional text and history.
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A spokesman for the Korean Jurists Committee, a legal body affiliated with North Korea's rubber-stamp Parliament, issued the statement.
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The Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, a rights group, said the trial risked restricting rights and could set a precedent.
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Sam Zarifi, secretary general of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), said the law can ensnare working journalists "at any time".
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For one, abortion-obsessed Catholic politicians, and perhaps jurists, are in danger of finding themselves out of step with Francis's church.
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If your sister was one of the most influential jurists in the nation, would you keep up with her major decisions?
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The move was criticized as slipshod by many jurists, who argue that a world-famous leader poses virtually no flight risk.
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One hopes the jurists will have enough judgment to police themselves, and each other, as their hair grows greyer and sparser.
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It was before an Arkansas bar panel of 25 lawyers and jurists — most of them politically conservative, all of them men.
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If there have been better trained jurists to sit on the nation's highest tribunal, they do not readily come to mind.
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One bill would have forced the resignations of all Supreme Court justices, who would have been replaced by government-chosen jurists.
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The problems with how France prosecutes sexual violence involving minors go beyond the wording of any laws, jurists and legal experts say.
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Judge Kaye prided herself on nudging her fellow jurists toward a unanimous opinion, though that became more challenging in 1997, when Gov.
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Whether President Trump crossed the line into obstruction and pressed too hard for loyalty are matters for politicians and jurists to decide.
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Our consent is necessary for the President to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and in many respects to conduct foreign policy.
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Proponents include eminent jurists such as Hans-Jürgen Papier, a former president of the constitutional court (and a member of the CSU).
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The process would then move to the Senate, where state lawmakers would name a panel of seven jurists to try the impeachment.
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These tactics included gerrymandering, voter suppression, manipulation of the census process and efforts to stack the federal judiciary with like-minded jurists.
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The problem is that the Trump administration is blocking appointment of new jurists to the WTO's appeals court, called the Appellate Body.
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Where there is a dissent, former Appellate Body jurists could examine whether part or all of the ruling smacks of judicial activism.
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Justice Stevens was a judicial giant, a son of the Midwest who became one of the most influential jurists on the Court.
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Some federal judges have expressed frustration with the guidelines because they potentially hamstring jurists and do not take into account mitigating circumstances.
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Numerous groups of students, teachers, lawyers, jurists, judges, doctors, public employees and petroleum workers simply came together for the greater common good.
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"They are jurists of exceptional integrity and experience whose character and fitness have been examined through a rigorous appointment and confirmation process."
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In fact, he reached out to two jurists, Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano and former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Ray Reddin.
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Islamic jurists have argued in the past that impediments can include political powers, which can lead to armed struggle against established governments.
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The separation of powers protects us from the concentration of authority in the hands of a single president or a few jurists.
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It falls on gumshoes like Victoria Kwan of SCOTUS Map, which keeps track of their movements, to piece together the meandering jurists' schedules.
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These jurists are joined by two even younger Supreme Court hopefuls, both of whom began stints on state supreme courts earlier this year.
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He followed up with subsequent nominations of outstanding jurists to the Circuit Courts of Appeal like Jim Ho, Don Willett, and Amy Barrett.
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) human rights group said it had "broad concerns about the project" after a meeting with bank officials.
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Medical practitioners relied on the rulings of these jurists and set up clinics that allow visitors to use other people's eggs and sperm.
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But each time, the Guardian Council, the body of clerics and jurists that decides who is qualified to run, threw out her candidacy.
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For decades, German jurists had argued that prosecution of death camp guards was possible only if they could be tied to specific crimes.
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The majority cautioned, however, that Tharpe "faces a high bar in showing that jurists of reason could disagree" with the state court's opinion.
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And his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is a master stroke that conservatives celebrate and even liberal jurists respect.
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The list included other highly recorded conservative jurists such as 7th Circuit Judge Diane Sykes, 3rd Circuit Judge Thomas Hardiman, conservative Utah Sen.
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The chief executive and the Republican Senate majority have created records by appointing 50 conservative jurists; four hold New York Second Circuit judgeships.
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That is precisely what the Framers sought to avoid in establishing a high standard for impeachment and giving federal jurists a lifetime tenure.
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Court officials said Mr. Gonzalez's case highlights how the law keeps jurists from assessing the risk a defendant might hurt someone if released.
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There are no longer any Portuguese judges in Macau's criminal court, and they account for around 10 percent of the city-state's 49 jurists.
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"They are jurists of exceptional integrity and experience whose character and fitness have been examined through a rigorous appointment and confirmation process," he said.
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Many of the judges retiring in recent months are experienced jurists, hired by the Clinton administration in the mid to late '90s, he said.
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Earlier this week, he released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees who are conservative jurists, a step well-received on the right.
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Trump -- then the presumptive Republican presidential nominee -- released a potential list of conservative jurists he would pick in May, should he be elected president.
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She has been praised on both sides of the aisle, including by well-respected patent jurists, for her open approach to leading the agency.
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As new reproductive technologies sprang up throughout the 1990s, several Shia jurists interpreted the Qur'an to favor the permissibility of using other people's gametes.
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Most jurists believe that only the supreme court may divulge conversations in which one of the parties has legal immunity, as the president does.
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The International Commission of Jurists, a non-governmental organization that promotes human rights through the rule of law, has criticized the army-run courts.
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Before the new assembly was seated, leftists replaced 13 of the court's 32 justices with trusted jurists, ensuring that the court would remain loyal.
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But many conservative jurists, including those on the Court, think that the administrative state has run amok, and they yearn to see it dismantled.
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The Diyanet protested that it was only cataloguing, not endorsing, principles laid down by Islamic jurists, and soundly condemned child marriage in a sermon.
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Thomas was no Souter; by any measurement, he ranks among the most conservative jurists to serve on the Supreme Court in a quarter-century.
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Because the WTO works by consensus, this blocking will deprive the Appellate Body of the requisite number of jurists it needs by December 2019.
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Since then, Islamic jurists in South Africa have ruled in favor of cryptocurrencies, arguing they have become socially acceptable and commonly used, said Mahomed.
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All judges over the age of 240 were also forced to retire, so their seats could be filled with even more Fidesz-friendly jurists.
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Yet, she was selected by President Obama over jurists, like Guido Calabresi on the same circuit, who were widely viewed as renowned legal minds.
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And by continuing to appear on television, Avenatti risks annoying jurists on his cases like Kimba Wood, the judge overseeing the federal Cohen probe.
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All judges over the age of 103 were also forced to retire, so their seats could be filled with even more Fidesz-friendly jurists.
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And in the last century, as courts have censured other monopolies, academics and jurists have noticed a pattern: Monopolies and technology often seem intertwined.
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"Military impunity severely undermines the rule of law in Myanmar," said Sean Bain, a legal adviser with the International Commission of Jurists in Yangon.
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Generations of legal scholars and jurists have wrestled with how to apply its antiquated precepts to the mores and technologies of each subsequent era.
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Both were Federal Appeals Court jurists for the District of Columbia who said they favored interpreting the Constitution in light of its framers' intentions.
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The majority then cautioned, however, that Tharpe faced "a high bar in showing that jurists of reason could disagree" with the state court's opinion.
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Will they choose to push their agendas further, selecting jurists who are likely to move the law in a more controversial and dramatic fashion?
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If the Senate confirms Gorsuch, a looming question is whether these two polished jurists would find common ground or end up rivals on the right.
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The jurists assigned to the case were George H.W. Bush appointee Karen Henderson, George W. Bush appointee Thomas Griffith and Bill Clinton appointee David Tatel.
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As for impeachment, it would set a dangerous precedent if jurists could be brought down by online petitions and Twitter campaigns, for a legal sentence.
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Several other jurists of his generation have served on the Supreme Court, including Scalia and two remaining liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
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"I look forward to working with the new administration to confirm conservative justices from the strong list of 21 jurists that was promised," he said.
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The Federalist Society meeting includes among its speakers nine of the 21 conservative jurists who Trump has said he would consider to fill Scalia's seat.
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Mr. Habré's conviction in an African courtroom, by African jurists, was a milestone in the effort to bring authoritarian leaders from the continent to justice.
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In Moscow on Friday, Mr. Putin announced the creation of an antidoping commission that would consist of Russian and international experts, jurists and public figures.
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If left-wing jurists were to win both races, the court could look different by the time it hears appeals to Mr. Walker's new laws.
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Natural law-based arguments for fetal personhood were pursued by anti-abortion scholars and jurists for much of the 1960s and 1970s to little avail.
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Instead, they used, for their own ends, the same type of values-based living constitutionalism that they and other conservative jurists and politicians typically decry.
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While many countries have courts or jurists focused on intellectual property cases, artists in Nigeria have only in recent years begun to pursue copyright protection.
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The list included a diverse array of activists, judges and scholars, with none of the corporate ties that are characteristic of many high-profile jurists.
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Other Supreme Court nominees -- in recent decades William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas -- faced accusations, questions of veracity, and claims they would not be impartial jurists.
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The chief justice also heads the Judicial Conference of the US -- the policy making body for the federal courts — and has defended his fellow jurists before.
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It survives in part to this day, codified permanently in French law by Mr. Macron — the very measures deplored by civil libertarian jurists like Mr. Sureau.
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Trump also has been picking a raft of conservative jurists for lower federal courts and won Senate confirmation last year of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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Many of the jurists now under arrest helped carry out that earlier wave of purges, says Mehmet Gun, head of Better Justice, a non-governmental group.
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And the sort of conservative jurists whom Senate Republicans prize will have spent quite a lot of time in spaces where Bounds-style argument was commonplace.
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In its Janus decision, conservative jurists on the Supreme Court cited the First Amendment, to hold that such schemes violated the constitution on free-speech grounds.
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Even more mysterious was the silence of Justice Alito and Chief Justice Roberts, the other two jurists who snubbed Mr Ray while siding with Mr Murphy.
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That puts the parliament beyond Hong Kong's top Court of Final Appeal, a body that includes leading jurists from Britain, Australia and other common law jurisdictions.
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They will say anything, and are only.... ....looking to inflict pain and embarrassment to one of the most highly renowned jurists to ever appear before Congress.
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Thirty-six groups, including the International Commission of Jurists and Amnesty International, called for a U.N. Human Rights Council special session on the situation in Myanmar.
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Biden now also belittles those minority jurists who can compete for the Supreme Court without an assurance that no whites or other women will be considered.
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The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, as it is officially known, has played a crucial role in putting conservative jurists on the bench.
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The problem is that this the latest in a pattern of Democratic leaders attacking and threatening jurists if they rule the "wrong" way in certain cases.
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They will say anything, and are only....looking to inflict pain and embarrassment to one of the most highly renowned jurists to ever appear before Congress.
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In December, the White House released a new slate of judges including several more seasoned jurists than the controversial nominees that the administration had to withdraw.
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Among these jurists were the 48 Christians of Cordoba who, in the mid-ninth century, publicly defamed the Prophet Muhammad, only to be beheaded for it.
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A new Cabinet minister wants to be able to respond to social change more directly so convinces a group of stodgy jurists to relinquish their seats.
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The legality of the pardon, widely perceived as a crude quid pro quo, is being challenged by jurists and human rights groups in Peru and elsewhere.
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The International Commission on Jurists condemned the house and urged the Senate to block a bill that "puts the Philippines in direct conflict with its international obligations".
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While Catholics, Jews, and mainstream Protestants all have traditions of scholarly rigor that translate into the making of top-notch jurists, Evangelical culture has a different focus.
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The possibility of a second opening gives Trump a chance to placate conservative insiders jockeying for their favorite candidates, including GOP senators rooting for home-state jurists.
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A group of retired jurists filed an amicus brief in the case last year, putting forth an argument that goes beyond what the plaintiffs are pushing for.
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"Justices and jurists of all methodological and ideological views agree that the government cannot act on the basis of animus toward any particular religion", Mr Matz says.
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Within days of the announcement the Guardian Council, a body of jurists and theologians, barred a majority of reformist candidates from running in parliamentary elections next month.
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The state supreme court jurists include: Allison Eid of Colorado; Joan Larsen of Michigan; Thomas Lee of Utah; David Stras of Minnesota; and Don Willett of Texas.
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Having followed the careers of all three of these outstanding jurists, I was excited for America that one of them might be named to succeed Justice Scalia.
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During the meeting, Lin, who is secretary-general of the Environmental Jurists Association in Taiwan, asked the company's senior management to investigate independently and disclose its findings.
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Federal magistrate judges -- low-level jurists who are typically responsible for pretrial matters -- have found themselves at the forefront of the national debate over privacy and security.
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Cambodia is relying on a partisan judiciary to silence critics and "dismantle democracy," the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said in a report on Wednesday.
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Trump, from the very beginning, has been overwhelming the public with lies and dissembling, while at the same time attacking society's truth-seekers — journalists, investigators and jurists.
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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did not nominate jurists who had left paper trails of judicial extremism or dropped other hints that their jurisprudence would be radical.
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Ertekin told me that he had recently attended a convention to elect the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors, which picks jurists for appointments across the country.
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Cambodia is relying on a partisan judiciary to silence critics and "dismantle democracy", the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said in a report on Wednesday.
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Eugénie Mérieau is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen, in Germany, and a former consultant for the Thai program of the International Commission of Jurists.
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And yet the Trump administration and congressional Republicans used their collective platforms to signal that federal court vacancies were being filled with jurists who were pro-life.
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And I think that is what is on display in the list of 25 very qualified jurists that the president has put out there for everyone to evaluate.
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CORKE: White House counsel Don McGahn and Leonard Leo are said to be spearheading the search, drawing from a list of more than two dozen reliably conservative jurists.
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" FREDERICK RAWSKI, ASIA PACIFIC DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS: "The court's decision effectively punishes these two courageous journalists for exposing human rights violations, following a grossly unfair trial.
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Swiss-based human right group International Commission of Jurists has called the Supreme Court ruling "a serious interference with the exercise of freedom of expression, association and assembly".
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Republican presidents appointed three of the 20th century's greatest liberal jurists—Earl Warren, William Brennan and Harry Blackmun—as well as Anthony Kennedy, the recently retired "swing vote".
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She clerked for two prominent conservative jurists, including Mr Scalia, and, after a brief stint practising law in Washington, DC, returned to Notre Dame to teach in 2002.
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They will say anything, and are only.... [16412 EDT] - ....looking to inflict pain and embarrassment to one of the most highly renowned jurists to ever appear before Congress.
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"They will say anything, and are only looking to inflict pain and embarrassment to one of the most highly renowned jurists to ever appear before Congress," he added.
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He urged a stand against "the banalization of bigotry" by such populists, drawing a long standing ovation from an audience that included international jurists, diplomats and film celebrities.
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The names supplement a list Trump released during last year's presidential campaign of conservative jurists whom he would consider nominating to the high court should a vacancy arise.
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Mr. Trump has promised to pick from a list of highly conservative jurists, and Republicans control the Senate, which can confirm the president's choice by a simple majority.
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All three judges assigned to the case seemed to have concerns about aspects of Trump's executive order, but none of the jurists indicated precisely how they would rule.
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In the version published by China Change the letter lists nine signatories, including Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University and one of China's most prominent jurists.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, finding it harder than expected to get his legislative agenda accomplished on Capitol Hill, is looking to pack the courts with conservative jurists.
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But even if the petitioners don't get everything they want, they believe it's an important step in changing the way jurists around the world think of climate change.
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And Judge Tuleya is one of several jurists who have reached out to the European Court of Justice to rule on whether the judicial overhaul violates European rules.
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Alito said the high court's special place in the Constitution, above other US courts, precludes the justices from facing scrutiny from other judges, as lower court jurists are.
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But it is not unfair to expect self-described originalist jurists to read originalist literature when brought to their attention by scholars and organizations across the political spectrum.
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Right now, the executive branch is ideologically aligned with Trump's judges, so those judges are less likely to object to the Trump administration's actions than more liberal jurists.
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It quoted a spokesman for the Korean Jurists Committee who said responsibility for Kim's death lay with Malaysia, as he had died on their territory, and criticized the investigation.
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Obama's pick, if confirmed, would likely change the balance of the nation's highest judiciary – giving liberal-minded jurists a 5-4 majority on some of the most divisive cases.
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Despite his strong conservative credentials and adherence to the originalist principles of Mr Scalia, many left-leaning jurists and commentators have praised Mr Gorsuch for his intellect and judiciousness.
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Trump has floated conservative jurists such as Diane Sykes, a member of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and William Pryor, a judge on the 11th Circuit Court.
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"Eisenhower's Earl Warren, John Adams' John Marshall and Wilson's Louis Brandeis immediately come to mind; although references to these great jurists are usually absent in presidential biographies," he wrote.
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All elected politicians, even the president, are ultimately under the thumb of appointed clerics, Islamic jurists and their opaque but powerful institutions, with the supreme leader at their apex.
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Kavanaugh, directly to Kennedy's right, appeared slightly less at ease as the four jurists sat in beige upholstered chairs on an elevated platform before the dinner audience of 500.
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The three-judge panel that considered Mr. da Silva's appeal included two jurists appointed by the former president's political ally, Ms. Rousseff: João Pedro Gebran Neto and Leandro Paulsen.
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But when Democrats eventually regain power, it will be Republicans on the short end of the stick, without the power to prevent the confirmation of liberal jurists they oppose.
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The preliminaries to both contests underlined that elected politicians are ultimately under the thumb of clerics, Islamic jurists and their opaque institutions, with the supreme leader at their apex.
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Sean Bain, a legal adviser in Yangon for the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, attended the hearing last week and said the prosecution had not produced credible evidence.
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They had spent four decades building a movement to reshape the federal judiciary in their own image, nurturing a cadre of originalist lawyers and jurists to serve in it.
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There were a few references to those two jurists Tuesday, but most of the give-and-take over nearly five hours addressed the intricacies of judicial codes of conduct.
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Though every member of the court signed on to the judgment, Justice Ginsburg's final move citing the committee report ignited a small but telling tiff between two subsets of jurists.
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Kingsley Abott, senior international legal adviser for Southeast Asia at the Geneva-based International Committee of Jurists, said the allegations against Kem Sokha had the hallmarks of being politically motivated.
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The irony here is that it takes the death of one of the nation's top jurists to make us recognize the sorry state of legal science in the United States.
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From the beginning of our nation's history well into the 20th century, union organizing efforts were treated by conservative jurists as criminal conspiracies and interferences with employers' sacrosanct contract rights.
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Thomas, a member of the court's conservative wing and the only black member, sided with Kagan and the court's more liberal jurists — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
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Fix the Court, a nonprofit working to make the court more transparent, called the court's decision "wholly unsatisfactory" for anyone who was looking for moral leadership from America's top jurists.
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As he transforms the judiciary, he said he expected his corps of jurists to reverse "the left-wing assault on the Constitution," complaining about judges who have ruled against him.
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Coney Barrett would not only serve the Constitution better than most jurists of our time; she would reveal, by the very integrity of her life, a more dignified way forward.
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called on Venezuelan authorities to reinstate democratic institutions as part of a solution to the political, economic and humanitarian crisis engulfing the OPEC member.
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A President Sanders cannot simply reassign justices to lower courts, but he could potentially create a system where many different judges take turns serving as our nation's most powerful jurists.
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"Justice Ramos' strong vindication of the HEAR Act shows that jurists will uphold Congress' intent to provide justice to Holocaust victims and their survivors," Mr. Dowd wrote in an email.
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The defendant admitted killing Mr. Kem Ley, but glaring holes in his story went unchallenged, said Kingsley Abbott, a lawyer who observed the trial for the International Commission of Jurists.
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While Syria may dismiss the complaint as meaningless, international jurists said it could represent a legal reckoning for Syrian officials who have acted with impunity in six years of war.
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While both judges are respected jurists and reached good-faith conclusions, the opinions work too hard to ignore material changes that undermine the earlier holdings on religious and nationality discrimination.
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Saving the Supreme Court became for many the chief argument for Trump's candidacy, and Trump produced not one but two lists of jurists he would consider should he win the election.
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Searles, an evangelical Christian, said he was pleased that Trump nominated conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was a leader among conservative jurists.
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And in the eyes of Joshua Matz, publisher of Take Care, a legal blog critical of Mr Trump, the ruling is a fraught gambit for the jurists of the Supreme Court.
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In fact, any list of top jurists active today who will apply the Constitution as it was written and understood by the framers in judging cases would no doubt include Kavanaugh.
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Republican President Donald Trump pledged during the 2016 election campaign to appoint judges hostile to Roe, and has since named two conservative jurists to the bench, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.
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Scalia, who died at age 79, was appointed to the high court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and built a reputation as one of the nation's most brilliant, conservative jurists.
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In the meantime, jurists are debating how to define their duties better, including whether they should be limited when an issuer of sukuk does not have an in-house sharia board.
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His legal team searched out young, prominent conservative thinkers, many from academia, who would set a tone for other jurists to limit individual rights and leave societal dilemmas to elected officials.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump nominated a new slate of judges Wednesday, including several more seasoned jurists than the controversial nominees that the administration has had to withdraw in recent weeks.
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The government agreed to forgo the participation of foreign jurists in a special tribunal, which would be the centerpiece of the transitional justice system, and have only Colombian judges hear cases.
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The list of 11 jurists the conservative organizations gave him last spring was, I'm told by a Trump confidante, accepted without Trump asking a single question about the names on it.
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Republicans are aggressively aiming to have four conservative jurists receive their confirmations to federal appeals courts this week, even threatening weekend work if all four are not put through the chamber.
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Ms. Collins said on Sunday that she could not support some of the names on a list of 25 highly conservative jurists from which Mr. Trump has said he will choose.
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At the same time, jurists and lawmakers have limited those rights to situations where they do not interfere with officials carrying out their duties, violate laws or infringe on private rights.
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But two of the three jurists — Patricia A. Millett and Judith W. Rogers, both Democratic appointees — raised doubts about Mr. Mulvaney's dual roles, citing the legal provision that created the bureau.
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There are many reasons for this, but the main reason is that conservative jurists tend to equate the Court's political standing — its prestige and legitimacy — with the rule of law itself.
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He sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the most influential circuit court) and commands wide and deep respect among scholars, lawyers and jurists.
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That's what happened in 2009 and 2010, when Obama made sure to publicize his meetings with Senate Republicans about selecting the jurists who would be his first two Supreme Court nominees.
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Judge Jackson's rulings in the past 20 months have generated such wall-to-wall news coverage that some of her fellow jurists are said to be quietly envious of her celebrity.
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But a generally right-of-center justice who swings libertarian on social issues is the kind of figure you would expect to crop up in a roster of Republican-appointed jurists.
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He has repeatedly tried to shore up his connection to evangelicals throughout his first term, repeatedly pointing to his move to fill dozens of open federal judicial posts with conservative jurists.
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The statement on Thursday from the Jurists Committee was cited by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, in the first comment on the killing from the North's official news media.
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It is a dreadful place where our most august jurists ruminate over catheter gauges and needle sizes, and ponder whether to slice deep into the groin or puncture internal jugular veins.
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It's true that some jurists employ a more structured (some might say rigid) framework for deciding cases that feature conflict between valuable principles; Justice Kennedy's decision-making process is more fluid.
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For too long, Republican presidents have gone for the "stealth" pick, nominations of jurists with little or no judicial track record, who may or may not adhere to a conservative judicial philosophy.
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In a statement attributed to the North Korean Jurists Committee, North Korea said that the greatest share of responsibility for Kim's death "rests with the government of Malaysia" because he died there.
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GOP presidential candidates, most notably Ted Cruz, cited the case as an example of the need for a Republican in the White House and conservative jurists, especially after Scalia's death in February.
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But conservative jurists are sceptical of the doctrine known as Chevron deference, which tells courts to defer to government agencies in their interpretations of ambiguous statutes, as long as they are reasonable.
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"Carrying out land acquisition before completing environmental impact assessments and resettlement plans is incompatible with national law," said Sean Bain, Myanmar-based legal consultant for human rights watchdog International Commission of Jurists.
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Unlike Powell, O'Connor, or Kennedy, Roberts is a product of the conservative judicial-nomination machine, which exists entirely to prevent Republican presidents from placing any more swinging jurists on the federal bench.
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Almost any serious student of the federal courts has favorite jurists whose skill and temperament admirably qualified them for the Supreme Court but who were too moderate for either party to nominate.
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Even jurists such as retired Justice John Paul Stevens, who dissented in Citizens United and called it a "radical departure from settled First Amendment law," has urged passage of the 220006th Amendment.
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Sean Bain, legal adviser in Yangon for the International Commission of Jurists, said the trial was "grossly unfair" and that punishing journalists for exposing human rights violations undermines the rule of law.
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That is why 25 of Israel's leading jurists have appealed to the attorney general, arguing that the deportation order and the lack of due process for the asylum seekers violate international law.
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The nation's jurists have been just as divided in their approaches, and Urofsky deploys his legal expertise to great effect in analyzing the numerous cases that have been argued over the policy.
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Next, politicians took full control of the National Council of the Judiciary, which is tasked with selecting judges, and moved to purge the Supreme Court of jurists over the age of 65.
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In that case, the state Senate has to select a panel of seven "eminent jurists" (judges) to hear impeachment proceedings and decide whether to impeach the governor, according to the state Constitution.
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The 298 appointee of Republican President Gerald Ford offered proof of the notion -- perhaps a quaint notion today -- that jurists do not forever hew to the interests of the men who appointed them.
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Branding the U.S. president an "authoritarian populist", Saman Zia-Zarifi, secretary-general of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), compared him to the leaders of Turkey, the Philippines, Hungary and Venezuela.
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Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, released a list of potential Supreme Court nominees on Wednesday as part of an effort to quell concerns that he would not select conservative jurists.
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Instead, every major policy program that the American left hopes to enact—Medicare for All, universal college tuition, and more—will have to face a gauntlet of conservative jurists in order to survive.
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Clinton: He said at a rally that supporters of gun rights might be able to take matters into their own hands if she were elected and appointed liberal jurists to the Supreme Court.
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" More important than her personal opinion of Kaepernick and his comrades, with Ginsburg being among the eight most prominent jurists in the land, is her legal opinion: "Would I arrest them for it?
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"The creation of this evidence gathering mechanism is a welcome concrete step towards justice," Matt Pollard, a senior legal adviser for the International Commission of Jurists, said in a statement after the vote.
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Mr. Meckler makes a case against lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices, arguing that the founding fathers never intended this group of jurists to hold so much power for such a long time.
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The International Commission of Jurists, an association made up of senior judges, lawyers and legal scholars who campaign to uphold human rights standards around the world, said the law could be subject to abuse.
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The courts are currently short-handed and because they need to rule with a decent number of jurists, they won't be likely to make such a momentous ruling without the chief justice, he explained.
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But by the time he musters a majority of House members to impeach the jurists and two-thirds of senators to remove them—if that ever comes to pass—it will be too late.
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The criticism indicates a growing divide between the justices on when it is appropriate for the court to overturn its own rulings, as liberal jurists have also voted to do so in the past.
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There's little doubt, however, that answering questions relating to potential future cases would threaten the neutrality we expect from all jurists — not to mention those justices at the pinnacle of Article III's judicial hierarchy.
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But in 2013, my commission of international jurists reported that the available evidence was sufficient to justify the United Nations' reopening the inquiry that, in 1962, had been unable to determine the disaster's cause.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) have joined global human rights groups in their rebuke of U.S. President Donald Trump for condoning torture.
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Under the pact, FARC members would surrender their arms to United Nations personnel and disclose the nature of their involvement in the conflict to a special tribunal that would include Colombian and international jurists.
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Because the court grants review dominantly when other jurists have divided on the meaning of a statutory or constitutional prescription, the questions we take up are rarely easy; they seldom have indubitably right answers.
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The International Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists have criticized the Venezuelan courts for their lack of independence and said the rulings pave the way for human rights abuses by the government.
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Few American jurists are as revered as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. A United States Supreme Court justice for close to 21927 years, Holmes wrote seminal opinions that were clear and clever and elegantly phrased.
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Because of the destructive game played most cynically, and with the greatest indifference to judicial integrity, by Mr. McConnell, the notion of jurists as unbiased umpires in robes has become, for now, dangerously naïve.
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The petition said there's nothing pejorative about describing judges as policymakers – Justices Antonin Scalia and Oliver Wendell Holmes are among the distinguished American jurists, Delaware said, to have acknowledged that judges shape the law.
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Then, about 19903 minutes before Mr. Davis's death warrant was due to expire, the United States Supreme Court refused to overrule the Arkansas jurists, who had voted 4 to 3 to halt the execution.
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District jurists resolve immense caseloads, thus constituting the New York justice system's "workhorses," and the myriad vacancies pressure New York courts and litigants, conditions which epitomize those in many of the country's 2202 districts.
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The Palestinian Bar Association, the International Commission of Jurists and other legal and human rights organization have also asked to filed briefs with the court to say it does have jurisdiction in this case.
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"I am making an argument much like the argument made by the great Justice [Benjamin] Curtis, and to call them absurdist is to insult one of the greatest jurists in American history," he said.
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"The museum was either playing politics," she said, "or is blissfully ignorant of one of the most significant jurists in the country, perhaps because his commitment to a colorblind Constitution doesn't fit into their narrative."
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First, it highlights the lack of meaningful judicial review capital cases like this receive from state judges in South Carolina, jurists who time and again in Bennett's case excused the racist theme of the hearing.
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Few jurists have managed to capture the attention and imagination of American society like Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the "odd couple" who built a lasting friendship despite their diametrically-opposed legal views.
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This number comprised the fewest district judges appointed since the administration of President Harry Truman and the least circuit jurists since 1897-98 when the circuit system had 25, rather than the current 179, judges.
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Detainees are also subjected to forced anal examinations, a form of torture that the police believe can prove if a person has engaged in homosexual conduct, a contention that Egyptian jurists have said is false.
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In particular, it would hedge against the risk that a Republican wins in 2016 and manages to replace both Scalia and Ginsburg with conservative jurists — essentially eliminating the "swing vote" status of Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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Tuesday's argument largely confirmed that this plaintiff is unlikely to walk away with the relief that it sought from the justices, though the Court may end up advancing a theory long championed by conservative jurists.
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Mr. Bounds was to be named to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a court dominated by liberal jurists that has been a particular thorn in the side of Mr. Trump.
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Donald Trump on Wednesday released a list of 227 judges he would consider appointing to the Supreme Court, offering up a group of relatively tame conservative jurists apparently curated with the help of GOP leaders.
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But these interpretations can vary, and jurists such as Antonin Scalia have promoted stricter adherence to the original texts that would leave us in a position wherein progress on social issues would become ridiculously strained.
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"The judicial wig (colonial) tradition continues in Zimbabwe with all its costs and controversy, without any meaningful benefit to access to justice," Arnold Tsunga, Africa director at the International Commission of Jurists, wrote on Twitter.
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During a first round of vetting in December, reformist leaders said that out of the 3,000 candidates they put forth, the Guardian Council, which is made up of Shiite Muslim clerics and jurists, approved only 30.
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Kingsley Abbott, senior international legal advisor at the International Commission of Jurists, said the fact the guards were not called to be cross-examined by the defense appeared to violate Vanny's right to a fair trial.
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In recent decades, especially since the controversial treatment of one of President Reagan's nominees, Robert Bork, presidents of both parties have sought to increase the impact of their Supreme Court picks by nominating relatively young jurists.
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"This is an embarrassing attempt to create legal cover, and a self-serving effort to avoid accountability and place himself above Philippine and international law," said Sam Zarifi, Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists.
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The ostensible opposition party lacks a clear strategy for the coming legislative midterms, let alone for the incremental grooming of a cohort of jurists to place on the bench two to three decades down the road.
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But Iranian media reports indicate the Guardian Council, a vetting body made up of clerics and jurists, has disqualified the majority of candidates close to Rouhani and reformists keen to increase freedom of expression in Iran.
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As a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, where he served as chief justice from 2007 to 2014, Kozinski has been one of the most influential American jurists.
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"These practices of torturing detainees and 'disappearing' them in black sites are serious crimes which must never be repeated," Ian Seiderman, Legal and Policy Director of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said in a statement.
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Richard Nixon capitalized on that backlash in the 250 election, pledging to appoint what he called "strict constructionists"—a term no longer used to describe conservative jurists—who would interpret the Constitution as it was written.
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Since no one wants a diminished judge or justice to be the deciding vote on a case of national importance, the federal courts should do more to ensure its hundreds of life-appointed jurists remain unimpaired.
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Big fierce minds take too much time and energy to confirm, so White House teams look for jurists who ideally have never had an interesting thought or written an interesting thing in their increasingly short careers.
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Among other efforts, they plan to set up a database that enables the public to track which Democratic senators vote for which jurists at all levels, making it easier to hold lawmakers accountable at election time.
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Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump promised to begin an immediate search for a replacement and to pick from a list of 20173 conservative jurists he had previously identified as candidates for the court's next vacancy.
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Most of the members of the Y.S.K. board were appointed under controversial circumstances last September, when several thousand jurists accused of links to the group that the government accuses of orchestrating a failed coup were unseated.
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Asked during the debate why he had backed Kavanaugh then, Carper said his decision turned on the guidance of distinguished Delaware Judge Walter Stapleton, for whom Kavanaugh had clerked, and other respected jurists from the state.
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He spread it on campuses with his namesake centers, and by funding weekend resort trips for federal judges, where jurists enjoyed lectures from Nobel-winning economists — called the Manne seminars — before having fun on the beach.
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The move points to far-reaching implications for jurists and politicians in the chaotic South Asian democracy where the Supreme Court often sets the agenda on matters of policy and orders measures taken in the public interest.
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This should persuade leaders in the region to denounce Mr. Maduro in stronger terms than they have in the past and call on Venezuelan jurists and bureaucrats to stop being accomplices of a dictatorship in the making.
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Blasphemy, in particular sabb al-rasul, or "insulting the prophet," gradually became a capital crime — but only with objections from prominent jurists like Abu Hanifa, the eighth-century founder of one of the four main Sunni schools.
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In Monday's surprise display of togetherness, both the president and Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, emphasized their shared desire to begin moving aggressively to install conservative jurists at the appeals and district court level.
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But the commission's preliminary findings, announced in a public hearing attended by some of the state's foremost jurists and forensic scientists, may make it harder for him to justify his ongoing efforts to prevent further DNA testing.
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Democratic lawmakers gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court Thursday morning, flanked by members of progressive groups, to declare their opposition to all of the potential candidates on Mr. Trump's public list of 25 possible jurists.
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Note, however, that nutmeg is considered an intoxicant and is classified by some Muslim jurists as haram, as it's laced with myristicin, which has hallucinogenic properties, and safrole, a chemical sometimes used in synthesizing the psychedelic MDMA.
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Posner, 78, a sharp and amusing writer and one of the few American jurists to have achieved nationwide recognition without serving on the Supreme Court, is the author of many books that appeal to more than specialists.
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While the Ninth Circuit has some of the nation's most famous liberal jurists, it has more ideological diversity than its critics give it credit for, and it's evolved considerably from the 1980s, when its reputation took shape.
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Still, many legal scholars had rallied to Persky's defense, arguing that ousting the sitting judge would have dangerous implications for judicial independence and lead jurists to hand down much harsher sentences in an effort to avoid public outrage.
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Devotees of these two jurists most often praise them for their ability to set boundaries on ideology — the extent to which they've carved out a liberal or conservative defense of healthcare, voting rights, criminal justice, or gun ownership.
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They also adopted a Romantic notion of authorship—fetishizing the originality of the fevered, Byronic genius—though jurists like the Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story found the standard of unstained originality all but useless for adjudicating copyright disputes.
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Ross Douthat Opinion Columnist In the American republic's slow transformation into a judicial-executive dyarchy, with a vestigial legislature that lets the major controversies get settled by imperial presidents and jurists, Anthony Kennedy occupied a particularly important role.
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But as soon as the project was announced, a network of humanitarian and human rights associations, attorneys and jurists — which had already mobilized against the state of emergency for being an excessive restriction on freedom — rose against it.
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"The rule of law is rightly cherished by the community and is the foundation of a cohesive society," Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma said during an event with Hong Kong and mainland Chinese lawyers as well some international jurists.
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Then, the level of criticism from abroad was higher than expected, from regular critics of Law and Justice like the European Union but also from Czech jurists, human rights groups, the American Bar Association and dozens of others.
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One of the proposed laws awaiting the signature of Mr. Duda, who is expected to sign them, would force all current Supreme Court judges to resign, replacing them with jurists chosen by the governing party's minister of justice.
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Sean Bain, a legal adviser in Myanmar for the International Commission of Jurists, a human rights group made up of 60 senior international judges, lawyers and legal academics, called for the case against the reporters to be dropped.
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And though the vice-chancellor conceded that even some of the Delaware jurists who originated the theory have subsequently questioned it in a law review article, the presumption that a controlling shareholder has inherently coercive power remains good law.
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But Willett said he and "a growing, cross-ideological chorus of jurists and scholars" believe it's time for the justices to recalibrate the balance of interests between public officials and those who claim to have been wronged by them.
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The case that led to the ruling had been brought by a libertarian political organization that sought to finance a film attacking Hillary Clinton, while the decision itself came down from a fiercely partisan Court, dominated by conservative jurists.
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"The cooperating patriot is a nefarious figure for democracy," said Alejandro Salinas, a Chilean lawyer and author of the 2015 report "Venezuela: The Sunset of Rule of Law" published by the Geneva-based rights group International Commission of Jurists.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Goa courtroom with pink walls, coloring books and no witness box has created a vital space for trafficked and exploited children to testify without fear, ensuring more convictions of their abusers, say jurists.
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The United Nations on Tuesday said it was "disturbed" by Morales' moves against Velasquez, while the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists said failure to comply with the Constitutional Court ruling could constitute "obstruction of justice", a criminal offense.
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The two jurists, who are working together to complete the case before March 5, when deportations could begin, have repeatedly taken to task — and even berated — the lawyers from the Justice Department who are arguing on the government's behalf.
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The legislation that reinstates the jurists was an answer to an interim verdict issued in October by the Court of Justice of the European Union, ordering Poland to freeze its judiciary overhaul after the European Commission filed a complaint.
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The Judicial Crisis Network, an organization whose sole purpose is to push for the nomination and confirmation of conservative jurists, was ready with an ad on Wednesday calling for senators to vote for Mr. Trump's nominee, whoever it is.
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But it also raises a more complex, two-part theoretical question that is often ignored by Islam's jurists but that deserves to be probed because it's at the tip of a theological iceberg: How historical is the Quran's language?
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But Democrats have put a greater focus on judicial nominations during the primary than in past cycles, partially in response to Trump's successful efforts, facilitated by a Republican-held Senate, to stack the federal bench with young conservative jurists.
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But despite these commodities often being located in remote regions where the country's poorest live, few have reaped the rewards from mining, said experts at an event hosted by the legal think-tank the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).
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" Dolan said that the "results of the investigation were then given to the Archdiocesan Review Board, a seasoned group of professionals including jurists, law enforcement experts, parents, psychologists, a priest, and a religious sister," which "found the allegations credible and substantiated.
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Activists in Bavaria determined to introduced a rent freeze in the wealthy southern state, where rents in the capital Munich are higher than in Berlin, have recruited jurists to advise them on how to force a referendum on the issue.
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Legal experts dismiss the states' argument as "absurd," yet they worry it could find an audience among conservative jurists, given the prior success of anti-Obamacare lawsuits thought to be spurious that still found their way to the Supreme Court.
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Some nominations toppled after Senate opponents depicted the jurists as a serious threat to civil rights and racial equality, as with Reagan nominee Bork, or earlier, President Richard Nixon's choices of Clement Haynsworth in 20 and G. Harrold Carswell in 22005.
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Now, with only Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting (without an opinion) from the new order, it seems Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, two liberal-leaning jurists, have joined Justice Kennedy on the conservative end of the ban.
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Trump can't unilaterally kick all Hispanic judges off the bench, but presumably appointing jurists who'll rule in a manner favorable to his business interests will be a top priority, and he doesn't need Ryan or Pence for any of that.
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Kennedy, who turns 21990 in July and is the second-oldest justice on the nine-member court, has become one of the most consequential American jurists since joining the court in 285 as an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan.
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Neil Gorsuch, Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, emphasizes the need for judicial independence even as the president castigates jurists who have ruled against him, while Democrats question whether Gorsuch would rule against abortion rights and gun control while favoring corporations.
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But on Friday, the Assembly unveiled a plan with a peculiar benchmark: It would allow legislators to earn 40 percent of the annual salary of New York State Supreme Court justices, which starts at $174,000, though some jurists earn more.
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While federal judges of all stripes take an oath of impartiality and reject the notion that they do a president's bidding, there is an ideological divide between liberal and conservative jurists about how best to interpret many laws and the Constitution.
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The N.A.A.C.P. made lynching a key focus in 1912 and later pushed Costigan-Wagner with a petition that included the signatures of nine governors and ex-governors, 27 mayors, 58 clergy members and more than 150 lawyers, editors, jurists and academics.
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The criteria were first used last year in his Supreme Court selection of Neil M. Gorsuch, an appeals court judge who became something of a hero on the right for chastising his fellow jurists for being too deferential to government functionaries.
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Right-wing parties talk tough about terrorists and liberal jurists; left-wing parties vie to sound like the most authentic peace-loving progressives; and centrists try to show that the parties to the left and right of them are unreasonable.
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Opening statements are expected to begin Wednesday with Joan Illuzi, a veteran prosecutor who has worked in the district attorney's office for more than 30 years, presenting the prosecution's case to the 12 jurists and Cheronis outlining the defense strategy.
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The battle to confirm any Supreme Court justice, including the pending nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and any other high court nominees who are not right-wing jurists, will be one of the galactic battles in American political and legal history.
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In March 1963, Justice William J. Brennan Jr., an Eisenhower appointee who became one of the era's leading liberal jurists, criticized the American practice of keeping the prosecution's case secret before trial in a major speech at Washington University's law school.
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New Hampshire, in which Felix Frankfurter, in a concurring opinion, quoted South African jurists to the effect that the principle of academic freedom allows a university to determine who will teach its classes and who will sit in its classrooms.
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They have included former governors and future presidents (Adlai Stevenson II, George H.W. Bush), prominent jurists (Arthur Goldberg) and a range of politicians and experienced diplomats from both major political parties (Jeane Kirkpatrick, Andrew Young, Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, John Negroponte).
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"Both of the jurists have for the past few years internally criticized some of the government's bills by stating, in their confidential legal opinions, that they breached the Basic Law, several of which the assembly ended up passing," said assembly member Jose Coutinho.
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Yet even if these three jurists, along with their five younger colleagues, spend four more years in their robes and the number of vacancies stays at one, the next president will still help determine the shape of the Supreme Court for years.
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"The majority's focus on the appearance of bias, rather than actual bias, should be a sobering lesson to all jurists about their ability to act fairly and impartially in cases in which they were previously involved in a different capacity," Vladeck added.
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"By grit and determination, brains, courage, compassion and a fiery commitment to justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg rose from modest beginnings to become one of the most respected, and most beloved, jurists of our time," prize founder Nicolas Berggruen said in a statement.
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He then imagines a sequence of events in which Mr Cruz is elected president, appoints originalist jurists to the Supreme Court, and those very judges rule that since "he wasn't a 'natural born citizen'" Mr Cruz "couldn't exercise executive power against anybody".
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So does one Supreme Court justice, who has ordered—curiously in the eyes of most jurists—the PMDB's lower house speaker, Eduardo Cunha, to start impeachment proceedings against the vice-president for the same accounting manoeuvres as those attributed to Ms Rousseff.
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As long as Trump keeps funneling a steady supply of conservative jurists to the Senate, in a bid to dramatically reshape the federal courts, Republicans can go to bed happy that they're fulfilling at least one major element of their political project.
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Garland has spent a career becoming one of the most respected jurists in America, praised by long lists of Republicans (as well as long lists of Democrats), including Senate Republicans who sang his praises and proudly supported his confirmation to the federal bench.
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The five jurists, all with strong conservative credentials, were added to the list with input from conservative leaders, and should another seat on the court open up, Trump will nominate a candidate from the updated list of 25, the White House said.
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The Democrats seem to perceive many existential threats — whether from climate change, lowering taxes, appointing conservative jurists to the nation's courts, or any other litany of gripes that fail to rise to the level of "existential," or a threat to our existence.
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"I want to confirm that Bill Barr, one of the most respected jurists in the country, highly respected lawyer, former attorney general under the Bush administration, a terrific man, a terrific person, a brilliant man," Trump said as he departed the White House.
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Mr. Trump has offered little detail about what he prizes in potential Supreme Court justices, other than to say that he would fill the court with jurists in the mold of Antonin Scalia and those who are likely to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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WASHINGTON — With another judge confirmed Tuesday by the Senate, President Trump and Senate Republicans are leaving an ever-expanding imprint on the judiciary, nudging powerful appeals courts rightward through a determined effort to nominate and confirm a steady procession of young conservative jurists.
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But discrediting federal jurists as having joined "the resistance" isn't merely an argument lacking in analysis or evidentiary support; it's also profoundly dangerous, for it suggests that any and all rulings against President Trump are not just doctrinally incorrect but also illegitimate.
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Trump has nominated and the Senate has confirmed many jurists with explicit, unabashed hostility to gay and transgender rights, including, just days ago, Matthew Kacsmaryk, who received a lifetime appointment as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas.
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The crown prince has imprisoned hundreds of prominent Saudi imams who have shown even a modicum of resistance — including very prominent and influential jurists such as Sheikh Saleh al-Talib and Sheikh Bandar Bin Aziz Bilila, former imams of the Grand Mosque.
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The United States, the O.A.S., and regional leaders from the Group of Lima should uphold a decision last week by Venezuela's Supreme Court in exile, a body of jurists appointed by the National Assembly, that suspended Mr. Maduro from the presidency for corruption.
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"By grit and determination, brains, courage, compassion and a fiery commitment to justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg rose from unadorned beginnings to become one of the most respected, and most beloved, jurists of our time," Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, said.
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" He called this a "jurisprudence of original intention," and contrasted it with the "misuse of history" by jurists who saw, in the Constitution's "spirit," things like "concepts of human dignity," with which they had turned the Constitution into a "charter for judicial activism.
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Facing a conservative-leaning panel and, eventually, a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, the lawyer for the inmates, Catherine Stetson, seemed to tailor her arguments to play to many conservative jurists' stated respect for federalism, as well as the autonomy and expertise of states.
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The Guardian Council, a body of Shi'ite Muslim clerics and jurists that oversees elections, said in a letter to the ministry that it had agreed on a date of May 19 proposed by the ministry, according to students news agency ISNA said.
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Racial bias, the court declared, "implicates unique historical, constitutional and institutional concerns" — a sentiment suggesting that even among some conservative jurists there exists a newly energized desire to rectify the racism that remains all too evident in our administration of criminal justice.
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Legal experts dismiss the states' argument as "absurd," yet they have worried it could find a receptive audience among conservative jurists, given the prior success of anti-Obamacare lawsuits thought to be spurious that still found their way to the Supreme Court.
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Reagan made his mark on the court with the appointment of eight conservative jurists in the 21926s, including Bork; Antonin Scalia, later elevated to the Supreme Court; and Ken Starr, who later became Whitewater independent counsel and triggered the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
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" The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), a grouping of prominent judges and lawyers, also condemned the law ahead of its introduction, saying there was a "real risk that the law will be misused to clamp down on opinions or information critical of the government.
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Determining just what freedoms are protected is a matter of strong methodological dispute, but a widely held position among many jurists is that to be protected by substantive due process, a liberty or freedom has to be deeply rooted in tradition or American history.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Monday emphasized the need for judicial independence even as Trump castigates jurists who have ruled against him, while Democrats questioned whether he would rule against abortion rights and gun control while favoring corporations.
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In a decree, King Salman ordered the establishment of an authority to scrutinize uses of the "hadith" - accounts of the sayings, actions or habits of the Prophet that are used by preachers and jurists to support teachings and edicts on all aspects of life.
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"Not only might they have a chilling effect on ICC personnel and others advocating for accountability, but they will set a dangerous precedent with serious implications on the overall fight for impunity," said the ACLU, International Commission of Jurists and International Service for Human Rights.
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Had Vice President Al Gore won the Electoral College vote as well as the popular vote in 2000, the court seats now occupied by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito would have been filled by more liberal jurists, giving progressives a majority.
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" Sam Zarifi, the Asia director of the International Commission of Jurists, said in a statement, "This attack targeted mostly lawyers and intellectuals (many of them from the Pashtun community) who had gathered at the hospital to mourn the loss of one of their own.
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As a senator, Mr. Obama even opposed the nominations of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. — two eminently qualified mainstream jurists — because they expressed fidelity to the law as written, rather than a commitment to progressive policy outcomes.
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Another New Yorker has used "strong language" to attack jurists, and many of us have criticized President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE for those comments.
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They suggested that President Trump may have picked him from the ranks of conservative jurists because he was hoping for an ally on the court, should Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, move against the president.
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Police forces and security agencies riddled with corruption, brutality, and incompetence are often rounding up the usual suspects — poor and pious youth from marginal neighborhoods, or migrants — and charging them with serious offenses, frequently after extracting confessions under torture, according to jurists and human rights advocates.
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"Now that President Donald Trump has supercharged the effort to remake the federal court system by appointing conservative jurists who will strictly interpret the Constitution, I feel confident that the US Supreme Court will overturn Roe and finally correct its 46-year-old mistake," Lt. Gov.
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Just as the U.S. Constitution must be interpreted with an appreciation for what the original text meant, how jurisprudence developed over the years, and what conclusions jurists and legal scholars drew from its principles, the Koran must be read in light of all of Islamic history.
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"Defamation should be a civil matter, not a criminal matter, and Thai laws, including criminal defamation and the computer crimes act, must stop being used as a form of retaliation against human rights defenders," said Kingsley Abbott, a legal adviser for the International Commission of Jurists.
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Mr. Lee is the latest in a series of young conservative jurists and administration appointees who have sailed through the Senate, sometimes over objections by the American Bar Association over their qualifications or accusations by activists who say the appointees traffic in racist or sexist remarks.
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Potential jurists who told the court they believed they could remain fair and impartial and were available to serve for the length of the trial were instructed by Judge Burke to go home, fill out a jury questionnaire and return to court with it on January 303.
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A 1994 report from an International Commission of Jurists found that the Japanese military set up a vast network of Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Taiwanese, Dutch and Filipino women to staff "comfort stations" — essentially brothels where they'd be forced to be sexually subservient to military men.
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Soukeyna Ndao Diallo, a lawyer and member of the Senegalese Association of Women Jurists (AJS), a legal aid group that runs drop-in centres for women in Dakar, says that while concepts like #Nopiwouma and #Doyna can be positive, they're only accessible to an elite portion of society.
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Wade, a decision so poorly reasoned that even pro-abortion rights jurists like Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader GinsburgJustices appear divided over expanding police officers' traffic stop power Loaded poll questions harm civil discourse Clintons tell Ginsburg they struggled to complete 'RBG workout' MORE have openly criticized it.
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Many democrats within Parliament, who have been elected by the people, are working to strengthen the position of civil jurists in the Guardian Council, and to ultimately enhance the hand of Iran's electorate into regulating and or even dissolving the position of the theocratic strongman at the top.
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Meanwhile, "activist judges," as conservatives like to call anyone who isn't a strict originalist, believe (or at least aren't repulsed by the idea that) the Constitution is a living-and-breathing document; the Court includes four such jurists in Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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These obstacles include state ballot access hurdles, modes of harassment by the Secretaries of State for individual states, and even if the hurdles are surmounted, a candidate must face hassling of their street petitioners collecting signatures, exclusion from debates and a plethora of frivolous litigation before selected partisan jurists.
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Hopefully Trump's appointees, like those of his predecessors, will understand that their role is not to fulfill facile campaign slogans, but to be thoughtful jurists who apply the law faithfully to the Constitution, in a manner that fully protects the rights of an accused and actually serves justice.
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" The NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists, called on the U.S., European Union (EU) and individual European countries to "denounce these farcical elections, rather than continue with largely unquestioning support for a government presiding over the country's worst human rights crisis in decades.
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" When asked what she would say to those who cast doubt on whether this incident matters for Kavanaugh's future because it allegedly happened in high school, she said, "This is an honor and a privilege that is reserved for our most brilliant jurists and those that have the utmost integrity.
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" Citing what the HRC called an "absence of opinions on LGBT-related cases" involving Kavanaugh, the group pointed to speeches Trump's nominee gave "extensively praising" former chief justice William Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia, both of whom it said have "some of the most pronounced anti-LGBTQ records of modern jurists.
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Judge Gorsuch is an expert on antitrust law and policy but counts himself among the conservative jurists who, beginning in the 1970s, have sought to narrow the scope of antitrust analysis to economics-driven price inquiries and has ruled in favor of defendants far more often than plaintiffs in antitrust cases.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders said in an interview that he would consider releasing a list of potential Supreme Court appointees he would name if elected president, and noted that his wife, Jane, also believes he should offer a roster of jurists in the way President Trump did during his 2016 campaign.
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He's picked fights with judges he regards as too liberal since even before he was elected, and lately he's made clear that the drive to replace judges with ideologically sympathetic jurists -- from Justice Brett Kavanaugh on down to federal district courts -- is a key reason for conservatives to reelect him.
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"It is important to be aware that prosecutors in Myanmar have tended to use national laws to target human rights defenders and journalists, as opposed to those actually responsible for dangerous speech," Frederick Rawski, the director of the Asia and Pacific Programme at the International Commission of Jurists, told VICE News.
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KIM STRASSEL, WASHINGTON COLUMNIST: Well, I think the thing people should be encouraged by is all of the people who were on the list that President Trump put out when he was still running for the presidency are incredibly accomplished jurists, very much in the mold of Antonin Scalia, much like Neil Gorsuch.
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"The military officials asked us who we were, what we were doing, who had given us permission to do the mural, who had paid us to do so and told us to hand over our identification," said Sebastián Bojacá, a lawyer of the Colombian Commission of Jurists (CCJ) who was present that night.
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The circuit's judicial wellness committee, as it's called, encourages aging jurists to undergo mental health assessments, hosts neurological experts to speak about the warning signs of impairment and asks that judges empower their friends and colleagues to step in if they believe there's reason to be concerned about a judge's mental health.
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And in an age where the court's role is destined to remain outsized, where jurists become icons and celebrities, I make no apology for desiring a prominent embodiment of the possible marriage between female empowerment and religious conservatism — the marriage that might ultimately save our culture, if it's ever to be saved.
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" In the The New York Times, the distinguished Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar wrote that "it is hard to name anyone with judicial credentials as strong as those of Judge Kavanaugh," who was once his student, and told readers that he "commands wide and deep respect among scholars, lawyers, and jurists.
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"This is a very serious problem for Europe in terms of how it handles internal deviation from what had seemed to be a very strong consensus and agreement on respect for the rule of law," Saman Zia-Zarifi, the head of International Commission of Jurists, a Geneva-based body which defends the rule of law.
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"When women stood up in record numbers to fight Kavanaugh's nomination, propelled by his alarming record and Trump's promise to nominate jurists committed to criminalizing abortion and punishing women we were told we were 'hysterical' because Roe was settled law," said NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue in a statement issued Tuesday night.
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The jurisprudence there has long been regarded - - HURT: Even liberal jurists will say that there are huge problems -- ROGAN: But I don&apost think you will see from the Roberts court this move to allow states to, for example, where it matters, prevent Planned Parenthood from coming in and taking women to other states.
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"The Constitution and the Code of Criminal Procedure give the President unrestricted powers to issue a pardon or commute a sentence, so in our view, there are no legal impediments to securing Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's immediate release," said Frederick Rawski, director of the Asia Pacific program at the International Commission of Jurists.
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But as female judges arrived on the scene and began to take more gender-sensitive positions than their male counterparts could manage, jurists like Justice Ginsburg played a significant role in not only exposing the hidden gender biases of our times but in doing something to make things better for women and everybody else.
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The Iranian electorate faces a perpetual dilemma on whether to participate or boycott the elections as the choice of candidates is limited and the Guardian Council — a constitutional committee made up of six clerics and six jurists that vets the electoral candidates — bars those seen as critical of the regime or deviating from its positions.
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Here are some facts about Iran's 11th parliamentary election since the 1979 Islamic revolution: About 7,150 candidates from more than 583,000 hopefuls survived screening by government-run panels and the Guardian Council, a conservative body of clerics and jurists who assess commitment to Islam, belief in the system of religious law and the Islamic Republic.
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Should the case ultimately reach the Supreme Court, the question will be whether conservative jurists take the side of conservative politicians, which would accord with their policy preference for the tax bill, or whether they will hew more closely to their usual judicial principles, at the risk of dealing Republicans a significant policy defeat.
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They say they will be able to claim success if they can get Judge Gorsuch on the court, fill scores of other federal court vacancies with lifetime appointments of conservative jurists, install more like-minded thinkers in top executive branch jobs and continue to use the Congressional Review Act to roll back federal regulations.
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" - The International Commission of Jurists, a group of senior international judges, lawyers and legal academics, said: "The case significantly undermines the government's stated commitments to reforming and building public confidence in judicial process...Authorities should immediately end criminal proceedings against these men who appear to have been lawfully doing their job as investigative journalists.
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Trump finished with interviews last week, two people close to the process say, and is believed to have narrowed his pick down to three jurists: Neil Gorsuch, who sits on the federal appears court in Denver; William H. Pryor Jr., who sits on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and Thomas Hardiman of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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"South Africa may become a haven for serious criminals and [this decision] poses a long-term threat to the ability of the country to deal with serious crimes," said Arnold Tsunga, the Africa director of International Commission of Jurists, a group that has worked extensively on international justice issues – including the ICC – in the recent past.
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The friend, Erwin Chemerinsky, now the dean at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, said he had gently suggested to Judge Reinhardt that he and another longtime liberal figure on the San Francisco-based court make way while Democrats still had the power to assure that jurists with a similar philosophy would take their place.
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Germany was also home to what Mr. Beachy argues may be the first public coming out, in the modern sense of the term, when the lawyer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs argued for the decriminalization of homosexuality before an 1867 gathering of the Association of German Jurists and in a series of pamphlets written under his real name.
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His promise was not made to win votes; rather, it was based on his deeply held belief that it was discriminatory to exclude women from seats on the nation's highest court and that there had to be women jurists who were as qualified -- if not more so -- than the more than 100 men who had sat on the court.
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On crucial questions affecting the way companies negotiate with their employees, what kind of individuals they are prohibited from discriminating against and the legality of giant mergers, it's likely that Kennedy's successor, who President Donald Trump has said would come from a list his administration compiled of 25 conservative jurists, will vote exactly the same way Kennedy would have.
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Many of the current Supreme Court justices as well as jurists in the federal courts generally look longingly at the pre-New Deal court of the Lochner era, which set itself squarely in opposition to the distributive tradition and was more than willing to promote large-scale economic inequality, whatever its political effects might prove to be.
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How can they sincerely object to a judge whose rulings have been endorsed by the Supreme Court more than a dozen times, whose thoughtful analysis in more than 300 published opinions has been routinely cited by other jurists across the nation, and whose concurrences and dissents have been discussed by more than 50 circuit courts in their own opinions?
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And at the heart of the promise is a pledge that what happened in Casey, when three Republican-appointed jurists limited Roe's ambit but basically upheld its vision, will never happen again — so long as pro-lifers trust the process, trust originalist and textualist theory, trust the hyper-qualified candidates the conservative legal movement puts forward.
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"The transitional government of Sudan must demonstrate that the ongoing transition will not obscure past crimes and will take into account the demands of all populations in the different regions of the country, including Darfur, for long-lasting peace and justice," Arnold Tsunga, director of the Africa regional program of the International Commission of Jurists, said in a statement.
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Following are some facts about Iran's 11th parliamentary election since the 1979 Islamic revolution: Candidates were screened by government-run committees and then the Guardian Council, a conservative body of clerics and jurists who check hopefuls for their commitment to Islam, their belief in the Velayat-e Faqih (religious system of law) and the Islamic Republic.
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Following are some facts about Iran's 11th parliamentary election since the 1979 Islamic revolution: CANDIDATES VETTED Candidates were screened by government-run committees and then the Guardian Council, a conservative body of clerics and jurists who check hopefuls for their commitment to Islam, their belief in the Velayat-e Faqih (religious system of law) and the Islamic Republic.
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Meanwhile, Clarke Forsythe, acting president of Americans United for Life (which describes itself as "the legal arm of the pro-life movement") said Gorsuch's nomination shows that Trump "values the legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and is dedicated to ensuring that the Supreme Court is staffed by jurists who respect the Constitution, not by politicians who vote with their policy preferences."
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