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Tulane Hullabaloo
March 25, 2018
The council is intended to serve a similar function as the U.S. judicial branch, checking the other branches impartially. Connor Crowley serves as the chief justice along with four other justices. These justices were appointed by USG. The council heard its first case after the PVC appealed the AEC's decision.
U.S. News & World Report
March 24, 2018
The newspaper identified 92 sexual harassment settlements involving 24 state agencies and 10 university campuses during the three years ending June 30. The figure did not include the judicial branch. The figures from the Judicial Council were first reported by the legal publication, the Recorder.
Al-Monitor
March 23, 2018
In his essay in the Federalist Papers, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton noted that the proposed structure of the US judiciary does not provide it with any ... However, Israel's judicial branch finds itself helpless in the face of public figures who at best view its rulings as recommendations and at worst asÃâà...
Watchdog.org
March 23, 2018
“This is an unprecedented and undemocratic attempt to retaliate against the judicial branch. The legislature should be helping people, not settling personal grudges. This is nonsense and a waste of precious time and resources,” Wolf wrote. “The U.S. Supreme Court and a separate federal court haveÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 23, 2018
Democrats are hopeful the new district lines will let them flip several seats as part of their effort to reclaim the majority in the U.S. House. The old map produced three ... "When the judicial branch fails to follow the constitution, the constitutional answer is impeachment," Dush said. "I believe this action wouldÃâà...
The Laconia Daily Sun
March 22, 2018
CONCORD — The Judicial Branch announced today that it is beginning a process of analysis and reform that is expected to significantly improve the performance and ... The 3DaysCount model will help us start the process of evaluating our current practices regarding money bail and pretrial justice.
Bloomberg Big Law Business
March 14, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit became the first federal appeals chamber to uphold the Labor Department's fiduciary rule, with law firms Carlton Fields and Walters ... A group formed to investigate workplace misconduct in the judicial branch will likely issue a report on its findings in May.
MyAJC (blog)
March 14, 2018
U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Lithonia, on Monday addressed the Judicial Conference, a policy-making group of federal court judges that includes Supreme ... that the American people have for the judicial branch, hurt our form of governance, and that is something to be vigorously opposed,” Johnson said.
Law.com
March 14, 2018
The San Francisco Superior Court may well be the most diverse court in the United States, and maybe the world. ... Diversity is necessary because the authority of the judicial branch depends much more on the deference of the people than that of the other two branches of government; and that deferenceÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
March 13, 2018
For a full-fledged judicial "branch of power", completely dependent on the West, only a judicial body that will pass sentences and send defendants to ... When Donald Trump became the US president, some experts began talking about the fact that now Russia and the United States could agree on Ukraine.
YourErie
March 13, 2018
She is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Courts ... Created by constitutional amendment in 1993, the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania is an independent board within the judicial branch of theÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 12, 2018
“I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be ... Several legal scholars, mostly conservatives, have argued that nationwide injunctions are beyond the constitutional authority of the judicial branch.
Newsweek
March 12, 2018
The framers of the Constitution divided the U.S. government into three equal branches: The executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch. Federal courts also have what is called "judicial review," or the ability to review the constitutionality of legislation. That authority was determined in anÃâà...
ABA Journal
March 2, 2018
Sandford (1857), the U.S. Supreme Court held that African-Americans were not citizens and thus had no standing to sue in federal court. ... After more than two centuries of service, the judicial branch and its judges have earned the trust of the people by protecting them from the overreaching of the majorityÃâà...
ABA Journal
March 1, 2018
The new rule affects more than 1,000 employees of the the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Federal Judicial Center, all of whom are based in ... Department and other executive-branch agencies are not apt, because those agencies have political appointees and the judicial branch has none.
The Durango Herald
March 1, 2018
Archuleta County's jail remains closed, and prisoners continue to be shuttled back and forth between Pagosa Springs and Durango. County commissioners see the petition as a last-ditch effort to rectify the situation after a steady breakdown in communication. “They haven't been communicating with us,”Ãâà...
The Durango Herald
February 28, 2018
Archuleta County's jail remains closed, and prisoners continue to be shuttled back and forth between Pagosa Springs and Durango. County commissioners see the petition as a last-ditch effort to rectify the situation after a steady breakdown in communication. “They haven't been communicating with us,”Ãâà...
KWTX
February 23, 2018
KWTX obtained a copy of a letter written by James C. Duff, director of the U.S. Supreme Court's Administrative Office of the United States Courts to two ... depth of the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace, and events in the past few weeks have made it clear that the Judicial Branch is not immune.".
CT Post
February 20, 2018
HARTFORD — With more budget cuts likely in its future, Judicial Branch officials told legislators Tuesday that courts around the state are already staffed with a “seriously diminished ... “We didn't want to take this action but it was the only way for us to achieve a required a $15 million (in savings),” he said.
Cherokee Phoenix
February 19, 2018
TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation's judicial branch has moved from its downtown location inside the CN Capitol Building to space in the recently built second story ... “We've been in the Capitol Building since 1991, whenever the council passed legislation allowing us to continue doing our District Court.
New York Times
February 13, 2018
Even after the United States Supreme Court rejected the legislature's plea to intervene on Feb. 5, Republicans have ... It happens far too often to us, and it's time for the state legislature to rise up and call them accountable.” ... This is a direct affront to the judicial branch's power, not reasoned disagreement.”.
TIME
February 8, 2018
Nearly 70% of Americans said they had faith in the Judicial Branch in September 2017, according to Gallup, more than either of the other two branches of government. But Democrats are now less trusting of the courts than they were a year ago, while Republican faith in the system surged during Trump'sÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's judicial branch has started analyzing ways to improve its pretrial justice system. Officials said Monday they're participating in 3DaysCount, a national campaign to resolve challenges in the courts that have historically discriminated against the poor and workingÃâà...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
The US attorney general is deploying his broad powers to remake the US's immigration system instead of waiting for Congress to pass legislation. ... Unlike federal or state courts, the immigration court system is not part of an independent judicial branch, but embedded within a president's administration.
Courthouse News Service
December 31, 1999
Though Patchak saw the law as an impermissible infringement of the judicial branch, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon disagreed and the D.C. Circuit affirmed dismissal of the case in 2016. The Supreme Court had helped Patchak in 2012 get his case off the ground, but the court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that theÃâà...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
In its dismissal, the Court said the government's appeal of U.S. District Judge William Alsup's January ruling—which said Trump's attempt to end DACA was ... the Court's refusal to let the government skip part of the appeals process illustrates the judicial branch's ability to undermine the president's agenda.
CNN
December 31, 1999
"That injunction by a single federal district judge was stopping, I believe, the lawful operations of the United States government," Sessions said Tuesday. "I am confident we're going to prevail ultimately on it and we're going to continue to work at that." Sessions did not hold fire Tuesday for judges who haveÃâà...
