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• in Politics
  Oklahoma Sharia Law Threatens Judicial Independence
  In passing Public Question 755, Oklahoma ingrained in the state constitution that Islam vis a vis Islamic law is to be publicly and legally stigmatized.
  by caseypulpit / on Jan 11, 2012
• in Politics
  World’s Largest Democracy, India, Being Administered by Courts
  Is Indian Government Learning Lessons?
  by kpnd / on Jul 8, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “judiciary”

 

• A convicted killer’s gift spurs a federal judge to remember balance in sentencing

  
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  Sure, virtue is its own reward. But a briefcase from a convicted killer has special meaning for a federal judge who once helped the inmate. Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Nebraska writes about the gift at his blog Hercules and the Umpire. Before…
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• Will an easy-to-pronounce name get you a better shot at partnership?

  
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  Does your name matter in your career? How about the descriptive words used in court? The answer, apparently, is yes and yes. New York University marketing professor Adam Alter explains in the New Yorker. One of his findings: Lawyers in U.S. law firms with easy-to-pronounce names rise…
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• WATCH: AFER Explains Prop 8 Case

  
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  The Gaytterdämmerung case of Hollingsworth v Perry  could be released by the United States Supreme Court as early as tomorrow but will probably not come out until next Monday or Thursday June 27 at the latest. The organization behind the federal challenge to Californias Proposition 8 is the American Foundation ...
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• NSA admits they listen to U.S. phone calls without a warrant, more than half the Senate skips briefing

  
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  According to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), in a secret briefing the NSA told members of Congress that the contents of a phone call could be accessed “simply based on an analyst deciding that.” … Read More
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• Permit of Labuan firm finally revoked after investors left in limbo

  
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  Finally, some action after this issue was raised a few years ago and brought up in Parliament – but where does it leave the long-suffering small investors? This was a report in the Daily Express yesterday: Labuan: EC Trust (Labuan) Bhd had its company’s licence revoked, pursuant to Section 167 of the Labuan ...
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• Potential juror exposed as #Trayvon militant dismissed – returns to court in outrage

  
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  The New York Daily News reported earlier this week that a potential juror in the upcoming George Zimmerman trial lied when he claimed he had not yet formed an opinion on the case: A member of a pro-Travyon Martin group was unmasked Wednesday as he tried to get on the Florida jury in George Zimmerman’s trial ...
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• Navy judge: Obama exerted “unlawful command influence” on military sexual assault sentencing

  
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  Stars and Stripes reports on an interesting ruling coming out of a Hawaii military court this week involving two defendants in separate sexual assault cases: Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence” derived from ...
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• National Briefing | Southwest: Arizona: Monitor Is Likely in Case Against Maricopa County Sheriff

  
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  A federal judge who ruled that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office racially profiled Latinos delayed instituting remedies on Friday to allow parties time to agree on options.        
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• Congratulations Judge Quinones

  
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  Yesterday the U.S. Senate confirmed Nitza Quinones Alejandro, the first openly lesbian Latina federal court judge in the United States. From the Philadelphia Inquirer : Quiñones earned a bachelors degree in business administration and a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico. She worked with Community ...
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• Chief Justice Roberts orders review of allegedly bigoted remarks by conservative federal judge

  
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  As an inveterate court-watcher, I find THIS STORY especially interesting: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday took the rare step of ordering a review of a powerful federal judge accused of making denigrating statements against minorities and people with mental disabilities. Roberts formally ...
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• PRESS RELEASE: Just like Suraj Pancholi, thousands of helpless men get victimized with threats of Suicide from wives and girlfriends every year.

  
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  PRESS RELEASE­­ Subject: Just like Suraj Pancholi, thousands of helpless men get victimized with threats of Suicide from wives and girlfriends every year. Based on media reports and alleged suicide note of Jiah Khan, 22-year old Suraj Pancholi was arrested and sent to jail for committing the crime of abetment ...
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• Debating Stricter Immigration Enforcement

  
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  The House Judiciary Committee mulls provisions of the SAFE Act, which would criminalize many illegal immigrants.        
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• Federal Judge Faces Judicial Review Over Racist Remarks

  
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  You know things are bad when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court  himself requests a judicial review of a fellow jurist…quoting: Judge Edith Jones of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be subjected to a rarely used disciplinary review process to address alleged racist and discriminatory comments made ...
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• Vote Against Border Secuirty First

  
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  Whihc was what Rubio had promised in his multiple Apperences of Conservative Talk radio … And then like a traitor he is,  votes to kill the very part of the AMNESTY Bill he had said  was a must before his support. Do they all just lie? Or is everybody in Washington, just in it for them???? Senate Majority Leader ...
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• Bahrain officials identify and arrest members of February 14 Movement

  
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  Photo Credit: AFP The Bahrain Interior Ministry announced that it had identified members of the February 14 movement who have alleged links to “a string of crimes committed over the last few months.” It named 11 arrested suspects as well as 13 individuals “who were leading the coalition from abroad, some ...
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• Day’s Worst: Arizona lawmaker says pregnancies from rape “very low”

  
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  Move over Todd Akin, meet Trent Franks. The GOP’s latest male-foot-in-male-mouth nominee is Franks, a congressman from Arizona, who said during a committee hearing that the incidences of pregnancy from rape are “very low.” That was Franks’ way of arguing against a Democratic amendment to his bill banning ...
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• Latina Lesbian Confirmed To Federal Judgeship in PA!

  
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  By a voice vote, the United States Senate has unanimously confirmed the first (out!) lesbian of Hispanic heritage to a federal judgeship . Nitza Quiñones Alejandro will become a federal district court judge for the Eastern District of Pensuylvania when she is sworn in. She is the sixth openly LGBT judge to be ...
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• There Are Now Seven Times As Many Openly Gay Federal Judges As When President Obama Took Office

  
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  Openly Gay Judge Alison Nathan with her family and President Obama On the day President Obama took office, there was only one openly gay judge with a lifetime appointment to the federal bench , Clinton appointee Deborah Batts. There are now seven. Earlier today, the Senate confirmed openly lesbian Judge Nitza ...
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• Dallas Morning News Editorial

  
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  "Getting it right on capital punishment," is the Morning News editorial published today. State lawmakers meant business in the high-crime 1990s, getting tough on so-called writ abuse by convicted killers who could file multiple appeals in state courts and drag...
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• Court: Texas Inmates Decades-Old Sentence Invalid

  
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  Thats the title of an AP report by Michael Graczyk, via WBAY-TV. Its also available through Huffington Post as, "Jerry Hartfield, Texas Inmate, Has Life Sentence For Murder Deemed Invalid By Court of Criminal Appeals." The Texas Court of Criminal...
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