Related Blog Posts
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court: The Advantages of Incumbency
1 hour, 49 minutes ago ago from Pretty Important Politics
When a vacancy occurs on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, the governor appoints a justice to fill the seat until the next fall election without another justice running. With seven justices serving terms lasting ten years, that could be a long time. Steve Walters writes; No incumbent Supreme Court justice lost an election in the 41 years between 1967 [...]
Related contentWhy Hasn't the Supreme Court Decided Citizens United?
19 hours ago ago from Hit & Run
Over at the Legal Times blog, Tony Mauro speculates on why it’s taking the Supreme Court so long to reach a decision in the campaign finance/free speech case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission . As Jacob Sullum has reported , the Court first heard oral arguments in the case back in March, but then asked for a rare second round of arguments to be held in September, prompting many Court-watchers to predict a speedy outcome. As a ...
Related contentMake judicial system more transparent - Deccan Herald Blog
12 hours ago ago from Adv Yogesh Naik\'s B-law-g
The issue of selection of an allegedly corrupt Chief Justice of Karnataka, PD Dinakaran, to the Apex Court still remains a hot subject of public interest. While news of Dinakaran hits the headlines almost every day, the Chief Justice of India (CJI), the principal architect of the Supreme Court Collegiums that nominated Dinakaran in the first place, has chosen to keep silent about whether or not Dinakaran should be impeached. This is on the ...
Related contentFinal High Court Session of 2009 Ends Without Campaign Finance Decision (Law.com)
18 hours ago ago from finance
When the Supreme Court ordered re-argument in the campaign finance case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, speculation was nearly unanimous on why it took that unusual action: that the Court was ready, even eager, to overturn major precedents that have allowed the government to bar independent campaign expenditures by corporations and unions in federal elections. Go here to see the original: Final High Court Session of ...
Related contentMongolian Court
7 hours ago ago from Welcome to Mongolia - Mongolian travel guide
The Mongolian Judicial Institution one of the three main branches that execute the law in Mongolia. Only Courts execute the judicial power. The Mongolian judiciary system consists of the Supreme Court, Aimags' and Capital Courts, Soums' and Inter-soums' Courts and District's Courts. It is lawful to form a special court for criminal and civil cases and administrative affairs Courts of Mongolia: * The courts of first instance * The ...
Related contentRelated News
Mark Green: Supreme Court about to Gut Campaign Finance Laws...and Democracy?
1 hour, 25 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
Supreme Court About to Gut Campaign Finance laws...and Democracy? Mark Green In what would be a judicial coup d'etat by five conservative justices, the Supreme Court appears likely to imminently overrule 100 years of federal laws restricting corporate campaign contributions. The narrow issue in Citizen's United v. Federal Election Commission is whether a group distributing a virulent anti-Hillary Clinton film in the 2008 campaign ran ...
Related contentScotus Roundup: On Text Messages and . . . Waiting for Citizens’ - Law Blog - WSJ
19 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Ashby Jones Some search-and-seizure cases taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court concern sets of facts so specific and arcane that it's hard to know what to make of them. (For instance, in Arizona v. Gant the court last term ruled that a police officer officer needs a warrant before searching a car after an arrest of the car's occupant, unless at the time of the search the person is unsecured and within reaching distance of the passenger ...
Related content
