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5 hours ago ago from Please Consider
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8 hours ago ago from Babar Ayaz\'s Weblog
Pakistani political soap opera continues and so far no surprises for the audience. In the latest episode the Supreme Court declared that the National Reconciliation Ordinance was “ultra vires and violative of various constitutional provisions.” Much before the court took up the matter on 7 th December this decision was expected as nobody was willing to defend a bad law. Even the government and its allies first backed out from getting ...
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1 day ago ago from churumuri
Since the row over his elevation to the Supreme Court began, Justice P.D. Dinakaran of the Karnataka high court has maintained a studied, even strategic, silence. While lawyers have shot off repeated memoranda, the media has feasted on his alleged excesses, parliamentarians have begun his impeachment process, and his brother-judges have shot off pointed barbs, we have heard nothing from the chief justice of the Karnataka HC. On the ...
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11 hours ago ago from The Survival Station
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10 hours ago ago from Fascist Soup
The God King has declared you have no rights under the law. You are not a person unless the God King declares you are a person. The Center for Constitutional Rights reports : December 14, 2009 —Today, the United States Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s dismissal of a case brought by four British former detainees against Donald Rumsfeld and senior military officers for ordering torture and religious abuse at ...
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