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13 Jan 2009, 9:50 am
"I thought this was a federal law," said Justice Scalia, who is hostile to judicial consideration of legislators' statements in determining what laws mean. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 4:36 am
Here's some analysis courtesy of Ken Gross and his team at Skadden Arps about how this might impact companies: The version of the STOCK Act passed by Congress includes the provisions from the Senate's initial version that the insider trading provisions in Section 10(b) of the '34 Act and Rule 10b-5 apply to Congressional Members and staff, and federal executive and judicial branch officials, and that these Members, officials and employees owe a duty with respect… [read post]
28 Sep 2009, 1:23 pm
Three years have passed since the Florida Death Penalty Assessment Team recommended a host of changes, such as: requiring jury unanimity in death penalty recommendations; establishing statewide protocols for determining when death should be a sentencing option in murder cases; and studying the possibility of racial, socioeconomic or geographic disparities within the system.The team's 2006 study has largely fallen on deaf ears within the executive, legislative and judicial… [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 1:21 pm
Or perhaps it just needs fewer lawyers who came up (forgive me) through the executive branch? [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 9:31 pm
It's a fundamental constitutional principle upon which Australian democracy is built that you can't be a public servant unless you're assigned to the executive branch. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 11:47 am
And at a time of shrinking revenue and when the judicial branch has little flexibility to cut budgets, Zoeller said legislators and policymakers should look carefully at cost structures driving the expense of death penalty cases at the trial and appellate levels. [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 11:10 am
In response, Statehouse GOP leaders, including Speaker of the House Jason Stephens, have expressed doubts about the seriousness of the legislation, which would contradict the separation of powers between the legislative and judicial branches of government. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 2:39 pm
Yet the House ambles on, ready to rubber stamp another five years of expansive surveillance that can pick up American communications without meaningful judicial oversight and without probable cause or any finding of wrongdoing. [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 11:33 am
In the States that means real connections of the three branches of government with the people. [read post]
7 Sep 2023, 9:50 am
The lawsuit contends Trump’s actions on January 6 met the definition of “insurrection” under the Fourteenth Amendment, citing how the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, including bipartisan groups in Congress, referred to the events of January 6 as such. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 1:50 am
I would rather judges apply the law as they see it and save the sound bites for the elected branches. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 11:37 am
Nominees who have done extensive service in the political branches of a party (such as Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito) are more reliable bets than nominees without such political experience (such as Stevens, Souter, and Kennedy). [read post]
23 Nov 2018, 4:41 am
At NPR, Nina Totenberg reports that “[i]n a rare moment of direct criticism, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked President Trump on Wednesday for the president’s description of a federal judge who ruled against his asylum policy as ‘an Obama judge,’” and that “[w]ithin hours, the president fired back on Twitter, launching an unusual conflict between the executive and judicial branches. [read post]
4 Feb 2009, 11:12 am
The Judicial Branch would also receive a share of the cuts, including the proposed closing of the Bristol and Meriden courthouses. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 4:41 am
The Woodruff Family Law Group has decades of experience that can be put to good use in your divorce case. [1] North Carolina Judicial Branch. [read post]
22 Oct 2011, 8:54 am
A Denver child support attorney can supply their clients with worksheets which can be obtained from the Colorado Judicial Branch Child Support Guidelines, which are used to determine the level of child support. [read post]
7 May 2012, 9:50 am
But it may be a stretch to believe that the judicial branch will want to impinge much into the board’s activity. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 9:25 am
The right often is so anxious to avoid charges of judicial activism that it turns somersaults to avoid giving broad constitutional texts their broad intellectual content. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 7:25 am
According to the Judicial Branch website: An infraction is a breach of a state law, regulation or local ordinancethat is identified as an infraction by the Legislature. [read post]
30 Jul 2009, 7:11 pm
.' Conversely, the Court approved of sentencing schemes that do not employ mandatory sentencing guidelines based on judicial fact-finding, but instead vest judges with full sentencing authority at the moment of conviction, i.e., schemes in which judge-found facts are not 'essential to the punishment.' The Court imprecisely referred to these unproblematic schemes, however, as 'indeterminate,' apparently borrowing from another characteristic common to… [read post]
