Ex-US Supreme Court justice worries about judicial independence
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Former US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that virulent criticism was threatening the judicial independence of the nation's highest court.
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WASHINGTON, DC - The chief justice of the US Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, is in a hospital intensive care unit being treated for thyroid cancer.
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As Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist battles thyroid cancer, speculation has increased that some justices may retire soon, which could affect issues such as abortion.
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor extolled Wednesday the growing role of international law in U.S. courts, saying judges would be negligent if they disregarded its importance in a post-Sept. 11 world of heightened tensions.
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Justice Sandra Day O&#39;Connor yesterday extolled the growing role of international law in US courts, saying judges would be negligent if they disregarded its importance in a post-September 11 world of heightened tensions.
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President Bush has yet to make a Supreme Court appointment, but with Chief Justice William Rehnquist ailing that could be about to change and trigger a divisive political battle right after the presidential campaign.
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The winner of the presidential election could reshape the Supreme Court and could have a long-lasting impact on important issues such as abortion, gay marriages and church-state separation.
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F red Wertheimer is not what you would call laid-back. Earlier this year, the veteran government reformer canceled a two-week vacation to Sicily so he could attend oral arguments before the Supreme Court in an important campaign finance case -- even though he was not making the arguments himself.
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What if a Supreme Court justice became too sick to work, but didn&#39;t want to step down? The high court faced that situation in mid-1975, when Justice William O. Douglas
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A growing list of vacancies on the federal appeals court in Richmond is heightening concern among Republicans that one of the nation's most conservative and influential courts could soon come under moderate or even liberal control, Republicans and legal scholars say.
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Chicago Tribune - Ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist said in a report released Saturday that judges must be protected from political threats, including from conservative Republicans who maintain that "judicial activists" should be impeached and removed from office.
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A glance at incidents or comments involving Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that prompted calls for him to step aside in individual Supreme Court cases.
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Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose ability to finish the Supreme Court's annual term has been in doubt since he revealed in October that he has thyroid cancer, has returned to the court building to work several times since the week of Dec. 20, the court announced Wednesday.
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The news that a Supreme Court justice is being treated for cancer should remind voters of a president&#39;s power to shape the high court.
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The Pakistani government's move to sack the country's top judge has created a constitutional crisis and undermined the independence of the judiciary, a U.S.-based human rights group said on Tuesday.
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President Bush's re-election makes it more likely Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will retire soon. And Republican gains in the Senate mean the president has more flexibility to nominate another strong conservative to fill that vacancy and other federal judgeships.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday that judges should look to historical practices when ruling on religious issues.