Mas was released but was under judicial control, meaning he could not leave France, attorney Yves Haddad said.

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Another proposed law would seek to water down the legal fraternity's control over judicial appointments by making a slight change in the composition of the Judicial Appointments Committee.

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This week, the country's ousted prime minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, appealed to the Supreme Court against his imprisonment on corruption charges by an extra-judicial tribunal, the Royal Commission on Corruption Control.

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Democrats, in a news conference of their own, argued that the Democratically controlled Senate has moved faster on judicial nominations than the Republicans did when they were in control.

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It also "enlarges" the division of powers to include not only the traditional division between executive, legislative and judicial powers but it creates also the "Electoral power" and the "Social Control and Transparence Power".

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Democratic control of the Senate also meant that Bush's appointments to the government's judicial branch had a much harder time at confirmation.

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Judicial administrators use their powers to call a meeting of shareholders immediately, and vote the shares they control to replace old directors with new ones.

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The number of filibusters shot up in the eighties and continued to rise in the following decades, as the parties kept alternating control of the Senate and escalating a procedural arms race, routinely blocking the confirmation of executive and judicial appointees.

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