For instance, in Cook County, which includes heavily Democratic Chicago, hardly any Republicans bothered to run in judicial elections last year.
Mr Rhodes was suspended in February but this was quashed by a judicial review last week, which called the original decision "perverse".
In order to get growth going by minimising delays to the awarding of big contracts of economic significance, the prime minister wants there to be fewer judicial reviews (there were 11, 200 judicial reviews last year, up from just 160 in 1975).
During the judicial review hearing last month, a lawyer for the trust claimed the minister had been improperly advised.
Last month a judicial review got under way at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, challenging the Scottish government's decision to include the planned facility as a National Development in the National Planning Framework.
Last week, a judicial panel playing the role of legal traffic cop heard arguments about how and where the Facebook lawsuits should be heard in court.
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And she actually would be coming to the Supreme Court with more judicial experience than any justice for the last hundred years.
But three Dutch limited companies were involved in the High Court challenge last October, requesting a judicial review of the council's decision.
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Judge Selna, who is also presiding over that case, last month overruled a lower judicial official's finding questioning the veracity of the Internal Revenue Service's lead lawyer.
Spain's judicial authority removed him from the bench last February after his conviction in a case in which his home nation's Supreme Court determined Garzon had improperly ordered wiretaps while investigating a financial corruption case.
Dr Reid resigned from his position last month after the Office for Judicial Complaints launched disciplinary proceedings against him.
The initial application for a judicial review was rejected by a High Court judge last month but the application will be renewed on 1 December.
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Last month, Iraq's top judicial committee accused Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's security detail of carrying out 150 attacks against security forces and civilians between 2005 and 2011.
Mr McKinnon has already appealed unsuccessfully to the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights and his latest judicial reviews in the High Court are likely to be his last chance.
If the package arrived after last Friday's shooting spree, the matter becomes a judicial question that could be settled by whether its contents were subpoenaed, he said.
Last month, attempts by Tottenham and Leyton Orient to get a judicial review of the OPLC's decision in favour of West Ham were rejected.
The papers indicate the Libyan authorities only confirmed to the ICC last month that the spy chief was in their custody and that judicial proceedings were under way in Libya.
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Two months after winning the Italian election, he is starting to deal with the judicial system, and those working in it, as robustly as when he was last in power, in 2001-06.
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Sotomayor has spent the last three days in meetings with senators on Capitol Hill answering their questions about her judicial record -- and defending those comments.
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Talks were held last Friday which failed to resolve the issue, which is currently the subject of a judicial review by Mr Justice Adrian Saunders.
The Royal Household initially said on Wednesday it wouldn't comment on judicial matters, but later in the day announced that it was surprised that the judge -- who last year said in an order that there was insufficient evidence to name the princess as a suspect -- had changed his mind.
However, the ministry of information insisted last week following the conviction of the three former MPA that Kuwait had a "transparent and independent judicial system", in which all citizens receive a fair trial.
That racial gap has widened since the Supreme Court restored judicial discretion in sentencing in 2005, according to the Sentencing Commission's findings, which were submitted to Congress last month and released publicly this week.
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