The Daily News on Thursday in its lead story quoted "legal sources" who accused her of continuing to hear cases from on the Supreme Court Bench...
In its order on Monday, the three-judge Supreme Court bench said Ambassador Mancini, who had negotiated the marines' release, had waived his immunity by giving an undertaking to a court that the pair would return.
Much as Scalia and his cohorts would like to legislate -- or dictate -- from the bench, the Supreme Court can only decide if a law is constitutional.
Roberts, 50, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, considered the most influential federal panel outside of the Supreme Court, took the bench in 2003 after his confirmation was held up two years by Senate Democrats.
Born in Deoband, India, Usmani was a judge on the Shariah Court in Pakistan and on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court, a position he occupied for more than 20 years.
Hatch insisted a September Senate vote would get Sotomayor on the bench in time for the new Supreme Court session.
CNN: Hatch: Sotomayor 'highly likely' to be confirmed, barring surprises
The Supreme Court has constituted a 14-member bench to hear the case.
Walking in the door, she would bring more experience on the bench and more varied experience on the bench than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed.
The ugliness of the Samual Alito Supreme Court hearings underscores just how momentous filling vacancies on the high court's bench has become.
And Resnick, whose term on the bench ends this year, has opted to seek a third term on the state Supreme Court rather than embark on a risky Senate race.
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.
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