On Sept. 20, Leghari addressed ominous letters to the Supreme Court chief justice and Parliament.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has made repeated calls for federal judges to receive pay increases.
Such a court has to be proposed by the interior ministry and approved by the Supreme Court chief justice.
Kayani and Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry are both scheduled to retire before the end of this year.
Former Supreme Court chief justice KG Balakrishnan has said the fast track courts were quite successful in reducing the backlog of cases.
Five years later, Mr Roh surprised perhaps even himself in the race to be president by defeating the favoured establishment candidate, a former Supreme Court chief justice, Lee Hoi-chong.
During my senior year of college, I took a juvenile law course with Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland in which I was required to sit in on cases at the Boston Juvenile Court.
She would fill the seat vacated by John Roberts, who joined the Supreme Court as chief justice in 2005.
As an official in the Reagan administration, an appellate judge and on the Supreme Court, the chief justice has compiled a consistently conservative record.
Earlier this year, Mr. Rajapaksa removed a Supreme Court's chief justice from office following a parliamentary inquiry that concluded she accumulated unexplained wealth and misused power.
Lewis was known for his skill at interpreting and writing clearly about the decisions of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1950s and '60s.
In 1968, a Republican filibuster kept Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas from rising to the chief justice position and eventually forced him to resign from the court.
General Musharraf's original plan was to neuter the Supreme Court by sacking its obstreperous chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, last March.
He joined the Supreme Court, and was appointed chief justice in 1991.
Chief Justice Jim Hannah is currently serving as Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
In 1995, the Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice William H.
Mr Zardari's party fears that if former Supreme Court judges, including ex-chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, are reinstated, they could overturn a controversial amnesty that Mr Musharraf granted Mr Zardari and Ms Bhutto last year that paved the way for them to return to the country.
The Senate held its confirmation hearings for John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Parliament has before it a motion to impeach Sarath Silva, the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
All I can do is talk to the chief justice of the Supreme Court, which has administrative supervision over all courts.
He served in the Reagan administration's Justice Department along with John Roberts, George Bush's appointee as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Fears of a full-blown constitutional crisis were averted when the politicians appeared before the Supreme Court, and the cabinet withdrew the chief justice's suspension.
"Once we get the evidence, we will investigate this case jointly with the Supreme Court and I will personally involve the chief justice, " he told the BBC.
BBC: Afghan judge Zahorudin recorded on tape 'seeking bribe'
Musharraf was placed under house arrest over the weekend in connection with a case involving his decision to fire senior judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, while in power.
He has nominated a reasonably moderate character, John Roberts, as chief justice on the Supreme Court, despite all the fevered expectations on the left that he would plump for a hardline conservative.
Elsewhere, concerns were raised over the failing health of the chief justice of the Supreme Court , William Rehnquist, after he revealed he was receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatment for his thyroid cancer.
The arrest order was connected to Musharraf's decision in 2007 to dismiss senior judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, apparently out of concern that they would challenge his re-election as president.
"All of this begins in less than 24 hours, when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court gives the oath of office to 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush, " Cheney said.
The political crisis began in March, sparked by Musharraf's support of a move from within his administration to dismiss the country's most senior judge, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, over allegations of misconduct, including nepotism.
With this week's decision, the Supreme Court's current majority, led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, has confirmed that it is determined to reverse, or at least halt, this trend.
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