Sotomayor's critics argue that she has unfairly considered race when making judicial decisions.
But when asked whether judicial nominees deserve an up-or-down vote, big majorities say yes.
Mr Erdogan himself, at the time the Welfare mayor of Istanbul, was caught in the judicial net when he was briefly jailed for reading an Islamist poem in public.
The license plate alone, which can help with courthouse parking, is not intrinsically unethical and doesn't necessarily create an appearance of impropriety, though judges who invoke their judicial status when pulled over by police are misbehaving, the report said.
The issue has never been tested in the courts - something the Countryside Alliance hopes to change when it applies for a judicial review on Friday.
Another "former" - the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock - has called on witnesses to be "candid and honest" in their responses when it comes to the judicial inquiry.
Defenders of the ICC say that it would have jurisdiction only when a given country's judicial process - the U.S. court system, for example - has failed.
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In February, Mr Rhodes was suspended but the reason - his involvement in a separate employment dispute - were only revealed when he took the decision to judicial review.
But this week Bank of America scored an important legal victory when the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation combined a bunch of mortgage-related lawsuits that had been filed against Countrywide and assigned them to a federal judge in Los Angeles.
About the only time you hear criticism of judicial lawmaking from legislators is when judges, using some obtuse or plainly wrong technicality, let loose individuals who appear guilty of outrageous crimes.
And while the Court has often been accused over the years of being too timid in asserting its power, there is little doubt when the justices choose to flex their judicial muscle, the results can be far-reaching.
When he sent Mr Squillante the bribe, judicial corruption only applied to the corrupted not the corruptor.
Bersani's platform included judicial reforms that reverse legislation passed when Berlusconi held office, including expanding statutes of limitations on financial crimes and stripping political leaders of immunity.
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.
More likely, though, is the typical judicial pattern of requiring an evidentiary hearing when important issues are at stake, as surely is the case in this matter.
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But the limits of judicial review remain as problematic as they were when they were debated two centuries ago.
The decision follows established judicial consensus that online services like YouTube are protected when they work cooperatively with copyright holders to help them manage their rights online.
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In fact, the legislative, executive and judicial powers are so well respected in Honduras that when President Manuel Zelaya wanted to illegally change the constitution to extend his term in office, these two branches conformed by sympathizers and opponents of Mr. Zelaya, acted independently and in accordance to the law declaring that this move was illegal.
When it comes to the appointment of Mr. Brennan as CIA director, Judicial Watch has several concerns.
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When merit systems were in place for trial courts, 30% of all judicial appointments nationwide were women.
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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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They are threatening to seek a judicial review after thousands of pupils scored lower-than-expected results when grade boundaries were raised midway through the year.
He said the timing was not right for a royal commission, because it would "cut across" the judicial inquiry and it would be better to wait until after the next election, when changes such as the new elected police commissioners would have been in place for three years.
The Philippine judicial system works slowly, and is unlikely to hear her final appeal by May, when elections are due.
On the other hand, these agencies are asking for a judicial imprimatur of their actions, making judges reluctant to blindly sign-off on settlements when their approval represents a key component of the enforcement process.
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When Republicans filibustered her nomination in 2011, several of them hung their objections not on her qualifications or her judicial philosophy, but on the D.
Spain's central judicial authority has reported than 150, 000 evictions of Spaniards and immigrants from their homes since 2008, when the crisis started, for falling behind on their mortgage payments.
What we cannot dispute, however, is that when offenders from one class of society receive harsher treatment than offenders from another class, the integrity of our entire judicial system suffers.
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