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POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jul 7, 2007 @ 12:15am neoform

CNN -- If there is one thing Supreme Court justices -- and perhaps every federal judge -- will agree on, it is that they are not being paid enough. The subject of judicial salaries has been a lonely cause for years among the 875 or so members of the U.S. benc.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jan 17, 2007 @ 4:20pm neoform

MSNBC -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jan 2, 2007 @ 1:00am neoform

CNN -- Pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary's independence, Chief Justice John Roberts says in a year-end report critical of Congress... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 12:06am neoform

CNN -- Despite politicians' complaints about judges having too much power, two-thirds of Americans do not believe elected officials should have more control over federal judges, according to a new CNN poll released Saturday... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:25am neoform

CNN -- Former French President Jacques Chirac's lawyer said Saturday that he is in contact with judges investigating corruption cases dating back to Chirac's 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor, including a party financing scandal. Chirac, 74, faces a slew of pot.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 10:51am neoform

Washington Post -- The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an anal.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 8:08am neoform

Washington Post -- The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an anal.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

Alter Net -- Even federal judges, many of them Reagan and Bush appointees, agree that it's time to scrap the minimum mandatory sentencing law for drug abusers. Every effort to scrap or modify the blatantly unfair minimum mandatory sentencing law for illicit drug ab.. Read More