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.
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.
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.
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.
Chief Justice Jim Hannah is currently serving as Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Gerald Kogan, former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, said Gore and Volusia County officials could seek temporary injunctions from either the appeals or the supreme court suspending the 5 p.m. deadline until the merits of extending the deadline are heard by either court.
In Alabama, Mr Pryor ordered the removal of the chief justice of the state's Supreme Court for not complying with a court order to get rid of a Ten Commandments monument he had installed in the lobby of the state's courthouse.
His wife, Margaret Marshall, the former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, confirmed his death from complications from heart and renal failure.
And as I noted recently, none less than the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court signed off on a quite expansive view of the Necessary and Proper Clause, the constitutional Swiss Army Knife that lets Congress do pretty much whatever it wants in the area of economic regulation.
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Mr Silva, a friend of Mrs Kumaratunga, was appointed chief justice over the heads of several eminent judges of the Supreme Court.
Back in 1953 President Dwight Eisenhower appointed California Governor Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
William Rehnquist, the chief justice of the United States, who helped move the Supreme Court from the liberal Warren era.
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.
Last month Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah brought charges of contempt of court against Sharif for allegedly belittling the Supreme Court.
John Marshall, our nation's fourth Chief Justice, led the Supreme Court in deciding several key cases that established the sanctity of contract law and breathed life into the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution.
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.
Kayani and Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry are both scheduled to retire before the end of this year.
They had assured General Pervez Musharraf, the country's president, that the Supreme Court would uphold his removal in March of the country's chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, on charges of corruption and misconduct.
After a hearing lasting more than 40 days, Pakistan's Supreme Court on July 20th overturned the government's suspension of the court's chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
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Former Supreme Court chief justice KG Balakrishnan has said the fast track courts were quite successful in reducing the backlog of cases.
In June 2012 it may be said that Chief Justice Roberts, like Hughes, has employed political as well as judicial skills in his role as the leader of the Supreme Court.
But the first day's proceedings were overshadowed by a decision by Pakistan's chief justice, Said-uz Zaman Siddiqi, and five other Supreme Court judges, to refuse to take an oath of allegiance that would have in effect bound them to the army-led administration that has run the country since the coup in October.
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