The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, used to be steadily against the death penalty, but three new Weld appointees may tilt it the other way.
Members of the jury pool were sent home after the Maine Supreme Judicial Court stopped the closed process in response to a constitutional challenge by the Portland Press Herald.
In 1984, he married Marshall, who in 1996 was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
His wife, Margaret Marshall, the former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, confirmed his death from complications from heart and renal failure.
"In Massachusetts, four judges on the state's highest court have ordered the issuance of marriage licenses to applicants of the same gender, " the president said, referring to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in 2003 that denial of marriage rights to gays and lesbians violated their civil rights.
In addition, he sits on the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction and the Arkansas Supreme Court Committees on Technology, Child Support, and Foster Care.
The push to amend state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage gained steam in May, after gay men and lesbians were granted the right to marry in Massachusetts, thanks to the state's Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled that laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violated the state constitution.
This week the state's Supreme Judicial Court rejected a plea filed by Ms Murphy on behalf of all the pregnant women in Massachusetts, asking it to overturn Judge Nasif's ruling.
Five justices compose the chamber and its president is also the president of the Supreme Court and the entire judicial branch.
The first was the state's Supreme Judicial Court's 2003 ruling that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
That racial gap has widened since the Supreme Court restored judicial discretion in sentencing in 2005, according to the Sentencing Commission's findings, which were submitted to Congress last month and released publicly this week.
And she actually would be coming to the Supreme Court with more judicial experience than any justice for the last hundred years.
But if the Democrats are hammered in November, it will not be because of the judicial activism of a conservative Supreme Court.
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers is the first head of the Supreme Court and the first to take the new judicial oath.
Civil society groups have filed for judicial review with the Indonesia Supreme Court.
The State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, said in a written ruling that a videotaped confession should have been suppressed before the 2010 trial of a man convicted of attempted robbery.
The case is still being fought and has moved up the judicial ladder, with the U.S. Supreme Court to decide on the case soon.
If the Supreme Court rejects her latest appeal, she can seek a judicial review of the decision from the same court.
However, one of the most sweeping cost cutting actions comes from instructions directed by the judicial branch of government with a ruling from the Supreme Court on the overcrowding of prisons in California.
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President Obama and members of the United States Senate would be well advised to heed General Meese's counsel and evaluate any candidate for the Supreme Court against the Jackson standard of judicial restraint with respect to national security matters.
To start with, conservatives mounted a ferocious campaign to stop Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican from Pennsylvania, from becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (this oversees judicial nominations and will become the main forum for conflict over the Supreme Court).
The ruling that the Supreme Court hands down this month will leave unanswered questions about the relationship between the judicial and the legislative branches of government, and also between the past and the present.
Granite-Headed Justices The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently rendered a decision that exemplifies what has gone wrong with Americas judicial system since the early 1960s.
The court majority, self-styled believers in precedent and judicial restraint, overturned two major Supreme Court decisions and reversed decades of campaign-finance laws aimed at preventing corporations from having undo influence over local, state and national elections.
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In other words, I wonder just how far along we would be as a society if the oppressive majority held all of the legislative and judicial power over the oppressed minority, essentially yanking the teeth out of Congress and the Supreme Court.
Bush hopes the nominations will bring an end to the partisan strife visited upon judicial nominations since the Senate defeated Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the official said.
While prime minister, Mr. Regmi will relinquish his judicial duties to another senior judge at the Supreme Court, according to the presidential order.
Opposition leaders, however, suggested the judicial activism Musharraf was really targeting was an expected Supreme Court ruling that would bar him from another term as Pakistan's president.
Even more than Scalia, who has embodied judicial conservatism during a generation of service on the Supreme Court, Roberts has served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican Party.
Their bill would have required Supreme Court nominees to present their judicial philosophies to the public through Knesset hearings.
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