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...The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal for immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed in office....
...Democrats have seized on the rulings to criticise courts shaped by conservative judges appointed by Republican presidents....
...Judges in the US Court of Appeals system heard oral arguments this week on what could be a landmark case to determine if university athletes can be designated as employees....
...The political stakes are evident in North Carolina, where a three-judge appeals court ruled on July 29 that the Republican-dominated General Assembly had acted with “surgical precision” to disenfranchise...
...Online, however, users dig through court records, school photographs and the postings of the judge involved in the case....
...The judge at the Kansas City court rejected that argument, but Dow hopes that it will be more effective in the appeal court, and said it was “confident of a favourable outcome”....
...Argentina sees Kansas-born Judge Griesa as a kind of Wicked Witch of the East (Coast) and would like nothing more than for him, like Dorothy, to go home, taking his rulings with him....
...It could hope to try to convince the appeals court – which now automatically reviews Judge Griesa’s order and to which Argentina is planning to file an appeal on Monday – that the best form of the “equal...
...But the fact that the judge did not issue a stay of his ruling pending appeal by the government could threaten the application of many of the provisions of the healthcare law....
...A federal judge last month quashed the conviction for corruption of Joseph Ferriero, a former Bergen County Democratic party chairman, while prosecutors in Kansas filed a motion to dismiss a long-running...
...But social conservatives have been pushing for the amendment and other priorities, including a ban on flag-burning and the approval of conservative judges....
...On appeal, the US Supreme Court upheld the right of states to issue such bans. In 1968, the High Court outlawed a ban in Arkansas, on the grounds that it violated the separation of church and state....
...Mr Bush has attracted controversy by using recess appointments to name federal appeals court judges, legal experts say....
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