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...Bodnar said in a recent interview that one option out of the impasse was to change the constitution, which would open the door “to dismiss all the judges and then appoint new judges”....
...More than 2,000 judges were appointed to courts over that period....
...legal battle over Tusk’s reforms and pledge to oust PiS appointees, as he seeks to unlock billions of EU funds frozen by Brussels to force the previous government to restore the independence of Polish judges...
...One of Tusk’s priorities is to get the European Commission to unlock billions of euros of EU pandemic recovery funds frozen over PiS reforms that stifled the independence of Polish judges....
...A group of PiS lawmakers appealed last week to Poland’s constitutional court, which is dominated by judges appointed by PiS, to stop Tusk from liquidating state television and radio....
...Since the October 15 election, which drew a record turnout of 74 per cent, Tusk had urged Duda to allow him to return to office swiftly, particularly to restore the independence of judges and unlock billions...
...The European Commission froze billions of EU funds to force the PiS government to restore the independence of judges....
...During the campaign Tusk pledged to put Warsaw back on a firm pro-European path, restore judges’ independence and unlock billions of euros in EU funding withheld by the European Commission during a spat...
...The commission has frozen billions of EU pandemic recovery funds earmarked for Poland to force Warsaw into guaranteeing the independence of Polish judges....
...His mother, Stanford law professor Barbara Fried, held her head in her hands as Kaplan described how her son showed Ellison’s diaries to a reporter at their home in Palo Alto instead of using a messaging...
...Four of the 13 books included were by first-time novelists, while marquee names including Zadie Smith, Sir Salman Rushdie and Barbara Kingsolver were notable by their absence....
...Judge Florence Pan challenged that argument, asking if that meant a president could order a Seal Team to murder a political rival....
...The trial judge disagreed and ruled the case could proceed....
...“At a certain point, he makes his own bed, he sleeps in it,” Judge William Nardini said. It is expected to issue its ruling later....
...I mentioned the name Barbara Banke to the well-connected head of one of her UK importers and it meant nothing....
...The judge quizzed would-be jurors on their experiences with cryptocurrencies and prior knowledge of the case....
...— before the election — billions of EU pandemic recovery money withheld by the European Commission because of EU concerns over whether Poland is safeguarding the rule of law and the independence of its judges...
...The judge had commented in court that robbing a bank and then playing the lottery is still a crime (even if you intend to win, pay back the bank and donate the profits)....
...However, to judge from present opinion polls, even the combined vote of Vlaams Belang and the N-VA will struggle to exceed 50 per cent in Flanders....
...But rather than dismiss him, the judge orders that the jurors be sequestered in a hotel. Thus the set-up, in which surveillance can continue after-hours, is complete....
...“One interesting dynamic will be that the testimony a witness gives in one case could be used in the subsequent case,” said Barbara McQuade, a professor at University of Michigan’s law school and a former...
...“This action demonstrates that no one is beyond accountability,” Barbara Leaf, the US assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs, said on Thursday. “This is not about one man....
...Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at the University of Michigan, said she worried the case could prove to be a “win-win” for Trump....
...The indigenous African in a white man’s court, clad in jackal skins and beads; the Christ-like martyr quietly telling a judge that he was prepared to die....
...I’m looking forward to Barbara Hepworth’s garden and the Porthminster Kitchen restaurant most of all, but let me know what else I should do while I’m there....
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