President removes the chief justice
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Pakistan's president has removed the Islamic nation's chief justice for "misuse of authority," state media reported yesterday. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has taken a tough line against government misdeeds and human rights abuses. Opposition groups, lawyers, and former judges expressed surprise over the dismissal, which underlined the power of President Pervez Musharraf over the judiciary.
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In the biggest shift, legislators gave themselves the power to elect the premier, removing that choice from the president.
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A glance at incidents or comments involving Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that prompted calls for him to step aside in individual Supreme Court cases.
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U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, looking frail from cancer and using a cane, administered the oath of office to President Bush on Thursday and then promptly left the podium.
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Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, a tough-on-terrorism jurist with an independent streak, was tapped by President Bush on Monday to take over as attorney general and lead a Justice Department accused of being too close to White House politics.
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The Justice Department's third-in-command announced his resignation yesterday, becoming the sixth aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to leave amid the political uproar over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was sent home Friday after spending a week in the hospital for treatment of thyroid cancer. The illness, revealed about a week before the
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A Supreme Court justice resigned on Wednesay rather than face Senate impeachment proceedings, the fourth judge targeted in a high court purge led by President Nestor Kirchner.
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The country's chief justice, whose firing sparked nationwide protests, is restored to office, in the latest blow to Pakistan's embattled president
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New court proceedings serve as a reminder that when the president is no longer president, he may be in trouble
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Saddam Hussein's lawyers walked out of his trial hearing Wednesday to protest against the changing of the chief judge and the deposed leader was ordered to leave the courtroom.
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In May 2005, a small group of the president's senior advisers gathered to weigh a historic choice: who should succeed an ailing William H. Rehnquist as chief justice of the United States.
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Lawyers and judges are to break with centuries-old tradition and cease wearing horse-hair wigs of white fake curls in non-criminal cases, the head of the country&#39;s judiciary announced on Thursday.
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U.S. Chief Justice William  Rehnquist, who has been absent from the Supreme Court because  of thyroid cancer, plans to swear in President Bush at his  inauguration on Jan. 20, the White House and a court  spokeswoman said on Friday.
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For the second time in a week, the chief judge in the Saddam Hussein genocide trial ordered the deposed leader from the courtroom. Hussein was also ejected on Wednesday.
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Pakistani lawyers protest at the decision by President Musharraf to remove Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
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BAGHDAD -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was replaced yesterday amid complaints from Shi'ite and Kurdish officials that he was too soft on the former Iraqi leader, a move that could raise accusations of government interference in the highly sensitive case.