The Senate on Tuesday narrowly confirmed the former solicitor general of Alabama to a seat on the 11th Circuit, over objections from Democrats critical of his record on voting rights.
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Grappling with an inherited backlog that has ballooned to 1 million deportation cases, a years-long wait for hearings and White House pressure, the Executive Office for Immigration Review is buying real estate for new courts, creating an online filing system, streamlining training and hiring judges. And it still can’t keep up.
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For the past four years, Poland has been at the heart of a uniquely European fight between nationalist politicians and European Union institutions over who gets to decide how an EU nation’s laws are made and its courts are run.
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Poland’s lawmakers gave their final approval Thursday to legislation that will allow politicians to fire judges who criticize their decisions, a change that European legal experts warn will undermine judicial independence.
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The European Union’s highest court wrapped up two days of hearings Tuesday on controversial changes to Romania’s justice system that some say undermine the rule of law.
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Eyeing a generous infusion of cash from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget, the Judicial Council of California is pushing to modernize the courts with tech innovations that should make navigating the justice system a little easier.
Read moreThe council that supervises California’s sprawling court system flouted procurement rules and bypassed controls intended to reduce the risk of fraud, according to a state auditor’s report. The Judicial Council’s trouble with a new accounting program also caused thousands of recent payments worth $120 million to go unreported to the Legislature.
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On the heels of a House vote to impeach President Donald Trump, the Senate confirmed a dozen of his nominees for seats on federal courts across the country.
Read moreImmigration courts are beholden to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda by focusing more on deporting immigrants than ensuring fair legal proceedings for them, legal advocates say in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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New legislation being pushed by Poland’s populist ruling party that allows judges to be fired for dissenting with the government violates both judicial independence and the primacy of European Union law, a Polish parliamentary office warned Wednesday.
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Poland’s right-wing governing party on Friday defended its heavily criticized plans to impose new restrictions on judges, saying it wants to “discipline” a “caste” of judges that has become too engaged in politics.
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Continuing her efforts to humanize and raise public awareness of the courts, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said Thursday that diversity has become the dominant trait of the nation’s largest judicial system.
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed to a seat on the Ninth Circuit a Justice Department attorney the American Bar Association found not qualified for the position in part due to concerns about his ability to be fair to gay and lesbian litigants.
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Retaining judicial independence is an increasingly thorny proposition as judges grapple with politically charged elections, recall efforts and social media attacks.
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a California federal prosecutor to a seat on the Ninth Circuit over the objections of the state’s Democratic senators, who faulted him for a thin record of handling appellate cases.
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed two nominees to federal district courts in North and South Carolina, one of which will end the longest judicial vacancy in the country.
Read moreThe Navajo Nation sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court, claiming he cut funding for the nation’s Judicial Branch from $17 million each calendar year from 2014 to 2018 to less than $1.5 million this year.
Read morePoland’s parliament elected three ruling party nominees as judges to the constitutional court, including two widely denounced by opposition lawmakers, raising concerns about the court’s independence.
Read moreA lawyer rated as not qualified, part of a scathing American Bar Association review of his ability to be fair to gay litigants, is one of two Ninth Circuit nominees advanced Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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The Senate confirmed a Florida Supreme Court justice to a seat on the 11th Circuit on Wednesday, a vote that gives the Atlanta-based appeals court a majority of judges who were appointed by Republican presidents.
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