Questions tagged [judicial-independence]
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How does granting immunity to an already imprisoned person fit with judicial independence?
Where I live judicial independence was a hot topic for quite a while, namely that the politics should interfere as less as possible in justice.
This article shows an interesting case when getting ...
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Is this proposal by U.S. presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to change the composition of the Supreme Court constitutional?
Pete Buttigieg is running as a candidate for the U.S. Democratic Presidential Primary to become the Democratic Presidential Nominee. He recently(-ish) said he was looking into/supportive of a plan ...
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Is it common in the West for immigration judges to be subordinated to the attorney general (equivalent)?
It's been claimed that
The U.S. immigration court system suffers from profound structural problems that have severely eroded both its capacity to deliver just and fair decisions in a timely manner ...
