Topic: Judiciary
The secretary general of the Portuguese Communist Party has expressed confidence that the country's Constitutional Court will validate a gay marriage bill, the AP reported.
Portugal's Socialist-controlled Parliament, led by Prime Minister Jose Socrates, approved the bill ...
Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared. Goodwin Liu, 39, is an unabashed liberal legal scholar who, if confirmed, could become a force on the federal appeals court for decades. There's ...
A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964. In a 2-1 ruling, the panel of judges said the evidence in ...
