I think her main focus, especially in the first few years, is going to be more on domestic issues, talking more about doing social welfare programmes, maybe revising the tax code, probably doing some kind of big judicial reform, attacking the food safety system," said Nathan Batto, a political scientist from Taipei's Academia Sinica.
One big judicial defect is that the doctors who examine prisoners after brutal interrogation are often bullied into issuing reports attesting to the victims' good health.
His big judicial speech earlier this month was filled with coded buzz words that make it clear that, if given the chance, he'd replace 88-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens with an anti-choice Justice who would tip the scales against Roe v Wade.
A much bigger judicial inquiry is about to get off the ground.
They are therefore surprised to learn that he is in fact his party's kingmaker in Brooklyn, one of the largest Democratic county organisations in the country—and dismayed to discover that he is a central figure in a big investigation into judicial corruption.Charles Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, launched the investigation into the judges last year.
Regardless of whether they keep their majority, Democratic leaders are planning a big push on judicial nominations in the lame duck session.
A developer at the center of one of the biggest judicial scandals in US history is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in northeastern Pennsylvania.
That encounter, described by a witness, is how a Brooklyn judge named Victor I. Barron got himself into the biggest judicial corruption case in New York in years, according to the Brooklyn District attorney, Charles J. Hynes.
If it stands, the decision could be one of the biggest judicial curtailments of presidential powers in years.
