The election commission can redeem its reputation by addressing challenges in an impartial manner and seeing that the votes for those disqualified candidates — they remained on the ballot — are properly credited to the parties on which they ran.
But establishing effective ways to objectively identify and measure progress towards specific targets, but in an impartial and participatory way, remains a challenge.
The case is being brought by 16 detainees who argue that they should be entitled to challenge their detention before an impartial civilian court.
Guantanamo detainees are denied habeas corpus, the 800-year old right of prisoners to challenge their imprisonment before an impartial and independent judge.
The criminal justice system provides for an impartial jury by permitting both sides to use peremptory challenges during jury selection.
In a momentous ruling, the Supreme Court insisted that Guantánamo was "in every practical respect a United States territory," and that the detainees had habeas corpus rights - the right to challenge the basis of their detention before an impartial court.
An impartial judge and an impartial twelve citizens will decide this case.
That misconduct, they argued, violated Mr. Giuca's right to challenge during jury selection and his right to an impartial jury.
He did, however, properly assign errors which, as shown in the Court's note 4, were sufficiently broad to challenge the trial court's failure to comply with state law in insuring an impartial grand jury.
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court suggested, the right to trial before an impartial jury can be protected in many ways: by granting a continuance until community passions subside; by challenging jurors for cause and by peremptory challenges during voir dire proceedings.
The court also noted that a defendant in a Wisconsin misdemeanor prosecution has a right to ask for continuances and to challenge prospective jurors on voir dire, and if 'these measures are still not sufficient to provide an impartial jury, the verdict can be set aside after trial based on the denial of a fair and impartial trial.' 41 Wis.2d, at 321, 164 N.W.2d, at 270.
