The national drive for scrutiny of contributions to judicial campaigns gained momentum after a 2009 Supreme Court ruling that said the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court had wrongly ruled in the $50 million case of a coal company whose chief executive had spent $3 million to help elect him.
"There will come a day -- well it comes every day in this business -- when it will matter a great, great deal to the lives of people of all kinds that we be able to with judicial authorization gain access to a kidnapper's or a terrorist or a criminal's device.
Detectives in Portugal are also understood to want the case reopened but must gain judicial approval via the courts.
Detectives in Portugal are also understood to want the case reopened but to do so they must gain judicial approval via the courts.
While the decision does not block the attorneys general from enforcing state laws, he said, it does require judicial approval to gain access to records.
The charter gave the gentry extensive power over its serfs; the nobles gained judicial authority over all crimes committed by serfs except robbery and murder and were empowered to sentence a serf to penal servitude in Siberia and also to recall him.
In a letter to Labour MP Jack Dromey, Karen Bradley, a Home Office minister, said the government does not have time to bring through primary legislation until the next parliament, but confirmed it would introduce interim guidelines that will require the police to gain judicial approval before they can obtain information about journalists' sources.
The intensity of the races, legal and political experts say, indicates that the big-dollar judicial politicking that gained momentum in the 1980's with campaigns that ousted top judges in Texas and California, among others, has become an entrenched part of the political system in some of the more than 40 states that elect judges.
In May the high court blocked the Sylvester family's attempt to gain a judicial review of the CPS's decision not to prosecute the officers.
In Johannesburg last week, Mr. Zuma observed International Human Rights Day by assailing leaders who abuse judicial proceedings for political gain — an ill-concealed reference to his own status as a prosecutors' target.
