I fully appreciate the delicacy of the judicial task of questioning the workings of a legislative investigation.
Justice Minister Mich? Alliot-Marie and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France planned to create a permanent judicial task force to try cases of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Its scope today is what it was in 1862, and the judicial task is to ascertain what content was conveyed by that section in 1862.
'This is the inescapable judicial task in giving substantive content, legally enforced, to the Due Process Clause, and it is a task ultimately committed to this Court.' Sweezy v. State of New Hampshire, 354 U.S. 234, 267, 77 S.Ct.
It questioned the impartiality of the Superior Court judge, Jon M. Alander, who initially ruled in 2006 that the documents be unsealed, arguing that he should have recused himself because he was then on a judicial task force, studying the release of public records, that included a reporter for The Courant.
In R v Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, ex parte Lain, the courts held that prerogative powers could be reviewed if they were being used to perform a "judicial" task; the issues at hand were ones that the courts were easily able to decide.
The three branches of government specialize in answering very different legal questions, and conservative-leaning courts like the Roberts Court are usually quick to remind us that broad-brush public policymaking is not a judicial task.
As chairman, he was called to interface and collaborate with House and Senate leaders, testify before various subcommittees and consult with foreign governments regarding judicial reform -- tasks all well suited to his interest and knowledge of political and governance interests as well as the structure and needs of the Judiciary.
As the wife of an associate justice of the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body tasked with interpreting and upholding the US Constitution, the anonymous funding of Ginni Thomas's group presents an ethical challenge.
