In antiquity the Egyptians and Greeks organized public affairs by office, and the principal officeholders were regarded as being principally responsible for administering justice, maintaining law and order, and providing plenty.
But instead of respecting the state high court's province to say what the state's election code means, the chief justice maintains that Florida's Supreme Court has veered so far from the ordinary practice of judicial review that what it did cannot properly be called judging.
French penal juvenile justice maintains specific relation with psychiatry and psychopathology.
Cruz, who later studied law at Harvard and became a clerk for the US chief justice, maintains his US "natural born" status was automatically conferred to him by his American mother, who has met the requisite US residency requirement of 10 years, with five of those being after the age of 14. "I was born in Calgary.
Hence, these justices maintain, "scarce state resources" are better committed elsewhere.
Unlike in the US, where the politics of its supreme court justices are well known and, indeed, usually one of the reasons for their appointment, British justices maintain a far more neutral profile.
"States have an obligation to provide them with better access to justice and maintain an independent judiciary," said the declaration.
"Lawyers confirm that evidence abounds of the church at all levels continuing, even following the resignation of Pope Benedict, to do everything in its power to shield abusing Catholic clerics from justice and maintain secrecy, and do the least possible for victims," he said.
If the five justice majority maintain that corporations are significantly disadvantaged in the political arena, how does it explain the reality of thousands of business PACs spending hundreds of millions each election cycle?
But justices often maintain friendships across ideological lines.
