Republicans snagged a critical state supreme court post in April 2011.
At the time, the assembly approved the first constitutional revision in 11 years to make one of Mr. Kim's several official titles — chairman of the National Defense Commission — the supreme ruling post in North Korea.
The supreme court posts a statement on its website announcing that it will deliver its long-awaited decision on the privacy injunction on 19 May.
Three other supreme court posts are set to be announced at the same time, one of them a woman, taking the female tally among the 12 supreme court justices to two.
In his first remarks on the unrest, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, posted comments on his official website Tuesday saying the protests were encouraged by the country's "enemies" — often used as shorthand for the United States, their allies and anti-government Iranian exiles.
Yet experience must count for something, as Earth's No. 2 mobile phone maker will keep Galvin on as a consultant for two years after he steps down from the supreme two posts.
In 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev). used a simple-majority vote to change the Senate's rules, allowing confirmation of judicial nominees to non-Supreme Court posts by the same simple-majority vote.
I bought two packs of Supreme-branded Post-It Notes for $2 each.
"We made a decision to invest now for a supreme leadership position in the post-genomic era," Marvin says.
In private, he has reportedly suggested that the supreme leader's post should be reduced to a ceremonial position akin to a constitutional monarch.
He assumed the other major post, supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, shortly after his father's death.
