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Confirmation, from Dope director Rick Famuyiwa, features the Scandal Emmy nominee as Anita Hill, the former aide to Clarence Thomas (played by Wendell Pierce in the film), who caused his nomination to the supreme court to be called into question when she testified that the judge had sexually harassed her.
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Prosecutors finally have some momentum in their perjury case against Roger Clemens, even if it means dragging in the former major leaguer David Segui, a witness who is apparently so reluctant to testify that the judge threatened from the bench: "If he doesn't show up, he'll be arrested like anyone else".
Deputy Attorney General James Cole testified that the 11 judges on the FISA court "are far from a rubber stamp" and "review all of our pleadings thoroughly, they question us, and they don't approve the order until they are satisfied that we have met all statutory and constitutional requirements".
Carol Gerstel, the chief counsel for the United Federation of Teachers, testified that the city's judges might not be impartial in ruling on teacher disciplinary cases.
A Federal Aviation Administration scientist, Tom Nesthus, testified that sleepy pilots were generally unable to judge the extent of their impairment, and likely to have trouble concentrating and following multiple sources of information.
At the hearing this month before Judge Frank, both government prosecutors and a Guidant lawyer testified that the deal was fair.
Professor Christina Lundgren testified that judging the time Ms Steenkamp had eaten her last meal by her stomach contents was "pure speculation".
The stonewalling has been bipartisan, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who testified that "a judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints," to Samuel Alito, who ducked questions about abortion rights by saying, "It is an issue that is involved in litigation now at all levels".
(I can testify that the behavior of the judges at my real-life Juilliard audition was even meaner and funnier).
But the judge blocked Bradley from testifying that Hernandez was "unreasonably suspicious" and would not allow Bradley to use iPhones around him, or that Hernandez believed he was being tailed by police cruisers and helicopters.
And, it said, it has a witness who can testify that Judge Ciavarella or Judge Conahan, or both, had direct connections to Mr. D'Elia.
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