Sentences with phrase «included judicial elections»

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In American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock (2012), the Supreme Court voted 5 - 4 to strike down a Montana law that banned indirect corporate expenditures on all state elections, including judicial elections.

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Consequently, all public servants, including military, judicial staff, and election officials, will have to comply with the prohibition if it's passed, AFP reported.

Among them are life, liberty, security of person, freedom from slavery and from torture and inhumane treatment; equality before the law; the right to judicial remedies for wrongs; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; fair trials and due process of law, including the presumption of innocence; privacy; freedom of movement; equal rights in marriage; freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association; and free elections.

The new coalition points to a number of potential changes to the constitution that they would like to see, including the creation of a public financing system for campaigns, election reforms like same - day registration, court reforms to make it easier to navigate the judicial system and the ability for local municipalities to exercise greater control over issues they traditionally need state authority to manage.

Political parties must ensure internal democracy and avoid acts of impunity notwithstanding the fact that they enjoy «judicial immunity» in that the courts are not to enquire into the internal affairs of a political party including the sponsorship of a candidate for election.

The North Carolina legislature sent to Governor McCrory for approval a bill that would revamp the state's elections, including eliminating public financing for appellate judicial elections.

SB 2238 Requires the judiciary, office of elections, and campaign spending commission to study appropriate methods of implementing a judicial election system in the State and submit a written report, including proposed legislation, to the legislature.

She was heavily involved in the case before the election commissioner to overturn the result of the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets in May 2014, including the enforcement of costs orders and resistance to an application by the ousted mayor for judicial review.

Key chapters and sections cover: • Decision - making, including personal interests, bias and determination, equality and discrimination and elections • The process for making and handling complaints on conduct issues • The challenging of authorities on conduct issues including through judicial review, the Ombudsman and by using Freedom of Information • Offences • The law in Wales

Exclusively political stories will not be included, except stories about the announcement of a candidacy for judicial office and the outcome of judicial elections.

Served advisory / legal expert appointments, including among others: Asian Development Bank Office of the Chief Economist; European Union External Action Service; United States Agency for International Development (USAID); American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative; Singapore Judicial Academy; Fellowships Director of the Angara Centre for Law & Economics; Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate of the Philippines; Philippine Constitutional Commission on Elections.

Contemporary judicial selection concerns include the controversy over merit selection of judges vs. the election of judges, the need for judicial election reform, and the effect of the method of judicial selection on the number of minorities and women seated on the bench.

The district judges shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective districts, and shall hold office for the term of 6 years (excepting those elected at said first election) from and including the first Monday of January, next succeeding their election and qualification; provided, that the First Judicial District shall be entitled to, and shall have three district judges, who shall possess co-extensive and concurrent jurisdiction, and who shall be elected at the same times, in the same manner, and shall hold office for the like terms as herein prescribed, in relation to the judges in other judicial districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling] of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribedJudicial District shall be entitled to, and shall have three district judges, who shall possess co-extensive and concurrent jurisdiction, and who shall be elected at the same times, in the same manner, and shall hold office for the like terms as herein prescribed, in relation to the judges in other judicial districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling] of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribedjudicial districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling] of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law.