Sentences with phrase «local federal judiciary»

We are independent from the local federal judiciary and funded by a sustaining grant awarded by Congress under the Criminal Justice Act.

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Since its inception in 1988, NAPABA has been at the forefront of national and local activities in the areas of civil rights, combating anti-immigrant backlash and hate crimes, increasing the diversity of the federal and state judiciaries, and professional development.

Despite the opposition of the Judicial Conference (the federal judiciary's policy - making body) to cameras in federal courtrooms, the Boies team — led by Jonathan Sherman — asserts that local rules permit individual judges to make exceptions.