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Brett Kavanaugh is great, but Trump should have picked a woman for the Supreme Court
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-16 18:26
Kurdistan Flag Row Goes to Federal Supreme Court | Asharq AL-awsat
Aawsat - 2019-01-16 14:47Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-16 11:56Source: Trump 'expects' four more Supreme Court picks
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-16 09:40
Trump picks Brett Kavanaugh as new US Supreme Court nominee replacing | Atlanta: News, Weather and Traffic
Wsbradio - 2019-01-16 01:07Supreme Court denies Trump's attempt to block children's climate lawsuit
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-15 20:17
Trump Says No FBI Probe Needed On Supreme Court Pick
NDTV - 2019-01-15 17:11Eye on the Supreme Court? Harvard affirmative action case could wind up before justices
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-15 07:22Supreme Court ruling in Janus case on government unions leaves Democrats devastated, Republicans giddy
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-15 03:22Supreme Court Nominee’s Looks Matter to Trump
Nymag - 2019-01-14 22:12Twitter erupts after Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-14 21:33Supreme Court Will Make Trump Talk to Mueller If It Has To
Nymag - 2019-01-14 19:44It's not 'both sides': Democrats far more partisan in Supreme Court votes
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-14 18:35DACA case could hit the Supreme Court in a matter of months, experts say
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-14 15:30Hillary Clinton: Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court shows Trump wants to turn the clock 'back to the 1850s'
Washingtonexaminer - 2019-01-14 09:24News Wrap: Supreme Court rules against Trump’s asylum ban | PBS NewsHour
PBS - 2019-01-14 06:31
Doug Wardlow Secretly Authored Right-Wing Blog as State Supreme Court Clerk
Theintercept - 2019-01-08 03:17
Iraq's Supreme Court orders suspension of Kurdish independence referendum
PRI - 2019-01-07 20:14How Iraq’s Supreme Court can end ongoing legal battle over MPs retirement benefits
Kurdistan24 - 2019-01-01 16:56
Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Asylum Ban | Democracy Now!
Democracynow - 2018-12-30 23:51Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Take Up Transgender Military Ban - The Daily Beast
Thedailybeast - 2018-12-22 03:37
NC Supreme Court election: Anglin can run as Republican, court says | News & Observer
Newsobserver - 2018-12-16 12:48
Housing + Supreme Court + President Trump + Russia + immigration | The Sacramento Bee
Sacbee - 2018-12-14 20:27
The Fight For The Supreme Court Is Just Beginning
Yahoo - 2018-12-14 16:03Is Jerry Brown shielding his Supreme Court pick from voters? And could it be his wife? | The Sacramento Bee
Sacbee - 2018-12-14 08:26Timber titan appeals to Supreme Court over Moonlight Fire | The Sacramento Bee
Sacbee - 2018-12-14 06:12Democrats are powerless to block Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and have no one to blame but themselves | The Sacramento Bee
Sacbee - 2018-12-14 02:46Can California chase down tax refugees? The Supreme Court could help decide | The Sacramento Bee
Sacbee - 2018-12-14 02:46
America's next Supreme Court judge will have more power than its next president
Telegraph - 2018-12-13 19:43
The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq rules Kurdish referendum on independence unconstitutional - JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary
Jurist - 2018-12-06 17:18Prison sentence for HDP's Baluken also finalized
The Supreme Court Division 16 finalized the sentence issued to Former HDP Amed MP and Imrali Delegation Member Idris Baluken. ...
Trump asks US court for review of transgender military ban
The Supreme Court is being asked to "immediately" review legal challenges to the policy this term. ...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted to hospital after fall at Supreme Court | The Independent
Independent - 2018-11-09 01:14Supreme Court blocks straight-party ballots | Albuquerque Journal
Abqjournal - 2018-11-06 18:38STA: Criticism after Supreme Court challenges European Court of Human Rights
STA - 2018-10-26 14:57Spain's Supreme Court sends Catalan independence leaders to trial 25/10/2018 World
KNNC - 2018-10-25 23:30Spain Supreme Court orders trial of former Catalan leaders
Gulan Media - 2018-10-25 23:17Capital Journal: Turkey’s President Challenges Saudis; Supreme Court Shields Ross in Census Controversy; Iraq’s Lost Lessons - Washington Wire - WSJ
WSJ - 2018-10-24 07:54A Kurdish Civil Activist Sentenced to One-Year of Imprisonment charged with Insulting the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-10-17 02:00A civil activist called Sediq Rustami was sentenced to 1 Year of imprisonment by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on charges of insulting the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) ...
Iraqi Court Sentences Man to Death over Links to IS
BAS News - 2018-10-14 23:13ERBIL - Iraqi judicial authorities have sentenced a man to death over supplying explosive materials to the militant group of Islamic State (IS). The media Center of the Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement that the man had been captured, while dr ...
Approval of the Death Sentence for Hedayat Abdollahpour by the Supreme Court
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-10-12 02:01The Supreme Court (Branch 47) approved the death sentence for Hedayat Abdollahpour, a prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The court also equally approved the long prison sentence for six other people who were arrested along with Abdollahpour in ...
Verdict against Hedayat Abdollapour upheld at appeal, his sentence is death
Kurdpa - 2018-10-09 18:05Kurdistan Press Agency (Kurdpa): The death penalty of a Kurdish political prisoner, from Shno (Oshnavieh), was confirmed by the Iranian Supreme Court. ...
US Senate votes to confirm Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
Waar Media - 2018-10-07 15:39U.S. Supreme Court nominee judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 4, 2018. WAAR-DUHOK: The US Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick Brett Kava ...
Approval of the Death Sentence for A Kurdish Political Prisoner by the Supreme Court
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-10-03 02:02The Supreme Court equally approved the death sentence for Arsalan Khodkam, a prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison, who had previously been sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Orumieh Military Court on charges of Moharebeh and espionage for one o ...
Two Kurdish Activists and Journalists Summoned to the Revolutionary Court
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-09-29 02:01A civil activist in Sanandaj was summoned to the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court on the charges of ‘Insulting the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran’ while a journalist from Mahabad was also summoned to the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad on the c ...
Christine Blasey Ford: Kavanaugh accuser 'faces death threats'
BBC - 2018-09-19 03:01The woman who says the US Supreme Court pick once attacked her has had to flee home, says a lawyer. ...
Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court relies on geologists to finalize Erbil-Baghdad oil dispute
Kurdistan24 - 2018-08-29 22:54Iraqi Court Sentences Three People to Death over Alleged links with IS
BAS News - 2018-08-29 22:50ERBIL - An Iraqi court has sentenced three people to death over the links with the Islamic State (IS) and involvement in terrorist activities in the province of Anbar. Abdul-Sattar al-Bayraqdar, the spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, was quot ...
New Iraqi Parliament to hold first session next week as Sunni factions present candidates for speaker
Kurdistan24 - 2018-08-28 09:22The newly-seated Parliament members are charged with electing a new speaker and two deputies in their first session, to be held within 15 days of the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq's ratification of final election results. (Photo: Reuters) ...
20/8/2018 Iraq Iraq Supreme Court ratifies result of May vote
KNNC - 2018-08-20 15:02Iraq Supreme Court ratifies result of May vote
Al Jazeera - 2018-08-19 22:30Many Iraqis, including those from the Kurdish and Sunni Arab communities, had complained of electoral misconduct. ...
Iraq Supreme Court ratifies result of May vote
Kurdiu - 2018-08-19 21:13Iraqi Supreme Court ratifies election results, inter-party negotiations intensify
Kurdistan24 - 2018-08-19 16:23Influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Coalition retained the 54 seats it won during the May 12 election. (Photo: Archive) ...
Iraqi Federal Court ratifies May 12 Parliamentary elections result
Waar Media - 2018-08-19 14:57WAAR-DUHOK: The Iraqi Federal Court has ratified the final results of May 12 parliamentary election, said Ayas al-Samuk, spokesperson for the court. He added that the court’s decision was made by consensus. “The Federal Supreme Court has made its decisio ...
Iraqi Supreme Court Approves May Election Results
BAS News - 2018-08-19 14:55ERBIL — Following months of political disputes over the results of May parliamentary election in Iraq, country’s supreme court ratified on Sunday the results. Earlier in June, Iraqi legislative ordered the manual recount of ballots from entire polling st ...
Kirkuk governor to appear before Iraq Supreme Court over ousting of Kurdish mayor
Kurdistan24 - 2018-08-19 13:5917/8/2018 Iraq Iraqi Supreme Court to rule on May 12 election recount
KNNC - 2018-08-17 20:48Maliki meets Sunni leaders for possible ‘biggest parliamentary bloc’
Rûdaw - 2018-08-17 12:47The results are yet to be ratified by Iraq’s Supreme Court. ...
Turkish Supreme Court upholds six year verdict imposed on two Czechs | Radio Prague
Radio - 2018-07-24 15:17Spain withdraws international arrest warrants against Puigdemont and other Catalan politicians
Waar Media - 2018-07-20 12:48WAAR-DUHOK: Spain’s Supreme Court has dropped the European Arrest Warrant for Carles Puigdemont, as well as five other Catalan politicians linked to the planning of the Catalan independence referendum after the subsequent declaration of independence last ...
Iraqi Supreme Court Calls a Section of 2018 Budget Bill 'Unconstitutional'
BAS News - 2018-07-16 12:19ERBIL - The Iraqi Supreme Court has criticized a section of the 2018 passed budget bill, considering it 'unconstitutional' as it was approved without any consultancy with the government, said a spokesperson. The Iraqi parliament had voted on passing a pr ...
Iran: Eight Kurds Sentenced to Death
BAS News - 2018-07-07 11:57ERBIL - Iranian Supreme Court announced on Saturday the implementation of at least eight Kurdish people’s death penalties over alleged involvement in Iran's parliament attack in the summer of last year. Head of Tehran's Islamic Revolution Court, Mousa Gh ...
Trump interviewing potential candidates for Supreme Court
Gulan Media - 2018-07-04 01:43Trump interviews 4 for Supreme Court, 2-3 more to go
Gulan Media - 2018-07-03 01:05Iraq's Supreme Court again delays Kurdistan oil export ruling
Gulan Media - 2018-06-28 18:51Iraq's Supreme Court again delays Kurdistan oil export ruling
Kurdistan24 - 2018-06-28 13:38Iraq's Supreme Court in a hearing of a lawsuit about the Kurdistan Region's oil exports to international markets, June 27, 2018. (Photo: Iraqi Federal Supreme Court) ...
US supreme court upholds Trump travel ban on some Muslim-majority nations
Waar Media - 2018-06-27 20:21WAAR-DUHOK: The supreme court weighed the legality of the third version of Trump’s travel ban, which sought to bar or limit immigrants from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen. North Korea and Venezuela were also among the countries listed in the ban, ...
Travel ban: Trump hails 'tremendous' Supreme Court ruling
BBC - 2018-06-27 01:02The president says his policy is best for the US, arguing European countries have been "over-run". ...
Judge from Turkish high appeals court urges support for Erdogan
Waar Media - 2018-06-22 20:41WAAR-DUHOK: Supreme Court of Appeals member Mustafa Aysal posted a message in a WhatsApp group aiming to garner support for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. According to the Turkish constitution, members of the jud ...
22/6/2018 Kurdistan Six dissatisfied Kurdish parties support Iraq's supreme court rule to manual election recount
KNNC - 2018-06-22 16:48Eight Sunnis at Risk of Imminent Execution in connection with Islamic State attacks in Tehran
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-06-22 02:01Eight Sunni religious citizens, who were sentenced to death on charges of assistance and assassination in the deadly attacks of June 07 last year in Tehran, are at risk of imminent execution after the Supreme Court upheld the original verdict. These indiv ...
Iraqi VP, Turkmen praise Supreme Court rule to recount vote results
Kurdistan24 - 2018-06-21 16:58Iraqi Federal Supreme Court Upholds Decision to Manually Recount Votes | Al Bawaba
Albawaba - 2018-06-21 16:23Iraq's Supreme Court rules yes on election recount, no on canceling votes
Kurdistan24 - 2018-06-21 14:42An Iraqi voter dips his finger in dye as an indication that he has cast a ballot in Iraq's May 12 national parliamentary elections. (Photo: Archive) ...
Iraqi federal court: Cancelling security forces votes in Kurdistan Region unconstitutional
Waar Media - 2018-06-21 11:56WAAR-DUHOK: The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq made a final decision on a recent parliament’s new law, saying that a manual recount of ballots casted in the May 12 election is constitutional, but the same is not true for the annulment of diaspora, IDPs, a ...
Iraqi Supreme Court: Cancelling IDPs, Diaspora, Security Forces Votes Unconstitutional
BAS News - 2018-06-21 11:19ERBIL - The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq made a final decision on a recent parliament's new law, saying that a manual recount of ballots casted in the May 12 election is constitutional, but the same is not true for the annulment of diaspora, IDPs, and t ...
Only Supreme Federal Court can mandate a re-election: Iraqi PM's Office
Kurdistan24 - 2018-06-11 19:48Serious Concerns Over Imminent Execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-05-23 02:02Following the confirmation of death penalty for Ramin Hossein Panahi by the Supreme Court, a case has been filed to Branch Four of the Sanandaj Tribunal to enforce the verdict and prison authorities have reported that he would be executed after Ramadan. H ...
Iraq Sentences Another Two Men to Death for IS Links
BAS News - 2018-05-21 13:24ERBIL — An Iraqi court has sentenced another two men to death by hanging after trials found them guilty of Islamic State (IS) membership. Abdul-Sattar al-Birqdar, the spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, told Alghad Press on Monday that the Wasit ...
Ben Makuch of Vice takes on police in Supreme Court
BBC - 2018-05-21 01:52Vice's Ben Makuch is fighting an order to hand communications with a terror suspect over to police. ...
Iraqi Supreme Court postpones hearing over KRG’s oil exports
Kurdistan24 - 2018-05-07 01:44The oil dispute between Baghdad and Erbil is part of a broader political crisis in Iraq. (Photo: Reuters) ...
Saman Naseem Not Released Due to New Charges Filed By IRGC
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-04-27 02:00On Thursday 25 January the death sentence for the political prisoner known as Saman Naseem on charges of Moharebeh (waging war against God) by the Orumiyeh Court of Appeals was reduced to imprisonment sentence by the Supreme Court. However, Islamic Revolu ...
Supreme Court to hear arguments on Trump's travel ban
Rûdaw - 2018-04-25 09:13lower courts ruled it illegal and unconstitutional ...
UNPO: Iranian Kurdistan: Supreme Court of Iran Confirms Death Sentence to Ramin Hossein Panahi
UNPO - 2018-04-16 17:05Iran Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence For Kurdish Opponent
Radiofarda - 2018-04-15 21:49Iranian Supreme Court Upholds “Unjust” Death Sentence Against Kurdish Activist – Center for Human Rights in Iran
Iranhumanrights - 2018-04-13 23:48The Death Sentence for Ramin Hossein Panahi Confirmed by the Supreme Court
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-04-13 02:00Hossein Ahmadi Niaz, Hossein Panahi’s lawyer, announced that Ramin’s death sentence has been confirmed by Branch 39 the Supreme Court in Qom. “During a very quick procedure and without holding a hearing, on Wednesday April 11, the verdict was verbally ser ...
Iran to Implement Kurdish Activist Execution
BAS News - 2018-04-12 15:13ERBIL - Supreme Court of Iran has approved the execution sentence of the Kurdish activist Ramin Hossein Panahi who was captured in 2016 by the Iranian security forces in Sanandaj, said a report. According to Hangaw Organisation for Human Rights, the cour ...
Iraqi Federal Court Considering Lawsuit Against Kurdistan’s Oil Exports
BAS News - 2018-04-09 19:40ERBIL — The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq is beginning to discuss a possible lawsuit about Kurdistan Region’s independent oil exports. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Finance Minister Salman Jumaili and Kurdistan Region’s Prime Minister Nechirvan B ...
Brazil's Lula faces imminent prison after Supreme Court ruling
NRT - 2018-04-05 09:35Iraq's President files lawsuit in Supreme Court over 2018 budget
Kurdistan24 - 2018-04-04 16:06Kirkuk Provincial Council Appeals at Supreme Court Against Iraqi PM
BAS News - 2018-03-19 15:04ERBIL - Head of Kirkuk Provincial Council Rebwar Talabani has appealed to the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq against the Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi for constitutional violations. Talabani in a press conference said that everything was normal prior to the Oc ...
Fuad Masum Reluctant to Return Budget Bill: MP
BAS News - 2018-03-15 12:53ERBIL - A member of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi parliament said that if the Iraqi president is seriously against the 2018 budget bill, he could appeal it to the Federal Supreme Court. "Only the Supreme Court of Iraq can modify the budget bill, thu ...
Only Kirkuk, Surrounding Areas are Disputed, Not All Kurdish Cities: Iraqi Federal Supreme Court
BAS News - 2018-03-13 11:07ERBIL - Federal Supreme Court of Iraq has modified one of its decrees regarding the Kurdistan Region in which it had previously announced that all Kurdish cities are counted as disputed areas, said a Kurdish official. "The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq h ...
Ramin Hossein Panahi’s Case Sent to Supreme Court (Brabch 37) Based in Qom
Kurdistan Human Rights - 2018-03-10 02:00The dossier of Ramin Hussein Panahi, a Kurdish political prisoner, who was recently sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court (Branch 1) in Sanandaj, was sent to the Supreme Court Branch 37. An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN ...
Iraq sentences to death sister of former al-Qaeda leader
K24 - 2018-03-08 18:50A file photo provided by Iraq's Supreme Judiciary shows the sister of the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq awaiting her sentence in court. ...
Kirkuk Provincial Council Appeals to Federal Supreme Court Against Federal Government
BAS News - 2018-02-20 13:43ERBIL - Kirkuk Provincial Council lodged three appeals to the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq against the federal government and the ministry of oil.Head of the Brotherhood Faction at the Kirkuk provincial council said on Tuesday that they have lodged thre ...
Several MPs Lodge Appeal to Iraq's Federal Court Against Haider al-Abadi
BAS News - 2018-02-18 21:23ERBIL — Several MPs are trying to lodge an appeal to the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq against PM Haider al-Abadi for mistreating the Kurds to win the votes of Shi'ite Arab citizens. Sherko Jawdat, head of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament's natural reso ...
Turkish Vatan Party Calls for HDP Close Down
BAS News - 2018-02-14 23:02ERBIL — Turkish nationalist Vatan Party lawyer and Vice President Nusret Senem on Wednesday applied to the Turkish Supreme Court to close the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). “We are calling on the Supreme Court to do its work. HDP must be cl ...
