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Precedents, text and other legal tools can provide a just outcome in "95% of the cases," Sen. Obama said before voting against confirming chief-justice nominee John Roberts.
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Think of Coke, who so cowardly attacked the defenceless Raleigh at his trial and who was dismissed when he was chief-justice; think of all the Lord Chancellors who have been turned away in contempt for corruption; think of the vile Judge Jeffries.'
Is it foolish to question whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch? Ann Althouse 2008
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"The chief-justice issue crystallized our problems," said Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, executive director of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency in Islamabad.
Lawyers Exult 2008
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Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and “Little Houses” no love was without a grotto.
Les Miserables 2008
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Arvin BahlNew York, New YorkPresident Musharraf continues to receive a lot of criticism, both from within the country and on the international level, for the infamous chief-justice incident.
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Bongrand is chief-justice of the court of appeals at Melun.
Ursula 2006
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Blessed are they that have been my friends; and woe to my lord chief-justice!
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Among its most prominent members were John Beverly Robinson, for some years attorney-general, and eventually an able chief-justice, and the recipient of a baronetage; William Dummer Powell, a chief-justice; John Henry
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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Warren Hastings article, who became Lord Ellenborough, and the last lord chief-justice who had the honor of a seat in the cabinet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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Supreme Court, acting chief-justice and administrator of the government.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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