Looking Ahead

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
Doug Feldmann ◽  
Mike Ditka
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Dupage County

This chapter details how, a full year before his defamation trial against Bill Page and the newspaper was to begin (and two years after the lawsuit was filed), Bob Thomas started his three-year stint as the chief justice of the Supreme Court in September of 2005 after being chosen by his colleagues to follow Justice Mary Ann McMorrow. Among other duties, it was Thomas's job as chief to set the discussion agenda for the justices when the court was in term. A few years earlier, Thomas participated in a conference in DuPage County, the Roger O'Reilly Symposium, which was named after a deceased attorney from Wheaton who long exemplified the virtues attorneys were expected to display. Among other presentations at the symposium, Thomas participated on a panel discussion about courtroom professionalism. What followed was the establishment of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Civility.

Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court

1947 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 325
Author(s):  
Edward L. Friedman ◽  
Samuel J. Konefsky
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court

Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court

1946 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
C. Herman Pritchett ◽  
Samuel J. Konefsky
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court

Impeachment and Removal from Office

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Danny M. Adkison ◽  
Lisa McNair Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Grand Jury ◽  
State Law ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court

This chapter discusses Article VIII of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns impeachment and removal from office. Section 1 states that “the Governor and other elective state officers, including the Justices of the Supreme Court, shall be liable and subject to impeachment for wilful neglect of duty, corruption in office, habitual drunkenness, incompetency, or any offense involving moral turpitude committed while in office.” Moreover, “all elected state officers, including Justices of the Supreme Court and Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals, shall be automatically suspended from office upon their being declared guilty of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction.” Two other methods for removing elected officials not mentioned in Section 1 are specified in state law pursuant to Section 2. The first provides for a grand jury to accuse an official and present its findings to a district judge. The second allows the governor to instruct the attorney general to investigate an official and, if official misconduct is found, to institute proceedings in court. Section 3 designates the chief justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court as the presiding officer in an impeachment trial. Lastly, Section 4 requires senators to take an oath and specifies a two-thirds vote of those present in order to convict.

From Kania to Sarkaria

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Suchindran B.N.
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Judicial Appointments ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The 1960S

This essay is a critical analysis of the dynamics of executive-judiciary relations in judicial appointments from 1950 to 1973. It serves as a primer for the appointments made to the Supreme Court from 1950–73, the supersessions that were apprehended but did not come about, and generally, what weighed with the judges as well as the executive while making appointments in the years immediately after the Constitution came into force. The essay traverses the historical journey of appointments to the Supreme Court from the tenure of the first Chief Justice of India, Justice H.J. Kania, to the appointment of Justice R.S. Sarkaria in 1973. It provides insights, and in some cases, hitherto unknown facts about the factors that prompted the appointment of certain justices to the Court. The essay also documents the gradual incursion that the executive had begun to make in judicial appointments in the latter half of the 1960s.

Chief Justice Stone and the Supreme Court

1946 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
Edwin Borchard ◽  
Samuel J. Konefsky
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document