Arkansas Supreme Court chief justice digs up predecessor’s 2017 memo in dispute with colleagues
Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker cited a non-official memo from her predecessor as the basis for her administrative authority in a mass email sent to judicial employees Monday. Former Chief Justice John Dan Kemp wrote and signed a memo in February 2017,
Jimmy Blacklock named new chief justice of Texas Supreme Court
Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed his former general counsel and current Texas Supreme Court Justice, Jimmy Blacklock as the next chief justice of the court.
Supreme Court chief justice issues major warning before Trump inauguration
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned on Tuesday that the United States must continue to uphold "judicial independence."
Swanson sworn in as new chief justice of Montana Supreme Court
Family members, politicians and members of the Montana Supreme Court welcomed newly elected Chief Justice Cory Swanson during a swearing-in ceremony Monday in Helena, marking the beginning of a new leadership chapter for the state’s highest court.
Gov. Abbott elevates Blacklock to chief justice, appoints new member to Texas Supreme Court
Blacklock is replacing retired Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, while Abbott's legal adviser James Sullivan takes the open spot on the bench.
Gov. Greg Abbott names new chief justice to Texas Supreme Court
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Texas Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Blacklock to be the court’s chief justice and named James Sullivan as a justice Monday. Blacklock succeeds Nathan Hecht, the state’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice,
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In year-end report, chief justice defends judiciary’s independence
At the end of an eventful year at the Supreme Court that included a ruling giving former President Donald Trump broad ...
Chief Justice John Roberts sounds alarm over potential defiance of court rulings
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stark warning to the Trump administration, members of Congress and the public about ...
Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Judicial Independence
In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and ...
Chief Justice Says Intimidation and Violence Threaten Judicial Independence
But John Roberts’s year-end report remains silent on Supreme Court ethics.
2 Judges: Meet the New Chief Justice and the GC Who Just Rose to the Bench
James P. Sullivan, the governor's general counsel, will move to the court to fill Blacklock's former seat. Blacklock won ...
'Beneath the dignity of the office': State chief justice squares off against colleagues over 'retaliatory' firing of 10 court employees, including some who had complaints ...
The newly appointed chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court is embroiled in a battle of sorts with her fellow justices ...
State Supreme Court staffers targeted in Chief Justice Karen Baker’s firing memo last week return to work Monday
A swath of court staffers whose employment status was the subject of dispute among Arkansas Supreme Court justices late last ...