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Parliament passes bill to increase number of Supreme Court judges from 30 to 33 in bid to reduce pendency of cases
Prudhvi_vegesna •Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill which seeks to increase the number of Supreme Court judges from the present 30 to 33 with a view to reducing pendency of cases.
Days after CJI Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Narendra Modi, Cabinet increases strength of Supreme Court judges from 31 to 34
•The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved increasing the number of judges in the Supreme Court from the present 30 to 33, excluding the chief justice.
Attributing political colours to judgments and attacking judges in media is contempt of gravest form: Supreme Court
Fp Staff •The Supreme Court came down heavily on activist lawyers for attacking judges and attributing political colours to judgments, calling it the contempt of gravest form.
Justice Kurian Joseph to retire today: SC judge, who authored 1,034 judgments, was part of triple talaq, Nagraj verdict
Fp Staff •Justice Kurian Joseph, one of the seniormost judges of the Supreme Court of India, is set to retire on Friday. He is also the tenth on the list of judges at the apex court who have authored the maximum amount of judgments.
Law ministry notifies appointments of four high court chief justices to Supreme Court; judges to be sworn in today
•Four high court chief justices, Hemant Gupta, Ajay Rastogi, MR Shah and R Subhash Reddy, were on were elevated to the Supreme Court within 48 hours of the collegium recommending their names to the government
Supreme Court Collegium recommends four justices for elevation to bolster bench strength ahead of retirements
Fp Staff •The Supreme Court Collegium took into consideration seniority, merit and geographical representation in making the four recommendations to the government.
Brett Kavanaugh versus Christine Blasey Ford in next week's likely showdown: All you need to know about this battle of optics and truth in US election season
•The congressional showdown taking shape between Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexual assault is a battle of optics as much as truth, and it comes at the height of campaign season.
Brett Kavanaugh nomination chaos: Donald Trump drops civil tone, slams accuser Christine Blasey Ford's credibility
•Abandoning his previous restraint, US president Donald Trump challenged by name the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault on Friday, declaring that if the alleged attack was so terrible she would have reported it to law enforcement.
Americans are having a good laugh over the Brett Kavanaugh circus as this wildcard explodes into midterm election calculations
Nikhila Natrajan •Recent polling already has the Republicans on the ropes among younger college educated women. The Kavanaugh story will only deepen the cultural chasm. ““The Republican college-educated woman is done...They’re gone. They were going anyway at some point in time. Trump triggers them”, Trump’s exiled chief strategist Steve Bannon said long before Kavanaugh was anywhere on the scene.
Donald Trump says Brett Kavanaugh 'not a man that deserves this' as accusations fly over sexual assault; showdown hearing not yet finalised
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