Given the behaviour of parts of the press over the past few years, and given the prime minister's decision to appoint a judge to shine so unflinching a light on it, something akin to what was agreed yesterday was always the probable outcome.
Last week he told an anti-abortion rally in Washington that he would sign a bill banning late-term abortions, and has hinted that if a Supreme Court vacancy arises, he will appoint a Conservative judge who may vote to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade case which legalised abortion in the United States.
In the trial, now under way in federal court, people who were detained have asked a judge to appoint a monitor for the police department.
The civil rights lawyers want a federal judge to appoint an outside monitor to oversee the NYPD's intelligence-gathering operations, which the police department is strongly resisting.
For example, without a living will and proper powers of attorney, your family might have to go through costly court proceedings to get a judge to appoint someone to make medical decisions for you.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is set to ask a U.S. bankruptcy court judge to appoint an independent examiner with expanded powers to investigate the company's collapse and potential conflicts of interest in the case.
If he decided that a voting station, a hospital, a prison or any other state organisation was not being properly run, he used his power as a judge to appoint someone of his own choice to take charge.
The law, first passed by Congress in a wave of post-Watergate reforms in 1978, allows a three-judge federal court panel to appoint special counsels to investigate allegations of possible criminal behavior by top government officials.
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If we could appoint King Solomon, who was the first domestic relations judge, as a special master, we would do it.
The suspect's lawyers could renew their motion to appoint another death penalty expert if he is indicted, the judge said.
But with the Washington rumor mill saying Clinton will appoint her Chief Justice if Rehnquist retires, it could be a hard time for any judge in her position to rule against the President in a major case.
Separately, the SEC intends to ask Judge Arthur Gonzalez of the U.S. bankruptcy court in New York to appoint an independent examiner with wider power to investigate Enron's downfall and the potential conflicts of interest between investment banks--some of the largest creditors of the company--and its other creditors.
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