In the meantime, press gag laws remain in effect while leadership of the judiciary reform movement falls to a nascent civil society.
There are calls for greater improvement in areas such as independence of the judiciary, reform of public administration and freedom of expression in the media.
To understand how these conflicts block change, consider the government's current proposal to reform the judiciary.
He failed to reform the judiciary, or to cut the armed forces down to size.
Note this submission I made to the House Judiciary Committee on immigration reform.
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In this term the prime minister will have to show greater willingness to reform the judiciary, even in ways that give his critics more freedom to speak out, if he is to convince them that his commitment to democracy is heartfelt.
President Obama urged President Bongo Ondimba to take bold steps to root out corruption and to reform the judiciary and other key institutions to ensure the protection of human rights, and he welcomed the reforms that Gabon has taken under President Bongo Ondimba to bring more transparency and accountability to government.
That slender hope rests principally on reform of the judiciary and court system.
Mr Berlusconi began to have second thoughts about the proposals for reform of the judiciary, which in his view did not go far enough.
That's largely because powerful people in politics, business and the judiciary have repeatedly fended off reform to protect their interests and the people close to them.
And while we expressed concern at the time that Mr. Leung's policies on education, health care, land reform and the judiciary might eventually turn Hong Kong into just another Chinese city, he surprised us by advising Beijing against implementing a "patriotic education" curriculum in Hong Kong's state-funded schools, and we praised him for it.
Opponents claimed that he wanted to inflict a defeat on the judiciary ahead of a law reform later this year, and that he also hoped to cow the president as part of a broader strategy aimed at taking over the presidency himself and giving Italy what his admirers say would be a more decisive form of presidential government.
Officials say that success will turn in part on another planned reform, of the judiciary, the details of which they are discussing with the judges.
Last week I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the need to reform our immigration system so that we recruit and retain the most talented entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world.
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Secretary General Hussein Ibrahim of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Brotherhood, said the judiciary is not immune to demands for reform, insisting that judges responsible for rigging elections under the former regime or those who accepted bribes should be held to account.
He urged the population to vote against the ratification of the reform and urged Congress and the judiciary to restore the people's rights.
He has since steadily trimmed the powers of both the army and the judiciary, most recently in a constitutional-reform package that was put to a popular referendum last September.
In December, many of the same people also signed a strongly worded open letter demanding political reform within China, including an independent judiciary and meaningful democratic change.
There already are several ongoing congressional inquiries, and the commission would not replace the investigations being conducted by the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Perhaps but it has also shown how much reform is still needed in the police and judiciary.
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill on Tuesday, sending the measure to the Senate floor for consideration and giving the bill's backers their first major legislative victory.
If part of the point is to equip the judiciary to handle the demands of a modern economy, both silent reform and the government's vocal one, ambitious as it is, fall short.
Yet reform was slow to reach the colonies, and a corrupt judiciary was one of the abuses that led to the Revolution.
If it is to be "action stations, " let it be through reform - a cleansing of politics, the bureaucracy and the judiciary so that we attain democracy and rule of law.
"The legislation that passed the Judiciary Committee with a strong bipartisan vote is largely consistent with the principles of commonsense reform I have proposed and meets the challenge of fixing our broken immigration system, " he said in a statement.
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Leahy said he plans two hearings on Friday and Monday to refine the immigration reform package to take to the Senate floor.
The Judiciary Committee "has already held several widely-attended hearings to examine the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform, " Leahy said in an April 2 statement.
And two backers of immigration reform have emerged as key players since Congress took up the issue last week with hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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