Yet things may improve after a decision by the Federal Court of Justice on February 8th.

然而，2月8日联邦法院作出裁决后，情况可能会出现转机。

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Some Texan Republicans are already musing about bypassing the Department of Justice, and obtaining the necessary approval of their electoral maps from a federal court instead.

一些德克萨斯州共和党成员已经开始考虑绕过司法部，争取联邦法院批准选区地图。

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Earlier this month the German Federal Court of Justice ruled the New York Times could be sued in Germany for defamation arising from the online version of an article that appeared in the newspaper.

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The split between the president and his No. 2 deepened when Bush refused to pardon Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, after a federal court convicted him of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators in the probe of the leak of the name of a CIA operative.

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But in a sharply worded editorial Sunday, The New York Times called for the impeachment of Jay Bybee, a federal appeals court judge who was a Justice Department official when he wrote one of the memos that authorized those techniques.

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