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- noun A court of law which represents the highest
legal authority within ajurisdiction .
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Examples
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The army has staged four coups in the past, but this time, its instrument is a blatantly partisan supreme court, which is attempting to force an elected government to resign.
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In my mind, and I think, the minds of most Americans and even the rest of the world, an appeal to the supreme court is the final, ultimate appeal and the decision is the final decision.
Rob Kall: Taking A Lost Case to the Supreme Court-- Three Times? 2009
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The supreme court has been the cockpit for close-quarter ideological combat since the South and Richard Nixon declared war on the judiciary in the late 1960s.
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In my mind, and I think, the minds of most americans and even the rest of the world, an appeal to the supreme court is the final, ultimate appeal and the decision is the final decision.
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He did not point out that the supreme court was a negative agent, he was pointing out that the Constitution is a negative rights document, which it is: the Constitution specifically LIMITS the rights of GOVERNMENT and how it may impose it's rule on the populace.
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In my mind, and I think, the minds of most americans and even the rest of the world, an appeal to the supreme court is the final, ultimate appeal and the decision is the final decision.
Printing: Taking A Lost Case to the Supreme Court-- Three Times? 2009
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The Supreme Court ruled against the president, the president lost and was arrested, the supreme court is the most qualified party to make that ruling, ergo, their ruling was correct.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Release the Koh Memorandum on Honduras 2009
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So I don ` t know why you ` re stirring up all this hysteria and trying to get people to call the supreme court of Texas.
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Most of them understand that–at least since roe–the supreme court is a legislative body.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Amendment Cert Petition: 2007
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They're also demanding that the judiciary benches -- that is, the supreme court and the high courts that have been dissolved -- that they are restored and that elections are held as soon as possible.
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