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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

judges

Retired Supreme Court President Aharon Barak sworn in as Israel’s appointee to the bench at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, January 11, 2024. (ICJ)
June 6, 2024, 9:11 am
Aharon Barak resigns as Israeli ad hoc judge at ICJ for ‘personal reasons’
No replacement for Barak is immediately announced and officials tell media that Israel may not appoint a new representative to the World Court as it hears genocide case
By ToI Staff and Reuters
Judge Irving Kaufman (Kaufman Family Photo Collection)
May 26, 2024, 4:54 pm
Biography tries to move judge out from under shadow of controversial Rosenberg spy case
Irving R. Kaufman, remembered primarily for sending couple to electric chair, shifted over time from being almost unquestioningly pro-government to an upholder of individuals’ rights
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters walk from Columbia University down to Hunter College, May 6, 2024, in New York City. (SPENCER PLATT / Getty Images via AFP)
May 8, 2024, 5:28 pm
Conservative US federal judges announce boycott of Columbia Law School graduates
University promises backing for its alums in face of hiring freeze over pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests; insists they are ‘consistently sought out’
By Karen Sloan and Nate Raymond
Judge Greg Kreis in a reelection campaign video dated January 18, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a og the Copyright Law)
February 17, 2024, 8:37 am
California judge under investigation for alleged antisemitism, ethical violations
State agency charges Gregory Kreis on 19 counts, including calling deputy public defender ‘Jewboy;’ judge, who is running for reelection, slams ‘outright lies’
By Olga R. Rodriguez
Judges of the Jerusalem District Court take a seat for a hearing in the criminal trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 25, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Pool)
September 6, 2023, 11:28 pm
Case burden on courts ‘unparalleled’ worldwide, says Courts Administration director
Israel has a third the European average of judges per capita, but up to twice as many cases being heard by the courts
By Jeremy Sharon
Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 17, 2023, 12:44 am
Levin reportedly says he’s refusing to pause overhaul due to fears of prosecution
Justice minister said to tell political confidants he believes halting legislation would give state prosecutors an opportunity to frame him on trumped-up charges
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog at a ceremony in Tel Aviv, March 13, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 16, 2023, 11:44 am
After coalition rejects his proposal, Herzog insists it’s a starting point for talks
President says he accepts constructive criticism of his ‘People’s Framework’ for judicial overhaul ‘with love and great respect’
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog presents his proposed alternative framework on the judicial overhaul, on March 15, 2023 (Video screenshot)
March 15, 2023, 9:28 pm
Warning of civil war, Herzog unveils framework for judicial reform; PM rejects it
President says proposal preserves Israel as a Jewish democracy, ensures judicial independence; Netanyahu: It doesn’t bring the necessary balance, Gantz accepts it, Lapid weighs it
By ToI Staff
Director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his film, 'Based on a True Story,' in Krakow, Poland on May 2, 2018. (AP Photo/File)
July 18, 2022, 3:16 pm
Polanski fled US when judge planned to renege on teen sex assault case deal – lawyer
Film director left in 1978 during trial relating to sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl; presiding judge was swayed by publicity, Polanski’s lawyer claims
By brian melley
Aaron Mostofsky (in fur pelt) and a protester with the Confederate flag in the US Capitol Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
February 2, 2022, 8:56 pm
Aaron Mostofsky, pelt-wearing son of a Jewish judge, pleads guilty to Jan. 6 charges
Mostofsky, who wore fur pelts and a police bulletproof vest when he entered the US Capitol, faces up to 18 months in jail
By AP and JTA
Leondra Kruger, left, is sworn in as an associate justice to the California Supreme Court by Gov. Jerry Brown during an inauguration ceremony in Sacramento, California, Jan. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
January 28, 2022, 2:30 pm
Biden said he’ll nominate a Black woman to US Supreme Court. Who’s in the running?
Nine women thought to be leading candidates; potential nominees include Leondra Kruger, the daughter of a Jamaican mother and Jewish father
By Jessica Gresko and Colleen Long
Former Supreme Court justice Tzvi Tal at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 17, 2009. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
June 22, 2021, 11:31 am
Tzvi Tal, ex-Supreme Court justice who headed Haredi IDF draft panel, dies at 94
Religious judge’s recommendations were behind a later-nullified law that let yeshiva students delay military service; he convicted Nazi guard Demjanjuk, nuclear spy Vanunu
By Michael Bachner
A High Court of Justice hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on May 4, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)
June 10, 2021, 11:24 am
2020 saw sharp spike in threats, harassment of Israeli judges – report
Data shows judges filed 29 complaints last year over alleged harassment toward them, up nearly fivefold from 2019
By ToI Staff
Richard Bernstein, a justice on Michigan's state Supreme Court, has been stuck in Dubai since January 2021. (Asma Ali Zain/JTA)
April 10, 2021, 9:12 am
Blind Michigan Supreme Court justice en route to Israel gets stranded in Dubai
For the past two and a half months, Judge Richard Bernstein has held court while walking the famed Palm Jumeirah Boardwalk
By Asma Ali Zain
Supreme Court chief justice Shirley Abrahamson questions state attorney general J.B. Van Hollen, during arguments in Madison Teachers Inc. vs. Scott Walker, in the Wisconsin Supreme Court at the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, November 11, 2013. (M.P. King /Wisconsin State Journal via AP, Pool, File)
December 20, 2020, 11:30 pm
Longtime Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Abrahamson dies at 87
Death of the Jewish judge, who served as chief justice for a record 19 years, comes after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
By Scott Bauer
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