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chief justice

NOUN
  1. the judge who presides over a supreme court

How To Use chief justice In A Sentence

  • For the southeastern district, assistant, thirty-six hundred Southeastern dollars; second assistant, three thousand dollars; deputy district attorney, such compensation as shall be fixed by the district attorney, with the approval of the chief justice of the superior court. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
  • The chief justice of the United States serves as judge. If two-thirds of the senators find the president guilty, he can be removed from office.
  • The ruling of the Lord Chief Justice that a book written with pure intention and meant to convey useful knowledge might yet be obscene, drew from me a pamphlet entitled, β€œIs the Bible Indictable?”, in which I showed that the Bible came clearly within the judge's ruling. Autobiographical Sketches
  • On Monday, senators took their oaths as jurors before the Supreme Court's chief justice for Brown's impeachment trial.
  • Jonathan won his own four-year mandate in elections last month, and took the oath of office Sunday from Nigerian Chief Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.
  • She told the court she feared her client might suffer as a consequence of the Lord Chief Justice's new guidelines.
  • CONAN: So the well, except for the chief justice, no matter what his seniority is sits in the middle. More At Stake In Midterms Than Control Of Congress
  • Highly respected, he was tipped at one point to become lord chief justice. Times, Sunday Times
  • In his case, on appeal, the Chief Justice for the first time ruled that the defence of chance medley that downsized murder to manslaughter could not be pleaded under British law.
  • He was appointed to the federal bench by President Clinton and picked by the Chief Justice to serve on the spy court.
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