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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his allies pressed their claims Thursday that election officials have allowed ballot fraud to infect the counting process in the battleground states poised to decide the presidency, but they offered no evidence of irregularities and met with two immediate defeats in court.

Federal judges nominated by President Donald Trump have largely ruled against efforts to loosen voting rules in the 2020 campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic and sided with Republicans seeking to enforce restrictions, underscoring Trump's impact in reshaping the judiciary.

The Judicial Commission has approved a request by lower court judges to wear medical masks while presiding over cases to keep themselves from contracting Covid-19 that could possibly be spread by people in the courtroom, Supreme Court President Salaiket Wattanapan said on Monday (March 16).

The Doi Suthep Forest Reclamation Network has raised funds for a prominent member facing defamation suits and insists the legal challenges will not hamper its fight against the housing estate for judges and judicial staff built on the slopes of the mountain in Chiang Mai.

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Judges have been cleaning their own toilets for several weeks now, as janitors have gone on strike after not being paid by the contractor.

A US judge on Thursday dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by New York that had sought damages from five multinational oil corporations for contributing to climate change.

THE National Legislative Assembly (NLA) yesterday overwhelmingly approved in principle a government motion seeking salary increases for judges, public prosecutors and members of independent organisations. The NLA’s first reading voted to pass amendments to five laws regulating personnel of the relevant agencies, as proposed by the Cabinet.

Forty environmentalist organisations will join forces to hold a mass rally in Chiang Mai downtown and a parallel “online demonstration” on Sunday morning to demand that the government demolish judges’ residences build on forested area on Doi Suthep mountain.

JUDGES OF the Supreme Court yesterday re-elected their two previous nominees for the Election Commission despite both of them having been rejected by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA).

Most of the five constitutional judge whose terms have expired want to quite even though they are allowed by the new organic bill to temporarily stay in office, Supoj Kaimook, a former Constitutional Court judge and writer of the bill, said on the weekend.

Judges from five other provinces in the Northeast were in Kalasin on Monday examining a pilot project that allows underprivileged defendants to remain free pending trial without the need to post bail. 

The Pheu Thai Party’s legal team yesterday petitioned the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to investigate whether Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Cabinet members had violated laws by appointing two of the Supreme Court judges who had ruled in the case against ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra to positions outside the court.