US Supreme Court – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:37:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png US Supreme Court – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 Venezuela’s Dictator Hugo Chavez Packed the Courts https://onvenezuela.com/venezuelas-dictator-hugo-chavez-packed-the-courts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuelas-dictator-hugo-chavez-packed-the-courts Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:37:48 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=6193

“If [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell] holds a vote [on a Supreme Court nominee] in 2020, we pack the court in 2021. It’s that simple,” Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., said the weekend Ginsburg died. As a Venezuelan, this is not the first time I have seen an authoritarian measure like this. Changing the rules also was a strategy of Hugo Chavez, the former president of Venezuela. By Carlos Ron. Full Text -> TheDailySignal

]]> Crystallex Tells Justices Venezuela Is Stalling On $1.4B Award https://onvenezuela.com/crystallex-tells-justices-venezuela-is-stalling-on-1-4b-award/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=crystallex-tells-justices-venezuela-is-stalling-on-1-4b-award Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:46:00 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=2679

Canadian mining company Crystallex has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Venezuela’s bid to have the court review a $1.4 billion arbitral award dispute, saying Venezuela hasn’t met the standards for review or presented any valid questions to the court. Full text -> Law360

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