Thesaurus results for SUPREME COURTS

supreme courts

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plural of supreme court

as in high courts

the highest court of law in a country or U.S. state Supreme Court justices

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Recent Examples of supreme courts Though many Hungarian judges and prosecutors faithfully carry out their duties, judicial leadership — including the heads of the constitutional and supreme courts — should be replaced to restore trust and impartiality, said Martin of Transparency International Hungary. —

ABC News, 18 May 2026 Under the federal constitution, states and their supreme courts are the ultimate judges of state law. —

Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 15 May 2026 Under the federal constitution, states and their supreme courts are the ultimate judges of state law. —

Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026 The professional embarrassments even take place at the level of state supreme courts. —

Martin Kaste, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026 In contrast to the Second Circuit, the Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, and several state supreme courts all have held that confrontation requires face-to-face confrontation. —

Robert Anello, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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Located just 2 miles away from the former insurance building that housed the residual mechanism, the ICC was set up as a permanent, global court to prosecute humanity’s worst crimes and forestall the need to create ad hoc tribunals for every conflict.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 May 2026
But through a series of deft legal maneuvers—joined to the ever more ambitious self-concepts of some international legal tribunals—Mauritius was able to win a second legal victory at another international tribunal, for the law of the sea.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026