{"id":381363,"date":"2022-12-12T06:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=381363"},"modified":"2022-12-12T06:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T20:06:01","slug":"judiciary-to-hold-10th-law-and-the-freshman-legislator-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/judiciary-to-hold-10th-law-and-the-freshman-legislator-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary to hold 10th Law and the Freshman Legislator Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Judiciary has scheduled the Law and the Freshman Legislator Seminar on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, during which judges of the NMI Judiciary and U.S. District Court will give several presentations to the newly elected members of the CNMI Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>All nine newly-elected legislators\u2014one senator and eight representatives\u2014have been invited to attend the program at the Guma\u2019 Hustisia. Those legislators are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senator-elect Dennis C. Mendiola (Rota)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Vincent S. Aldan (Saipan)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Diego F. Camacho (Saipan)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Manny T. Castro (Saipan)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Marissa Flores (Saipan)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Malcom Omar (Saipan)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Angelo A. Camacho (Saipan)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Thomas DLC Manglona (Saipan)<\/li>\n<li>Representative-elect Julie A. Ogo (Rota)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full program includes a lecture on the Covenant, the CNMI and U.S. constitutions, an overview of the judicial process, a discussion of common law, a presentation on legal research, and a roundtable discussion between newly-elected representatives and local and federal judges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are enthusiastically awaiting this year\u2019s Law and the Freshman Legislator Seminar,\u201d said Alexandro C. Castro, chief justice of the NMI Supreme Court. \u201cThe program has always been an excellent way for the judges and court staff to meet our new representatives and for those representatives to revisit the operations of the judicial branch of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Judiciary held the first installment of the seminar in 2004, and 80 legislators have participated since that time. Positive reviews of the program\u2019s informative and constructive nature have led to continued demand. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Judiciary has scheduled the Law and the Freshman Legislator Seminar on Friday, Jan. 6,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":381364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}