{"id":203229,"date":"2025-07-25T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-confirms-cllr-boakai-kanneh-as-associate-justice-of-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:33:49","slug":"liberia-senate-confirms-cllr-boakai-kanneh-as-associate-justice-of-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-confirms-cllr-boakai-kanneh-as-associate-justice-of-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senate Confirms Cllr. Boakai Kanneh As Associate Justice of Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><strong>CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia<\/strong> &#8212; The Liberian Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Cllr. Boakai Kanneh as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court following a recommendation from its Judiciary, Human Rights, Claims, and Petition Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Twenty-three senators voted in favor of the confirmation during plenary, with no votes against and no abstentions&#8211;surpassing the constitutional two-thirds threshold required for such appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The confirmation followed a motion by Maryland County Senator J&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia &#8212; The Liberian Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Cllr. Boakai Kanneh as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court following a recommendation from its Judiciary, Human Rights, Claims, and Petition Committee. Twenty-three senators voted in favor of the confirmation during plenary, with no votes against and no abstentions&#8211;surpassing the constitutional two-thirds threshold required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,27472,7324,8412,6824,6185,6852,51953,4712,1107,257,8115,254,9498],"class_list":["post-203229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-associate","tag-boakai","tag-cllr","tag-confirms","tag-court","tag-justice","tag-kanneh","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}