National
Supreme Court of Justice
- Spanish: Suprema Corte de Justicia
Governs Dominican Republic
Official website (poderjudicial.gob.do) Report a problem with this page
Source: constituteproject.org, checkedWho sits on it
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President of the Supreme Court of Justice
Appointed by the National Council of the Magistrature
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16 justices of the Supreme Court
Appointed by the National Council of the Magistrature
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Sources for who sits on it
- President of the Supreme Court of Justice constituteproject.org · checked
- Luis Henry Molina Peña as President of the Supreme Court of Justice poderjudicial.gob.do · checked
- Justice of the Supreme Court poderjudicial.gob.do · checked
What it can do
- Apex of the ordinary judiciary
Superior jurisdictional organ of all judicial bodies; sole-instance trial of criminal cases against the President, legislators, ministers and high judges, and last-resort appeals. Arts. 152, 154.
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Sources for what it can do
- Apex of the ordinary judiciary constituteproject.org · checked
Sources
- constituteproject.org · checked Constitute Project, Dominican Republic 2015 Constitution (English translation of the 2015 text), read 2026-10-12: Art. 152: Supreme Court of Justice For: Supreme Court of Justice
- poderjudicial.gob.do · checked Poder Judicial, Despacho del Presidente / Jueces de la Suprema Corte, read 2026-10-12: official Spanish name For: Supreme Court of Justice in Spanish
- constituteproject.org · checked Constitute Project, Dominican Republic 2015 Constitution (English translation of the 2015 text), read 2026-10-12: Arts. 152, 154 For: Apex of the ordinary judiciary
- constituteproject.org · checked Constitute Project, Dominican Republic 2015 Constitution (English translation of the 2015 text), read 2026-10-12: Art. 180 For: President of the Supreme Court of Justice
- poderjudicial.gob.do · checked Poder Judicial, Despacho del Presidente / Jueces de la Suprema Corte, read 2026-10-12: Court composition of 17 judges including the president For: Justice of the Supreme Court
- poderjudicial.gob.do · checked Poder Judicial, Despacho del Presidente / Jueces de la Suprema Corte, read 2026-10-12: current president; start date not stated on the page For: Luis Henry Molina Peña as President of the Supreme Court of Justice
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