Sentences with phrase «appoint liberal justices»

If Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders) is elected, she will appoint a liberal justice to replace Scalia.

Not exact matches

King and others in the movement found themselves turning to judges appointed by Eisenhower for justice and to liberal Republicans (remember them?)

As long as there is a legacy bonus, Obama prefers a slightly more centrist justice that he can appoint to a more liberal one that he successor might appoint.

[17] When the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition formed the Government in 2010, Blunt was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.

In the six years ending in 1998, for instance, more than two - thirds of the clerks for three liberal justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David H. Souter and John Paul Stevens — had first clerked for appeals court judges appointed by Democratic presidents.

Former minister of public safety, health and justice in the Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin and also a former law professor at the University of Alberta, Anne McLellan most recently was appointed chairwoman of the Task Force on the Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis, the panel that submitted recommendations to the federal government on the design of a new system to legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access to cannabis.

In 1947, a joint Senate - Commons Committee on a Bill of Rights was set up, largely in response to a resolution from a UN agency, calling on member countries to consider what we would later call an «entrenched» bill of rights, chaired by Senator Leon M. Gouin (Liberal, De Salaberry), a noted scholar and J.L. Ilsley MP, later to be appointed Minister of Justice.