Sentences with phrase «by judicial fiat»

For like the practice of slavery, and like the Jim Crow laws of the not - so - distant past, the abortion issue raises the most fundamental questions of justice — questions that can not be avoided, and that can not be be resolved by judicial fiat.

Although only a few decades old, listening to today's Conservatives one might think the Charter was crafted in some law school ivory tower and imposed by judicial fiat onto an unsuspecting Parliament.

«Purer expression can not be found of rule by judicial fiat,» Scalia wrote.