Sentences with phrase «conservative judges»

The seminar has sought to address the hesitation of conservative judges to take natural law seriously and apply it in their cases.

The three conservative judges say the president is within his authority.

On this, conservative judges come in many stripes.

But there is nothing new about prime ministers appointing conservative judges.

She worked in the U.S. Senate, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has advocated for conservative judges for the group now known as the Judicial Crisis Network.

If the so - called conservative judges don't vote this way, they'll be (God help them) INCONSISTENT:

That's all the more imperative as President Donald Trump vows to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with conservative judges who will reverse the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

«From Conservative judges to health care reform and rebuilding our country's infrastructure, this is our time to transform America and make a long - term difference.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is dominated by conservative judges who take a narrow view of government regulatory authority.

For now, the effect of Trump's appointments on environmental policy is limited because his appointments have not tipped the balance of liberal and conservative judges in any of the key appeals courts, including the 9th Circuit in California that encompasses Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Wood was a notable exception to the stream of conservative judges nominated by Reagan's White House.

But the court's more conservative judges pressed Jadwat to say how long the taint of the campaign statements would last.

Prior to his judicial appointment by Bush, Gorsuch held a high - ranking Justice Department position and clerked for prominant conservative judges including Judge David Sentelle of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals as well as Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court, SCOTUSBlog wrote.

Samuel Goldman at The American Conservative judged our study «rhetorically provocative, intellectually shallow, and generally unsympathetic to reasonable concerns about social inclusion.»

Some of his own allies thought him unrealistic; many conservatives judged him subversive, and the FBI hounded and monitored him.

In his lower court decision upholding the health care law, conservative Judge Laurence Silberman (seen here getting the Congressional Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush) wrote

On our liberal - conservative spectrum, the Republicans» payoff for approving a nominee will be 100 minus the Justice's liberalness score score, so a super conservative judge (0) gives them a payoff of 100 (i.e. 100 — 0).

Progressive candidate Dallet defeated her opponent, conservative Judge Michael Screnock, 56 to 44 percent.

I've previously speculated about whether the typical deference to agency decisions might eventually lose its luster, not because conservative judges hate Chevron, but simply because courts might get tired of agencies under this Administration abusing their discretion.

Long, who has never held elected office, worked in the U.S. Senate, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has done political advocacy for conservative judges.

«From Conservative judges to healthcare reform and rebuilding our country's infrastructure, this is our time to transform America and make a long - term difference,» she said.

And yet that was never enough to shake the confidence of conservative judges that the appeal to tradition is valued precisely because it delivers a ground of judgment safely distant from the need to weigh the moral justifications for acts of legislation.

His presidency did not make much of a dent in the abortion rate, and even though he appointed conservative judges, Roe vs. Wade remained intact.

Ralph Reed, who heads Trump's religious advisory board, told the Post that «people of faith are voting on issues like who will protect unborn life, defend religious freedom, grow the economy, appoint conservative judges and oppose the Iran nuclear deal.»

The conservative judges on the other side have declined to offer any moral argument for marriage as we know it.

That the conservative judges should actually do such a thing does not involve any radical alteration in the «job description» of the justices.

The conservative judges tended to argue in this vein: The Constitution is silent on the matter of marriage; the judges are not in a position, then, to declare any «constitutional rights» on this subject emanating from the text or logic of the Constitution; and therefore this question should be left in the political arena for the people and their elected representatives to decide.

But that is not what the conservative judges say as they look back on the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia.

The conservative judges did not move seriously to that level until John Roberts's dissent in the Obergefell case.

There was nothing about marriage in the Constitution in 1967, but the Court struck down the laws barring marriage across racial lines, and no conservative judge now is prepared to say that the Court did the wrong thing.

It's true that there are liberal judges and conservative judges.

He says, «I would want a conservative judge,» LaFalce said.

But she does have something Turner doesn't: deep, longstanding ties into a national network of conservative contributors and activists, a vestige of her days lobbying for conservative judges.

But if Graffeo were replaced with a less conservative judge, then the court would shift from four conservative judges in the majority to four moderate to liberal judges.

But neither governor was able to shift the balance of the court, which remains at four conservative judges and three more liberal judges.

But you try finding a conservative judge who graduated from one of the nation's «elite» law schools.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

Legal experts note that judges» opinions in environmental cases won't necessarily fall strictly along ideological lines, but that conservative judges are often more likely to reject arguments calling for more regulation or trying to fit climate change rules within the existing Clean Air Act.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

As you begin to watch Stephen Gaghan's latest offering (Gaghan is well known for directing «Syriana» about a merger of two American oil companies and «Traffic» wherein a conservative judge finds that his daughter is a crack addict), you may wonder how that line could be justified.

If a state constitution contains language meant to stop government funds from going to religious or private institutions for education, conservative judges may feel constrained to rule against vouchers even though the funds go first to families rather than the religious organizations.

When news of Keller's phone call hit the press, it generated an uproar over the conservative judge, whom opponents have nicknamed «Sharon Killer.»

While some see it as a political witch hunt to oust a conservative judge, others see it as a corrective to an unjust system.

Judge Grasz is expected to be a conservative judge, and if the ABA is correct, potentially one that is a little too passionate.