Sentences with phrase «judges over politicians»

And it is indeed a «foolish» politician who challenges this thinking in today's political climate (unless he isn't a coward) because he will earn the wrath of the likes of FoE, who position themselves as judges over politicians and policy.

Not exact matches

If political leaders differ with judges over existing law, Gorsuch wrote, politicians always had a clear constitutional remedy: «It's called legislation.

Not a quick - fix change that papers over the cracks and protects the status quo; not a change that says «our cuts are better than yours», but change that leads to politicians being judged on how they treat people.

«I hope the sentence I'm going to impose on you will make the next politician hesitate just long enough before taking a bribe or a kickback, for his better angels to take over,» Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni told the ashen - faced former Albany power broker.

As he probed News International's extensive dealings with leading politicians over five premierships, extensive and sometimes cosy (Labour slumber parties, Tory country suppers and borrowed police horses), the judge detected «patterns of behaviour» suggesting that public policy decisions were also sometimes traded for favourable treatment in Fleet Street.

Although she refused a defense request to dismiss charges, the judge added, «The U.S. attorney, while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge of the rules governing his own conduct that defendant Sheldon Silver has a nonfrivolous argument that he fell over the edge to the defendant's prejudice.»

Here's how it works: Over the course of a week, students grapple with a dilemma faced by someone like a judge, a school superintendent, or a politician.

I don't believe I have become more conservative since then, although judging by the attacks on me over the last decade or so by the Murdoch press, the fossil fuel lobby and various right - wing politicians, I must be more dangerous.

The posts and columns have been written by nearly 200 people over the years: lawyers, librarians, judges, consultants, scholars, and politicians.

Roberts took pains to separate his role of judge and arbiter from that of the politicians who will publicly interview him over the next few days.

Unlike laws allowing legislatures to override court rules or giving politicians more control over judicial selection, recusal rules govern the ethics of judges, and they are only necessary in states in which the high courts have failed to respond adequately to the swelling tide of campaign cash.

At the Lord Mayor's annual dinner for the judges in the City of London, Lord Philips also defended British judges from some of the often harsh criticism they have run into recently over criminal trial verdicts various politicians as well as the populist British tabloids felt were too lenient.