Sentences with phrase «justices in the majority»

Justice Thomas, who is black, was one of the five justices in the majority.

Three of the four justices in the majority have since left the court.

Ultimately, the five justices in the majority all fell back on a common argument to justify their position.

«Why not speculate that the five justices in the majority happen to like baseball — and therefore are more inclined to appreciate rules?

«All five justices in the majority in Gonzales are Catholic.

Not exact matches

In his 68 - page finding, Chen was careful to note that saying the plaintiffs constitute a class — one that potentially now includes a majority of Uber's 160,000 U.S. - based drivers — doesn't say anything about whether those plaintiffs have justice on their side when it comes to the merit of their suit.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

In his dissent, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that the Constitution «had nothing to do with» that ruling by the court majority.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, a dissenter in 2012, was part of the majority on Thursday.

Writing in the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia explained, «California has singled out the purveyors of video games for disfavored treatment — at least when compared to booksellers, cartoonists and movie producers — and has given no persuasive reason why.»

U.S. President Donald Trump will replace his executive order suspending travel from seven Muslim - majority countries «in the near future,» according to a Justice Department court filing on Thursday.

The Justice Department under President Obama blocked AT&T from buying T - Mobile (tmus) in 2011 and signaled similar opposition was likely when Sprint's (s) majority owner, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, expressed an interest in T - Mobile in 2014.

Justice Kennedy's majority opinion said that there was no principled way to distinguish between media corporations and other corporations and that the dissent's theory would allow Congress to suppress political speech in newspapers, on television news programs, in books and on blogs.

Joined by the other three members of the court's liberal wing, Justice Stevens said the majority had committed a grave error in treating corporate speech the same as that of human beings.

In bold and sweeping Reasons for Judgment on behalf of a 5 - 2 majority, Justice Rosalie Abella overturned the Court's previous jurisprudence and recognized a constitutionally protected right to strike under section 2 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The announcement came a day after Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, after she announced she had directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend the president's temporary travel ban on seven majority - Muslim countries in court.

Most Supreme Court watchers are predicting that a majority of justices will side with the petitioner — Mark Janus, a child support specialist for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services — against labor in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.

In the name of «a flexible approach tailored to the modern conception of federalism, which allows for some overlapping and favours a spirit of co?operation» (at para 93) and an approach that is consistent with the presumption of validity, Justice Gascon clearly favoured a more deferential and «delicate» approach to the assessment of pith and substance than did the majority.

Obama says he believes in an individual right to keep and bear arms, but if even one of the non-liberal Justices is replaced by an Obama appointee, you can be sure that we will have an anti-Heller and anti-individual right majority on the Supreme Court.

The fact is there are already plenty of churches in America, arguably the majority of them in this country, that emphasize social justice, acceptance of LGBT, and «letting science to its thing» — I'm talking about the mainline liberal churches.

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She suggested that the five justices who formed the majority - all of whom are Catholic - don't understand what it's like to belong to a minority faith in America.

The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».

This means, of course, engaging in difficult and complex decisions of justice and care, as we seek to determine the economic, social, political, and cultural rights of individuals in our own species and as we pay attention to the rights of the silent, nonvoting majority which is made up of all the other species.

It would seem that a majority of Americans are in favor of decriminalizing the recreational use of pot, and the Department of Justice has advised federal prosecutors that possession of a small amount of it is not an....

«She suggested that the five justices who formed the majority — all of whom are Catholic — don't understand what it's like to belong to a minority faith in America.»

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

Despite the many failures of white - majority churches to take action in this area, the gospel has tremendous resources for seeking justice and peace across racial divisions.

The Chief Justice, in dissent, complained about the majority's «entirely gratuitous» aspersions against supporters of traditional marriage: «It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same - sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority's «better informed understanding» as bigoted.»

With the old presuppositions having fallen away, there will be no limits to rights claims, other than the fiat of whoever is in power — most likely a majority of Supreme Court justices.

In the majority opinion, Justice Byron White argued that the right to privacy does not extend to same - gender sexual activity, even when confined to the home.

In the season finale, the justices delivered split opinions in two cases that had not even been fully briefed and argued on the merits — one about President Trump's limits on immigration from six majority - Muslim nations, the other about the right of a female same - sex spouse to be listed as a parent on a birth certificate alongside the birth motheIn the season finale, the justices delivered split opinions in two cases that had not even been fully briefed and argued on the merits — one about President Trump's limits on immigration from six majority - Muslim nations, the other about the right of a female same - sex spouse to be listed as a parent on a birth certificate alongside the birth mothein two cases that had not even been fully briefed and argued on the merits — one about President Trump's limits on immigration from six majority - Muslim nations, the other about the right of a female same - sex spouse to be listed as a parent on a birth certificate alongside the birth mother.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

Whereas the Church should be a prophetic voice for justice and peace and the integrity of creation, this globalization invites the Church to neglect the core message of the Gospel, to legitimize this social order based on greed and injustice to the majority of humanity and is racist in defending the present European - made world order.

But in his majority opinion, Justice Robert Jackson changed the subject.

Against this background readers may perceive the cruel irony in Justice Brennan's opinion for the Supreme Court majority, holding the Louisiana «balanced treatment» statute unconstitutional because the creationists who promoted it had a «religious purpose.»

Justice Harry Blackmun, who had been counsel for the Mayo Clinic, wrote much of the majority opinion in Roe at the Mayo Clinic library.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

Though Justice Brennan waxed eloquent about intermediate associations in Bowen v. Gilliard, where the majority had given weight to «tradition» in preferring formal to informal family arrangements, he kept his enthusiasm well under wraps in the Adolescent Family Life Act case.

Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples «ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

Three of the five justices in the Hardwick majority have been replaced, and the decision appears to be, as Judge Reinhardt eagerly pointed out, at odds with the rationale behind the Casey decision.

In assessing the legal prospects for mediating structures, I have mentioned the technique employed by Congress in the Adolescent Family Life Act, the receptiveness of the majority of the Supreme Court Justices in Bowen v. Kendrick toward that technique, and the openness even of the dissenting Justices to accord weight to the protection of intermediate associations as such under certain circumstanceIn assessing the legal prospects for mediating structures, I have mentioned the technique employed by Congress in the Adolescent Family Life Act, the receptiveness of the majority of the Supreme Court Justices in Bowen v. Kendrick toward that technique, and the openness even of the dissenting Justices to accord weight to the protection of intermediate associations as such under certain circumstancein the Adolescent Family Life Act, the receptiveness of the majority of the Supreme Court Justices in Bowen v. Kendrick toward that technique, and the openness even of the dissenting Justices to accord weight to the protection of intermediate associations as such under certain circumstancein Bowen v. Kendrick toward that technique, and the openness even of the dissenting Justices to accord weight to the protection of intermediate associations as such under certain circumstances.

Such an imaginary circumstance might be democratic in the sense that it would reflect the majority will, but it would violate the freedom and justice at the heart of Catholic social doctrine.

In 1994, in a first amendment case, Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that «government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion.&raquIn 1994, in a first amendment case, Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that «government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion.&raquin a first amendment case, Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that «government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion.»

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

As soon as a solid majority of the country is ready to act against the courts, the President and the Congress can get together to appoint enough new Justices to put the courts back in their proper place.

In his own dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas argues that «the majority's decision threatens the religious liberty our Nation has long sought to protect.»

Below is what the justices said in today's majority opinion and four dissents, as well as a summary of related survey data.

Usually one finds among all four humanisms greater moral sensitivity about problems of justice and peace, about reconciliation between races and nations, than one finds in the Moral Majority.

Nonetheless, we may also hold that so far as public policy is concerned in a pluralistic society, justice is best served by a Madisonian approach that thwarts the tyranny of the majority.