Sentences with phrase «liberal justices of the supreme court»

Indeed, not all that long ago liberal Justices of the Supreme Court were accusing the State of Indiana of shredding the First Amendment by enforcing public nudity laws against table top dancers at the Kitty Kat Lounge in downtown South Bend.

Not exact matches

The Virginia residents challenging their state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative distrcourt ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative distrCourt decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four more liberal justices to order a review of state legislative districts.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — a member of the court's liberal wing during his 35 years on the bench — called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in an op - ed piece published in the New York Times TueCourt Justice John Paul Stevens — a member of the court's liberal wing during his 35 years on the bench — called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in an op - ed piece published in the New York Times Tuecourt's liberal wing during his 35 years on the bench — called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in an op - ed piece published in the New York Times Tuesday.

And the incompetence displayed goes beyond that of Solicitor General Verrilli, but extends to several of the meaning - to - help - his - case comments by some of the liberal Supreme Court Justices themselves.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Liberals who are dismayed by the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should cheer up.

As the end of the U.S. Supreme Court term approaches, rumors of retirement have ramped up around Justice Anthony Kennedy, a pivotal judge who often bridges a gap on the bench between conservatives and liberals.

Scalia's death death will complicate the work of the Supreme Court's eight remaining justices for the rest of their term, probably change the outcomes of some major cases and, for the most part, amplify the power of its four - member liberal wing.

«And he has stated that his goal is to stack the Supreme Court with liberal Justices who will drive a stake through the heart of our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, if he is re-elected.»

This lawsuit was filed by a variety of liberal groups, most notably the Washington Educators Association, the state teachers union, who also happened to be major campaign contributors to every Supreme Court justice who sided with their organization.

A Supreme Court ruling that a church - run preschool must be granted publicly funded tire scraps for its playground seemed on Monday to be narrowly drawn, attracting even the votes of two of the court's liberal justices, Elena Kagan and Stephen G. BrCourt ruling that a church - run preschool must be granted publicly funded tire scraps for its playground seemed on Monday to be narrowly drawn, attracting even the votes of two of the court's liberal justices, Elena Kagan and Stephen G. Brcourt's liberal justices, Elena Kagan and Stephen G. Breyer.

In October, exactly two decades after Justice William J. Brennan Jr. retired from the Supreme Court, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish a new biography of him, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, written by journalists Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel.

With Justice Cromwell's surprise decision to resign this September, the Federal Liberals promising reform of Supreme Court appointments, and recent media discussion around the political edges of judicial appointments, The Law Society of BC yesterday offered recommendations to Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybould promoting four core principles for the judicial appointment process.

Bellemare and other jurists are calling on Quebec Liberal Justice Minister Jean - Marc Fournier to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.

A review of the long line of Supreme Court decisions descending from Chief Justice Dickson's and Mr. Justice LaForest's decision in Sparrow in 1990 shows a Court that began its consideration of these matters by describing s. 35 (1) «as a promise» and that promises needed to be considered with a liberal and generous purposive interpretation.

This blawg is a companion to Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, which was released Monday, Oct. 4, 2010, the first day of the U.S. Supreme Court term.

Among the opinions offered on the case by this country's jurisprudes, Michael Geist has pointed out how Justice Phelan's ruling runs contrary to a recent series of Supreme Court decisions that have taken «a broad, liberal approach to fair dealing,» and he imagines that the appeal could makes its way to the Supreme Court.

In the 1960s, Claude Wagner — the father of current Supreme Court justice Richard Wagner — was a judge, then a Quebec politician and cabinet minister, then after losing the Quebec Liberal leadership to Robert Bourassa in 1970, Wagner returned to the bench but then stepped down from the bench again to enter federal politics as a Conservative.

It is also acknowledged that Justice Minister Jody Wilson - Raybould stated, on behalf of the Government of Canada at the Assembly of First Nations Annual General Meeting in Niagara Falls in July 2016, that the Liberal Government policy is to anticipate how Aboriginal and Treaty Rights will eventually be articulated by the Supreme Court of Canada so as to act accordingly, by establishing policies that «fill the section 35 rights box» in advance of slow and expensive Indigenous rights decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — a member of the court's liberal wing during his 35 years on the bench — called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in an op - ed piece published in the New York Times TueCourt Justice John Paul Stevens — a member of the court's liberal wing during his 35 years on the bench — called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in an op - ed piece published in the New York Times Tuecourt's liberal wing during his 35 years on the bench — called for the repeal of the Second Amendment in an op - ed piece published in the New York Times Tuesday.