Sentences with phrase «liberal activism»

The surge of liberal activism in response to President Trump's election has transcended the divisions that some Democrats feared would cleave the party after its defeat in November.

She was nominated in 2011 by President Barack Obama to serve as a federal judge, but that appointment was blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate who complained of excessive liberal activism in her previous legal work.

Now that there is reason to hope for the imminent demise of left - liberal activism by the Supreme Court, we must ask what our real objection was to the era that seems to be passing.

But how the next several weeks play out in Albany — the intersection of liberal activism coming into its own with the Nixon challenge, a Democratic state Senate and a governor fending off a primary bid like he's never faced before — could have revelations on New York for years to come.

For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

Teachout may have long roots in liberal activism, but she was a newcomer to the W.F.P..

Given they live in one of the bluer states, anchored by a city with a long tradition of liberal activism, New Yorkers might have also assumed that their Senate would be more inclined to join the handful of other states where gay marriage is legal.