Sentences with phrase «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.

And, he has appointed a number of liberal judges to the courts in Massachusetts — consider the next POTUS may appoint as many as three in the next term.

Judges Judith Rogers and Harry Edwards, two of the more liberal judges on the D.C. Circuit, said no.

For example, if the US president says he will name liberal judges at supreme court, judges may want to favor liberal interpretation if they want to go to supreme court.

«If it wasn't for the Reoublican Senate»: A) you wouldn't have the SAFE Act B) you wouldn't have Common Core C) you wouldn't have a big Minimum Wage D) you wouldn't have Obamacare E) you wouldn't have confirmed liberal judges for the Court of Appeals

Then, regardless of the strength of a Democratic majority in the Senate, use 51 votes to fill EVERY Federal judgeship qwith the most liberal judge immaginable.

«One misguided liberal judge is endangering the safety of all New Yorkers,» McDonald wrote in a statement.

Informed by countless chilling anecdotes about the consequences of today's tenure and seniority policies, conservative and liberal judges alike may nod in agreement when the plaintiff's attorney argues soberly, «My client shouldn't be forced to fund an organization that advocates for such laws.»

«Christie's Lawyer Problem: Conservatives say he hasn't fought hard enough against liberal judges.»

Even among liberal judges, that position is extreme, and Donald said, his extreme, abortion - supporting sister would make a terrific Supreme Court justice.

For example, there is clear evidence that conservative judges (judges with low liberal voting rates) vote conservatively in the presence of conservative interveners, but so too do liberal judges.

Long, who recently served as counsel to a nonprofit called the Judicial Confirmation Network that opposed the nomination of liberal judges — including, most recently, the elevation of Sonia Sotomayor — said she was seeking to replace Gillibrand in order to return the country to its roots of limited constitutional government.

If the Ninth Circuit were to uphold the Hawaii court's ruling, an appeal to the Supreme Court would be complicated by its current makeup of four conservative and four liberal judges, with no ninth justice since the death of Antonin Scalia more than a year ago.

In that respect the liberal judges and their friends have it quite right.

The conservatives chose a different path: In a stroke of ingenuity, they would cut off the path of the liberal judges by forgoing moral reasoning altogether!

The concern of judicial conservatives was sparked by those liberal judges untethered from the discipline of the text, who would soar off to invent new «rights.»

So the liberal judge was doing his thing.

Liberal judges will be «activist» or «restrained» depending on what, in a given case, best serves whatever liberal cause is at issue.

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

He said, «Not that I agree with her, but she is a terrific, liberal judge.»

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.

Moreover, if the party of the appointing prime minister is taken as an indicator of ideology, liberal judges (judges appointed by Liberal prime ministers) vote more conservatively in the presence of conservative interveners and some conservative judges (such as Justice L'Heureux - Dubé, who was appointed by a Conservative prime minister) vote in a more liberal direction in the presence of a liberal intervener.

In a post where he appears to reveal more than his opinion of the numbers, Volokh writes, «This isn't some liberal judge on the Ninth Circuit slamming the immigration bureaucracy — it's a moderate conservative, citing many opinions from the Seventh Circuit (which has a reputation as being pretty sane).

However, you need to rely on your luck that your appeal will lodge on the desk of a liberal judge.

@Sean Brennan You only need to get challenged by one of our liberal Judges once.