Sentences with phrase «liberal judges on»

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

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).

Not exact matches

When President Bush nominated Judge Clarence Thomas to a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, liberals opposed to confirming the nomination at first directed critical scrutiny to statements the nominee had made in favor of employing «natural law» in constitutional interpretation.

With the assistance of a massive lobbying effort on the part of liberal interest groups, Bork's detractors prevailed and Judge Bork did not obtain the position for which he was so eminently qualified.

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Overall, judging by the rapturous applause he received, Miliband was in sublime form: dynamic, incisive, intelligent (a man who can quote the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia and apply it to the current foreign policy debate between those who oppose liberal interventionism based on the principle of nation state sovereignty and those who support it based on the natural rights of individuals superseding that sovereignty certainly deserves this accolade) and even at times funny.

Chief Judge Roberts decision to side with the four liberals on the court was blasted by conservative blogs.

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.

On our liberal - conservative spectrum, the Republicans» payoff for approving a nominee will be 100 minus the Justice's liberalness score score, so a super conservative judge (0) gives them a payoff of 100 (i.e. 100 — 0).

He said: «There is a view now in many parts of the world that the only way to ensure prosperity and stability is to suppress freedom to crack down on pesky NGOs and irritating journalists and independent judges and generally to deprecate the western liberal consensus about how a society should be ordered.

And the liberal - leaning judge Rebecca Dallet won a spot on the state Supreme Court.

«We're not talking about Ruth Bader Ginsberg, we're not talking about Elena Kagan,» said Bonventre, who says based on previous opinions, he'd characterize the new judges as «moderately liberal.»

MPs agreed on the 28 - day limit as a compromise, with a judge reviewing the case every week, although the Liberal Democrats still insisted it was draconian.

Now, two Democrats running for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat in 2010 are seizing on the chance to score points with liberals and party activists - the kind of people who vote in Democratic primaries - by pledging to «to help lead the fight for the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.»

The Liberal Democrat negotiators also claimed that the Labour team, including Ed Balls, showed little interest in a deal, judging by their body language and a refusal to shift on fundamental issues.

For now, the effect of Trump's appointments on environmental policy is limited because his appointments have not tipped the balance of liberal and conservative judges in any of the key appeals courts, including the 9th Circuit in California that encompasses Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

This set him apart from his more - liberal colleagues, who viewed Brown v. Board of Education (1954) not as a prohibition on the use of racial classifications in education, but rather as a mandate for judges to do whatever they could to promote «equal educational opportunity.»

Judge Wood ruled that officials had not shown that the material on the test «accurately measured the minimum knowledge about the liberal arts and sciences that teachers need to be competent.»

The study, according to Duke, found a similar pattern in liberal - leaning gun - control proponents when judging data on certain violent crimes:

And the ultimate decision on validity will be made by a judge with a liberal arts degree.

To categorize think tanks as liberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republiberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republiberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / RepubLiberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republican).

The fact is that the judges» rulings on the Mann case are not some Liberal grab at your precious freedoms.

The facile pundits who claim Stevens is the Court's liberal hero or bum — depending on their point of view — overlook the fact that in 1987, Stevens publicly endorsed President Ronald Reagan's choice of archconservative Judge Robert Bork to replace Justice Lewis Powell Jr..

If one can dare to summarise so rich and lucid a lifetime's argument, Dworkin rejected both the traditional view, that judges must conform to established authority, and the belief of American liberals, that judges should seek to improve society, with a new emphasis on the judge's responsibility to uphold individual and collective morality.

Ally Ed Whelan, the very Voldemort to «liberal activist» judges and a former Scalia clerk, tossed his whole breadbasket in the National Review Online, to wit: «Richard A. Posner's Badly Confused Attack on Scalia / Garner» Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.

Otherwise the Supreme Court is telling 17 million British people that the whole thing was a waste of time and that the largest number of votes ever recorded on any issue in the history of the British Isles was in fact a bad joke played by the «liberal elite» on a public judged by them to be to dumb to know their own best interests!

The data you pulled at the outset on the length of the judge's previous trials might suggest just how liberal or strict the judge tends to be with the parties in trial.

We know from the high - crime era before mandatory minimums that liberal judges will abuse that discretion to go soft on serious offenders.

In an article in the Toronto Star, titled Russell Brown doesn't belong on the Supreme Court, a former law professor attacks Justice Brown based on two main themes: 1) He is not a liberal, so he can't be a good judge.

Judging by the backlogs in the courts, there are not enough judges and / or courtrooms to handle all the cases in a timely manner, which is a basic function of the state on any liberal view, whether classical or social - democratic.

Given that fact, liberals and conservatives alike argue, why not drop the pretense of apolitical judges and support or oppose nominees on the basis of their party label or ideology?

In recent years a marked division has arisen in the court between liberals and conservatives, usually with a few judges having a more flexible approach which may place them in one camp or the other depending on the particular issue at stake.

That is, if interveners are shifting judges in a more conservative or more liberal direction, it appears that interveners are shifting the members of the Court as a bloc or, alternatively, not so far or so differentially as to cause judges to occupy a different ranking in policy space vis - à - vis his or her colleagues on the Court.

[48] An elections judge noted that it was «immediately apparent that cheating the system would scarcely require the talents of Professor Moriarty... the leader of the Liberal Democrats on Birmingham Council [stated]: «the system invites fraud».»

For example, a friend of mine works for a well - known liberal digital media company that uses Greenhouse ATS for its recruiting (note: I disapprove highly of using any ATS), but they require and judge their applicants on the quality of their cover letters.

I realize I was ignorant going in and too trusting, too liberal to want to judge based on various factors.