Sentences with phrase «liberal justice policy»

Not exact matches

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

Niebuhr said that the relevant norm for political decisions and social policy is not love, as the liberals had claimed, but justice.

Under the liberal policy of the empire, which allowed a fair degree of local autonomy, the Sanhedrin exercised wide jurisdiction as a court of justice, especially in matters arising out of the peculiar practices and institutions of the Jewish religion.

In light of that conviction, conservatives and liberals could repossess the love that makes possible justice, social policies and practices in which just means and ends cohere.

To start with, one must wonder why these two issues» both of which ought to place politically liberal evangelicals in significant conflict with the Democratic party's social platform» are presented as «controversial» matters about which faithful Christians may disagree, while issues like foreign policy, environmentalism, and economics are presented as simple matters of justice.

It remains to be seen what Gove is prepared to do on this - but it is important to note Cameron has his own priors when it comes to hanging justice secretaries out to dry when they run into trouble with the press, large sections of which continue to oppose a more liberal penal policy.

Having replaced the more liberal minded Ken Clarke, there were fears among Liberal Democrats in the coalition Grayling's appointment would indicate a more hard line on justice liberal minded Ken Clarke, there were fears among Liberal Democrats in the coalition Grayling's appointment would indicate a more hard line on justice Liberal Democrats in the coalition Grayling's appointment would indicate a more hard line on justice policy.

Meanwhile Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Paul Holmes said: «These deeply troubling figures highlight the chronic failure of this government's prison policy.

This is a chilling prospect not because they are necessarily a less progressive party (in many areas of criminal justice policy, for instance, they are distinctly more liberal than the government), but because they are so evidently unprepared for power.

It reveals itself as a liberal farce that is less concerned with liberation or justice and more concerned with not alienating those who perpetuate harmful ideologies and consequently harmful policies.

Driessen's studies and analyses have also appeared in Conserving the Environment (Doug Dupler, editor), 2006, part of the Thomson - Gale «Opposing Viewpoints» Series; Redefining Sovereignty: Will liberal democracies continue to determine their own laws and public policies, or yield these rights to transnational entities in search of universal order and justice?

While they acknowledged that the legislation ought to be given a broad and liberal interpretation, the justices held that «a liberal and purposive interpretation can not supplant a textual and contextual analysis simply in order to give effect to a policy decision different from the one made by Parliament.»

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.

Politicians in the liberal market economies are more likely to be influenced by popular attitudes to criminal justice which are superficially easy to show are being tackled by tough policies.

Family justice minister's statement signals Liberal Democrat party's unease over impact of coalition austerity policies