Sentences with phrase «liberal justices»

One more liberal Justice and we will get a case that will uphold the mandate under different reasoning.

An amendment to the code was written into law in 1996 by former Liberal justice minister Allan Rock and was first tested at the Supreme Court of Canada three years later when R. v. Jamie Gladue made its way to the country's highest court.

Consider next what Macedo means by «critical thinking»: the disposition to «reflect critically on [one's] personal and public commitments for the sake of honoring our shared principles of liberal justice and equal rights for all.»

«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.»

Let's assume Obama's goal, other things being equal, is to nominate as liberal a justice as possible.

The Department of Justice will be unable to achieve cuts of # 130 million after it scrapped Ken Clarke's liberal justice policies, according to a report.

An amendment to the code was written into law in 1996 by former Liberal justice minister Allan Rock and was first tested

But with Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, and liberal justices on the verge of retirement, ensuring that there are legal protections for abortions in New York state is essential.

The four liberal Justices who joined Roberts expressly affirmed that Congress had the power to mandate that individuals buy health insurance.

And the truth is that until the 1980s, Republicans were as likely to appoint liberal justices as Democrats.

If the Democrats win the election, the Republicans are also likely to see their Senate majority erode, reducing further their ability to prevent a liberal appointment to the court: we'll give Obama a payoff of 90 (for a pretty liberal justice) and the Republicans a payoff of 10.

Not long ago, the Ohio Supreme Court was controlled by liberal justices whose campaigns had been financed in large part by plaintiffs» lawyers and unions.

The following graph shows the 5 - 4 decisions with the more liberal justices in dissent and those with the more conservative justices in dissent for the Roberts Court years.

A rare coalition of conservative and liberal justices ruled 6 - 3 in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 11 — 94, that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires a jury to determine facts to support a sentence imposed after a guilty verdict...

Liberal justices Ruth Bader...

For them now to look at loosening the rules, it absolutely is hypocritical,» Liberal justice critic Sean Casey said.

In Hill v. Colorado, liberal Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, joined by the centrist Sandra Day O'Connor and the conservative William Rehnquist, ruled that Colorado's statute is a constitutionally legitimate exercise of the state's police powers.

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.

Both elections could complicate Democrats» hope to replace Ginsburg with an equally liberal justice.

At one point it looked like Cameron was going to openly defend Ken Clarke's liberal justice reforms.

Jill Clayburgh plays the perky, conservative new lady in chambers; Walter Matthau is the bearish liberal Justice with whom she has a tastefully tentative comedy - romance that...

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

The Trudeau government that prides itself on not being the Harper Conservatives, base support for Trans Mountain expansion on the Harper government approval process that the now Liberal justice minister pledged to undo in the 2015 election campaign.

Suffice it to say that my political positions are closer to his than those of the most liberal justices, and that's why I wouldn't want to suggest that conservative judges would be more likely to defend unreasonable outcomes such as the damages award in this Apple v. Samsung case.

The court's four liberal justices issued a separate statement agreeing that the appeal should be denied, but hoping a future case would be a better platform for reviewing capital punishment.

In case his nominee is not approved, President Obama's payoff from this game depends on who wins the election; if the Democrats win the election, Obama would still get what he wants (a pretty liberal justice), though he won't get a legacy bonus.

Eugene Volokh has noted that Justice Gorsuch's concurrence in Sessions v. Dimaya looks like a «cross-over sensation,» because Gorsuch joined four liberal justices in ruling against the deportation of an immigrant.

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 districts.

In his last act as a member of Parliament, former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler introduced a private members» bill that would allow judges to impose a fair and appropriate sentence, notwithstanding mandatory minimums.

He says too often, the four liberal justices on the court side with Democratic politicians in congress and the four conservative justices rule with Republican Senators and representatives.

Anthony Kennedy, the court's usual swing vote in politically charged issues, joined the four liberal justices to permit the stay.

Much later, under the influence of the liberal Justice Louis Brandeis, he wrote a dissent that laid the cornerstone for modern free speech doctrine, and thus came down to history as a champion of First Amendment freedoms.

That argument has resonated with the liberal side with evident satisfaction, but it may deliver more than the liberal justices or their allies on the Left seem to recognize.

Based on your thinking, if we had 5 liberal justices the ruling would have went the other way because their morals are different.

Does anyone doubt» even for a moment» how the liberal Justices would have resolved the case if, instead of abortion clinics, coal mines, for example, or gun dealerships, or, heaven help us, tobacco shops would have been the «facilities» singled out for unique immunity?

If the liberal Justices are guilty of partiality and hypocrisy in Hill, isn't the same true of their critics who have, in the past, sharply criticized the Justices for usurping legislative authority and substituting their personal preferences for the contrary judgments of the people's elected representatives?

But aren't the liberal justices self «described champions of the most generous understanding of individual freedoms» particularly the right of freedom of speech?

This was Cameron's first major speech on law and order since the departure of the liberal justice secretary Kenneth Clarke, who had emphasised the importance of rehab in his reforms.

The justice secretary Ken Clarke has based his approach on precisely the opposite outcome, with a liberal justice policy switching from short sentences to more community service - much to the chagrin of the Tory grassroots.

Even if Justice Kennedy ultimately agrees with the four more liberal Justices that DOMA should be struck down (which still remains an «if,» particularly when none of the four necessarily seemed inclined to agree with him that Congress lacked the power to enact the law), both opponents and supporters of same - sex marriage will be parsing the decision closely.

That situation could change if Kennedy or one of the four more liberal justices was replaced by a more conservative justice.

The court's conservative justices said they were inclined to reverse a 9th Circuit Court decision requiring immigration judges to give a bond hearing and consider possible release for noncitizens who have been jailed for more than six months, while the liberal justices sounded unsure as to whether a specific time limit can be upheld.

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. Breyer.

In Scalia's controlling opinion — which Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito joined in full (the liberal justices joined it in part)-- he rejected the EPA's approach to expanding the number of CO ₂ sources it was trying to regulate.

If Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders) is elected, she will appoint a liberal justice to replace Scalia.

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