Sentences with phrase «majority opinion supported»

In the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Justice Lewis Powell's majority opinion supported affirmative action for its contribution to a diverse student body and the «robust exchange of ideas.»

Not exact matches

Given the fact that they make up 99 percent of this country's employers and the majority of all job growth over the last 50 years, it would be shame if they kept their opinions concealed when it comes supporting the candidates that support small business.

Survey shows majority support for an effective climate plan and minimum carbon price, even if some provinces disagree OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows that two - thirds of Canadians believe it is more important to have a plan to meet Canada's climate change targets than to have all provincial and territorial premiers agree with that...

OTTAWA — New public opinion research shows a majority of Canadians want to see Canada's remaining coal - fired power plants shut down by 2030 (73 % support or somewhat support the idea).

While the majority of Canadians expressed support for an FTA with China and the percentage has grown significantly over time, we should not ignore the groups who are either opposed or undecided (see 2017 National Opinion Poll: Canadian Views on Engagement with China).

The other is the Windsor case — discussed by Carl Scott earlier — in which the majority opinion not only sets aside part of the Defense of Marriage Act passed with overwhelming support in 1996, but also dismisses and disparages the motives of those who voted for it.

I fear that it will take some years before public opinion supporting gay marriage (currently, in the US this is a majority; here there is conflicting evidence) goes into reverse, and even longer before gay couples are no longer allowed to adopt children.

Of course, thanks to our founding fathers who a part of a predominantly Christian culture, no one is going to really support your opinion and the majority rules.

Because public opinion supporting certain kinds of abortion is close to unanimous; it was formed before the 1973 Supreme Court decision; and the majority that have come of sexual age since that year now take for granted that fertility decisions are to be made only by the individuals involved.

if the majority of fans are giving jack all the support to be a regular which in my opinion he will never be especially as a CM.

More than half of Americans approve of the Affordable Care Act, according to a Gallup poll out yesterday, marking the first time the law has gained majority support since Gallup began tracking public opinion on it in 2012.

It is interesting that Kedourie was responding to the results of an opinion poll which showed that the majority of Egyptians supported democracy, but also demanded the implementation of Shari'a (Islamic) law.

The Parliamentary Party is helping push through a bill with no democratic mandate (Lib Dem, Coalition or even Tory), no grassroots Party support and against the wishes of the majority of medical professionals and public opinion.

The average New Yorker knows a minimum wage increase would be beneficial to the state's economy; that's why two recent public opinion polls showed sizable majorities of New Yorkers — 62 % (Quinnipiac) and 59 % (Siena)-- support Governor Cuomo's proposal for a $ 15 minimum wage.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of recent opinion polls show the Tories falling below even this low level of support: for example three - quarters of the polls taken since the Conservative Party conference in October give them less than 42 %.

Throughout the period 1937, until the spring of 1939, the majority of public opinion and most of the Whitehall establishment supported him, but he failed to recognise how events undercut the policy which he had personalised.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

While a few years ago the majority of Russians supported intervention, deteriorating economy and increasing death tolls turned the public opinion around.

Espada's opinion has an impact beyond his one vote because he secured the chairmanship of the Housing Committee after he threatened to withhold his support from making Malcolm Smith the first Democratic majority leader in 40 years.

Anyone who complains about Corbyn's stance on these issues should blame HIM — he raised them, he supported them, he's the once at variance with majority opinion.

Loughran questioned why some members of the Republican - supported minority were accepting the legal opinion of the lawyer for the Democratic majority.

If Obama wins, there's no way Lieberman switches his support; all that would do is lose him his committee chairmanship (which he should lose anyway, in my opinion, once the Democratic majority is safer).

The capitalist establishment in Europe have closed ranks to protect their own interests in spite of Syriza winning a democratic majority and now commanding 80 % public support in the opinion polls.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Public opinion polls have shown that a majority of Americans support GMO labeling.

Either - way, the facts on the ground show clearly that the majority of public and also scientists support scientists voicing their opinions: A Pew Research Poll in 2009 showed that a large majority of the public in the USA (76 %), and nearly all scientists (97 %), think that it is appropriate for scientists to become actively involved in political debates on controversial issues.

That doesn't mean the conclusion of the herd is always wrong, but it does mean that simply because an overwhelming majority of academics support a particular opinion, that opinion isn't necessarily correct.

In this case, your unsupported generalization that «the electorate could not care less» about climate change was rebutted with actual opinion polls showing that significant majorities of «the electorate» do, in fact, care a good deal, and consider the issue a priority for the President and the Congress, and support policies to regulate GHG emissions and to hold fossil fuel corporations responsible for the full costs of their products.

In Buck v. Bell (1927), the majority decision, written by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., used modern opinions of science to support the Virginia sterilization law: «It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from breeding their kind.

In support of the doctrine, the majority opinion rolled out a string cite to four cases case showing that:

Significantly, his majority opinion two years ago in Lawrence v. Texas, the Texas sodomy case, showed strong support for a constitutional right to privacy, the bedrock upon which the Roe decision rests.

While the view supported by Ian Binnie's opinion and Moldaver J.'s dissent focus on the absurdity of going to the high court just one day after rejoining the Barreau du Québec, a different absurdity was pointed out by Professors Michael Plaxton and Carissima Mathen, in an article cited by the majority, a point raised by the Attorney General of Québed in oral argument:

Whether or not one treats the majority opinion's public forum analysis of social networks as «dicta» (which is legalese for «stuff in an opinion I don't like so I don't consider binding»), all 8 Supreme Court justices agreed that subscribers have a First Amendment right to access information and speak online, and that the government can not prohibit a person from accessing content that has nothing to do with preventing repeat offenses — even when the repeat offense is child molestation, and the evidence arguably supported that child molesters were particularly prone to repetition.

The majority in the Supreme Court supported a pragmatic, purposive approach to the interpretation of the CDE Definition, but the divided opinion of the Judges not only in the Supreme Court, but also at first instance and in the Court of Appeal, highlights how difficult questions of contractual interpretation can be.

A majority of the justices support the first opinion, written by Johnson, so Madsen (writing a separate concurring opinion) is referring to the previous opinion.

While the Chief Justice's opinion, for the majority, also addressed the principle of the Rule of Law, it invoked this principle only as additional support for its conclusions — Justice Rothstein's accusations to the contrary notwithstanding.

Across the newspapers over the period which was analysed, the great majority of writers of comment and opinion pieces accepted the truth of the material in the Report, welcomed the bringing to light of the events described, supported the idea of a formal apology and were critical, often scathingly, of the Prime Minister when it was not given.

One judge dissented, arguing that there was no support for the majority's opinion within Kentucky law.

That would be the «only» way that I could currently support the voluntary use of the BAA... by true professionals only, and that eliminates the majority of registrants currently licensed in my opinion.