Sentences with phrase «many conservatives judged»

Wood was a notable exception to the stream of conservative judges nominated by Reagan's White House.

But the court's more conservative judges pressed Jadwat to say how long the taint of the campaign statements would last.

Donald Trump, despite his many failures, has promised to appoint conservative judges.

His presidency did not make much of a dent in the abortion rate, and even though he appointed conservative judges, Roe vs. Wade remained intact.

Samuel Goldman at The American Conservative judged our study «rhetorically provocative, intellectually shallow, and generally unsympathetic to reasonable concerns about social inclusion.»

The conservative judges on the other side have declined to offer any moral argument for marriage as we know it.

That the conservative judges should actually do such a thing does not involve any radical alteration in the «job description» of the justices.

Some of his own allies thought him unrealistic; many conservatives judged him subversive, and the FBI hounded and monitored him.

The conservative judges tended to argue in this vein: The Constitution is silent on the matter of marriage; the judges are not in a position, then, to declare any «constitutional rights» on this subject emanating from the text or logic of the Constitution; and therefore this question should be left in the political arena for the people and their elected representatives to decide.

But that is not what the conservative judges say as they look back on the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia.

And yet that was never enough to shake the confidence of conservative judges that the appeal to tradition is valued precisely because it delivers a ground of judgment safely distant from the need to weigh the moral justifications for acts of legislation.

The conservative judges did not move seriously to that level until John Roberts's dissent in the Obergefell case.

There was nothing about marriage in the Constitution in 1967, but the Court struck down the laws barring marriage across racial lines, and no conservative judge now is prepared to say that the Court did the wrong thing.

In his lower court decision upholding the health care law, conservative Judge Laurence Silberman (seen here getting the Congressional Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush) wrote

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).

«From Conservative judges to healthcare reform and rebuilding our country's infrastructure, this is our time to transform America and make a long - term difference,» she said.

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.

But neither governor was able to shift the balance of the court, which remains at four conservative judges and three more liberal judges.

That's all the more imperative as President Donald Trump vows to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with conservative judges who will reverse the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Trump criticized the New York Times story stating that he has failed to fulfill campaign promises on undoing key Obama administration policies, calling the newspaper «failing» and pointing to early successes like exiting the international Paris climate accord and getting conservative Judge Neil Gorsuch on the U.S. Supreme Court.

But you try finding a conservative judge who graduated from one of the nation's «elite» law schools.

She worked in the U.S. Senate, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has advocated for conservative judges for the group now known as the Judicial Crisis Network.

President - Elect Donald Trump's pro-life platform against abortion, along with his support for traditional family values, marriage as stated in the Bible as one man and one woman instead of same - sex marriage, in favor of prayer and the reading of sacred scripture in our public schools, and his promise to appoint conservative judges to the United States Supreme Court made Evangelicals and even Democrats who espouse those positions to support Donald Trump.

Legal experts note that judges» opinions in environmental cases won't necessarily fall strictly along ideological lines, but that conservative judges are often more likely to reject arguments calling for more regulation or trying to fit climate change rules within the existing Clean Air Act.

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.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

A teenage Harding (Margot Robbie) sews her own uniforms, makes a coat out of the skins of rabbits she's shot, and out - jumps the competition; the sport's notoriously conservative judges feign indifference, even after she begins doing things no American woman has done before on the ice.

As you begin to watch Stephen Gaghan's latest offering (Gaghan is well known for directing «Syriana» about a merger of two American oil companies and «Traffic» wherein a conservative judge finds that his daughter is a crack addict), you may wonder how that line could be justified.

When news of Keller's phone call hit the press, it generated an uproar over the conservative judge, whom opponents have nicknamed «Sharon Killer.»

While some see it as a political witch hunt to oust a conservative judge, others see it as a corrective to an unjust system.

Still, some environmental groups fear that McCain will not respond to climate change aggressively enough and further, might fill vacant positions on the Supreme Court with conservative judges who would overturn last year's ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide under existing laws.

Judge Grasz is expected to be a conservative judge, and if the ABA is correct, potentially one that is a little too passionate.

Progressive candidate Dallet defeated her opponent, conservative Judge Michael Screnock, 56 to 44 percent.

Who would have thought that a conservative judge would have some of the most unconventional views in the blogosphere on the Madoff incident?

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.

It includes this none - too - controversial observation: «Observers speculate that Trump will appoint more conservative judges — especially in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit — than his predecessor, President Barack Obama....»

I've previously speculated about whether the typical deference to agency decisions might eventually lose its luster, not because conservative judges hate Chevron, but simply because courts might get tired of agencies under this Administration abusing their discretion.

«Appellate Advocacy in Cases Seeking Corporate Accountability: Appealing to Conservative Judges,» Business Torts Section, American Association for Justice Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD, July 27, 2014

Our results indicate that liberal or conservative judges (as measured by the party of the appointing prime minister or by the judge's ideal point score) are not particularly affected by interveners with similar policy inclinations.

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.

Not exact matches

The «Shark Tank» judge, investor, and outspoken critic of net neutrality will be joined by conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who has been cast for the role of Vice President, Variety reports.

Hudson is a federal judge in Richmond who earned praise from conservatives when he struck down the centerpiece of the Obama administration's health care law in 2010.

Despite the fact that at least five of the judges involved in the two appeal court judgements were originally appointed to lower courts by Brian Mulroney's Conservative government, Harper insisted: «It was the government that decided to put the judges on the bench, the government that decided not to appeal, the government that decided to lose the case and the government that decided not to come back to Parliament.

Conservative foundations, multinational oil companies and a prescription drug maker were the most frequent sponsors of more than 100 expense - paid educational seminars attended by federal judges over a 4 1/2 - year period, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.

The «conservative Christians» supporting him are judged by this.

You implied that some people aren't worthy of making judgements or coming to their own decisions, a common tactic of accusing a conservative of being «judgemental» because it's assumed that conservatives are mostly bible - toters who will remember that their precious bible says «judge not, lest ye be judged» and they'll suddenly become ashamed of speaking out about their beliefs for fear of appearing «judgemental».

First off, who would have guessed that — to judge by the ratings — the most interesting issue ever raised by POSTMODERN CONSERVATIVES is the TV replacement for George Will?

The theological issues are far from resolved; but, judging from what has happened in Bloomington, even conservative Christians (though traditionally among those most opposed to gay civil rights) are learning that theological concerns need not blind any of us to the needs and rights of homosexuals as human beings.

The authors judge, correctly I reckon, that however individualistic conservatives» political and theological ideology may be, their churches are apt to function more like authentic communities — close - knit groups, commitment to which is viewed by their members not as optional but as integral to individual identity.

A favorite pick among Christian conservatives, Gorsuch fulfills Trump's promise to select a judge that «evangelicals, Christians will love» and who also stands a solid chance of scoring Senate approval.