Sentences with phrase «stacked by that president»

Next up would be the next president's agenda, which would have much smoother sailing with a court personally hand - picked and stacked by that president.

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He could try and do this (assuming he becomes president) by doing a number of things, including stacking the court with judges favorable to his views.

It appears the president's tweet was motivated by an internal House Republican fight over transgender troops that was threatening to blow up a spending bill stacked with Trump campaign promises — including money to build his border wall with Mexico.

By the same token, if I leave vacancies, then the next president, who may be my polar opposite in ideology, can stack the court in his / her direction by suddenly making a bunch of appointments, almost certainly skewing the court heavily in that direction, for many years to comBy the same token, if I leave vacancies, then the next president, who may be my polar opposite in ideology, can stack the court in his / her direction by suddenly making a bunch of appointments, almost certainly skewing the court heavily in that direction, for many years to comby suddenly making a bunch of appointments, almost certainly skewing the court heavily in that direction, for many years to come.

By Sean Ryan The piles of paperwork in William Sackerson Construction Co.'s offices grow with every job, and the company president fears a Milwaukee County hiring goal will only add to the stack.

In his third term, Koch's popularity was shaken after a series of corruption scandals, touched off by Donald Manes's suicide and the PVB scandal, which revealed that he had acceded to the requests of political allies (most notably Queens Borough President Manes, Bronx Democratic Party official Stanley Friedman and Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman Meade Esposito) to stack city agencies with patronage appointments.