Sentences with phrase «with conservative judges»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Most Convicting (nominated by Alise Wright): David Nilsen with «Coping with Disappointment When Calvinists Refuse to Be Jerks» «I think one of the problems with most of us who consider ourselves progressive Christians is that we live in constant expectation of being judged by our fellow believers who are more conservative.

With federal judges in two highly conservative states striking down «defense of marriage» laws as unconstitutional this January, more church - state experts are advising same - sex marriage opponents that the marriage battleground should shift to religious freedom.

Chief Judge Roberts decision to side with the four liberals on the court was blasted by conservative blogs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Donald Trump, poised to restore the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, met with key senators on Tuesday and promised to unveil his nominee next week, with three U.S. appeals court judges among those under close consideration.

You'd have thought, judging by the laughing, happy smiles on the faces of Conservative delegates, that all is well with the world.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

Former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, who is chairing the Institution of Economic Affairs» panel of judges, spoke of the «fundamental change» of Britain's EU relationship, with the arrival of the euro currency and eurozone.

The findings contrast with former Conservative prime minister John Major who is now judged to be a significant electoral asset among Conservative voters.

On all the big decisions of his career, from the war in Iraq, to the coalition with the Conservatives, history will judge Kennedy as having made the best and the bravest call.

Celebrating the Conservatives» election victory with a freebie would perhaps have been ill - judged — a better idea to avoid a conflict of interests, and pass it on

With DPR Voting I can vote Conservative in the Party vote, and also for the candidate I judge to be the most honest / hardworking etc..

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.

Read's departure left the seven - member court with only one GOP member — Judge Eugene F. Piggot Jr. — and many conservatives and business groups are pressing the governor to appoint another Republican.

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.

The administration has nominated a judge to the D.C. Circuit, which is tremendously influential in federal policy, but that move would replace a conservative with a conservative.

New U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch, if confirmed, would fill the vacancy left a year ago by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, with whom he shares a similar conservative legal philosophy.

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.»

Though his extravagant family cookouts were welcome at his old digs, Todd's stuffy new neighbors — particularly the conservative Republican Judge Halsted Crowley (Danny Glover)-- are less than thrilled with the arrival of Todd's massive family.

There's a lot regarding the history of the intelligent design movement available on the web, including the entire transcript of the trial in Dover during which the conservative Bush - appointed federal district judge became convinced that it is nothing more than old testament - based creationism with a new label.

Undoubtedly the carefully created SIP wall construction and efficient cooling system tied to a huge solar array account for their surge to the front of the pack — we'll keep an eye on the team when the «marketability» and «architecture» judging takes place to see if the conservative design (clearly aimed to appeal to middle America) wins points with the judges.

Although Grant — if confirmed — will be replacing an Obama appointee, Julie Carnes, the replacement will not likely have an immediate effect on the ideological balance of the court because Carnes herself most frequently votes in divided cases with her more conservative colleagues (as did the judge that Lisa Branch replaced, Frank Hull).

You should be conservative in your budget (meaning don't understate the expenses and end up with a budget that doesn't realistically meet your needs) without grossly overstating the budget (which a judge would frown on should the case go to court).

Back during his 2005 Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings to become the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts tried to allay Democratic senators» fears that he was a conservative ideologue by famously comparing the role of judges with baseball umpires and declaring, «It's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.»

In recent years a marked division has arisen in the court between liberals and conservatives, usually with a few judges having a more flexible approach which may place them in one camp or the other depending on the particular issue at stake.

The Truth in Sentencing Act (Bill C - 25) enacted by the Conservative government in October 2009 did away with the notion that an accused person would typically receive two days» credit for each day spent in jail from the presiding judge.

The clearest example is that judges with high liberal voting percentages (such as Justices Arbour and Fish) tended to vote more conservatively in the presence of conservative interveners.

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.

Suspending a single provision of the Conservative government's new voter law with a federal election only months away at most is just too risky, an Ontario judge ruled Friday.

Bush surely will get to appoint more judges, and Whelan is right that with only 51 Dems, some of them pretty conservative, another Alito would have more of a chance than Bork»87 (who faced a more solidly Dem Senate).

Judges tend to be conservative and the type of people who are not necessarily impressed with someone who begins dating shortly after the parties separated when children are involved.