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  • It's the first time an American jurist's sexual orientation has been cited as grounds for overturning a court decision.

    Prop 8, California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Gets Another Day In Court The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Here's a newsflash: having a conservative or liberal ideology has no bearing on a jurist's intelligence.

    TPMDC Morning Roundup 2010

  • How about booking instead a thoughtful analyst of the jurist's rulings?

    Bill Mann: TV Cable News: Pro Wrestling Meets The Argument Culture 2009

  • Sotomayor's critics are waging a multi-front war, consisting mainly of charges of racism and judicial activism, despite the fact that nothing in the jurist's record of roughly 400 decisions supports either claim.

    Andy Ostroy: Message to Republicans: Attacking Sotomayor is Another Nail in Your Coffin 2009

  • Imagine a sliding scale measuring the transparency of a jurist's treatment of how cultural change impacts doctrinal content.

    When Does the Supreme Court Acknowledge Out-of-Court Developments? Robert L. Tsai 2009

  • The cracks in their relationship deepened as Montazeri, the learned religious jurist himself, argued, even publicly, that the rulership is meant to be a cooperation amongst religious jurists, not a hierarchy where one jurist's voice rules all.

    Shirin Sadeghi: He Stood up to the Ayatollah 2009

  • Papke's materials showed the conflict between the federal judiciary and state government in the particular context of the Debs boycott in the sketch of Illinois Governor John Altgeld, who opposed federal intervention, and his selection from Brewer's decision, which included the jurist's insistence that "the whole interests of the nation" must not be put "at the absolute mercy" of the inhabitants of state.

    Teaching the Great Case Dan Ernst 2008

  • Papke's materials showed the conflict between the federal judiciary and state government in the particular context of the Debs boycott in the sketch of Illinois Governor John Altgeld, who opposed federal intervention, and his selection from Brewer's decision, which included the jurist's insistence that "the whole interests of the nation" must not be put "at the absolute mercy" of the inhabitants of state.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008

  • A trim, balding, former state Supreme Court judge with wire-rim glasses and salt-and-pepper beard, Archer is a delicate hybrid of preacherly charisma and jurist's decorum.

    New Deal In Detroit 2008

  • Conservative commentator Ann Althouse told a statewide radio audience Friday that Ziegler's approach to conflicts of interest makes her question the conservative jurist's fitness for the high court.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007

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