Sentence examples for a five-vote majority from inspiring English sources

But the Republicans hold a five-vote majority in the Senate.

His confirmation will install a five-vote majority with a coherent ideology to roll back protections for women, minorities, workers, defendants and consumers while advancing the political interests of the Republican Party and its wealthy backers.

The argument was not completely settled because there was not a five-vote majority for either path.

Still, combine Kennedy's doubts about the validity of DOMA for federalist reasons with the liberal Justices' equality concerns, and we could well see a five-vote majority for finding DOMA unconstitutional — and an end to second-class, skim-milk marriages.

Or, in the absence of a five-vote majority to establish a nationwide constitutional right to same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court could affirm the narrower approach of the Ninth Circuit panel, which was confined to California.

Important rulings on executive authority — striking down military commissions and upholding habeas corpus rights for Guantánamo detainees — have been decided by a five-vote majority, including Justice Souter, on the nine-member court.

In the current Congress, the Republicans have a 37-vote majority in the 435-seat House and a two-vote majority in the 100-seat Senate.

His failure to fill any of its three vacancies has left a two-vote majority of Republican-appointed judges in control.

Assuming that Romney comes to Washington without a sixty-vote majority in the Senate, the task of repeal will be nearly insurmountable.

That provision would require a four-vote majority among the seven Federal Election Commissioners every four years to retain the general counsel and staff director.

But nothing's a given in Washington, especially in a Senate where Republicans have just a two-vote majority — or one vote with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz). home getting treatment for brain cancer.