Sentence examples for act of judicial from inspiring English sources

Passage, Mr. Stickney said, would put Washington "one act of judicial activism away" from marriage.

He wrote that the reading of the law by the dissenters was "an unconscionable act of judicial activism".

"It's not true that every time you strike down a law, that's an act of judicial activism," Luttig said.

In an aggressive act of judicial activism, the conservative majority made the case a constitutional matter and the signature of the Roberts court.

But even these decisions, and others like them, pale beside last week's extravagant act of judicial hubris by the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

WHENEVER a handful of life-tenured and unelected Supreme Court justices overrides a political majority, such an act of judicial review is bound to generate sparks.

Perhaps liberals, intoxicated since the Warren era by heroic visions of judges as national saviors, are reluctant to criticize aggressive acts of judicial intervention, even when they disagree with the results.

Goldstone's career as a judge was characterised by bold acts of judicial activism that soon attracted national and international interest.

The proposed establishment of a system that will record acts of judicial inference by local officials and hold them accountable is obviously one tool to discourage such conduct in the future.

To decline this duty would be an act not of judicial modesty but of judicial abdication.

Roe v. Wade, which invalidated state laws banning abortion around the country, is the consummate act of liberal judicial activism.