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Hot button.
(USA) A hot button is a topic or issue that people feel very strongly about.
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Nor were these "hot button" cases the extent of the Court's activism.
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A significant point about the Defense of Marriage Act is that it was an anomaly among the other hot-button cases in terms of its presence on the court's docket.
While it leans conservative and is undoubtedly pro-business (witness the two cases sharply limiting the rights of employees to sue their employers for sexual harassment or retaliation), the Roberts court splits differences and tends to rule on narrow grounds in hot-button cases.
How else do you reconcile his votes in hot-button cases ranging from presidential wartime powers to social issues to campaign finance?
They all have an impressive body of conservative rulings and opinions on hot button court cases.
Today, we see so-called "activist judges" threatened, or even removed from the bench, for deciding hard cases involving hot button issues such as capital punishment, abortion, gay marriage, or health care.
In this case, the hot button issue is the way we react to hot button issues themselves -- descending into angry backlash, only to forget the problem and move on to the next.
The court has a difficult task whenever it decides hot-button political cases; cameras would only make that task more difficult.
Speaking of hot-button partisan cases, both anticipate that the Court this month will rule on the Affordable Health Care Act in a way that will significantly affect health care and the fall elections.
She hit your hot button.
Too much of a hot button.
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