Sentence examples for judicial conscience from inspiring English sources

"The only judicially articulated standard of review requires that the award 'not shock the judicial conscience.' " But the concept of pain and suffering has its own critics.

Lawyers and lower-court judges claim that precedent would smother judicial conscience, but the government backs it (reluctantly), and so may Congress.

Horwitz asked the court last week to declare the judge's program discriminatory and unconstitutional, saying it "shocks the judicial conscience, abuses government power," and violates the due process and equal protection rights of inmates.

A 120-day suspension for the kind of assault for which Officer Bukowski had been found guilty, Justice O'Connor wrote, "shocks the judicial conscience and cannot be upheld". That was true, she added, "especially given the arbitrator's findings of guilt as to all charges". She ordered that the case be reheard.

Here's an excerpt: "The denial of his application was an unjustifiable exercise of discretion that shocks the judicial conscience, given that it will deprive [Mr. Delakas] of the business that he has painstakingly built up over a period of more than 20 years".

Last but not least, there's the previously referenced Crime and Punishment -- though Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel is more about Raskolnikov being punished by his own conscience than by the judicial system.

His recent books include Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone War (2016); The President as Commander in Chief: An Essay in Constitutional Vision (2014), Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision (2008) and No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment (2009), which he co-authored with Duke Law Professor David Lange.

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But these issues are nothing new, either to anyone who has ever served on a jury or to anyone who has ever watched police or legal dramas on TV, where characters involved in the judicial process wrestle frequently and visibly with their consciences and with their decisions.

"If I am ever called to testify in any judicial hearing, I'll be happy to attend, as my conscience is totally clear.

But I am left with a lingering burden of unease, the same burden that should weigh on the American conscience every time race rears its head in a judicial proceeding — as, for another example, in George Zimmerman's acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin.