Conservatives' insistence that judicial filibusters are uniquely reprehensible has it backward.
He was unyielding in his insistence on judicial independence, which he interpreted as requiring protection of the judges from the impact of public criticism.
The larger problem, legal experts say, is the disconnect between China's stated desire for the rule of law and the Communist Party's insistence that the judicial system serve the party.
The conservative justices in the majority set aside their concern for states' rights, for judicial restraint, for limitations on standing, for their usual insistence that claims raised at the Supreme Court level have been fully addressed by the lower courts.
The federal court system's chief administrator has dropped his insistence on monitoring the Internet communications of the judicial branch after encountering stiff opposition from federal judges who complained the program would violate their privacy.
But the judicial pay increase has repeatedly stalled over state legislators' greedy insistence on linking it to a pay increase for themselves, which in turn is caught up in Albany's byzantine political maneuvering.
Mr. Schumer and other Democrats said the problem with Mr. Bush's judicial nominees was not the process but the president's insistence on nominating people viewed by Democrats as staunch conservatives.
The "Norwegian model" had been held up by some pro-Brexit campaigners as a possible way for the UK to access the EU single market via the EEA, although the government's insistence on controlling immigration and regaining parliamentary and judicial sovereignty after Brexit may rule that out: EEA membership requires the four EU freedoms, including the free movement of people.
While on the surface, not all these rulings seem consistent, what unifies them is a kind of judicial triumphalism -- an overriding of judgments made elsewhere in the political system, an insistence on having the last word -- that is, in many respects, the opposite of what conservative politicians and judges said they wanted most as the Supreme Court emerged from the activist turmoil of midcentury.
Put out the bunting, Michael Gove: your insistence that Westminster be the ultimate arbiter of our national affairs has been given the judicial seal of approval.
