However, the suggestion of impropriety over the BSkyB deal, which required the government to take an independent, quasi-judicial stance, could be even more damaging and piles more pressure on an already embattled Hunt.
Some of the justices said the case presented the sort of political question not fit for judicial resolution, a stance that would as a practical matter amount to a ruling for the executive branch.
WASHINGTON -- Elena Kagan's lack of judicial experience and her stance on the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy emerged Wednesday as potential flashpoints in her confirmation hearings.
The Prime Minister said he hoped people would respect the "proper judicial process" and welcomed the stance taken by Carole Duggan.
It was the latest of several 5-to-4 decisions that have unsettled the modern "basic understanding" of federal supremacy, as Justice Breyer put it, opening a new chapter in a 200-year-old debate over the country's most basic structural arrangements and stirring the deep judicial passions that the dissenters' stance reflected.
And they say it is typical of the Bush administration to promote a single conservative judicial candidate as representative of its stance on Hispanic issues rather than to offer more meaningful policy proposals.
Media-freedom campaigners say that he is a victim of judicial persecution because of his anti-government stance.Two years ago, the government withdrew the licence of RCTV, Venezuela's most popular television channel, which supported the opposition.
Obviously, this stance has not endeared her to the judicial establishment (or the elected officials who approve nominations) -- on top of which, add her reputation for delivering her views with the subtlety of a claw hammer.
The most practical option Obama seems to have is to tap someone who is "safe," a palatable nominee, who is philosophically centrist, steadfast and has a long judicial record of rulings and writings that support that stance.
