Sentence examples for judicial trends from inspiring English sources
The decision is an exception to recent judicial trends in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's decision in April in Baze v. Rees, which upheld Kentucky's lethal injection protocol, similar to the one used in Ohio.
Given what happened to President Lincoln and Dr. King, and also to Presidents Garfield and McKinley, and also to Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy, Allard Lowenstein, Harvey Milk and George Moscone, and John Lennon, and given the many assassinations yet to come if present political and judicial trends continue, we may have to consolidate the calendar.
In part this country's refusal to eliminate the death penalty belongs to a long tradition of ignoring judicial trends around the world.
Legal experts say the decision is striking because Massachusetts is considered a judicial trend-setter and is perceived as liberal.
The communiqué says that the Supreme People's Court, the country's highest court, will also set up "circuit courts" around the country—another step toward centralising judicial power.The trend toward centralisation may help explain the prominent mention of "rule by constitution" in the communiqué.
The takeover of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by outside interest groups is only part of a growing trend in judicial elections across the country, a trend that is increasing in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
"There was general agreement," he said of the increasingly rough-and-tumble nature of some judicial campaigns, "that this trend is not good for the country".
Regrettably, states that elect their top judges show no inclination to address these distressing trends by replacing judicial elections with systems of merit appointment that avoid retention votes.
Those precedents were handed down before the new trend of aggressive judicial campaigning, so the recent cases have been viewed as tests of whether the new efforts to police judicial campaigns violated the First Amendment.
Noah Feldman (June 27) elegantly points out a dangerous trend in conservative judicial activism, particularly in the court's Citizens United decision, to empower corporations at the expense of individual voters, which threatens to seriously undermine our republican form of government.
"The issues that are being raised in these court cases are part of the trend to make judicial candidates more like other candidates," said Virginia E. Sloan, executive director of The Constitution Project, a bipartisan Washington group trying to make judicial races more dignified.
