Sentence examples for justice private from inspiring English sources

Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Private First Class Orton was tried and convicted under a special court-martial, subsequently spending 38 days in a military prison.

Perhaps a great oral argument would have affected the justices' private deliberations before Justice Harry A. Blackmun wrote the majority opinion against Flood.

When there is a knock at the door during the justices' private conferences, it will be Justice Sotomayor's job to answer it.

He was at the court yesterday, his 33rd anniversary as a member of the court, and took part in the justices' private morning conference.

"Marshall could be a persuasive force just by sitting there," Justice Antonin Scalia told Juan Williams in an interview for a biography of Justice Marshall, recalling the justices' private conferences about cases.

In the interview with Joan Biskupic of USA Today, Justice Ginsburg also said that as a woman she had sometimes found her comments ignored in the justices' private conferences until someone else made the same point.

At the justices' private conference after the argument, however, O'Connor made it clear that under no circumstances would she allow the recount to proceed, although she was open to different arguments for stopping it.

So the only way to know whether a petition even got the court's attention before being automatically denied (denial is the court's default mode, the fate of any petition that at least one justice doesn't ask to discuss at the justices' private weekly conference) is when someone publishes a dissent from the denial.

"A second purpose for oral argument is for judges to hear what's bothering each other," she said, adding that she tailors her own reasoning at the justices' private conference to take account of what she has heard from her colleagues at arguments.

But despite having kept the case under consideration at the justices' private weekly conferences since the first week in January -- an unusual situation that was the source of considerable interest around the court -- Justice Scalia was unable to pick up the necessary fourth vote to hear the case.

She baked cakes and cookies for the justices' private conferences and gave office birthday parties.