Sentence examples for legislative judgments from inspiring English sources

"Those sound like legislative judgments".

An Obama Court would almost certainly defer more to congressional and other legislative judgments.

Paying deference to legislative judgments is a touchstone of Breyer's philosophy.

What courts should not do is second-guess legislative judgments that are well-within Congress's proper authority, based on ideological or policy differences.

And the court became skeptical of Congress's making its own legislative judgments in ways that threatened to expand the boundaries of the court's own narrowing constitutional vision.

In his defense of the law, Solicitor General Olson said Congress operated under a "broad grant of power" and made "quintessentially legislative judgments" when it passed copyright laws.

But it reflects a rational legislative judgment, entitled to deference, that offenders who have committed serious or violent felonies and who continue to commit felonies must be incapacitated.

They think that the usefulness and the design of laws against hate speech ought to be a matter of legislative judgment for each community, not something that is precluded peremptorily by judicial interpretations of free speech.

"The judgment that high school baseball players' safety is more important than higher batting averages and more offense is a classic legislative judgment that the City Council could constitutionally make," he wrote.

The effect of the decision was to give breathing room to state legislatures and a warning to judges not to be too quick to label as racial a legislative judgment mostly based on politics.

In his majority opinion for the appeals court upholding the law, Judge David S. Tatel said that Congress had ample evidence from which to conclude that "Section 5's work is not done," a legislative judgment to which he said the court owed deference.