Sentence examples for lower judicial from inspiring English sources

The Democrats launched the nuclear option a few years ago, to get lower judicial appointees through.

Public access to the office is by way of a member of Parliament, and the commissioner is excluded from inquiring into matters of policy, local government authorities, or lower judicial bodies.

Abolishing the death penalty would also lower other judicial costs (by reducing the number of appeals, for instance) but these savings are difficult to estimate.

But they have a clear path now towards reshaping the supreme court and dozens of lower-tier judicial benches in their own image.

Instead of filibustering only in "extraordinary circumstances," Republicans routinely insisted on sixty-vote majorities to end debate on lower-court judicial nominees.

Last month, the Democrats in the Senate decided that executive and lower-court judicial appointments will henceforth be confirmed or rejected by a simple majority vote.

In the last days of his tenure as Majority Leader of the Democrats, Harry Reid grew so frustrated with Republican obstruction that he changed the Senate rules, doing away with filibusters on lower-court judicial and Administration appointees, like cabinet members.

Even on the lower federal courts, judicial ideology matters, and in a way that is crucial to the development of the law.

"Obama Limits Lasting Stamp on the Courts" ("A Measure of Change" series, front page, Aug. 18) is an accurate account of lower federal court judicial selection in the Obama administration.

What is more, this power is not merely given to courts of the same level of authority as the one laying down the precedent (as is the case with overruling), but is given to every court lower in the judicial hierarchy.

It is common for courts lower in a judicial hierarchy to be strictly bound by the decisions of higher courts, so that Federal Court judges in the United States are bound by decisions of the Federal Court of Appeals for their circuit, and the English Court of Appeal is bound by decisions of the House of Lords.