The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee, said Friday that Mr. Pryor "is a man of integrity committed to the rule of law, not making law from the bench.
We often hear about unelected judges making law from the bench and all that.
Why do we applaud judges making law from the bench when the law is something we agree with?
Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion.
I like justices that follow the Constitution, do not make law from the bench.
Answering questions at a public forum in Cherry Hill, N.J., he said, "I'm going to appoint people who I believe understand their job, which is to interpret the law and not make law from the bench".
Sotomayor is an activist judge, Republicans argue, and doesn't want simply to interpret the law, but rather to make law from the bench.
America's greatness doesn't come from making laws but from creating opportunities.
The North Carolina measure responds to the ACLU suit by declaring that each state is "sovereign" and no federal court can prevent a state from "from making laws respecting an establishment of religion".
Last year, the state approved a bill, HB 600, that barred state bodies including schools from making laws or policies protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination.
