Of course, important exceptions exist, with the progressive rulings of the Warren Court (1953 69) in the United States offering an apparent contrast to the free market decisions of the Lochner era (1897 1937).
Ironically, the same GOP partisan, Jon Husted, attacked as a nefarious vote suppressor has also issued one of the more progressive rulings in the country on using audits to determine an accurate vote count -- including allowing any of the hotly contested counties in Ohio to use this cost-effective method to confirm voting results.
In the face of some of the largest protests the small North Atlantic island nation had ever seen, the ruling Progressive and Independence parties replaced Gunnlaugsson with the agriculture and fisheries minister, Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, and promised elections before the end of the year.
And the Supremes have also turned out to be remarkably progressive in their rulings on surveillance and privacy matters.
The moderate conservative, who has been a deciding vote in favor of many of the bench's most progressive gay rights rulings, is widely expected to retire.
Last Thursday, he was meeting with an MP from the ruling Democratic Progressive party (DPP) when he collapsed.
What is called Islamism includes a wide spectrum of political trends, peaceful and violent, socially conservative and progressive, from Turkey's ruling party to al-Qaida.
A new draft bill tabled by the ruling Democratic Progressive party [DPP] on Monday to amend family law in favour of LGBT rights was a "breakthrough", they said.
Week 21 -- All eyes on the Supreme Court for landmark rulings; and progressive activists and bloggers gathered in San Jose for Netroots Nation.
In other words, to dismantle a framework of progressive laws and court rulings stretching back to Teddy Roosevelt, the New Deal and the Great Society.
