Sentence examples for questions on the merits from inspiring English sources

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., whose questions on the merits indicated discomfort with requiring states to allow same-sex marriage, seemed particularly interested in the standing issue.

"This frees up the Ninth Circuit to go ahead and decide the constitutional questions on the merits," Mr. Olson said, "the due process and equal protection rights of gay and lesbian citizens in California to get married in California like all other citizens of California".

The Philippines, the Tribunal has announced, will have "to present oral arguments and answer questions on the merits of the Philippines' claims and any remaining issues deferred from the jurisdictional phase".

And, as Neal Kaytal and Laurence Tribe argued in the Yale Law Journal in 2002, the Bush order "makes the jurisdictional question (whether someone is subject to a military trial at all) the very same one as the question on the merits (whether the person is guilty of a war crime)." The Nazi saboteurs were tried immediately, in a single trial.

And how do you feel about the attack that the N.R.A. has mounted on you and your administration? A. Well, let me answer the question on the merits.

However, according to Luo and Bhattacharya (2009) the question of the merits of CSR still lingers.

Strictly speaking, there are two arguments, one on jurisdictional questions and one on the merits.

"It was a question based on the merits, and how it connects to the rest of the district and what the other competing priorities are," Mr. Tierney said.

In a closed-door, classified briefing on Wednesday, senators viewed a "proof of life" video taken of Bergdahl in captivity and questioned administration officials on the merits and legality of the exchange, which included five senior Taliban leaders.

The Court of Cassation rules on questions of procedure, not on the merits of a case or the presumption of guilt or innocence.

"We've asked probative and challenging questions about the merits of their petition based on factual and legal gaps that we see in their application".