Sentence examples for selection of justice from inspiring English sources

Like last year's selection of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to replace the retiring Justice David H. Souter, this change would be unlikely to remake the court's ideological balance.

The selection of Justice Graffeo may change the court's ideological composition, but only slightly, because she does not appear to have -- in her legal opinions, anyway -- the conservative leanings of Judge Bellacosa, legal experts say.

The notion that the selection of justices is somehow "above" politics--a notion that Bush finds convenient--impoverishes debate and ultimately the rule of law itself.

[not]another American import" and it "has no power to nullify acts of parliament as unconstitutional". Concerns about selection of justices continue.

And neither campaign has forgotten that the presidency and the Senate hold the key to the selection of justices of the Supreme Court, and a potential generational shift in the balance on the court.

Roe fanned into life an issue that has inflamed our national politics in general, and has obscured with its smoke the selection of Justices to this Court, in particular, ever since.

Roe fanned into life an issue that has inflamed our national politics in general, and has obscured with its smoke the selection of Justices to this Court in particular, ever since.

Politics (and ideology) surely has a role to play in the selection of justices.

After the 2010 elections, state legislatures sought to repeal public financing statutes for judicial races in the states that have them, change retention elections to competitive races and end merit selection of justices.

He reviews President Bush's selection of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, explicating their views on everything from the right to privacy to the role of precedent.

Politics in principle should not play a role in such a decision even though we all know that it does, say the selection of a justice with liberal or conservative leanings.