Sentence examples for selection of justices from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Bush administration responses to those questions explains why Wills points to selection of Supreme Court justices as the greatest stake in the election since it's clear that four current justices (John Roberts, Joseph Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas) buy into the theory.

What has become a big issue in the selection of Supreme Court justices?

And, Ms. Krakower said, she was also concerned about the selection of Supreme Court justices.

At the motorcycle plant, a woman asked him how, if he became president, his religion would influence the selection of Supreme Court justices.