Amar's point of view was bolstered by a liberal judge on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who in 2011 chided the high-profile anti-Proposition 8 legal team for failing to have sued more defendants.
"Eight of the jurors on this court," Justice Stevens said, "reach a verdict that differs from the views of the judges on both the district court and the court of appeals who are surely more familiar with the hazards of driving on Georgia roads than we are".
It was killed off, in his view, on January 31st, when a judge in Florida found one of its main provisions unconstitutional and threw the whole law out.
They're protected by absolute immunity, which -- just as it sounds -- makes it nearly impossible to sue them for damages, even when they're flat wrong on the laws they're paid to know, and even when police officers then rely on a judge or prosecutor's mistaken views on the law in the course of egregiously violating someone's rights.
1 Views Differ on Judge Charles W. Pickering has been portrayed as racially insensitive by those fighting his appointment to a federal appeals court.
This, though, was not the view of a High Court judge, who on Friday firmly rejected the protest group's application for a statutory review.
In spite of the fact that the lateral dimensions of SML QDs are small and the related strain fields are weak, these QDs can be revealed in plan-view TEM images, giving a possibility to judge on their lateral density and relative lateral sizes, revealed by the associated strain fields.
On this account, a judge ignores the views of the current legislative majority.
"Activism is when a judge allows his personal views on a policy issue to infect his judgment," Mr. Sessions warned Judge Roberts during the hearing.
Mr. Cornyn said he would encourage the Arizonan to put more emphasis on his views on judges.
