Word: respectiveness
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...Pope Benedict XVI. In a 2003 document the Vatican further distances itself from New Age practices, including yoga. Even so, Father Thomas Ryan, a Catholic leader of the Christian yoga movement, says he interprets the church's position not as a denunciation of yoga but as a reminder to "respect Christian logic" in its practice. "And that's what we're doing," he says...
...next week, the challenge will be to discover how he reconciles laws and principles and precedents and his own instincts when they come into conflict. To call him conservative is not very helpful without knowing whether it applies more to means or to ends. If conservatives are inclined to respect precedent, does that include the precedents they abhor? If Congress overreaches, is the court being too "activist" by stepping in? Some conservatives care most about freedom, others about order; when the two values conflict, which one will he favor? He will try hard not to give any definite answers...
...Among the central questions Roberts will be asked to address is how he views a Justice's role: How does he perceive the court's power, and how much does he respect its past decisions? In his responses last month to a Judiciary Committee questionnaire, he invoked the values of modesty and humility seven times in an eight-paragraph response, as in "a judge must have the humility to be fully open to the views of his fellow judges." As for precedent, Roberts affirmed that it "plays an important role in promoting the stability of the legal system." If nothing...
...modesty, like activism, is in the eye of the beholder. What the Democrats want to know is how he would treat past efforts by the court to right social wrongs, whether by busing students to foster desegregation or banning the execution of people under age 18. Would he "humbly" respect those earlier decisions or overturn them as examples of judicial excess? When he talked about the lump he gets in his throat as he walks up the court's marble steps, it suggested he is not interested in burning the place down. But the tone of some early memos, like...
...argue they're being unfairly scapegoated. Developers, they say, are simply frightened that outsiders like them are getting a piece of the action for once. They add that homebuilders, far from being the socially conscious lot they've cast themselves as in this dispute, are just as culpable with respect to skyrocketing housing prices. The developers, says Sean Claggett, a Las Vegas attorney who represents investors, are often the first these days to hyperactively raise home prices to levels that attract investors in the first place. "The investors are not the ones who dictate the market, so to just point...