They have also largely taken place outside the cockfighting arena of congressional or judicial politics.

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In any case, many Italians, regardless of their own politics, are getting tired of the seemingly endless judicial wrangles involving politicians.

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Perhaps this will be yet another French political scandal, albeit small beer compared with some previous pots de vin, destined to drag through the years as the judicial system bends this way and that to the pressures of politics.

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Supporters of Proposition 8 say the court should respect the verdict of California voters who approved the ban in 2008 and let the fast-changing politics of gay marriage evolve on their own, through ballot measures and legislative action, not judicial decrees.

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Jurists opposed to judicial activism have been largely blocked from serving on the High Court, as have jurists with non-leftist politics.

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