The favourite to win is Alexander Uss, a jurist who is the speaker of the regional assembly, having been one of Lebed's sharpest critics.
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"We will thoroughly examine her record to ensure she understands that the role of a jurist in our democracy is to apply the law even-handedly, despite their own feelings or personal or political preferences, " McConnell said in a statement posted on his Web site.
Judge Posner is a respected jurist who is regarded as an economic conservative, naturally suspicious of government intervention.
In an interesting gesture, Mr Kirchner has given the foreign ministry to Rafael Bielsa, a leftish jurist and anti-corruption campaigner.
Petitioners recognize the gravity of this application, and do not relish being forced to recognize the partiality of a formidable jurist such as Judge Kaplan.
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There is no other person in the country as respected and popular within the Liberty Movement as Andrew Napolitano, a former jurist, constitutional scholar, New York Times best-selling author and TV celebrity.
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But his academic pedigree was only one reason he had been regarded as a thinking man's jurist and a highly thoughtful conservative prior to his elevation to the nation's highest bench.
Stalwarts of the industrial revolution such as Thomas Newcomen, a West Country engineer, rub shoulders with John Locke, a political philosopher, and Edward Coke, a lawyer and jurist who did much to shape the common-law traditions of intellectual property.
But the philosophical base on which Iran's theocratic edifice is built is Khomeini's velayat-e faqih, the rule of the Islamic jurist, a concept the ayatollah developed in exile in Iraq in the 1970s.
At its head is a respected Islamist thinker and jurist, Tariq al-Bishri.
Graves, Jr. is a distinguished and experienced Mississippi jurist, who was an attorney in private practice and public service before taking the bench.
Colleagues say that by vowing to continue in his job despite his health problems, the 80-year-old jurist signaled not only a personal strength, but a desire to see the unfolding political process run smoothly for the benefit of the Supreme Court as an institution.
Their ranks include former star pitcher Orel Hershiser, the venerable TV host Art Linkletter, former U.S. Senator Zell Miller of Georgia and former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore--the jurist who was removed for refusing to dismantle a courthouse monument to the Ten Commandments.
That option is preferable to waiting several more years for EPA to finish a rewrite, it says, pointing out that the one jurist who dissented has already made their case.
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The jaunty jurist has long been able to light up, or ignite, a room with his often brash demeanor and wicked sense of humor, and he displayed that in the hourlong conversation with Morgan.
The National Jurist magazine recently named Nova Southeastern as the "Most Wired" law school in the country, a designation that quickly found its way into the school's marketing materials.
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