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This kind of “cui bono” attitude toward judicial rulings, especially by conservative jurists, is one you see with some frequency on the left — I wrote about it when ThinkProgress was circulating some anti-Alito talking points back during that nomination fight — and it seems like the shambling zombie remnant of the old penchant for reducing ideological “superstructure” to economic “base.”

Stephen Breyer: “Unabashedly Pro-Business”? 2007

Now, the legal situation, as you saw by the papers the other day, rendered by the French jurists is that the canal is to be open always during peace or war, but that nation which controls the entrance outside the limits that would be taken into consideration in a legal blockade is the nation who will close the canal and in case of war - I hope it doesn't come-between Great Britain and Italy, Great Britain would control or would try to control the entrance to both ends of the canal.

Ethiopia and Its Problems 1935

At one point he testified that al-Kousi described certain jurists or scholars as mistaken or heretical, and others as good jurists — the real scholars: “And that’s a very important theme throughout these tapes — who are the real people that you should listen to, and who are the real scholars you should listen to, and the people that are pretend scholars, not real scholars.”

Prophetic Justice 2006

At one point he testified that al-Kousi described certain jurists or scholars as mistaken or heretical, and others as good jurists — the real scholars: “And that’s a very important theme throughout these tapes — who are the real people that you should listen to, and who are the real scholars you should listen to, and the people that are pretend scholars, not real scholars.”

Prophetic Justice 2006

In other words, that they were legislating and not being jurists, which is a very different function.

CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2000 2000

It is now held that the original work was written at the end of the Warring States era (IV — III centuries B.C.) by perhaps several of the so-called jurists or writers on legislation.

Discourses On Salt and Iron 1931

The bulk of it (what might be called the common law) was contained in the writings of the jurists, that is, of text-writers and commentators.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Obama has been slow to name jurists to the federal bench during his first two years in office, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has confirmed fewer of his nominees than those of previous presidents.

latimes.com - News 2011

Maybe the abiding principle of the revolution -- the "Valiyat e Faqih" (the guardianship of the "jurists"/the rule of the clerics) is finally under enough threat to warrant such a meeting.

Parvez Sharma: A Report From Inside as Tehran Twitters 2009

Mr. McCain, who since the presidency of Ronald Reagan has been a loyal soldier but not a major player in the effort to put more conservatives on the federal courts, cited Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. as models of the kind of jurists he would nominate.

Justice League 2008