proceduralism

But he seems to back away from his argument that excessive proceduralism is part of the problem.

Crimes, Courts And Cures Paul G. Cassell 2011

The essence of the right wing's claims, and the motive behind Obama's careful proceduralism which appears to put the issue on a permanent (or at least four or eight year) back burner, is not that torture works.

Neil McCarthy: Tortured 2009

If simple bureaucratic proceduralism were the cause of all this, it could be challenged and argued and a signature or two could sort it out.

Cowards and sadists Boris 2009

If simple bureaucratic proceduralism were the cause of all this, it could be challenged and argued and a signature or two could sort it out.

Archive 2009-06-01 Dave 2009

Republicans in recent battles over judicial nominees, especially those conducted while the GOP held a strong majority in the Senate, have had an unfortunate tendency to fall back on proceduralism.

How Republicans Should Oppose Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009

It has become the name for a movement that can scream from the rooftops that every Supreme Court nominee should have an expiditious up-or-down vote, then 15 seconds later demand tortuous proceduralism when that nominee is Harriet Miers.

Rick Perlstein: 'I Didn't Like Nixon Until Watergate': The Conservative Movement Now 2008

The question, always, is where the move away from strict legal proceduralism stops—and the impossibility of drawing any sort of line short of pure absolutism inevitably pushes me, dialectically, back towards absolutism again…

Sunday Morning Links, Including Proof I Would Have Never Cut It in Law School « Gerry Canavan 2008

BE A PERSON, NOT A POL. Kerry must avoid the fate of Mike Dukakis and Bob Dole, other lifers who could never shake the language and proceduralism of politics.

THE DOCTORS' ORDERS 2007

Gordo is merely hiding his unpopular, partisan choice behind a smokescreen of proceduralism.

09/19/2005 2005

We can thus appreciate legal guarantees of a procedural kind for the genuine protection they offer the subjects of the law, whilst at the same time conceding the quietist politics that proceduralism might engender.

Law and Ideology Sypnowich, Christine 2001