appellate
Speech parts
1. appellate - Noun
2. appellate - Adjective
Meaning
Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.
A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.
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The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.
The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.
One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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