institutionalist
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“That’s a fair point,” he says, but he insists he isn’t an institutionalist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
He charmed the Senate and then the Supreme Court media with this modest, midwestern institutionalist act.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2025
The institutionalist in him knows that, under the Constitution, the Senate’s power to confirm nominees is equal to a president’s in naming them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
Say you’re John Roberts; you’re the institutionalist guy.
From Slate ● May 28, 2024
The stiff institutionalist is debarred by his theory from fraternising with many who should be his friends, while he is bound to others with whom he has no sympathy.
From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph
Thomas didn’t specify whom he was referring to, leaving court watchers to wonder whether he had his own branch of government in mind, given that some other justices are often described as institutionalists or pragmatists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
There is no commitment to the principles that were laid out and in which people like you and I as institutionalists took a lot of solace.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025
But now even institutionalists, who have been hesitant to damage what they see as the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, are arguing something must now be done.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
It also helped that both are self-described institutionalists: people who fundamentally believe in our government and political system and want to see them function better than they have in recent years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
But Barry was wrong in saying they weren't institutionalists; they were.
From Dangerous Ages by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
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