{"id":16534,"date":"2018-07-06T21:54:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2018-07-06T21:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T02:54:15","slug":"word-of-the-day-381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/07\/06\/word-of-the-day-381\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dicta<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The part of a judicial opinion which is merely a judge’s editorializing and does not directly address the specifics of the case at bar; extraneous material which is merely informative or explanatory.<\/p>\n

Dicta are judicial opinions expressed by the judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case.<\/p>\n

Dicta are regarded as of little authority, on account of the manner in which they are delivered; it frequently happening that they are given without much reflection, at the bar, without previous examination. [The ‘Lectric Law Library<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Fellow conservatives, stop the baseless attacks on a potential Supreme Court pick<\/em><\/a>,” Alberto R. Gonzalez, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

The same reporting included another case where the District of Columbia Circuit ruled to allow an undocumented pregnant teen to get an abortion. Again, Kavanaugh dissented<\/a>, and once again nameless conservatives argued that the dissent should have gone further, no doubt frustrated that Kavanaugh did not take on abortion rights even though he is bound as a circuit judge to follow Supreme Court precedent. I remember a time when true judicial conservatives did not act to advance a social agenda through dicta \u2014 words that have no legal bearing in the case at hand nor serve as precedent for future cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dicta: The part of a judicial opinion which is merely a judge’s editorializing and does not directly address the specifics of the case at bar; extraneous material which is merely informative or explanatory. Dicta are judicial opinions expressed by the judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16535,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions\/16535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}