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Partisan

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Partisan meaning

An adherent to a party or faction. | A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. | A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.

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In the Ohio Township vote for the South Spencer School Board, non-Partisan Laura Blake defeated non-Partisan Michael James with 52.61% of the vote compared to 47.39%.

People seeking to battle partisan gerrymandering can no longer seek help from federal courts, which are barred from taking those cases by a 2019 Supreme Court decision that declared federal courts couldn’t review claims of partisan gerrymandering.

When asked about the partisan divide that has developed over the topic, Frey said, “Watching out for the public health of your city should not be partisan.

Administrative law professor Jennifer Nou even ponders that they could argue they were doing it for partisan reasons, following the decision in Thursday’s partisan gerrymandering case giving such conduct the green light.

Disagreeing with Prof Ahwoi’s position on not making local level elections partisan, Hajia Alima said there was a consensus on the floor of Parliament to make it on partisan basis.

The chief justice’s efforts to steer the court through partisan shoals is likely to get even more difficult as the justices are called upon to referee hot-button issues left unaddressed by partisan dysfunction in Congress and the White House.

The partisan leans here were calculated before the 2018 elections; we haven’t calculated FiveThirtyEight partisan leans that incorporate the midterm results yet.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has been the deciding force in several partisan battles over policy in recent years, and is itself clearly partisan — conservatives hold a 4-3 edge.

And dismiss the controversy as a partisan matter — even a partisan conspiracy — in order to solidify support in your party and in Congress (the potential impeachment jury).

In ruling that partisan gerrymandering is acceptable, the majority of the Supreme Court continues to ignore the reality that race plays a major role in American politics, making racial gerrymandering partisan, and, oftentimes, vice versa.

Not would a hard-core partisan Democrat doubt a partisan Republican opponent,” she said.

The Cambridge dictionary defines partisan as supporting a person, principle or political party, often without considering or judging the matter very carefully while non-partisan is the opposite.

The Albanians: An Ethnographic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present Vol. II, Edwin E. Jacques, North Carolina 1995, p. 416. Partisan life Hoxha as a partisan.

After demanding “extreme” Republicans become bipartisan, Sams launched into a partisan attack by suggesting Republicans should investigate the Trump administration for political bias.

After leaving the bench, he a partisan inquiry into whether there was election fraud in Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election.

Also, the deepening partisan divide in the US political circle prevents stable policies from being implemented in critical areas of global public interest.

Although the City Council is, and rightfully so, non-partisan, I like to think of myself as a Progressive Independent in my philosophy.

And before anyone says this is partisan, I feel the same way about McCain, and any other Deep State traitorous rat who bites the dust.

A new push to overhaul the structure of New Mexico's Legislature is off to a partisan start at the Roundhouse.

Anyone who lives in a town with “non-partisan” local elections knows what parties the mayor and council members belong to.