jurist

Such text can be made to mean almost anything, particularly in the hands of creative jurists.

History suggests it would be an upset next week for one or more of these liberal jurists to go down.

According to former justices, judges and Republicans seeking to be judicial candidates, Newby acts more like a political operator than an independent jurist.

Others call the dictionary a fig leaf for the interpretive excesses of jurists bent on reading the law to suit a political agenda.

The plaque that previously labelled the statue read "author, poet, scholar, soldier, jurist, orator, philanthropist and philosopher".