inquisitorial
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The inquisitorial stance was, she said, her role as a congressional overseer charged with holding people accountable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
Indeed, the founders loudly decried abuses of inquisitorial courts in which judges find the facts.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025
In a letter to the judge, Mr. Trump’s legal team said “the judicial system relies upon vigorous advocacy amongst the parties, rather than inquisitorial research by the presiding judicial officer.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Five years later, Robert Allan joined 59 others on a grand jury, “the first sitting of an inquisitorial body” since Seattle’s passage of liquor prohibition.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
In two months Pius was dead, but his successor, Paul II., carried forward the proceedings with the old inquisitorial weapons.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
