On the Supreme Court, he has generally allied himself with the conservative bloc.

The Mayor recently used his two appointments to the board to keep the same conservative bloc in place.

It looked to me like whoever was in this kind of conservative bloc there just decided he was going to take the fall.

The bill has already passed the Senate, the upper house, where a conservative political bloc is in control.

Mr. Kean earned the support of the state's smaller conservative bloc.

The threat from the conservative bloc has yet to materialise, and the polls look good.

The largest remaining threat to Romney is a conservative bloc coalesced behind one candidate.

Some of the liveliest debates on the Court, in fact, are taking place not between liberals and conservatives, but within the conservative bloc itself.

As expected, Justice Thomas has joined the Court's dominant conservative bloc.

He voted with the conservative bloc in the death penalty rulings and most of the other criminal law decisions.