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3 Jul 2018, 10:57 am
Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip use of executive power. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 10:18 am
Although in a matter of hours he was going to be strapped to a gurney and lethally injected with poison, it was Tom who was trying to keep things light, with the corny jokes and over-the-top impersonations – Steve Martin as the “Wild and Crazy Guy” and Mike Myers as Austin Powers – with which I had become all too familiar. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 1:54 pm
Yet it represents a highly influential idea about what equity means—equity is about the exceptional case, the unforeseen circumstance, the extension of a law to a case that is within its spirit but not quite within its letter.[2] This sense of equity can be seen in William Blackstone’s description of “equitable interpretation” of a statute: [I]f the parliament will positively enact a thing to be done which is unreasonable, I know of no power in the ordinary forms of… [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 10:22 am
The Nation piece is good reading on its own, and this part drew my attention: Beginning in the 1990s, when human rights acquired a literally millennial appeal in the public discourse of the West during outbreaks of ethnic cleansing in Southeastern Europe and beyond, it became tempting to treat 1948 as a moment of annunciation, with large political consequences. [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 2:00 am
In New Democracy (especially in the chapter on police power), I associate early 20th century democratic state reformers with a larger American intellectual tradition called pragmatism or better yet, “critical realism. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
In their ruling, the court’s majority drew a distinction between bribery, which requires proof of an illegal deal, and a gratuity that can be a gift or a reward for a past favor. [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 11:07 am
He drew a red line in Syria and did not enforce it and now we're seeing millions of refugees potentially, hundreds of thousands going into Europe. [read post]
30 Oct 2022, 11:24 am
One understands the reason--rituals of purity require avoidance of contamination--and the draft meant to be offered up to the world is meant to distill in all of its glorious purity the quite specific view of a cluster of self-styled vanguard elements increasingly used to having their way in these matter--at least within the quite powerful circle of friends with whom they operate. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 10:56 am
Trump promised to invest in improvements in the course, bringing additional star power through a design by PGA champion Jack Nicklaus. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 9:00 pm
As with most everything else, information is power. [read post]
17 Nov 2018, 2:47 pm
With the House flip to the Democrats, I wonder if FOSTA could have navigated the upcoming Congress session–despite the overwhelming bipartisan support it drew in the last session. [read post]
24 Dec 2014, 11:34 am
My remarks drew an interesting, and I think revealing, response from Snowden, who addressed the conference by video later in the day. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
More importantly, in November 2012, California voters also ended Republican obstructionism by voting that party out of power, and giving the Democrats a supermajority. [read post]
4 Nov 2015, 6:18 am
Isn’t legislative power nondelegable? [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 1:27 am
Benoit Faucon, Joe Parkinson, and Drew Hinshaw report for the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
18 Oct 2023, 9:00 am
Indeed, “New York law gives Surrogate’s Courts extensive powers over testamentary trusts,” Mercer, 609 F. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 1:14 pm
All of the parole increases are only if the victim was under 14 because we drew that as a point at which you know, we think it’s a greater offense because the child is so much younger. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 11:31 pm
These Justices wanted to know what SG Drew Days and his colleagues thought of the matter. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 9:59 am
So expanded, the CFAA would become a powerful criminal tool and would also enable civil damage actions against hackers for treble damages. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 10:43 am
Indeed, these were the conclusions I drew from my study, looking from the outside in as a critical undergraduate student. [read post]
