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26 Mar 2008, 10:43 am
“When the honor of the nation is balanced against the modest cost of compliance,” Stevens wrote, “Texas would do well to recognise that more is at stake than whether judgments of the ICJ and the principled admonitions of the President of the US trump state procedural rules. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:53 pm
Constitution are hard to overturn, since that requires either a 2/3 Congressional majority proposing a constitutional amendment (or 2/3 of the states calling for a convention to propose it), plus 3/4 of state legislatures ratifying it; the appointment of several new Justices (which might not happen for many years); or other actions — such as impeachment — that are contrary to American traditions and are seen as creating something of a constitutional crisis. [read post]
22 Mar 2021, 5:24 pm
Our interview is with Ishan Sharma, from the Federation of American Scientists, and author of "A More Responsible Digital Surveillance Future Multi-stakeholder Perspectives and Cohesive State & Local, Federal, and International Actions. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 11:28 am
John's assertions in support of this action before Judge Becker are materially irreconcilable with the position he adopted before the federal bankruptcy court. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 8:05 am
” As this exchange illustrates, the justices’ disagreements on major constitutional issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty may be due as much to their differing views of the facts as of the law. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 7:31 am
Unfortunately, the Obama administration has not yet seen fit to subscribe in practice to this core civil rights principle. [read post]
1 May 2008, 12:14 am
The idea that IHRL is completely displaced by IHL in the War on Terrorism completely ignores the more nuanced conception of lex specialis laid down by the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and virtually all of the treaty enforcement bodies of the United Nations. [read post]
7 Sep 2013, 3:00 am
Rather, we should be able to have an open debate about what is morally right and wrong, even if international law or strategic interests constrain our choices of action. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 9:33 pm
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. [read post]
13 May 2009, 7:32 am
Sending children of any race to decaying and underperforming schools is an American tragedy. [read post]
2 May 2010, 1:39 pm
Working with the Americans, the UK then rendered the men to Afghanistan where they have been held ever since in secret detention, beyond the protection of law.The charity for which I work, Reprieve, has been trying to reunite them with their legal rights. [read post]
4 Sep 2008, 6:27 pm
I shall deal here only with certain matters relevant to criminal trials in American courts and possibly relevant, to some extent, to civil trials for damages in domestic courts. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 5:40 am
All of that complicated engineering is premised on one fundamental principle: universal addressing. [read post]
26 May 2020, 10:29 am
Even as late as 1828, when Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language, he gave as one of the meanings of "peace": "8. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 4:13 pm
The Court declared that the farmer’s actions were not to be viewed in isolation, but rather assessed “together with that of many others similarly situated . . . .” Wickard‘s aggregation principle was reaffirmed by Gonzales v. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 10:48 am
When he wanted or needed to, therefore, he could rise “above” principle, and he could because he seems to have been working with multiple principles, not all of them grounded in the Constitution. [read post]
13 Apr 2014, 6:19 pm
Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of their Government. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 2:58 pm
And it reaffirms a core principle of Indian law that is often overlooked today: Indian tribes are inherently sovereign. [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 9:20 am
The opinion opens with a recitation of the "longstanding principle of American law" that "when a statute gives no clear indication of an extraterritorial application, it has none. [read post]
3 May 2012, 10:54 am
Finally, I employ data on past enforcement actions to generate a cross-national measure of the “FCPA enforcement-action intensity” of U.S. [read post]
