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25 Jan 2017, 1:28 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Our welfare is bound to each others’: Slavery to northern workers was both morally indefensible and a threat to their own livelihoods. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 12:51 pm by Steve Lubet
To brand one’s political opponents, members of one’s own community, as kapos, merely for engaging in legitimate debate, is historically indefensible and is a deeply disturbing example of the abuse of the Holocaust and its victims for present political gain. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 6:00 am by Andrew Koppelman
”  (34)  When courts realized this, they became broadly deferential to any administrative decision that is not utterly indefensible. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 4:20 am by SHG
In this instance, of course, Kellyanne Conway was defending the indefensible, an effort by White House press secretary Sean Spicer to claim something that was objectively false, as noted by neutral observers and the media. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 8:00 am by Jane Chong
Trump is going for an indefensible conflation of entirely separate developments—that is, (a) specific, strong evidence of election hacking, which includes the IC’s assessment of Russian motives and involvement with (b) specific, unsubstantiated allegations about stuff Russia has on stuff Trump supposedly did that happens to be consistent with (a). [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 8:38 pm by Sandy Levinson
Let's start with low-hanging fruit:  Why isn't there a national movement, beginning yesterday, to get rid of the indefensible electoral college? [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 9:22 am by Eric Goldman
To me, Hillary’s attempted end-run around FOIA, combined with the increased security risk from using an insecure server, made her decision indefensible. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 2:21 am by Florian Mueller
If Mike made indefensible accusations, he should retract them and accept the consequences, but if other people, such as potentially Ray Tomlinson, deserve credit for having invented email, then the truth should be told in the further proceedings. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 5:05 am by INFORRM
 They risk losing that respect and trust if they allow themselves to be used by the corporate national press to defend the indefensible. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 4:32 pm by INFORRM
The innocent and popular local press is being used by its guilty and unpopular national big brothers to defend the indefensible – as a “human shield” against proper regulation. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 8:00 am by Ilya Somin
The ultimate result is that partisans on both sides end up defending the indefensible, dismissing legitimate issues raised by the opposition, and adopting dubious beliefs based on deception and misinformation. [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 5:02 am by Florian Mueller
The European Union, which is already dysfunctional in some even more important regards, threatens to become the world's craziest, most innovation-hostile copyright jurisdiction. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 1:13 pm by Tom Smith
The Obama Administration has long known its position is indefensible, so they’ve chosen to hide unclassified documents from the public,” said Rep. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 2:12 pm by eputsche
Much like the abysmal puppy mills that stock pet stores nationwide with sick dogs, the breeding and raising of sled dogs is indefensible and cruel. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
It is an indefensible leap, and he and Trump have made a category mistake that threatens harm to millions of good Muslims in the United States. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 7:51 am by Steve Lubet
Your insistence on defending the indefensible PACE trial, and your patronizing jabs at critics, disserve everyone, including yourself. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 7:39 am
His argument is, moreover, premised on an indefensible distinction between ‘constitutional ideals’ on the one hand, and legislation and court decisions on the other, which ignores the normative values that are embodied in the latter. [read post]
29 Oct 2016, 12:14 pm by Steve Shiffrin
FBI Director James Comey’s decision announcing that the Bureau is investigating e-mails found on a computer used by Huma Abdin in connection with the investigation of Hillary Clinton is inconsistent with D.O.J. policy, indefensible, and was apparently prompted by his ineptitude in the execution of the prior questionable decision to make public remarks attempting to justify the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton. [read post]
22 Oct 2016, 6:59 am by Steve Vladeck
") is an indefensible micharacterization of the record, which, at most, establishes that Bahlul "swore an oath of loyalty to Osama bin Laden, served as bin Laden’s personal secretary, and made al Qaeda recruitment videos," not that he played any role in the attacks themselves. [read post]