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24 Mar 2007, 12:07 am
” That’s exactly the sort of attitude that has led him, in both his White House and Justice Department roles, to subordinate and twist the law in order to offer up flimsy, transparently indefensible justifications for torture. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 5:01 am
Why this entire arrangement is not made applicable across the board for all businesses and individuals is unclear, though a good guess is that it might have something to do with politics.There isn’t yet sufficient data available to permit anyone to figure out if California’s sensible and legal approach will let in pull in proportionately more unpaid use tax than the indefensible and legally questionable approaches taken by states unwilling to invest in collecting their own… [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 10:08 am
He was annoyed by his fellow Justices’ reluctance to make a big statement about our electronic privacy in the workplace: The Court’s implication… that where electronic privacy is concerned we should decide less than we otherwise would (that is, less than the principle of law necessary to resolve the case and guide private action)—or that we should hedge our bets by concocting case-specific standards or issuing opaque opinions—is in my view indefensible. [read post]
13 Jun 2016, 10:47 am
United States (2000), the Supreme Court made no attempt to defend Miranda's indefensible fiat as an original matter. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 1:14 pm
We urge the senators who serve on the HELP Committee to eliminate the indefensible practice of paying disabled workers less than the federal minimum wage. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 7:20 am
How would one know, unless the mechanisms of legal order had collapsed altogether, or the system had become so infused with corruption that it was untenable, or had become so evil that it was morally indefensible? [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 7:51 am
(Incidentally, I exempt from these "aspersions" principled draft resisters, who paid real prices for their principles, unlike those of us, whatever our politics, who gladly took advantage of quite indefensible student exemptions to remain on the sidelines.) [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 4:14 am
White, was indefensible. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 9:01 pm
Allen dissent shows that the majority's affirmance of the state courts’ facts is indefensible. [read post]
25 Jun 2024, 5:31 am
This appointment has strong echoes of the government’s indefensible funding for Laith Marouf, given that proper vetting would have likely disqualified Dattani from this appointment. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 3:20 am
Right now, the Supreme Court is considering the merits of the particular cocktail of drugs used to dispense death sentences, but it is ignoring the bigger issue: Decades of evidence prove that the sentences are handed out unevenly and unfairly.The underlying message is clear: Some lives simply are deemed more valuable by our deeply flawed justice system.To impose an irreversible punishment in such an imperfect and discriminatory way is indefensible. [read post]
17 May 2023, 4:30 am
Here is the abstract: In this Article I maintain that in recent years a broad, but unspoken, consensus has existed on the Supreme Court for deciding free speech cases with an almost insuperable presumption of unconstitutionality and that the result has been a system of freedom of expression that indefensibly and dangerously favors speech. [read post]
27 Jul 2008, 4:07 pm
The state's silence on this issue “underscores the indefensible nature of its responses. [read post]
22 Aug 2006, 5:40 am
I must confess that, whatever its legal merits (although it's a sad day if there actually is merit to the argument), I find the government's position wholly indefensible here. [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 6:01 am
The idea that someone who is 1% responsible for their injuries should not be able to recover against a negligent party who is 99% responsible for their injuries is really intellectually indefensible. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 6:33 am
There might not be anything more upsetting than learning about the abuse of a trusting, helpless, indefensible senior at the hands of their so-called “caretakers. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 8:29 am
To impose an irreversible punishment in such an imperfect and discriminatory way is indefensible. [read post]
27 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm
”And this is not Jordan’s first “indefensible” effort to target a prosecutor who tries to hold Trump to account. [read post]
17 May 2007, 1:59 pm
For the next two weeks the program continued, despite the Justice Department's belief that it was legally indefensible. 2) Andrew Card, according to James Comey, is a liar. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 1:37 pm
The Post-Crescent didn’t report the details of the promised meowing testimony, an omission I consider indefensible and deficient under the circumstances. [read post]
