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27 Feb 2007, 12:06 am
That being said, even the great Professor Wigmore defended the indefensible Articles of War in famous debates with military law reformer Professor Edmund Morgan. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 4:13 pm
The Administration took a historic step forward in announcing its conclusion that Section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional and indefensible. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 12:37 pm
Somehow this put me in mind of the ancient tradition of the Spanish bullfight, which may seem like an odd cognitive leap, but go along with me for a moment: The bullfight is one of the few modern occasions where death becomes a spectacle that crowds congregate to witness, recalling public executions of the past.Philosophically, the bullfight is practically indefensible, though many have tried to make a case for it. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 5:26 am
" Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr explained that when Mukasey was a judge, he assigned that essay to his incoming law clerks, and "[i]t's one of the first things our speechwriter received as well," said Carr.In that essay, Orwell famously wrote of how, "[i]n our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. [read post]
29 Jul 2012, 9:17 pm
AUCC has devoted enormous resources on copyright; indeed, it spent $1.7 million on the current Copyright Board case alone in less than two years before walking away from it and leaving its members with a “model license” that is now indefensible in light of the recent SCC decision. [read post]
11 Oct 2012, 8:00 am
McCaskill's suspension represents a tremendous propaganda victory for anti-gay-marriage advocates: We can now expect a loud outcry from gay-marriage opponents who have been scouring the horizon for exactly this kind of fact pattern — an ordinary person subjected to indefensible retaliation for taking their side — and may at last have found it. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 1:49 pm
The strategy is unsurprising: if the Brodhead administration's actions are indefensible, the university has little choice but to go after the plaintiffs. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 5:37 pm
The government batted away each reasonable request.Ultimately, this week, we had no choice but to sue to confirm the prisoners' names.As the political parties squabble over cutting waste, they would do well to begin with the government's pointless defence of the indefensible with their expensive hired legal guns – here, as in Binyam Mohamed's case.As if this were not folly enough, now the government has threatened to try to make Reprieve – a charity – pay… [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 6:05 am
I’m in no way defending this situation, which in fact is indefensible; but it’s the way it is. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:31 pm
I suspect the police are fully aware that their actions are indefensible and are therefore willing to exhaust every possible option to prevent any scrutiny whatsoever of their actions. [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 8:37 am
" This raises a deeper problem with both the op-ed and the article-the unarticulated assumption that Justices who say one thing in a confirmation hearing and then do another are necessarily acting in bad faith or being inconsistent in an indefensible way. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 6:14 am
But every decision that lays bare the bankruptcy and exhaustion of the opposing side is another wrecking ball’s blow against an indefensible orthodoxy. [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 5:45 am
” The Criminal Code provisions are indefensible: they really do include penalties that run as high as life in prison for committing a crime if motivated by hatred (Section 320. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 9:04 am
According to Judge Brown: “To construe the legal presumption against extraterritoriality as a bar to claims such as that presented by Villanueva constitutes, in my estimation, a legally indefensible restriction on the protection that Congress intended Section 806 to afford to covered employees. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 1:16 pm
Bush has zero, nil, nada, zilch politcial authority remaining even for members of his own party.It is, frankly, indefensible that lameducks have the power to block this bill from coming to a vote. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 4:22 pm
Similarly, it's the case that desirable legislation can occasionally run the bicameralism, indefensibly-structured Senate hurdles established by the Constitution. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 3:20 pm
" Steve Benen: PolitiFact ought to be ashamed of itself: "This is simply indefensible. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 9:04 am
Other accounting rules in the neighborhood are also bad, however, such as not present-value-discounting expected future taxes, and the degree of secrecy companies are permitted regarding their U.S. and foreign tax positions and current payments is probably indefensible.3) In principle, accounting design should take account of the real world consequences (outside accounting) that adopting a particular rule may have. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 8:31 am
Make no mistake: there is absolutely no excuse for indefensible behavior. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 10:05 am
" It is certainly nice to see Obama going to Baltimore to take on his enemies, but he surely must realize at some point that they are his enemies, who wish only and exclusively his political destruction, and that they will continue to use the absurd and indefensible rules of the Senate to deprive him of anything that he will be able to claim as a truly important "achievement" in 2012. [read post]
