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3 Nov 2011, 12:35 pm
In a state without our budget concerns this policy would be entirely indefensible, but research confirms that many parents all around the U.S. need more education on how to properly use booster and car seats to maximum effect. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 7:34 am by Dan Bressler
” “‘That position is legally and ethically indefensible,’ Schindler Elevator told the court. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 12:37 pm by Amy Howe
Kagan acknowledged that the court’s “conclusion is not indefensible: The Government put on quite a few witnesses who said that the defendants committed the crime. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 6:05 am by David Bernstein
  I’m in no way defending this situation, which in fact is indefensible; but it’s the way it is. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 8:31 am by Ronda Muir
Make no mistake: there is absolutely no excuse for indefensible behavior. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 11:09 am
Just look at the some of the absurd politics surrounding the stimulus bill, where three Republican senators, two of them from the great small state of Maine, were able to extort their own policy preferences because of the indefensible voting rule in the Senate that requires 60 votes even to bring a bill to the floor for a vote. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 9:36 pm
It is absolutely indefensible that the Supreme Court in the late 1960’s used sexual “obscenity” as the basis for allowing the sale of adult magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, yet now refused to expand the definition of “obscene” to include these perverse, twisted violent video games. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 7:39 am by Benjamin Wittes
The country learned all too well during the Bush administration’s indefensible use of torture how existing legal authorities can be twisted. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 12:20 pm
The State didn't respond to the issue, which speaks volumes to me on how indefensible the point is.In fact, the first point they make -- and indeed it appears to be the only one outside of the procedural issues that fill most of the brief -- is that the ads at issue were false. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 1:25 pm by Emma Zack
Chaney’s conviction more than 30 years ago was based largely on the scientifically indefensible testimony of two forensic dentists “matching” Chaney to a supposed bite mark. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 5:32 am by Big Tent Democrat
Defending the indefensible tends to cause such behavior. [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 6:36 am
It appeared that he had no intention of trying to defend the indefensible. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 7:02 am by Brad Schnure
“While vaccination mandates were always wrong, they’re completely indefensible in light of a growing body of scientific literature saying vaccines aren’t necessarily helpful and could even be harmful to people who already had COVID-19. [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]
Congress should demonstrate its commitment to the defense of marriage by actually respecting ALL legal marriages and passing the Respect for Marriage Act to finally repeal the discriminatory, unconstitutional and indefensible "Defense of Marriage Act. [read post]
26 Feb 2014, 8:53 am by Dan Rodriguez
  Otherwise, tuition subsidies of faculty scholarship are fundamentally indefensible. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 9:04 am by Daniel Shaviro
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]
22 Sep 2018, 4:05 pm by Georgialee Lang
Krekovic for special costs and convinced a judge that his actions were “indefensible and an abuse of process meriting sanction in the form of an order of special costs payable by him personally”. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 8:27 am by Sandy Levinson
That is the topic for another posting.)Perhaps one should make the same kind of argument for the head of the Fed or the FBI, given that they serve longer terms and have immense power (indeed, as we saw in the winter of 2008, more effective power than the President, who chose to be a bystander as Bernanke and Paulson acted).2) when, because of the indefensible way that voting is allocated in the Senate, the "majority" in fact represents less than a majority of the American public. [read post]