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2 May 2010, 1:39 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]
6 Mar 2012, 7:39 am
The country learned all too well during the Bush administration’s indefensible use of torture how existing legal authorities can be twisted. [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 5:23 pm
This victory shows that these laws, when tested by evidence, are indefensible under any standard of constitutional review. [read post]
22 Nov 2024, 5:41 am
Ethically, this situation is indefensible. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 1:50 pm
Moreover, emphasizing paragraph 5 should serve as a stark reminder to the Security Council that it has a legal — and not simply moral — obligation to do everything in its power to end Taylor and her translator’s indefensible detention. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 3:04 pm
I think this is a mistake, not least because I suspect that the "voluntary army" is composed disproportionately of youngsters who do not have better economic prospects, especially if, as I assume is the case, the immediate post-Sept. 11 spate of patriotism has diminished in the face of two wars, one of them indefensible from the outset, the other only barely defensible (if that) as we enter its ninth year. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 1:17 pm
Real-life experience convinced me that separating people based on the unscientific notion of race is indefensible and that love has no boundaries. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 6:35 am
Kaine to decide if equal justice and fair play are to be the hallmarks of his administration or if an indefensible Virginia exceptionalism will continue to call the shots. [read post]
5 Feb 2021, 5:20 am
Likewise, it was obvious that the Bank’s position of 2.5 weeks of severance was indefensible, to the point Justice Vella considered such a minor payment as “unfair and unreasonable. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 8:45 am
DOMA’s real problem is not that it isn’t being defended, but that it is indefensible. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 6:13 pm
But it is even more shocking — and completely indefensible — that Dr. [read post]
24 May 2007, 10:43 am
" However much I wish that the answers were a) yes (not because I support Arnold, but because I think the ban is indefensible); b) a number proportionate to its population and c) one, all three of these answers are clearly and unequivocally incorrect.2) As these very examples suggest, though, the fact that something may be constitutionally determinate does not in the least guarantee that it's normatively defensible. [read post]
7 May 2012, 12:28 am
Nor did the Mail & Guardian contend for such a blanket rule, which would be clearly indefensible under our Constitution. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 8:46 am
Now he's paying the state's debt for hysterical, indefensible laws.States and localities, pushed by courts, are beginning to realize that the draconian laws forbidding sex-offender residence are wrong and counterproductive. [read post]
2 Nov 2020, 7:38 am
This put the US Department of Justice attorneys into a mockable position of defending the indefensible. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 4:00 am
I found this quote from a link to COUNSEL for the INDEFENSIBLE, an article in American Heritage magazine: William Fallon, the ‘Great Mouthpiece” of the 1920s, said, ‘Even when he’s drunk, Earl Rogers is better than any other stone-sober lawyer in the whole damned country. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 8:00 am
"The costs of ObamaCare are indefensibly high and unsustainable. [read post]
20 Mar 2007, 5:45 pm
Simply put, his position is indefensible. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 10:36 am
The firing of Lam is indefensible. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 9:07 am
"Ohio has been in a dubious cycle of defending often indefensible conduct, subsequently reforming its protocol when called on that conduct, and then failing to follow through on its own reforms," he said. [read post]
