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5 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
Costly measures, in other words, are indefensible if they do not actually advance the important interest at which they are aimed.Still, it does seem likely that a closed door eliminates the possibility of witnesses in a way that an open door does not. [read post]
21 Nov 2024, 9:01 pm
(She has since apologized for this indefensible assertion.)Yet from another vantage point we think it’s fair to say that when the state high court stepped in on Monday and ordered all 67 county boards of elections not to count undated/misdated ballots, it did not acquit itself particularly well either. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm
This shyness and discomfort with others, Nixon’s remarkable lack of self-confidence with strangers, and his desire to be alone, was frequently accompanied by indefensibly rude behavior, deliberately belittling staff in front of others, and humiliating his wife, the First Lady, in the presence of staff. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
It insists—against the criminal justice system’s verdicts and other dispositions—that what occurred was indefensible violence and brutality. [read post]
5 Jun 2025, 4:53 am
In a letter to the DOT, OMB’s General Counsel Mark Paoletta called GAO’s ruling “wrong and legally indefensible;” a GAO spokesperson said the agency stands by its ruling. [read post]
20 Feb 2025, 4:24 pm
By firing career anti-corruption prosecutors, including some with impeccable Federalist Society credentials, it has sent an unmistakable signal to lawyers defending its increasingly indefensible actions in court. [read post]
1 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
For the Symposium on Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. [read post]
27 Nov 2024, 9:19 am
A recent article in The New York Times examined the firing (or more politely, the "departure") earlier this year of Ben Sasse, the former US Senator from Nebraska. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 5:47 pm
Appeals -- Sanctions -- Maintenance of indefensible position in trial court and on appeal -- Rare circumstance in which appellee may be sanctioned -- Appellee complying with none of court deadlines -- Appellee directed to show cause why appellant's attorney's fees should not be assessed against appellee HSBC Bank USA, N.A., Appellant, vs. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 6:00 am
Adrian Vermeule For the Symposium on Adrian Vermeule, Law's Abnegation. [read post]
7 Jul 2019, 7:48 pm
On Thursday, June 27, the Supreme Court held that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's March 2018 order, directing the Census Bureau to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census questionnaire, "rested on a pretextual basis," i.e., that it "cannot be adequately explained in terms" of the "sole stated reason" Ross offered--a purported request by the Department of Justice "for improved citizenship data to better enforce [Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act]. [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Martin Loughlin, Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2022).Martin Loughlin’s new book Against Constitutionalism is extraordinarily rich and provocative. [read post]
3 Dec 2024, 10:59 am
More starkly, "I'll always help my best friend" stops being a wonderful commitment and becomes morally indefensible when the friend commits a multiple ho [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization Symposium on Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
19 Dec 2019, 5:39 am
If Lindsey Graham meant to suggest that he wouldn't do so, come hell or high water, then of course that'd be indefensible, regardless of whether it would violate the oath of "impartiality. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 6:13 am
” I’m not sure if he believes that these problems are fatal, in other words, that the notion of “group rights” is somehow morally or legally incoherent or normatively indefensible. [read post]
25 May 2020, 6:41 am
Describing the horrors of the Mau Mau, and the losses suffered by loyalist Africans and Europeans, Stratton roughly rejects Victoria’s plaintive statement that “it is their country” making the case for settler colonialism in the crudest possible terms, “I want to stay here, and if that is immoral and indefensible colonialism, then every American whose pioneer forebears went in the covered wagon to open up the West is tarred with the same brush; and when the UNO… [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization Symposium on Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
22 Feb 2021, 5:38 pm
Maintaining a status quo that allows tens of thousands, disproportionately people of color, to be arrested in New Jersey each year for low-level drug offenses is unjust and indefensible,” said Governor Murphy. [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 4:20 pm
And to make matters worse, the company has been gilding such excuses with legally indefensible claims about the enforceability of its terms of service. [read post]
