Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senators Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's loudest critics. Sentelle and Helms have denied discussing Starr's appointment. By that time Starr had nearly entered the Virginia Republican Senate primary that Oliver North eventually won, and had considered writing a Supreme Court brief supporting Paula Jones' argument that her case should be allowed to go forward while Clinton was in office. Citing questions about his fairness, the New York Times called for Starr to resign almost as soon as he was appointed...
...authority from Attorney General Janet Reno and a three-judge panel to expand his jurisdiction, but not until days after he had wired Linda Tripp to tape Lewinsky. Starr's defenders say he was simply pursuing a credible lead that walked in the door. "There's a pretty decent argument it's related to what he's already doing," says John Barrett, who was an attorney in the Iran-contra probe of Lawrence Walsh. But to Starr's critics, the wiring of Tripp was outside his legal authority because its connection to Whitewater was so tenuous. Starr also arguably subverted...
...that President Clinton previously promised to "co-operate fully" with the inquiry, such a move would look disingenuous. And yet, if Starr is planning to subpoena "the entire first floor of the White House," as former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos suggested before his own grand jury testimony Wednesday, an argument could be made that it was the only way to prevent executive paralysis. Ah, the privileges of power...
...batch of candidates ran against. For the past two-and-a-half years, we have had ideologically strong and consistent leadership at the top of the council--leadership many have attacked for creating factions where there were previously none and pulling the council down into petty partisan politics. This argument ignores completely the history of the council...
Jackson used the recent Super Bowl to support his argument. "There were blacks in Denver pulling for whites in Denver to tackle whites in Green Bay," he said. "There were no race incidents and they were in hand-to-hand combat...