Word: argumentative
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...White House, the war, energy, poverty and the American drama of race. In the end, he said, it boiled down to this: ?Many of the people I saw and met in the Superdome down in New Orleans are not alive any more. That's why I make the argument for Mother Nature...
...according to Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, “It would be a departure from the Court’s practice for a new justice to vote on a case if he was not on the bench at the time of argument...
...have any reason to believe that Judge Alito, once elevated to be Justice Alito, would be likely to accept a constitutional challenge to the Solomon Amendment,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. “The statutory interpretation argument offered in our amicus brief might be appealing to him...but if forced to bet, I’d bet against that prevailing, too,” she added...
...time of peace. Berenson pointed to the Commander-in-Chief clause in Article Two of the Constitution as the legal source of the President’s executive power to act at his discretion during wartime. But Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann took issue with this argument. Heymann pointed out that while most wars have a definite time span, “terrorism is going to be with us for all of your lives.” He said that it was absurd for a president to claim special executive power in order to combat a war with...
...Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Yet as the report undergoes further debate in faculty meetings and student forums in coming weeks, questions remain about the practical application of its recommendations. “The Committee has done a good job of laying out an argument for a broad distribution requirement,” Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “The success or failure of this new, much more open, system will depend on how it is implemented.”TRUSTING THE MARKETAccording...