Word: argumentive
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...joined a friend-of-the-court brief supporting FAIR’s case. But faculty members took a more active role, and last fall, 40 Harvard law professors filed their own brief in the case. In yesterday’s opinion, the court singled out the professors’ argument and struck it down.In a statement last night, a spokesman for University President Lawrence H. Summers said that the University still remains opposed to the amendment.“Harvard fully respects the Supreme Court’s decision, but we continue to believe that the Solomon Amendment...
Dealing a setback to his alma mater, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 rejected an argument put forth by 40 Harvard Law professors when he delivered the Supreme Court’s opinion in a major military recruitment case yesterday.In the first paragraph of his holding, Roberts singled out the Harvard professors’ brief and later wrote that the Harvard faculty members’ interpretation of the Solomon Amendment is “clearly not what Congress had in mind.”The Harvard professors had asked the court to avoid a constitutional showdown...
...controversial posters came at a heated time during the abortion debate. Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in the case Scheidler v. National Organization for Women (NOW) that abortion clinics could not block anti-abortion protests based on the argument that the protesters were using extortion or racketeering...
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds had to decide whether to side with the Purists or the Pragmatists in the Abortion Wars. His decision to sign the state?s dramatic new abortion bill means the Purists have prevailed, and the moral, political and legal argument surrounding abortion rights is about to turn a corner...
...Manipulator: Easily identifiable, this is the girl who creepily taps her fingers together and mumbles “Excellent…” as two of her blockmates get into an argument at the dinner table. The Manipulator will use any possible situation to her advantage in order to create the “ideal blocking group” (read: the one with all of her desired people). She throws people out, she entices people in…and she’ll eventually be removed herself when her machinations are discovered...