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Greenfield said, though, that he hoped law schools would use Clement’s statement to their advantage to defend future protests...
...convincing people that they’re serious enough—that they’ve thought things through. From what I’ve read, it seems like John and Tara were not very impressive at the debate and in other contexts where they had to defend their platforms and their records.” —Joshua A. Barro ’05, former UC finance committee chair and an unsuccessful candidate for UC president in 2003 “I think endorsements are both key and indicative. On the strength of the Black Students Association endorsement...
...circuit court panel—on a two-to-one vote—endorsed FAIR’s interpretation of the Boy Scouts ruling.As the Third Circuit ruling demonstrated, the same legal principle that can be used to further gay rights in one context also can be used to defend anti-gay policies in another.For some civil rights activists, that’s a frightening lesson—because it means FAIR could win this battle and lose the wider war.‘DO WE REALLY WANT FAIR TO WIN?’University of Mississippi law professor Paul...
...that at the moment tally $50 billion in the House and $35 billion in the Senate. Legislators must also grapple with a host of contentious policy issues before they reach for the eggnog and mistletoe. Against a threatened presidential veto, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain will continue to forcefully defend a popular bill that would ban torture of prisoners in U.S. custody. Before Christmas, legislators are also expected to undertake an extension of the USA Patriot Act, which provides anti-terrorism tools to law enforcement, a Band-Aid for troubled corporate pensions, and immigration reform, a complicated issue that splits...
...remarkably law-abiding people. Lukashenko's hold on power is shored up by the Kremlin, where Russia's leaders are as determined as he is to prevent another people's revolution. In an interview last July on tvts, a Moscow-based channel, Lukashenko made his position plain: "I will defend my state and my presidential power with weapons." Even so, dissidents are agitating for change. Ten parties, ranging from nationalists to communists, agreed in October to nominate physicist Alexander Milinkevich, a former university professor and vice mayor of the city of Grodno, as their single candidate to run against Lukashenko...