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...ruled against the so-called legislative veto, a once common practice under which Congress would grant certain authority to the Executive Branch but reserve to itself the right to disapprove particular actions exercising that authority. Kennedy declared that the practice violated the constitutional separation of powers. In a 1983 dissent, Kennedy argued that a court should admit evidence gathered by police under a search warrant that they believed in "good faith" to be properly executed but that was later found invalid. The Supreme Court eventually ruled his way on both subjects...
...bipartisan harmony. But reaching a consensus on their final report was more difficult: all six Republican House members and two of the five Republican Senators refused to sign the majority report because they thought it too tough on Reagan and his men. They will instead issue a 150-page dissent...
...Geisel himself called the decompression "relative democracy." In the words of a Brazilian political scientist, the 'distensao' was an effort to "perfect the institutionalization of the national security state and provide for more flexible political representation so as to decrease the levels of dissent and tension that had built up pressure." Maria Helena Moreira Alves, State and Opposition in Military Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press...
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...critics say that Bourguiba, 84, who has ruled the small North African nation (pop. 7.6 million) since it gained independence from France in 1956, regularly conjures up foreign plots in order to justify suppression of dissent. Despite his age and frail health, Bourguiba's hold on power is virtually absolute: his Destourian Socialist Party holds every seat in parliament, most opposition newspapers have been shut down, and competing political parties are restricted...