Word: dissenters
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...course, within hours, fingers were wagging, knees were jerking, and letters of condemnation came forth from the usual suspects. Now dissent of any kind, in spite of the crickets it may inspire in this instance, is always welcomed by those of us who value discussion...
...Israeli pilots. The truth is, that I have repeatedly defended the right of Israeli pilots to publicize their disagreement with Israel’s policy of targeted killing, despite my personal disagreement with their views on the merits of the issue. Indeed, I have praised Israel for allowing such dissent even from its own soldiers. I have never—and would never—“advise[d] their government on how to suppress the free speech of Israeli pilots.” Finkelstein’s statement that I did so is a categorical...
...Many onlookers at the speech repeatedly disrupted the lecture, heckling, shouting rebuttals, and holding florescent posters protesting Finkelstein’s stated views. One disturbance even forced him to stop speaking temporarily. Besides inhibiting free debate, the protestors’ actions also violated HLS’s Protest and Dissent Guidelines. The guidelines explicitly state that, “A dissenter must not substantially interfere with a speaker’s ability to communicate…Chanting or making other sustained or repeated noise in a manner which substantially interferes with the speaker’s communication is not permitted...
...from the "judicial monastery," Alito has "more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years," as the President noted. Alito's voluminous record, including some 300 opinions, offers a wealth of material for both sides to pick over. Within days of his nomination, his dissent argument for upholding a Pennsylvania law requiring a woman to notify her husband before having an abortion and his opinion supporting a city hall religious-holiday display had become some of the reasons to set up the barricades...
...rights. The last one may become an especially sensitive topic during his hearings. Since 1995 the Rehnquist Court has struck down, in whole or in part, more than 30 federal statutes, essentially arguing that Congress had overreached and such legislation should be left to the states. Alito's controversial dissent arguing to invalidate a federal law banning machine guns nationwide leads many Senators to suspect that he would try to further the trend. His reasoning, which laid out why Congress cannot use the commerce clause of the Constitution to ban the firearms, was eventually rejected by the Supreme Court...