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Since Meese believes the "ideal of human dignity" and "the rights of equal citizenship" are not explicit in the letter of the Constitution, by his logic it follows that such concepts should not influence court decisions. But such an inflexible view of the Constitution renders it a tool for political conservatives, who can then use the supreme law of the land to justify an erosion of individual rights. This view mocks the founders; it uses their ideas to support a backward-looking political agenda...
...major risks had been the possibility of killing Soviet personnel, who were known to be present at Surt. But the U.S. had quietly informed Moscow of its intentions in advance. Says one Navy source, referring to the placement of Gaddafi's "line of death": "We told the Soviets explicitly what we intended to do, including transiting below the 32nd parallel. They didn't have to read between the lines." When the attacks were launched, the Soviets apparently were not around. "Maybe they were taking a coffee break," said one official wryly. The Soviets had one communication ship anchored at Surt...
...were intently pursuing it abroad. The Swiss government stunned its starchy banking community by freezing all assets in numerous bank accounts, rumored to total in the hundreds of millions of dollars, belonging to Marcos, his family and associates. Never before had Switzerland issued such a sweeping order without an explicit request from an aggrieved government. An estimated $1 billion of Marcos' assets abroad, mostly in the U.S., have also been frozen. No one, however, was ready to predict that the paper trail would come to an end soon, or that Marcos would be easily brought to justice...
...dissenters wanted to hear arguments.) In the appeals-court ruling, Judge Frank Easterbrook, a Reagan appointee, agreed that depictions of subordination perpetuate subordination. But, he wrote, this did not permit Indianapolis to hold that materials presenting women in sexual encounters premised on equality were lawful, no matter how explicit, while those treating them in the "disapproved way" were unlawful, no matter how valuable the whole work. Said Easterbrook: "This is thought control...
...allow new limits on what pornographers may say, it did not object to tougher limits on where they may say it. The court voted 7 to 2 to uphold a zoning ordinance passed by the small Seattle suburb of Renton (pop. 32,000) that prohibited the showing of explicit films in theaters within 1,000 ft. of a school, church or residence. The law was acceptable, said Justice William Rehnquist, because it served the legitimate governmental purpose of preserving the quality of urban life while allowing reasonable alternative locations to the theater operators...