Word: lawlessness
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This central contradiction alone--elevating recounts in Democratic counties to high principle while ignoring recounts in the rest of the state--renders the court's ruling a travesty. A welcome travesty, however. Because this time the lawless lawmaking was made in the full glare of publicity and with such obvious partisanship. (All seven judges are Democratic appointees; the selection to the court of five of them was strongly influenced by Dexter Douglass, a Gore lawyer who addressed the court during the dramatic oral argument.) And because its very outrageousness--rewriting the rules of a presidential election after the election--dramatizes...
Early in the second half, Ripmaster booted a long service to the near post to freshman Kathleen Ferguson. Ferguson headed the ball across the mouth of the goal where Mattison was waiting to deposit the winning tally past a helpless Jenna Lawless--Harvard 2, Quinnipiac...
...dripping-blood graphics of the now-defunct site, you're likely to perceive the situation as threatening. But if you're an anti-abortion activist, you're likely to point to the definition of "unlawful threat," which the Supreme Court has ruled is "explicit language likely to cause imminent lawless action," and argue that your First Amendment rights protect language, even language some may find offensive. But is this just offensive language? Or is it essentially a call to arms - and therefore not protected under the First Amendment? Comparisons have been made with someone who shouts "Fire!" in a crowded...
...short months earlier: Clinton and Jackson were urging a war criminal to agree to order his men to lay down their arms, in exchange for his country's vice presidency and ministerial control over the diamond fields that had financed his rebellion. And in a failed and lawless state such as Sierra Leone, ministerial control meant a lot more than majority shareholding...
...Spyder is not the lawless type, nor is he that one crazy guy everyone has on their floor. "He's not one of those people who likes to hurt himself for fun," explains another friend. "He wants to be a doctor when he grows up. He wants to travel around the world, behind expedition groups in case anyone hurts him or herself." Spyder confirms that the expedition-group doctor is a particular dream of his, but thinks he will probably never realize...