Word: legalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Grant called the club's decision a return to tradition, but it appears concern over legal liability was at least a factor. Meanwhile, most club members said they were socially accepting what will be a drastic change...
...senator and current Clinton buddy did even better than that. For the first time in this plodding impeachment trial, listeners were treated to a speech that was worthy of history -- not to mention a heck of a defense for the President. "He was kind of the antidote to the legal arguments," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "He was well-regarded as a senator, and he was a friend of Clinton who could talk to them, politician to politician, and put it all in perspective...
...dismay of every budding politician in Arkansas." He recited constitutional history and discussed patriotism, and at one point almost began to cry. He talked about the "human element" in the case against Bill Clinton, and that was what Bumpers himself brought to the Senate floor. Though few of his legal arguments broke new ground in this trial, his persona hit oratorical and emotional pay dirt -- here was an impassioned defender of Bill Clinton that this jury could trust. And be impressed by. "Some of you hate Bill Clinton," Bumpers intoned. "Rise above it... Don't leave a precedent from which...
...used at some future point when abortion may be outlawed and providers will be put on trial. To abortion-rights advocates, however, the pages, with their bloody graphics and ominous content, read like a detailed hit list, designed to terrorize doctors and keep them from providing the legal service of abortion...
However, regardless of the Oregon federal court's decision, it is clear that the longer violence against abortion providers goes relatively unchecked, the harder it will become for women to have access to a safe and legal abortion. According to the National Abortion Federation, 84 percent of America's counties have no abortion clinics. Many of the doctors cited on The Nuremberg Files list have bravely said they will continue to do their jobs in the face of possible attacks, but they need help...