Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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During the campaign, President Obama pledged to make uses of executive authority more transparent and to revise some of these controversial policies and their legal justifications...
Meltzer co-authored an article with Law School Professor Richard H. Fallon in 2007 which asserted that, contrary to Bush-era legal doctrine, civilians held in the United States or Guantanamo Bay as enemy combatants have the right to challenge their detainment in a civilian court...
...very unique and powerful way,” often providing them with advice and referrals. O’Brien, who is known to buy coffee for acquaintances when business is good, even ordained himself as a minister online so that he could feed runaway teenagers without legal repercussions...
...While an event like the one I mentioned is unlikely to occur in many parts of America—and perhaps if he lived somewhere else, the black bus driver would be quicker to take legal action for such treatment—there are unfortunately still several regions that linger in the pre-civil-rights era and have certainly not reached a post-racial state...
...woman needs medical care for her anxious 12-year-old son, who has started wetting his bed. Another needs legal help for her husband, who was arrested during a return visit to Agriprocessors by immigration agents last fall. "I am very sad and worried," says Irma Lopez, 28, a former Agriprocessors worker who remains in limbo with her young daughter while her husband is back in Guatemala, one of many arrested workers deported in October after serving five months in prison. "I worked since I was 8 years old, and now I feel worthless. I can work...