Word: legalism
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Meanwhile, the parliamentary drama has united Iraqis of all persuasions into a nation of SOFA potatoes: not since Saddam Hussein's trial have so many been transfixed by a legal debate. In restaurants and cafés across Baghdad, TV screens normally featuring music videos and Arabic soap operas were instead tuned to Iraqi news channels that seemed at times to be devoted exclusively to the story. It was democracy as reality TV. Iraqis watched as politicians denounced each other across the parliament floor and as Maliki griped at a press conference that failure to ratify the pact would leave...
...Americans right now,†said audience member Amy M. Beeson ’10. Dominguez’s opening remarks concerned the President-elect’s general views on immigration, founded on three main building blocks: supporting immigration, strengthening border control, and providing a system of legalization. He described Obama’s stated goal of increasing immigration as unlikely to be feasible since a large consensus of the population believes that immigration must be scaled back. “Even among immigrant communities, there is the view that ‘once I got in, then...
...work on other cases as well? I have clients who are good enough to pay for my services, because these clients in Guantanamo are obviously penniless and destitute and couldn't pay anything. We've spent millions of dollars of donated legal time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket money because the translators have to be paid. We've had an investigator in Bosnia working with us for three years. He has to be paid. Every time we fly to Washington, the only place you can look at this evidence, every time we fly to Florida...
Just as critically, there are key legal differences. Unlike gay marriage, which seemed to burst upon the scene all at once when Massachusetts Supreme Court made it legal, courts began slowly to recognize gay rights as far back as 1985. Several states - including California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, and New York - already expressly forbid discrimination against gays seeking to adopt. A handful of other states, even without specific legislation, allow gay adoption...
Supporters of a traditional definition of marriage have pushed for statewide votes in more than 30 states, and gay marriage has survived in none of them. Those bans, together with existing legislation, make gay marriage expressly illegal in 45 states. And while the outcome of the legal challenges to California's recent vote to ban gay marriage will be watched closely, even gay rights activists say the momentum is draining from the gay marriage fight...