Word: legalism
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...REFUGEES 1% Percentage of refugees living in Greece who have been granted asylum. The country has been criticized by the U.N. for failing to provide interpreters and legal aid for the remaining 99% 50% Percentage of refugees living in Sweden who have been granted asylum, the highest rate in Europe...
...November elections. He will also say that the Defense Department's former general counsel, William Haynes, pushed for convictions, asking, "If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off?" And he will accuse Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, senior legal adviser to the tribunal, of demanding "sexy" cases with "blood on them" to drum up public support for convictions. "There is no question they wanted me to stage show trials that have nothing to do with the centuries-old tradition of military justice in America," Davis tells TIME...
...version of events. Yet his statements under oath may affect future prosecutions, notably those of six high-value detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whose trials are slated to begin later this year. Their lawyers are likely to use Davis' testimony to show that the Pentagon crossed legal boundaries, bolstering claims that key evidence against their clients was obtained through torture. Ensuing legal wrangling could push proceedings well into next year, after President Bush has left office. And all three candidates vying to replace him have already called for shutting Guantánamo down...
...Certainly, one may consistently view the procedure as one without any morally questionable aspects, and argue that it should be legal. However, the intellectual incompatibility arises when one allows for the possibility that abortion is wrong, yet argues that women should have access to it because it is their right to choose. If a woman feels that abortion is wrong for her, that is because she feels that it takes a life, or at least the potential for a life. She must then hold that abortion is wrong for others, for the fact that the procedure is being done...
...procedure as birth control. With this logic, there should be no objections against the Yale senior, Aliza Shvarts, for her art exhibition reported nation-wide last week, which may have included footage of multiple artificially induced abortions. If one argues that abortion should be safe and legal, then he cannot, in the same breath, insist that he hopes abortion is also rare...