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...This is due to the fact that O’Connor has, for a very long time, been the Supreme Court swing-vote. If she is replaced with a strictly conservative justice, then the opinions of the conservatives on the court would always vote in the majority, consistently rendering null the viewpoints of the other, more liberal justices. As the majority of United States citizens consider themselves to be political moderates, having a strictly conservative coterie of justices exclusively interpreting the Constitution for years to come ill serves the national will...
...forces didn't stop their bombing operations in Fallujah. And amid growing reports of an imminent ground assault on Fallujah by U.S.-led forces, the A.M.S. last week warned that such an operation would lead it to "call on Iraqis to boycott the polls and to consider the results null and void...
...what scale Naipaul had made a nuisance of himself. Since the early 1960s, when he began traveling around the world, Naipaul has infuriated not just Indians, whom he called "barbarous, indifferent and self-wounding," but also the citizens of Zaire ("trapped and static"), Argentina ("deficient and bogus"), Uruguay ("intellectually null ... parasitic"), the Caribbean (ruled by "the deadly comic-strip humour of Negro politics"), and the Muslim residents of Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Iran (a case of collective "neurosis and nihilism"). Upon landing in a new country?usually a developing nation that had recently shaken off colonial rule?Naipaul's modus...
...throw out the University’s anti-discrimination clause on the basis of sex orientation,” Epps added. “Either the anti-discrimination clause should mean something, or it should be null and void...
...Reverend Canon David Anderson: We consider Gene Robinson's election invalid, null and void. It is illegal, in that it violates the moral standards the church has established and uses for the evaluation of who can be a bishop or even a priest. And the time of basically giving a wink and a nod to some people is not acceptable. When those 62 bishops voted, at that moment there was a shattering of the Episcopal church as we know it. The structural disengagement of the church has begun. The question is what will it look like? What will...