Word: opinionizing
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...northern India triggered protests last week, as Hindus marched in New Delhi shouting "Down, down Pakistan!" and forced roads and shops to close across the country. Police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators and arrested some 3,000 people. "I have always maintained that we need to carry public opinion to make a success of the peace process," Singh warned as he appealed for calm. "Anything that comes in the way of public opinion?and certainly these incidents, if they get repeated?has the potential to disrupt the peace process...
...other places of power who participated in Milosevic's war effort, and some probably commited war crimes themselves", she says. "They feel threatned, because they fear they will be exposed." She believes that most Serbs are on her side, and she may be right. According to a recent opinion poll, the number of Serbs who support the war crimes Tribunal rose 15 percent after the release of the tape, with almost half of Serbia now supporting an institution long dismissed by many as a kangaroo court to victimize Serbs. And on Monday, for the first time, Serbia's president will...
...This attitude must change. Pakistan will be respected only when we respect our own people, and Pakistan will be tolerant only when we protect the nonviolent expression of all shades of opinion. "Enlightened moderation" cannot simply be dictated from above. It will have to take root below, and for that to happen, the government needs to cease renting out stolen civil liberties and restore them to their rightful owners?the people from whom they were taken without consent...
...Connor's history on abortion is a perfect example of the minimalism to which Sunstein refers: Don't throw the precedent out entirely; don't endorse it uncritically, but define the circumstances where it applies. In finely tuned opinions for religion cases, O'Connor measured whether government support of, say, school prayer or vouchers amounted to an unconstitutional "endorsement" of religion. The Pledge of Allegiance's "under God" phrase passed her test; displaying the Ten Commandments on public property did not. That kind of approach is also evident in her handling of affirmative action. O'Connor was as allergic...
Meanwhile, her awareness of real-world politics and her sense that the court shouldn't diverge too sharply from popular opinion were especially apparent in O'Connor's death-penalty votes. In 1989 she wrote the majority opinion allowing capital punishment of the mentally retarded, saying a "national consensus" that the practice was wrong had not yet formed. But by 2002 she was convinced things had changed and voted with the majority to end it. It was just the kind of switch that made the court's more doctrinaire conservatives nuts: "Seldom has an opinion of this court rested...