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...firms have also become heavy donors to the Republican Party, an investment that already has paid off in the G.O.P.-controlled Congress, with its hostility toward government regulation in general and the FDA in particular. Thanks to a bill approved earlier this year, Congress has 60 "legislative days" to overturn any agency regulation...
...importance of the compromise that was eventually hammered out is that students still have final authority to overturn the entire board, giving them final authority over programming issues, Kidd said...
...judicial principle, consistently leaves minorities, including religious minorities, at the mercy of majority rule. Only when the majority's duly passed laws contravene an explicit provision of the Constitution does Scalia believe he must step in--sometimes against his own political preferences: he cast the fifth vote to overturn laws prohibiting flag burning because they violated freedom of speech ("A result that I'm quite sure in his heart of hearts he hated," says Chicago's Stone...
While the Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case is not necessarily a show of support for the decision of the lower court, it does not overturn the ruling either, leaving the court's position on affirmative action vague...
...court's action, which reinterprets the law rather than strikes it down, provoked outrage from victim advocates and some politicians. "Those who repeatedly assault our citizens, terrorize our elderly and prey upon our children must pay a severe price," declared Governor Pete Wilson, who pledged to try to overturn the decision either in the legislature or through another ballot initiative. One possibility: make the law even more rigid and remove the discretion of both prosecutors and judges...