Word: processing
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...Worrying about the political implications for his party as it tries to redefine itself "wouldn't be fair to my clients," Olson said. "But we do hope to make the point that on matters of human decency, human rights, individual rights, fairness, due process and equal rights - for God's sake, these are not liberal or conservative issues ... This issue is not something that should be tearing us apart. It should be bringing us together. A respect for individual liberties is an essential part of being conservative...
...minimizing the obstacles," Olson told TIME. But he said federal courts already have powerful, and friendly, precedents. The right to marry whom one pleases was called a fundamental right, protected by the due process clause of the Constitution, in 1967, in the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Virginia v. Loving that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage. Olson and Boies argue that two other big federal cases have laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court, despite its conservative makeup: Romer v. Evans, which in 1996 struck down a statewide ballot measure in Colorado that had barred cities from...
...sets a single standard for all who hold power: you must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy...
...mainstream parties are also victims of the technical and consensual nature of the E.U. itself. Voters are turned off by the process-heavy, nonadversarial way in which the Parliament operates: there is little difference among the policies proposed by the three biggest groups, the conservatives, liberals and socialists. In the current downturn, they are all seen as having fallen asleep at the wheel while the economy went sour...
...ceding the right of way to his host. But the King would have none of it. So the two men rode together, feet on the same step. The extent to which they're in step on Obama's bigger agenda, including an effort to relaunch the Middle East peace process and repatriate Guantánamo detainees, remains to be seen...