Word: provisionally
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Jostled awake by the rulings, the Republican-controlled Congress finally weighed in with a 2005 law prohibiting the inhumane treatment of prisoners but also stripping Guantanamo detainees of the right to habeas corpus. By then, though, it was already late. In 2006, the Supreme Court, skeptical of how suspected terrorists...
But that's hardly the end of the story. The Supreme Court has agreed to review the Military Commissions Act, and things don't look good for Bush. The act's opponents argue essentially that it can't overcome the Constitution's bar to suspending habeas except in cases of...
Thompson will spend the rest of the summer raising money, which he was scheduled to do conspicuously at a donor event in Washington on July 28. Another advantage to waiting: the longer he remains an unofficial candidate, the longer NBC can air reruns of Law & Order featuring Thompson as Manhattan...
While the clove provision didn't please the American Lung Association and other groups, it hasn't cost their support - the measure to give the FDA oversight has been endorsed by every major U.S. health group. The FDA would almost certainly force cigarette manufacturers to list their ingredients, remove some...
The provision Kravis and others are lobbying to save is spectacularly unfair. These billionaires enjoy a lower tax rate than the people who clean their toilets. Oh, sure, arguments can be made for this. These arguments usually turn on the metaphysical distinction between ordinary income and capital gains. And there...