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Whether Pinochet stands trial will clearly impact the future actions of the global community. In their dealings with him, the British have shown some reluctance in dismissing Pinochet's claims of sovereign immunity. If he is to be released on medical grounds, it must be with absolute certainty of his inability to stand trial. It is therefore in the public interest to allow reexamination of Pinochet's medical condition by another party in light of the importance of this case...
Additionally, I want to take issue with the staff's presentation of jurisprudential issues. I agree with their criticism of the recent judicial activism of conservative justices, especially on issues of the ill-defined 11th Amendment guarantee of "sovereign immunity." The Fourth Circuit's own Chief Harvey Wilkinson, concurring in the case at hand, proudly declared the recent cases to be a new wave of "justified," federalism-based judicial activism...
...Supreme Court has, in the past 10 years, attempted to reverse the centralizing trend of earlier courts and shift power away from the federal government to the states, often claiming that such a scheme better satisfies the "original intent" of the framers. Recently, in its zeal to protect states' "sovereign immunity," the Court's five-member majority has begun to overstep the bounds of original intent, ruling in two cases that the 11th Amendment, which protects states from federal lawsuits "by Citizens of another State," also protects them from suits by their own citizens over violations of federal labor...
...Saturday's runoff presidential election. Nonetheless, the general's release won't be much of a victory for Pinochet and his supporters, who initially fought hard against the perceived insult of freeing him on compassionate grounds rather than on recognition of his claim of immunity as a former sovereign head of state. This way, the general gets to go home, but without the vindication he desires - and the impact of being shamed in the West can't be underestimated on a man who rationalized the excesses of his regime as necessary to the defense of Western ideals. The General Augusto...
...larger-than-life royal with a genius for rule, who came to embody England as had few before her. The new spirit emanating from so brilliant a sovereign inspired a flowering of enduring literature, music, drama, poetry. Determinedly molding herself into the image of a mighty prince, she made of England a true and mighty nation...