Word: upholds
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...disregard the constitution - not because it was flawed, but because it wasn't getting rid of Estrada quickly enough. Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, another member of the Elite, referred to herself as Commander in Chief even before Estrada resigned - and then took the presidential oath, vowing to uphold the constitution...
...clandestine negotiations between the warring parties in which Clinton helped shape "every clause, every word and every comma," as one source describes it. The agreement required compromises from both the President, who until now had insisted that he never lied under oath, and the prosecutor, who had vowed to uphold the rule...
...Again and again, committee members were warned against rejecting Ashcroft simply on the basis of his ideology - and several Republicans defending the former senator even made the case that Ashcroft's strong religious and moral beliefs would make him more likely to uphold the laws he'd be sworn to protect as attorney general. Ashcroft himself, in brief but impassioned opening remarks, concurred, attempting to dissuade those who fear his appointment would threaten existing abortion and civil rights laws: "I know the difference between enacting and enforcing the law. I know the post of attorney general means advancing the national...
...Ashcroft completed his statement with a flourish ("I will uphold those laws, so... help... me... God"), someone on the committee bench muttered, "Boy, that was a powerful statement...
Civil rights groups cried foul and vowed revenge. "It really was a case of John Ashcroft misleading the U.S. Senate," says People for the American Way chief Ralph Neas. "Ronnie White wasn't anti- death penalty or pro-criminal." White had voted to uphold death penalties in 41 out of 59 capital cases that came before him, his allies noted. In most of the cases where he didn't uphold death sentences, he wasn't alone--the decision was unanimous. And in two of six cases in which White wrote for the majority upholding a death sentence...