Word: argumentatively
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...argument on the council's public e-mail forum, UC-General, Burton initially refused to budge on the dates of the election. A slew of council members assailed his decision, saying that his timetable left too little time to publicize the elections...
...wasn't really trying to make a pro-life argument," says Choi, "I was trying to get Harvard to respect religious diversity as much as ethnic and sexual orientation diversity...
...Court TV and enjoys the sweeping statement. But his follow-up comment, "The evidence was not strong enough 25 years ago, let alone today," has some teeth. Even Fuhrman believes the case will have to move forward "absent forensic evidence." The Sutton report, while intriguing, seems like a better argument for reopening the case than clinching it. And the credibility of Skakel's former "classmates" at Elan is being questioned. Joseph Ricci, who owned the rehab center, has told TIME that the notion of Michael's confession "is just preposterous. I was there, and I would know." The facility...
...staff seems to me inconsistent, though, when it simultaneously endorses the "slippery slope" argument used by these justices they criticize. Allowing Congress to declare that violence against women substantially affects commerce does not mean that any tie to commerce--no matter how tenuous--allows federal regulation. Both Congress and 36 of the states have agreed that this is an issue of extreme importance worthy of a federal remedy. It seems that the only ones fighting this law are the conservative jurists trying to play a role in the "new revolution" in Constitutional law--resurrecting states' rights...
...Missouri to maintain its six-year-old $1,000 cap on contributions to candidates in state races. Last year, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found the limit unconstitutionally limited free speech because it hampered the ability of candidates to raise funds to promote their candidacies. It based its argument, in part, on the notion that the $1,000 cap derived from a limit imposed by Congress for federal races in the '70s, and that in inflation-adjusted dollars, the Missouri limit...