Word: ruling
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...impede the encroachment of mass merchandisers on their turf. All members of DEVA conceive, create and execute original designs on-site. With goods ranging from haute clothing to one-of-a-kind millinery to jewelry to wearable antiques, DEVA represents a shopping experience where personal touch is the rule. Meet the DEVAs...
That may be the least of Gore's problems. No one knows for certain how the Supreme Court will rule this week, but Justice Antonin Scalia, in a rare concurring opinion to the court's Saturday ruling, warned that the "issuance of the stay suggests that a majority of the court, while not deciding the issues presented, believe that the petitioner has a substantial probability of success." That would be George W. Bush. For Gore to prevail, one of two swing votes among the nine Justices--either Anthony Kennedy or Sandra Day O'Connor--would have to peel from...
...will be phrased in legal niceties: deference to state courts vs. deference to state legislatures; Article II of the U.S. Constitution and 3 U.S.C. Sec. 5. But beneath the law talk is a power struggle of epic proportions. The stakes could hardly be higher. How the U.S. Supreme Court rules could, of course, determine the next President of the United States. But something even larger is hanging in the balance: whether Americans will continue to have faith in the courts, the rule of law and the integrity of the democratic process...
...expressed by legislators who are voted into office for the purpose of writing new laws and changing old ones. If the legislators change or write those laws in ways we disagree with, then we get to get rid of the legislators and hire replacements. Ta-da! Democracy! The rule...
...While I find some of these behaviors silly, it would be difficult, not to say impossible, to enforce a ban on foolish or silly acts in public, unless they violate a rule in the handbook or the laws of the Commonwealth...