Justice Antonin Scalia seemed to agree, saying the court should rule on the matter unless there was a clear argument not to.
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And he said there was a clear argument for Scotland remaining part of the UK, by sharing opportunity and risk, while maintaining a distinctive, devolved parliament in Edinburgh.
It is not clear which argument will prevail with voters (now, they distinguish between the two conflicts, saying war against Iraq was not worth the cost but supporting the war on terror by wide margins).
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The data seem to support the Ben Bernanke's argument that there exists a clear deflationary risk.
Whatever the merits of this argument, three things seem clear.
To me, once you cut through all the legal details and hours and hours of argument, this case is very clear.
He's clear in pointing out the argument that he is making is one that he just discovered.
What could there possibly be on the other side of the argument to counter-balance such a clear statement of Congressional jurisdiction over public credit?
The one clear loser over two days of argument is the Obama administration and its hapless advocate, Donald Verrilli.
Despite these clear refutations, this line of argument refuses to die.
Yet this argument would need to be connected to a clear policy narrative about what a Republican president would do to take on the power of the big banks.
But it was clear from the start of that argument in a packed courtroom that the justices, including some liberals who seemed open to gay marriage, had doubts about whether they should even be hearing the challenge to California's Proposition 8, the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
The argument for painful sacrifices in 2007 is much less clear in the public mind.
It is important to clear the decks in order to make a strong argument.
The counter-argument is that the benefits of a second chamber are not that clear.
It is clear now that the battle, or at least the argument, will go on to the street.
Over the past couple of decades there has been a clear shift in science's view of the hereditarian argument.
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The reformers seem to have won the argument, though it may take a while longer for that to become clear.
However, they will be less pleased that Mr Sants makes clear that there is a price for them of winning that argument - which is that he and his colleagues at the PRA will be spending rather more time bossing them around, and circumscribing their activities, than they might like.
Although, the concept of fractional ownership has a clear non-tax economic logic to it, there is a particularly compelling tax argument to go this route, thanks to this ruling.
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That division was clear from the oral arguments: Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy asked tough questions of both sides at argument.
The judgement, though, could hardly be more clear-cut, and will raise serious questions about the BOA's decision to take the argument to CAS. The BOA has already hired David Pannick, one of the country's best known lawyers, to present its case.
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It is not clear when the Conservatives will elect replacements and even less clear who we will get...but it may be that partisans on either side of the argument may try for a seat on the committee - and given the Boris v Dave overtones, it could even become a proxy leadership battle.
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