After the second argument of Citizens United, the votes were the same as after the first one.
Hence the second argument: legalisation offers the opportunity to deal with addiction properly.
But, as Roberts knew, the conservatives would go into the second argument already having five votes for the result they wanted.
The second argument is that Germany's coalition is not really worrying anyway.
The second argument is that the real economic damage is done not by bubbles bursting, but by mistaken policy reactions to the pop.
The second argument is that big civil-airliner projects are so expensive and risky that, without government support, they would never be financed at all.
For the second argument, the Court would write new Questions Presented, which frame a case before argument, and there would be no doubt about the stakes of the case.
And Roberts and his allies were so impatient to overturn these precedents that they were not even going to wait for the first Monday in October. (An early argument would also put a decision in place well before the 2010 elections.) The second argument in Citizens United was set for September 9, 2009.
And since the evidence is overwhelming that gun ownership reduces crime, this is a powerful argument for the Second Amendment.
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The second and perhaps stronger argument focuses on whether the behavior of Napster users, downloading MP3s, violates the law.
The second leg of the argument seems to have fallen short, as the Census Bureau's figures on housing starts, and the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) index on mortgage applications are both down substantially.
And as a low tax repatriation seems to deliver those offshore profits into the hands of the shareholders the Levin report is an argument in favour of a second repatriation rather than what the Distinguished Senators seem to think it is, an argument against one.
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The counter-argument is that the benefits of a second chamber are not that clear.
That said, the second point is the sustainability argument itself.
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Piaguaje had flown to New York to attend an oral argument before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, centering on whether Judge Kaplan had the authority to stop the plaintiffs from collecting on the Ecuadoran judgment anywhere in the world.
Second, even if the offset argument is valid with the VEETC in place, the tariff still represents a substantial barrier to trade.
There is something to the first argument and, alas, the second too.
So critics of R2P may well use the argument that five victors of the second world war should not have the crucial say as to when coercion may be used.
Ms Alexander warned party colleagues not to rely on the argument that everything the SNP did came second to independence.
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On second look though the SEC seems to have a valid argument regarding the Hastings Facebook post.
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That argument will be much easier to make if the second set of opportunities to do with updating the structure of the state has been grasped.
As one-liners go, it neatly sums up the underlying argument of writer-director Fruit Chan Kuo's second feature.
There is a good argument for this: global oil consumption typically falls in the second quarter.
Mets manager Terry Collins was ejected during an animated argument after Ruben Tejada was picked off second base to end the sixth.
Second, there is a political argument for raising this new revenue from the rich.
The argument for age-wave theorists is made based on data from the second half of the 20th century.
The parliament holds the key to the second question: why Peter Mandelson did not become High Rep, though there is a good argument he would have been better than Lady Ashton, for all his abrasive style and weakness for intrigue.
Second, it is an argument that rings hollow coming from those who did not even debate the constitutional standards or seek any consensus on what those standards should be.
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