Many jurists, fallen sway to progressivism, find the Constitution they are sworn to uphold a hindrance.
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Public figures are expected to uphold a higher standard - and are open for public criticism and ridicule if they don't.
Nor did it uphold a complaint that Jeremy Clarkson had made a "racist slur" against Germany in an edition of Top Gear.
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To keep Israel off its back and uphold a ceasefire, Hamas has suspended its armed struggle, in deed if not in word.
And one reason we are struggling is that Washington is trying to uphold a free-trade consensus in a system populated by countries pursuing predatory policies.
Instead of maximising their military power, they have forsworn the use of ground troops, except to uphold a peace agreement that may never come into being.
Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel that ruled in February 2008 to uphold a lower court decision supporting New Haven's move to throw out the results.
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The U.S. Supreme Court met on Tuesday for oral arguments to consider whether to uphold a California law that would make selling exceptionally violent videogames to children a crime.
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And tellingly, he declared that the court was obligated to uphold a law as constitutional if there were reasonable grounds to do so, even if there were alternative grounds to strike it down.
In a rare loss in his thirty-nine arguments before the Court, Roberts failed to persuade the Justices to uphold a sixty-four-million-dollar fine against the United Mine Workers, which was imposed by a Virginia court after a strike.
The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in 2006, voted with a majority to uphold the death penalty in a Kansas case.
They will reject reality as they uphold Abbas as a credible leader and shower him with praise, money and arms.
One of the missions of the film is to help a little boy trapped in the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp uphold the promise he made to a dying rabbi to always tell the world what happened in Bergen-Belsen.
Having established that the only socially and morally acceptable view of Israel's conflict with the Palestinians is that Israel must feel bad for controlling Judea, Samaria and united Jerusalem, and that Israelis must happy that Israel no longer controls Gaza, Berkowitz goes on to uphold Olmert as a competent and socially acceptable leader.
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We all know what is needed -- a transition that is timely, new laws and a constitution that uphold the rule of law, political parties and a strong civil society, and, for the first time in Libyan history, free and fair elections.
Some analysts believe that Roberts's decision to find a legal way to uphold Obamcare in 2012 was partly motivated by a desire to protect the court he leads from the severe political blowback a rejection of the law could have set off.
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It is the duty of courts to uphold rather than invalidate a statute of Congress if they can.
The delegates said they recognised and supported the PSNI's responsibility to uphold the law in a manner that was fully accountable.
Pledging to uphold treaties and oversee a swift return to civilian rule, it ordered the rump cabinet left by Mr Mubarak to continue governing until further notice.
Cruz offered this position in opposition to an argument the government had put forth as a reason to uphold the ban.
We have a duty to uphold local and national planning policies.
Ofqual says it has a duty to uphold standards, which is correct, but it should not do this at the expense of young people's futures.
Those nations that have already secured these liberties share a responsibility to uphold the light of freedom in other countries as well as in their own.
True, she did voluntary work but this was only to be expected from a rich woman who did not have a job and had a reputation to uphold.
Issue 2, if passed, will uphold Senate Bill 5, a Republican attempt to alleviate looming budget problems by decelerating the expansion of employee compensation packages via collective bargaining reform.
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So the Supremes have the opportunity to uphold Bilski and still get a shot in at the Federal Circuit if they include language that invalidates patents like the Prometheus process.
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The SDLP's Alban Maginness has accused the DUP's Nelson McCausland of being "dangerously close" to breaking his Stormont ministerial pledge, which includes a commitment to uphold the rule of law.
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Despite receiving a recommendation to uphold the ban on co-ed contact sports (the panel voted 16-3 in favor of the ban with one person abstaining), Archbishop Chaput made up his own mind and ruled to allow for co-ed play.
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The only way Roberts could get a majority to uphold the law and thus assign the opinion to himself, the prerogative of the Chief Justice was to join with the liberal wing on the narrow question of whether the mandate was in fact a tax even if President Obama and Congress denied it was.
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