They hoped the delay would give reasonable men of the North and South time to find a permanent answer to the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

This is the essence of this case. We will try to remind all the time that this is the issue, this is the topic.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

"What you've got here is a legal issue and a political issue and both of those are very much in play at the present time,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.30