Now marriage-equality activists hope that the Court will extend the Windsor rationale and language into a rule that requires every state to allow gays to marry.
But David Grevemberg, who handled the matter for the International Paralympic Committee, said Monday that Bailey's eligibility for the Paralympics was never a plausible issue, called the United States' rationale "far-reaching," and questioned its legitimacy altogether.
The administration and some senior Israeli security officials have also warned that a military strike would do little to slow the program over the long term, and could lead to war and give Iran rationale to build weapons.
International controls imposed on Iraq following the Gulf War eliminated its nuclear program, but fears that the program was being reconstituted and might then be used to support terrorists was a central part of the United States' rationale for starting the Iraq War in 2003.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Breyer and Ginsburg spent the better part of 10 minutes probing Texas' rationale for regulating abortion more heavily than other surgical procedures that are more statistically dangerous.
Or for McCain, for that matter, since his whole Iraq rationale is based upon a stunning piece of doublethink -- the "surge" has been a whopping success; but if we withdraw now, we would be "surrendering" and chaos would ensue in short order, leaving Al Qaeda in charge of Iraq's oil.
As a "war of choice," he writes, it has "eerie parallels" to our adventure in Iraq: shifting rationales, waterboarding, and a sense that Roosevelt, like the younger Bush, was making up for unfinished business of his father's.
At least, that was Bradford's rationale last season, when he made a baffling career choice.
It could also give the United States a rationale to close ports of entry, the advocates said.
Shannon Herzfeld, a PhRMA spokeswoman, took particular issue with India's rationale.
