"Our statement reaffirms our principled commitment to upholding existing treaty obligations with Timor-Leste.
Typically, the executive branch argues to uphold existing statutes in court cases.
The new government has promised to uphold existing treaties and commitments, and that includes the peace treaty with Israel.
Privacy groups and the two British MPs are urging the court to uphold existing safeguards established by the case.
But he deserves a chance to explain his vision of the job as it relates to upholding existing law and defending civil liberties and constitutional rights.
Mejia, Valdez, Roth-Francis and many Berkeley staff members are eager to uphold existing support systems for transfer students and to spearhead new ones.
It also warned that it would hold the government to account over promises made by the environment secretary, Michael Gove, to uphold existing standards on food and animal welfare.
If ministers can't be trusted to uphold existing wildlife protection regulations, it's highly doubtful that a new system, which allows our most precious natural sites to be traded like a commodity, will improve the situation.
The occasional decision to uphold existing law should not divert our attention from the more fundamental question of whether Mr. Bush is going to allow his Interior Department to become a captive of the oil and mining industries.
The ruling upheld existing law under which parties can spend up to $33,780 in coordination with a House candidate and up to $1.6 million to assist a Senate candidate, the amount varying with the size of the Congressional district or the state.
Then this week, two auto industry trade groups sent letters to the EPA asking newly installed Administrator Scott Pruitt to overturn the agency's recent decision to uphold existing fuel economy standards, saying the EPA's review was rushed and failed to consider all pertinent information.
