His death, and the deaths of three other US citizens killed by drone strikes, was brought about by a tenuous legal argument disputed by rights groups worldwide.
Pressed on the point, Ms Krnacova is slightly annoyed, and responds with the tenuous argument that the wealthy may be less prone to corruption, since they are already rich.
In case the counter-intuitive assertion that PACs are separate entities doesn't fly, Justice Kennedy adds another tenuous argument: "PACs are burdensome alternatives; they are expensive to administer and subject to extensive regulations".
Writing in the Guardian on Thursday, the pair said that as investors have grown increasingly worried about coal assets being overvalued, coal's industrial masters and political friends have embarked on a desperate fightback based on tenuous arguments and exploits an urgent humanitarian need.
Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, said the attorney general appears to be trying to prevent an onslaught of legal claims by prisoners who have tenuous arguments.
They focus on the explicit codification of the statute of limitations in 286 compared to the tenuous arguments that the Federal Circuit used to shoehorn latches as a defense to legal remedies under 282.
But as the coal industry fights for survival, it has begun to rely on novel and increasingly tenuous arguments.
As the coal industry fights for survival, it has begun to rely on novel and increasingly tenuous arguments.
We go live now to your boyfriend: brow furrowed, desperately scrolling through his timeline in search of a counter-argument, a tenuous shred of evidence, anything that might absolve his hero.
Still, to use Hernandez and the nature of his charges to bolster an argument that the Patriots have lost their way is a dangerous stretch, a tenuous connecting of the dots.
