To her son, the appeal to expediency spells utter betrayal, a trampling of the very values by which she has taught him to live his life.
But Mr. Goldberg held him accountable for what he described as a "trampling of the law" by his One Israel Party, and fined the party $3.2 million.
"To have this broad request to turn over everything related to the case, to me, is just a trampling of the First Amendment and the journalist's privilege," he said.
Which doesn't magically erase his constitutional rights, Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill points out: jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) This exchange between Feinstein & Brennan is a perfect example of a trampling of due process in the US.
When a judge ordered a documentary filmmaker in May to turn over to Chevron all the unused footage from his 2009 film about an environmental controversy in Ecuador, the director, Joe Berlinger, called the ruling "a trampling of the First Amendment and the journalist's privilege".
"This is a harsh blow to the sanctity of the Sabbath and a trampling of the status quo, which has been upheld since the establishment of the state" in 1948, Effi Eitam, leader of the party and the housing minister, told Israel radio.
Mr. Blagojevich, a two-term Democrat who was widely unpopular with lawmakers long before his arrest on federal corruption charges last month, denounced the Senate's trial on Friday as a "trampling of the Constitution" and tried to take his case instead to the public, in what is expected to be a sustained campaign of news interviews.
The fact of the matter is, this is a trampling of religious freedom and religious liberty in this country.
However, as a result of the criminal prosecution of principals of Megaupload for alleged copyright infringement, we see a trampling on the rule of law to extent which is unprecedented and frightening.
Perhaps mass surveillance — a tech-powered dystopia we are living through right here, right now — is not just a massive trampling of our human rights, but also a giant red flag reminding humanity of the importance of moderating our consumptive impulses.
