Last year one of Foster's DUP colleagues, Alastair Ross, presented an amendment on behalf of the assembly's justice committee that would have further tightened the ban.
Ross was required to present the amendment on behalf of the Northern Ireland assembly's justice committee, of which he is chairman.
David Freud, the welfare minister, opposed the amendment on behalf of the government, saying "life chances" indicators were a better way of monitoring what was happening and of directing resources most effectively to tackle the problem.
The amendments retabled on behalf of my group are intended precisely to provide greater guarantees of the achievement of these objectives and of the objectives based on the three principles which are the basis for the work of the Committee on the Environment: the precautionary principle, the 'polluter pays' principle and the substitution principle.
But he can also be flip and impulsive, and those qualities helped lead him (and the Times) to march off on a noble First Amendment cause on behalf of Miller without doing due diligence.
If The Times supports the right of American citizens organized as a corporation to exercise their First Amendment rights on behalf of terrorist organizations, why doesn't it support the right of citizens organized as business corporations, advocacy groups and unions to support or oppose candidates?
As Ars Technica reports, Microsoft filed an additional brief on Sunday night arguing that it has "special circumstances" as a third party asserting fourth amendment rights on behalf of its users.
Enforcing first amendment rights on behalf of a child, a member of the most vulnerable sector of society, cannot be a disservice to the public interest.
The reason, analysts say, is that broadcasters and marketers could well be within their First Amendment rights in advertising on behalf of Internet casinos.
