Justice Antonin Scalia seems to think so, judging by his comments on Tuesday during the Supreme Court argument in the biggest employment discrimination class action in history.
WASHINGTON -- Last June, the Supreme Court term ended with restraint and a cliffhanger, as the court left the Voting Rights Act intact and ordered re-argument in Citizens United, the big campaign finance case.
That was the question put before the Supreme Court in oral arguments on October 1st in the biggest challenge yet to America's Alien Tort Statute of 1789.Dormant for almost two centuries, the law was resuscitated in 1979 when a federal court of appeals ruled that it formed a valid basis for a Paraguayan citizen, then living in America, to sue a Paraguayan policeman for torture in Paraguay.
"One of the big arguments (in the referendum) was parliamentary sovereignty," she told reporters.
Historically, two main arguments have played the biggest roles in convincing people.
One of his biggest arguments in the book, though, has to do with the way that his own identity has been mistaken, or altered beyond recognition.
"If they're not having proper arguments in the cabinet, that's a big mistake".
The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees in special military tribunals with limited rights for the accused.
Big risks, this argument goes, deserve the biggest potential reward.
C15 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 Greenspan Questions Tax Cuts The Federal Reserve chairman rebutted many of President Bush's arguments in favor of big new tax cuts, saying that the economy probably does not need any short-term stimulus and warning that budget deficits could spiral out of control.
