Feng said the North Carolina ruling, along with partisan gerrymandering cases out of Wisconsin and Maryland, offer the Supreme Court a group of cases where it can draw the line and articulate a standard for when gerrymandering is unconstitutional.
Writing in dissent, Judge Carolyn Dineen King questioned whether the court's ruling failed to "articulate a standard or a rule that can be applied by lawyers and judges in future cases," and compared it to a "railway ticket decision -- good only for this day and season".
Although this Court has now concluded that Microsoft's design of Windows violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, the Court acknowledged that the Court of Appeals and a number of other courts have articulated a different standard for "technological tying".
The administration has articulated a new standard of legitimacy in its responses to Libya and Syria, among other countries, that leaders who use violence against their own people forfeit their standing to rule.
"While petitioners characterize the level of partisanship evident in the 2011 plan as 'excessive' and 'unfair,' Petitioners have not articulated a judicially manageable standard between permissible partisan considerations and unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering under the Pennsylvania Constitution," he wrote.
Indeed, the various kinds of skepticism, whatever there other differences, share a fatal flaw: they all must articulate a possible standard of truth and the very same time that they deny or demur the actual existence of such truth.
Once again, David Brooks has articulated a higher and better standard for political discourse ("The Boston Fog Machine," column, March 13).
Second, he articulated a cultural nationalism.
He articulates a common vocabulary to define success standards.
