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.
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.
From Park Avenue to Broadway, Columbus Circle to Wall Street, customarily blase New Yorkers see me coming and step aside, not quite sure whether to shun me as a trampler of the proprieties or salute me as a breeze of sensibility.
"[The harrassment] codifies a trampling of our rights as Americans". In 2013, 25-year-old Nour Joudah was denied entry to Israel – despite the fact that she had visited the country multiple times before, and had a valid multiple-entry visa, as she later told the Electronic Intifada (a Web site that has a Palestinian viewpoint which has been accused of an anti-Israel bias).
And although the Purple Line might have been a factor, there were others as well: the alleged trampling of private-property rights in the name of public values; accusations that a small cadre of activists was running the town without transparency or inclusion; a feeling among those with minority opinions that they don't just lose but are disrespected in the process.
In biased reporting and through the sharp cartoons of Homer Davenport, Hanna was viciously characterized as a plutocrat, trampling on labor.
The review found that OHVs have impacts to multiple resources that include soil compaction and erosion, trampling of vegetation, as well as wildlife habitat loss, disturbance, and direct mortality.
The fact that no one individual is being singled out for attention may make it feel as if there were no trampling of Fourth Amendment protections, but it is the very fact of the enormous unfocused volume of information gathering that is so disturbing.
Incidents that may have once seemed manageable and isolated, such as a herd of cows trampling through a farmer's field, now have the potential to escalate into large-scale disputes.
Russia's foreign ministry denounced the Montenegrin parliament's ratification of membership on Friday as "a demonstrative act of trampling all democratic norms and principles".
The trampling of our rights as activists, or as journalists, isn't just a problem in North Dakota.
