Sentence examples for asserted that the courts from inspiring English sources

Rather than arguing that its detainee policies are lawful, the administration boldly asserted that the courts had no right to review them.

In his dissent he asserted that the courts had no jurisdiction for this case for the reasons described in Scalia's dissent above; that Hamdan is an illegal combatant and therefore not protected by the Geneva convention; that the Geneva convention doesn't prohibit the special court council proposed; and that the President already had authority to set up the special court council proposed.

Critics of the federalism rulings have asserted that the court has set a standard that ignores the reality of life in a legislature.

Mr. Baker of Earthlink asserted that the court's language meant that his company "should be able to buy transport from all cable companies".

After the ruling, he asserted that the court had not disagreed with the agency's desire to keep a free and open Internet, but only with the narrow legal basis the F.C.C. had relied on to justify it.

Mr. Leahy asserted that the court's ruling was an "activist" decision, noting that the court had established a different burden of proof for age discrimination cases than for race, sex and religion discrimination cases.

Abortion rights advocates and Mr. Gore have asserted that the court is one vote away from sharply curtailing the right to an abortion, though that is probably an exaggeration.

Announcing the latest judgments today, the official New China News Agency asserted that "the court did not hold an open hearing because some of the defendants' criminal acts were related to state secrets".

Labor leaders asserted that the court ruling could badly undercut unions because a paralyzed N.L.R.B. would not be able to intervene if employers engaged in unlawful tactics during unionization drives, including illegally firing union supporters or intimidating workers into voting against having a union.

The relationship, Gozdor asserted, that the Court set forth was that the restriction "distorted" private speech.

He asserted that the court therefore faced a choice between the 1965 constitution and a legal vacuum, the latter of which he felt he could not endorse.