The fact that one of the "big four" audit firms is allowed to market such devices and be paid according to the amount of tax avoided is deplorable, and in any decent society would be criminalised.
Allowing the Sudanese government to avoid justice for its deplorable human rights record sends the wrong message to the world and gives comfort to regimes looking to deny responsibility for committing both past and current crimes against humanity.
"This baseless motion is another desperate attempt to avoid having to answer for the deplorable acts he committed against Ms. Diallo," they wrote.
In a television interview on Tuesday morning, even Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, indicated that Pence should have called Duke deplorable — if only to avoid the headlines that his refusal to do so had produced.
The larger point, however, is that in its zeal to criminalize the harder-to-define aspects of deplorable practices like corruption and support for terrorism, Congress must avoid undermining the premise of our rule of law: that our laws define clearly the conduct they make criminal.
But he avoids making moral judgments by treating every deplorable act as a symptom of error or madness".
"Such government regulation of radio programs as would manifestly be deplorable if it can possibly be avoided," in the words of the first chief of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927.
