Citizens Against Government Waste said Edwards and the bill's co-sponsor, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), "have gone where no member of Congress has gone before," adding that the legality of establishing a national park outside the United States, "let alone on Earth's largest satellite, is unclear at best".
The challengers an alliance of energy and fossil fuel companies and coal-producing states wanted the court "to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule," wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three-judge panel.
Writing for the court today, Judge Brett Kavanaugh said the challengers "want us to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule...
Never before has Brussels questioned the legality of such arrangements, which lie to the extreme end of traditional (and thoroughly legal) tax competition.
As the Supreme Court would rule in June 1996, just three months before T.Y.W.L.S. opened, the legality of single-sex schools depends on context.
He also had cases before him on the legality of the government's holding hundreds of people on suspicion of terrorism without charging them.
There's a case before the Supreme Court where the legality of such a program at the University of Michigan is being questioned.
Each side will be given 30 minutes to present its case, half the time allotted during the last elections hearing before the court on the legality of manual recounts.
In February, barely two weeks after the election, more than 100 soldiers acting on his orders surrounded his office in Colombo and took Mr Fonseka away kicking and screaming, as it were.Standing before a court-martial, the legality of which he challenged unsuccessfully, Mr Fonseka was cashiered for engaging in politics while in uniform.
One newspaper toyed recently with before-and-after pictures of the former attorney general Lord Goldsmith: buoyant and boisterous before he had agreed with the legality of war but haggard and drawn, six months later, after he had swallowed and then regurgitated the party line.
