He also claims precedents in poets such as Neruda and the Peruvian César Vallejo - "great fashioners of language".
Lawyers and lower-court judges claim that precedent would smother judicial conscience, but the government backs it (reluctantly), and so may Congress.
You claim that precedent exists, but you ignore important distinctions between Mr. Estrada, a nonpolitical career lawyer whose job was to recommend possible legal positions, and Robert H. Bork, a political appointee whose writings were entirely different.
Putin aired a list of foreign policy grievances going back to 2000, saying "we were cheated again and again, with decisions being taken behind our back", and insisted that it was ludicrous to claim the precedent of Kosovo – which was recognised by the west as an independent country following its secession from Serbia – as unique.
If you claim a precedent, even if it's a small win, you can expand on it.
In denouncing Islam unreservedly, she has claimed a precedent in Voltaire — though the eighteenth-century scourge of the Catholic Church might have been perplexed by her proposal that Muslims embrace the "Christianity of love and tolerance".
He brushed off the allegations, arguing either that "finances were peripheral" or claiming a precedent: had not Winston Churchill been financed by business admirers too?Perhaps, but only when out of power, and Churchill did not plunder the Tory coffers; Mr Haughey used those of his Fianna Fail party as his private piggy-bank.
Despite Marlborough's refutations (claiming ancient precedent for the first allegation, and, for the second, producing a warrant signed by the Queen in 1702 authorising him to make the deductions in lieu of secret-service money for the war), the findings were enough for Harley to persuade the Queen to release her Captain-General.
In Shelby v. Holder (the voting rights case), the Chief Justice claimed a precedent of "equal sovereignty" of the states, written nowhere in the Constitution [and, recall, these are supposed to be the strict constructionists and originalists who oppose, for example, the right to privacy because it is an "emanation"], and invented by him in a prior case.
Legal surprises are unexpected suits or actions in which plaintiffs rely on claims or precedents that may be obscure, unfamiliar, or unknown to the defendants.
