The Clinton administration repeatedly declined to invoke that law to help steel makers.
But he declined to answer questions about political associations or whether certain songs were sung at Communist gatherings, and he declined to invoke his constitutional right of protection from self-incrimination.
Mr. Kennedy declined to explain the decision to invoke the privilege or to discuss the arguments that White House lawyers made.
In a daring move on the first day of the trial, Gardiner and Jeremy Hutchinson QC declined the judge's invitation to invoke the sexist law that allowed them to empanel an all-male jury in obscenity cases, and even used their right of challenge to add a third female juror.
Black Republican women's decision to invoke this declining ideology and blend it with their constitutional observation undercut not only the broad appeal of their constitutional argument, but also their claims to represent African Americans in party politics.
As for Anakonda, Hodges said that Russian observers had been invited but declined to attend, preferring instead to invoke an international treaty on inspections.
Ms. O'Brien, who will appear before the Congressional panel this week, has declined to cooperate with investigators and plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the hearing on Wednesday.
The defendants are likely, he said, to invoke their constitutional right to decline to testify.
As the Associated Press reported at the time, Anthony used videoconferencing from an undisclosed location to deliver her testimony and answered few questions, primarily allowing her attorney to invoke the Fifth Amendment in declining to respond.
Solyndra executives plan to appear before Friday's House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing but they are expected to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to answer questions.
When appearing before Congress in March, she declined to testify, invoking her constitutional right against self-incrimination.
