Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weighed in to defend Representative Ilhan Omar; House Democratic leadership did not immediately comment.
David Catanese, a reporter for Politico, has apologized for several tweets that seemed to defend Representative Todd Akin's comments about pregnancy and "legitimate" rape.
"They have alienated and disenfranchised a lot of parties they have had to work with," said Elliot S. Berke, who defended Representative Sam Graves, Republican of Missouri, against conflict-of-interest accusations from the ethics office.
He spent the early years of his career as a functionary of the Brooklyn Democratic machine and only came to trial work in 1974, when he helped defend Representative Bertram Podell in a federal corruption case.
While "we have made a conscious decision that we can't bail out every government that gets itself into financial trouble," he said in a telephone interview from Washington, "we are committed to promoting and defending representative democracy across the political spectrum".
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - While Republicans vigorously defended Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, in the wake of a series of ethics rebukes, members of both parties said on Thursday that Mr. DeLay, a tough-talking Texan who holds a tight rein over the House, could have difficulty retaining his leadership job if his party loses seats in next month's elections.
As we noted earlier, Mill does not defend representative democracy as ideal under all historical and social circumstances.
They will be exposed to "decades-old discrimination claims that they have no ability to defend," said Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota.
Citizens in a republic had to be virtuous enough to obey laws, help their neighbors, work hard, remain uncorrupted by money and power, and defend the representative political order.
In a case that could provide a potent new weapon for takeover targets to defend themselves, representatives of Unocal and Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr. returned to Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday to argue whether the Los Angeles-based oil company can exclude Pickens' investor group from a lucrative stock buy-back.
