In a Bloomberg News article, the judge asked: "How can it be that the law governing someone's duty to inquire is determined, not by what the governing laws in place were at the time, but by the happenstance that the entity later went into bankruptcy?" Under federal securities law, proving fraud requires establishing "scienter," which means intent or at least recklessness.
Mr. Obama seems to find it particularly hard to adjust to this role, perhaps because he has always defined himself as an outsider to Washington and its governing apparatus — someone who would reform government, but not necessarily master its inner workings.
It was a country governed by someone who didn't even speak Spanish, he spoke English, and all of a sudden it elected an Indian to be president.
Unlike other dominions, and quite unique in history, Newfoundland in 1934 voted to abandon self-government in favor of direct rule from London, becoming the rare entity to reject independence in favor of being governed by someone else.
How such a rising star in the leftist governing party, someone whose name is often mentioned as a future presidential contender, so badly misread the national mood reflects the disconnect between a growing segment of the population and a government that prides itself on popular policies aimed at lifting millions out of poverty.
It is precisely because real crafts (such as medicine and, Socrates insists, shepherding too) do not in themselves benefit their practitioners that extrinsic 'wages' are given in return; and the best 'wage' for a ruler is not to be governed by someone worse than himself.
In Wright's case, Steinberg said, there is "ambiguity" in the law governing whether someone has established a domicile in a legislative district or is a resident of that district.
It's the promise that there actually is an impartial point outside the zero-sum fight of politics, that it's possible to be governed by someone who's simply beyond caring about grubby realities like the next election, or the top donors, or the emotional state of the party base.
The party's online activists don't want to hear about the compromises it takes to govern; they want someone who will derail the Republican agenda, even if he (or she) has to strap himself to the tracks with two fistfuls of dynamite to do it.
