The current occupant of the White House has never distinguished himself for his moral instincts, but those deficits have seldom been more apparent than in the nadir reached in Charlottesville on Saturday.
Bybee had never distinguished himself as a great legal mind at all right up to the time that he helped draft a blueprint for how Bush and Cheney could torture and even murder Muslims housed at Gitmo.
Sotomayor did give him a hard time for saying that only intentionally suggestive police manipulation is unconstitutional when the Court has never distinguished between "intentional or unintentional" police conduct, but the grilling reminded her colleagues that they don't need to narrow the law in order to rule against Perry.
For this round, the painter Cameron Martin, whose semiabstract paintings have never seemed terribly distinguished, has chosen Mike Childs, an artist of at least equal talent.
Strangely, this has never really been the subject of legal debate or decision for the simple reason that courts have never needed to distinguish the two.
His work as a director ("Crash," "In the Valley of Elah") and as a screenwriter ("Million Dollar Baby") has never been distinguished by humor, and that, somewhat paradoxically, is what a movie like "The Next Three Days" needs if it is to be taken seriously.
Although the Court has never explicitly distinguished Lyons, in the Court's equal protection decisions, standing is presumed where a group is harmed.
Some still questioned him, wrongly, before this World Cup on the grounds he had never quite distinguished himself at a major tournament.
"History and romance are terms that have never been very clearly distinguished from each other," Brown began.
