The waiver, first issued last Friday, is the first instance of the agency's having invoked its emergency powers.
But, then, having invoked American history and myth, Doctorow can't seem to decide what to do with them, either.
Having invoked Bach in "The Little Match Girl Passion," Lang takes an even bigger risk in "love fail," going head to head with Richard Wagner.
Mr. Rangel then apologized — for having invoked the president, not for having implied that any black man risks being shot by a New York police officer.
Mr. Garbus argues that Mr. Gibson's having invoked the Fifth Amendment on some matters amounts to a waiver of his right to address them in challenging Ms. Grigorieva's domestic violence claim or in supporting his own allegation of extortion.
The five were then so abashed at having invoked the Equal Protection Clause to stop the recount, and so afraid of inadvertently unleashing a new equal protection revolution, that they proclaimed that their opinion was never to be cited in any future case.
