The Court chose this latter reading after looking to legislative history and policy rationales behind the rental record amendment.
There is a divide in the current discourse on euthanasia between, on the one hand, the emotional arguments put forward by people who have participated in the euthanasia process, and, on the other, the libertarian rationales for legislative support of euthanasia as a civil right.
Emanuel has become a liability on the administration because of his media presence and the stories that surround him, but is not delivering the legislative victories which were the primary rationale for his appointment.
Briggs' friend Hiland Hall, who also sat on the committee, drafted a report in 1836 rebutting the rationales used in such legislative proposals, but the committee as a whole, and then the House, refused to accept the report.
In other words, under heightened scrutiny, the United States cannot defend Section 3 by advancing hypothetical rationales, independent of the legislative record, as it has done in circuits where precedent mandates application of rational basis review.
"The legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans' benefits to opposite-sex spouses of veterans but not to legally married same-sex spouses of veterans," he wrote.
Justice David H. Souter's majority opinion repeatedly emphasized the need for "deference to legislative choice" in campaign finance, and endorsed several rationales for the close regulation of corporate political money in particular.
No rationale for the ratio was discussed in the legislative history.
It may never have occurred to him that he'd have to come up with a rationale for allowing Mr. Obama to proceed unimpeded by legislative shackles.
One political rationale for the textile safeguards on China is to shore up legislative support for other trade agreements, such as the deal with Central America.
