The majority emphasized that the case should not hang on distinctions about whether the failure to buy insurance should be defined as activity or inactivity, a question the Supreme Court has never considered.
Modood acknowledges the normative significance of the majority, emphasized by interculturalists, but also stresses a "new majority" that would not be the predominant group.
He chose to write the majority opinion emphasizing the Court's responsibility to interpret the Affordable Care Act as a whole and not to fixate on the few isolated words that challengers said undid the tax subsidies enabling millions of Americans to buy health insurance.
He chose to write the majority opinion emphasizing the Court's responsibility to interpret the Affordable Care Act as a whole — and not to fixate on the few isolated words that challengers said undid the tax subsidies enabling millions of Americans to buy health insurance.
Justice Souter's majority opinion emphasized the deep roots of the federal ban on direct corporate political contributions, dating to the first federal campaign law, passed in 1907.
President Obama stressed this importance in his State of the Union address, the letter said, adding that Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the Republican majority leader, emphasized it in a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute.
Focusing on confession as the route to punishment, Chief Justice Earl Warren's majority opinion emphasized the need to protect people from the "inherently compelling pressures" of custodial interrogation, which "work to undermine the individual's will to resist and to compel him to speak where he would not otherwise do so freely".
Judge Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale's majority opinion emphasizes four lines that seemingly threaten violence: As the Fifth Circuit dissent and the briefs for Bell point out, no one, including the school district, has argued that the song counts as a "true threat," a category of speech that gets no First Amendment protection.
In declaring a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional, Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, repeatedly emphasized that "things have changed dramatically" over the past half century.
So-called "black-box epidemiologists" (the majority camp) emphasize Hill's first guideline and use mathematical/statistical measures like relative risk to assess cause-effect relationships, whereas so-called "eco-epidemiologists" (the minority camp) are methodological pluralists who emphasize the second guideline and often seek cause-effect mechanisms.
