De Blasio, in pledging to raise taxes on the rich to finance his education programs, has challenged this formula, and turned himself into the standard-bearer for what some see as a new era of urban populism.
In a message to his employees, Inge places huge emphasis on 3M's "healthy living" program and has challenged his key executives to keep his employees well through the art of self disclosure.
Wendy R. Weiser, the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, which has challenged a number of the new voting laws in court, said the actions that states have taken since the Supreme Court ruling highlighted the need for Congress to determine which states should be covered by the Voting Rights Act in the future.
Campbell Brown, the anchor of the CNN program "No Bias, No Bull," has challenged conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to come onto her show and debate the merits of the stimulus package.
The Washington Legal Foundation has challenged these programs in state after state, arguing that they violate the Fifth Amendment because they are a taking of the property of the owner of the money.
Mr. Lowery cited Mr. Thompson's stated opinion that affirmative action plans can be constitutional, and noted that he resigned in 1999 from an advisory board for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a conservative group that has challenged affirmative action programs; Mr. Thompson said at the time that the group's work had become too political.
It has challenged the previously reported high success rates of the pocket prediction programs.
Chris Nellen, an unemployed copywriter, said if he had known about the program he would have challenged a ticket he received on Oct. 24.
The warrantless-wiretapping program has been challenged in numerous lawsuits over the past two years, many brought on behalf of journalists and activists, who make sympathetic plaintiffs but struggle to demonstrate that the government actually listened to them.
