You had an intellectually dishonest rationale for an honest justification for upholding the ban.
The current standard for upholding a law or practice rooted in gender difference is somewhere between "rational basis" (where just about any government rationale will do) and "strict scrutiny" (where the government has to show it really knows what it's doing).
Nor is the next-best (but more controversial) rationale — upholding the international rule of law by enforcing a Security Council Resolution — available.
For many institutions, that rationale, if upheld by the United States Supreme Court, would require major adjustments in how they admit students.
The reframing fit his previous rationale for the Red Line: to uphold international treaties on weapons of mass destruction, both gas and nuclear weapons.
Judge Contreras did void the initial rule, finding that the Administration had failed to provide an adequate rationale for one component, but he upheld several aspects of it.
Even if the Court sees a rationale for barring CalPERS in this particular case, upholding the Second Circuit would be penny wise, pound foolish.
He stated the rationale for his request: "I took an oath to uphold the United States Constitution, and I intend to do so". Almost three weeks later, on July 12, Rep. Griffith requested additional information from the Intelligence Committee based on press accounts he had read about Yahoo's unsuccessful efforts in court to resist joining the NSA's PRISM program.
A12 NATIONAL A16-23 Justices Back Handling Of 9/11 Terror Suspects The Supreme Court upheld a ruling by a federal appeals court that had accepted the government's rationale for refusing to disclose the identities of people arrested and detained in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
There are those who would uphold human rights over against religion itself, tearing at the ground on which the basic rationale for rights stands: we are all equal because our Creator gave us Rights.
