And yet the diversity exception to anti-discrimination rules rests on a remarkably shaky legal foundation.Diversity was first endorsed by the Supreme Court in its 1978 Bakke decision.
As blogger Josh Marshall notes: He's their guy, Their rule rests on his machine.
This rule rests on the theory that any set of unfavorable facts can look terrifying, when exposed to sustained thinking.
Bourguiba's authoritarian rule rested on a mixture of national liberation legitimacy, personal charisma, and doses of police repression.
"Kadyrov's rule rests on propaganda, fear — and real popularity," Gregory Shvedov, the editor of Caucasian Knot, a news Web site, told me.
The legitimacy of Sheikh Hasina's rule rests on a flawed 2014 poll in which many of the opposition's leaders were locked away and most parliamentary seats were uncontested.
It is used in the European Union to check the driving times of drivers and enforce the legislation on social rules (rest period, driving time limits), in relation with the road safety objective of reducing the number of accidents and fatalities in the EU.
The burden for ensuring that companies follow the established rules would rest on the flight controller, perhaps using an established system like NASA's Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management or common airspace models being developed privately.
Understanding science as a special kind of representation should also provide defenses against untenable black-and-white rules that rest on untested judicial assumptions or, worse, on partisan assertions by experts.
At least in the area of immigration, a uniform place-of-celebration rule would rest on firm legal and policy ground.
