Sentence examples for statute should be from inspiring English sources

Calling these offenses "paradigms," he said that the Alien Tort Statute should be interpreted today as applying to their modern equivalents: international norms with "definite content and acceptance among civilized nations".

In a hearing on Thursday of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where Mr. Sheehan made his remarks, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, argued that the statute should be updated, citing the "dramatically changed landscape that we have in this war on Muslim extremism and Al Qaeda and others".

David Rivkin, a lawyer representing three lawmakers, including Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, argued that the statute should be upheld because Congress, presidents of both parties and other judges had agreed that the government has, and should have, indefinite detention powers in the war against Al Qaeda.

"I believe even more strongly that the statute should be revised, with a view to maintaining and strengthening the act's privacy protections, rationalizing and modernizing the provisions permitting law enforcement access to stored electronic communications and other data where compelling interests warrant it, and clarifying the international reach of those provisions," he wrote.

A remedial statute "should be accorded its broadest protective meaning consistent with legislative intent.

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Mr. Dellinger agreed that exceptions to the usual duty to defend statutes should be rare.

To be sure, the court's construction of this statute so as to make it include procedures other than live-birth abortion involves not only a disregard of fair meaning, but an abandonment of the principle that even ambiguous statutes should be interpreted in such fashion as to render them valid rather than void.

He said the review was initiated in the summer of 2002 when the Central Intelligence Agency sought input on how torture statutes should be read to apply to the interrogation of top Qaeda leaders and whether certain techniques "beyond the normal Q. and A. approach" were allowed.

And the court remaining of the view that the election statutes should be liberally construed to allow the greatest scope for public participation in the electoral process, to allow candidates to get on the ballot, to allow parties to put their candidates on the ballot, and most importantly, to allow the voters a choice on Election Day...

It has also been argued that although where possible local statutes should be interpreted in light of international treaties, it is not the role of the judiciary to import international law standards into the Constitution that are inconsistent with legislation instead of deferring to the views of the executive.