Last week, "a senior administration official" floated the idea to the New York Times that the White House was claiming authority to wage war on Isis based on the Iraq War Resolution from 2002 – the very statute the Obama administration wanted to repeal just a year ago.
After all, the misguided nature of the independent counsel abetted impeachment effort became belatedly self-evident to all, even the Congress that allowed the very statute to elapse altogether.
For example: The majority opinion says that Justice Scalia's argument concerning the jurisdiction-stripping statute (section 1005e 1)) ignores the effective date provision of that very statute (section 1005(h)) The majority opinion says that the government's contention that the war started September 11 , 2001undercuts Justice Thomas' argument that it started in 1996.
"We are confident, as both sides have always believed, this case will ultimately be resolved by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which already upheld this very statute in 1981".
Citigroup's main brokerage subsidiary, its predecessors or its parent company agreed not to violate the very same antifraud statute in July 2010.
According to Kerr, the government feels that the overlap between the 50 states' unauthorized access computer crime statutes and the very similar federal unauthorized access statute automatically transforms this crime into a federal matter, based on 18 U.S.C. 1030(C)(2)(B)(ii).
"'Homeless', as defined in the act, is an adjective which can cover a number of different situations, and the very fact that the statute does not distinguish between them calls into question the legitimacy of doing so when considering the nature or extent of an authority's duty to an applicant".
But the very text of the statute appears to shield StopTrump.us from both kinds of claims, Volokh said, since it expressly excludes from suits products that serve the purpose of "identifying and parodying, criticizing, or commenting upon the famous mark owner or the goods or services of the famous mark owner".
Philip Bobbitt argues that secret presidential overriding of statutes "undermines the very system of public consent for which we are fighting".
It took less than seven days last week for a handful of political appointees on the Federal Election Commission to open up vast loopholes allowing the very fund-raising barred by the statute.
Patricia A. Millett, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that allowing the immunity law to override the one allowing torture suits would render the latter "a very empty statute".
