That was the message of a decision upholding the 1998 extension of existing copyrights by 20 years: perhaps it is an unwise law but clearly within Congress's prerogative, the majority said.
Last April, he forcefully denounced the state's controversial immigration law, stating, "This law is unwise, this law is stupid, and it's racist.
"We'd see a lot less pressure for a lot of these unwise gun-control laws that are so hurtful to sportsmen," he said.
The Rev. Joseph A. O'Hare, the chairman of the Campaign Finance Board, cautioned that it would be unwise to change the laws based on the experience of one election that was made unique by a rift in the Democratic Party and news events that overshadowed the race.
Paranoia about drugs and crime has led to much unwise federalization of criminal law.
Schultz says he believes that a mine in the area is feasible, but radically changing long-established environmental law is unwise and contrary to the state's ethos.
He was caught saying that Chuck Grassley, Iowa's other senator, is just "a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school"—unwise words in a state of endless corn fields and bright red barns.
Lipner: Is the law being unwise if it's hard on people who don't act fast?
In dissent, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. faulted the majority for a "new and unwise turn" in the law by relying on "private professional associations" to establish constitutional values.
Though generations of country children had known the game laws made it unwise to be found on someone else's land, middle-class campers, the critic Victor Watson has argued, were turned into a welcome source of income by the agricultural slump of the interwar years.
