"What transpired for the House to be engaged, it's not the subject itself, but the idea that the government... can decide, even though something's law, what to uphold and what not to," McCarthy said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters.
"The independence of the police is what should be upheld.
Supreme Court has upheld what Arizonans knew all along – states have a right and responsibility to protect their citizens.
"For me, this decision means encouragement that I was right, and it certainly upheld what I took the law to mean.
Washington, Witt notes, "became the living embodiment of the Enlightenment way of war," trying to ensure that clashing, escalating armies upheld what he called "the rights of humanity".
It was hostile to all forms of liberalism, Whiggism, romanticism and subjectivism; in its severe, aloof way, it upheld what Eliot came to call "classicism".
"The court upheld what representatives of the Church believe to be a biased policy pursued by the Ministry of Justice toward the Church of Scientology of Moscow".
The Fourth United States Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Va., upheld what federal prosecutors described as the first United States piracy convictions in 190 years, finding that an individual did not have to seize or rob a ship to have committed piracy.
The 1992 Casey decision upheld what it called the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade, the right of a woman to an abortion in the first six months of pregnancy.
Kendra Hamilton, a black writer from Charleston, tied together the recurring themes, challenging the familiar argument that what is being upheld by the flag and similar symbols is heritage rather than hate.
