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• I argue that Justice Kennedy's opinion for the Court does not live up to the cosmopolitan ideal of the model of mutual obligations as it was elaborated in Justice Brennan's dissent in Verdugo and that Kennedy's casuistic and flexible approach lends itself to possible manipulation. —  Legal Theory Blog
• "The reasons here, in our view, betray a casuistic result-driven approach, further exacerbated by the trial judge's comment early in his brief judgment that" there is nothing in —  Edmonton Sun
• They are not good faith memos explaining the law to the president (and forbidding him to torture); they are self-evidently casuistic documents designed to provide phony legal cover (and permitting him to torture anyone to the point of death - a limitation that he nonetheless repeatedly exceeded). —  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
• How admirably does Bunyan detect and unravel this casuistic sophistry. —  Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
• The casuistic sophistry of the canonical legists in deducing these war theories from the Koran is altogether futile. —  A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885

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