furtherance

• “I personally am sickened by those who hide behind empty platitudes in furtherance of justification of raping and killing innocent and weak people under specious claims of justification.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza

• “All the exceptions to the first amendment hold that the immediate act of producing the speech is a crime, or is subject to criminal or civil penalty: fraud, speech in furtherance of a crime, libel etc.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Big First Amendment win in United States v. Stevens

• “That process — not beyond but in furtherance of what the legislature wrote — is what I mean by standards of review.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide

• “Conspiracy liability requires an overt act in furtherance of a conspiracy.”

  Discourse.net: At the Sharp End: The Highest Officials Authorize Torture of a Clerk

• “The indictment, handed up late Wednesday, lists four counts: possession with intent to distribute PCP; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession of two handguns in furtherance of drug trafficking; possessing those guns as a felon.”

  The Washington Post: Prosecution of 'Teflon Defendant' progresses with indictment on PCP, gun charges

• “Gerrymandered districts all but guarantee most incumbents reelection, while term limits offer a perverse incentive for cynical self-promotion in furtherance of individual ambition over cooperative collaboration in service of the public interest.”

  The Washington Post: Phony Poll Critique; Why We All Can’t Just Get Along

• “And at this point, the objection more properly becomes: But Congress could require you to do anything if it was in furtherance of legitimate commercial regulation, and the relationship was direct!”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”?

• “Or, to put it perhaps a little more technically, Congress clearly has the authority to regulate noncommercial conduct when doing so is in furtherance of a broad commercial regulatory goal, and there is no authority indicating that this analysis is dependant on the nature of that noncommercial conduct, specifically including whether it consists of affirmative conduct vs. passive inaction.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”?

• “And yet the return of those lands conquered is assumed to be part of Israeli obligation instead of a concession made by the Israelis in furtherance ofpeace.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey

• “If not, then I fail to see how the tax is in furtherance of the regulatory goal.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation

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