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Moral of the story: NONE of your legalese and lawyerism or high-morality means anything:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing 2010
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Moral of the story: NONE of your legalese and lawyerism or high-morality means anything:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing 2010
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You see creeping lawyerism in other Google actions too.
Google’s Thin-Skinned Lawyers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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You see creeping lawyerism in other Google actions too.
Google’s Thin-Skinned Lawyers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The alternative is shyster lawyerism, the application of the same techniques as used daily to break contracts.
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What you are talking about, that the feds can spend money, so they can spend it any way they like, so they can use federal taxation and spending as a club over the states, is nothing but shyster lawyerism.
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Well, the states still have equal suffrage in the Senate, but this kind of what I call shyster lawyerism has been used to permit the federal government to overrun the Constitutional bounds on its powers.
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They do not stand up well to shyster lawyerism, i.e., picking them apart to find loopholes whereby the whole thing can be turned on its head.
Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010
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Judaism and zionism is christianity is budhism is lawyerism is zuluism is masonism is police brotherhoodism is car manufacturing unionism etc.
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Furthermore, let's not forget that Greenwald is a lawyer and his dismissal of criticism of Holder's representation of Chiquita is a typical knee-jerk reactionary lawyerism.
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