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Justice Scalia says he construes constitutional provisions according to their original meaning.

Crime and Punishment Peels Kennedy From Conservatives Jess Bravin 2011

A big talent with a big voice like Broadway veteran Christine Ebersole demands big ideas to work with, and this time out she's tackling the largest topic imaginable: the end of days, inspired not by the Mayan calendar, but by the current political and cultural upheavals around the world, which she construes as evidence that humanity's days are numbered.

Highlights and Dark Nights Will Friedwald 2012

No matter how much the public construes it otherwise (abetted, admittedly, by the exhibition's own wall labels), the Eggleston retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum (through January 16) documents not the contemporary American south but contemporary approaches to framing and recording perception and to analyzing - perhaps neutralizing, perhaps enhancing - the conditions of modern life.

Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011

I would like to believe that this outcome is what President Obama intended all along, that through nod and wink he passed down the word that “imminent danger” was to be interpreted as loosely as Justice Ginsburg construes the Constitution.

Law 2010

That said, there are many occasions for side-splitting laughter in medicine, but one has to be careful that the patient never construes this as our being light-hearted about his or her suffering.

Abraham Verghese - An interview with author 2010

No matter how much the public construes it otherwise (abetted, admittedly, by the exhibition's own wall labels), the Eggleston retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum (through January 16) documents not the contemporary American south but contemporary approaches to framing and recording perception and to analyzing - perhaps neutralizing, perhaps enhancing - the conditions of modern life.

Peter Frank: Pioneering Art: Three Retrospectives At LACMA Peter Frank 2011

To argue that “activist government” is responsible for the abuse of civil rights (by institutionalizing it) is a gross misrepresentation of history which misplaces the cause of the Jim Crow laws, and erroneously construes the relationship between a representative government and its constituents.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 2010

Not to worry, the Government says: The Executive Branch construes §48 to reach only “extreme” cruelty, and it “neither has brought nor will bring a prosecution for anything less,” The Government hits this theme hard, invoking its prosecutorial discretion several times.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Wise Words About Prosecutorial Discretion and Speech Restrictions 2010

Not to worry, the Government says: The Executive Branch construes §48 to reach only “extreme” cruelty, and it “neither has brought nor will bring a prosecution for anything less,” The Government hits this theme hard, invoking its prosecutorial discretion several times.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide 2010

I would like to believe that this outcome is what President Obama intended all along, that through nod and wink he passed down the word that “imminent danger” was to be interpreted as loosely as Justice Ginsburg construes the Constitution.

Stromata Blog: 2009