In some ways the Court's 6-to-3 ruling in a third case, that only the most compelling claims of innocence can justify Federal court intervention to prevent an execution, was the easiest to justify.

These several claims justify a commitment to consistency in principle valued for its own sake.

The claims that allowing them to marry will enable them to qualify for the benefits automatically granted to married heterosexuals do not justify what Circuit Judge Kevin S. C. Chang has done.

No claim of art or higher truth can justify such forgery.

In 1772, Empress Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary, decided to use those historical claims to justify her participation in the first partition of Poland.

The Court applied the same standard in Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., observing that "an amorphous claim that there has been past discrimination ... cannot justify the use of an unyielding racial quota."

If some country's claims on another justify a brutal invasion, freedom and the rule of law are dead.

The law should provide a regular process for deciding whether a claim of hardship justifies calling off a deportation.

"An amorphous claim that there has been past discrimination in a particular industry cannot justify the use of an unyielding racial quota," she said.

Furthermore, the claim that the government has the power to curtail speech when it is likely to produce "a specific and significant fear of disruption" cannot justify the banning of offensive speech in a free society that is protected by the First Amendment.