lawmaking

Both lost to the same candidate, a man with less experience in lawmaking and public service but more disdain for women and their rights than any nominee in modern memory.

“This is all playing on the complexity of European lawmaking, trying to blame on somebody or put together issues that have nothing to do with each other beyond some convergence of anger.”

It is understood Webb and the Premier League would like to go further but are constrained by current regulations set by the game's lawmaking body, the International Football Association Board.

“In our state, the people have the ultimate lawmaking power, including the ability to overturn our decisions,” he wrote.

The Manhattan trial shows that sober lawmaking may still stand a chance against sordid spectacle.