{"id":9536,"date":"2017-05-22T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9536"},"modified":"2017-05-22T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:22:56","slug":"word-of-the-day-154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/22\/word-of-the-day-154\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Preponderance<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.:<br \/>\nThe preponderance of votes is against the proposal. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/preponderance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in many places, for example, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/scope-mueller-probe-will-public-learn-what-was-uncovered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Scope of the Mueller Probe: Will the Public Learn What Was Uncovered<\/em><\/a>?&#8221; Andrew Kent, <em><strong>Lawfare<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usam\/criminal-resource-manual-159-reports-special-grand-juries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">takes the position<\/a> that \u201corganized criminal activity\u201d is a very broad term that \u201cincludes \u2018any criminal activity collectively undertaken.\u2019\u201d The statute provides that the federal judge overseeing the special grand jury will make the report public if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the report is \u201csupported by the preponderance of the evidence\u201d revealed during the special grand jury investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, for such a strong term, it sounds awfully wishywashy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preponderance: the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal. [Dictionary.com] Noted in many places, for example, &#8220;The Scope of the Mueller Probe: Will the Public Learn What Was Uncovered?&#8221; Andrew Kent, Lawfare: The Department of Justice takes \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/22\/word-of-the-day-154\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}