today's word:Chutzpah

Perhaps the classic "legal" definition of chutzpah is the closest; a person who kills his parents and pleads for the court's mercy on the ground of being an orphan. However, in defining chutzpah in the context of American jurisprudence it is also important to note, as a court in the federal district of New Jersey did in 1995, that "Legal chutzpah is not always undesirable, and without it our system of jurisprudence would suffer.''

He favors the "nonpreferentialist" view which posits that government may support religion in general but not in a way that prefers any particular religion