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Reason
March 20, 2018
Well, just for the record we should note one other thing we now know: that Trump has been lying to us about this all along - when he denied that any .... I don't think a President of the United States can go to court and obtain an injunction against Ms. Daniels ever saying a disparaging word against him,Ãâà...
Madison.com
March 9, 2018
... students to write 1,000-word essays responding to the question: “Should the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution be ... confers citizenship on children of undocumented immigrants who are born in the United States, agreed Richard Avramenko, co-director of the center.
The Atlantic
March 5, 2018
Ferguson (1896), those same justices refused to read the Constitution as protecting the rights of African Americans, the real intended beneficiaries of the Fourteenth Amendment. Between 1868, when the amendment was ratified, and 1912, the Supreme Court would rule on 28 cases involving the rights ofÃâà...
Law.com
March 5, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to decide a pharmaceutical company's challenge to New Hampshire's hiring of private law firms to investigate manufacturers of opioid medications. Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., represented by Lisa Blatt of Arnold & Porter, argued the Fourteenth Amendment'sÃâà...
Mother Jones
March 5, 2018
Four decades after the Equal Rights Amendment—the proposal to enshrine gender equality in the Constitution—was declared dead in the water, .... Some maintain the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment already prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender, an assertion the lateÃâà...
Law.com
March 5, 2018
Ponvert said Shehadi has the right under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to liberty. ... Constitutional claims outlined in the federal suit include violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of safe conditions of confinement and the right to be free from the use of excessive force byÃâà...
Roanoke Times
March 4, 2018
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit invites students in grades nine through 12 who live in the circuit's jurisdictional region to take ... As described in a summary on the website https://usconstitution.net/ , the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution “ensured that all citizens of allÃâà...
Idaho Statesman
February 20, 2018
A bill to overhaul Idaho's various trespassing laws conflicts with a number of other parts of state code and may violate the U.S. Constitution, according to a ... Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment protections,” wrote Deputy Attorney General Paul Panther in his seven-page response released Tuesday.
Constitution Daily (blog)
February 19, 2018
They are selected with guidance from leaders of the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society—two prominent constitutional law organizations that ... Although there is substantial evidence that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was meant to protect the right ofÃâà...
Colorado Springs Independent
February 15, 2018
Martinez also noted that "the Court concludes that Plaintiffs' have demonstrated a Fourteenth Amendment violation . ... DENVER, COLORADO: A Federal judge on Wednesday gave the Colorado Secretary of State until March 9 to show that a section of Amendment 71 is constitutional, or he'll rule it's not.
Center for Research on Globalization
February 8, 2018
A review of the challenges to the Fourteenth Amendment, by the Constitutional Center website cites the Slaughter-House Cases decision to be the first significant erosion of the legislation which grew directly out the efforts to grant citizenship rights to African people in the U.S. Paralleling this decision wasÃâà...
Metro Weekly
December 31, 1999
Russell also found that Brennan was protected from discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a finding affirmed by several courts in other states. One such example of that is the Pine-Richland case in the Pittsburgh area, where a school districtÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
U.S. District Judge Timothy Black's decision came after the Ohio state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court in Cincinnati, arguing the legislation violated the liberty and privacy clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "Because H.B. 214 preventsÃâà...
Lincoln Journal Star
December 31, 1999
It removes the estimated number of non-U.S. citizens living in the state, according to the Census Bureau, from being counted for redistricting purposes. “I believe ... Arvie said even noncitizens living in Nebraska had constitutional rights, according to the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth AmendmentÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
How we distinguish fundamental constitutional rights from non-fundamental constitutional rights is an exercise in clairvoyance not available to most of us. In District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, the Supreme Court declared a District of Columbia statute unconstitutional insofar it prohibited the possession ofÃâà...
