The situation therefore is inherently different from marital intimacy, or bedroom possession of obscene material, or marriage, or procreation, or education, with which Eisenstadt and Griswold, Stanley, Loving, Skinner, and Pierce and Meyer were respectively concerned. Joe Witherspoon, a professor at the University of Texas, that tries to trace back what was in their mind when they had the person concept when they drew up the constitution
Things That Are Not In the U.S. Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
The notable exception is found in the Signatory section, where the date is written thusly: "Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven". Thanks to Lois for the idea.Primary ElectionsThe Primary Election season can be exciting and heady as candidates for the presidency, and other national and state offices, vie for their party's endorsement and spot on the ballot
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Star Bird on June 28, 2015 at 3:35 PM everdiso on June 28, 2015 at 11:18 AM Are you brain damaged? tanked59 on June 28, 2015 at 2:53 PM That would require lester to actually have a brain. Garber unleashes most of her wrath on the conservative justices as you would expect from this publication, but also notes that the liberals get in on the vindictiveness train as well
Neither so high nor so impregnable today as yesterday is the wall raised between church and state by Virginia's great statute of religious freedom and the First Amendment, now made applicable to all the states by the Fourteenth. Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in Religious opinions
Both parties took their victories of control in the House as mandates for their extremists when in fact voters were just looking for a party that could govern. On March 23, 2010, everyone, Democrats and Republicans alike, understood that customers were to be able to purchase subsidized health insurance on any exchange
When a vacancy arises the Governor may appoint a Justice, subject to Senate confirmation, to serve out the remainder of an unexpired term until the next general election. Latest News Court OKs Rules to Permit Online Bar-Admission Applications June 30, 2015 The Texas Supreme Court has approved rules that allow law students and graduates applying to take the Texas bar examination later this year to file their applications and pay fees online
Supreme Court races the clock on gay marriage, Obamacare and more
The future of Obama's health care law is on the line for the second time in three years, and it's anyone's guess how the court will rule.Passed in 2010 and narrowly upheld by the court in a 5-4 ruling in 2012, the law has extended health insurance to 12 million Americans. After a steady diet of cases and emergency appeals on issues such as claimed intellectual disabilities and the actions of defense lawyers and prosecutors, the court now must rule on a relatively new method of execution.The case involves the use of a sedative called midazolam as part of a three-drug cocktail used by several states, including Oklahoma, where three death-row inmates are challenging its use
Supreme Court strikes down key part of Defense of Marriage Act - The Washington Post
Even staunch supporters of same-sex marriage thought that bringing a lawsuit to the Supreme Court that argued for a constitutional right to marriage for gays would risk a setback that could take years to overcome. The divided court stopped short of a more sweeping ruling that the fundamental right to marry must be extended to gay couples no matter where they live
Supreme Court strikes down Defense of Marriage Act, paves way for gay marriage to resume in California - NBC Politics
Not counting California, 12 states and the District of Columbia have authorized gay marriage.The law had helped determine who is covered by more than 1,100 federal laws, programs and benefits
Who would plow through a lengthy, often technical, always citation-laden opinion other than judges, lawyers and law professors? Yet when it comes to big ones, the minority of decisions that capture the attention of the American people, the justices often seem to aspire to a broader audience in their written opinions
Supreme Court Rules In Hobby Lobby Case, Dealing Blow To Birth Control Coverage
The high court ruled in a 5-4 decision in favor of Hobby Lobby saying that some private companies can be exempted, on religious grounds, from health care reform's requirement that employer sponsored health insurance policies cover contraception. "It must have been because the health care coverage was not that important," said Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was generally considered to be the swing vote.In his concurring opinion, Kennedy said the decision "does not have the breadth and sweep ascribed to it by the respectful and powerful dissent." He said because there is already a mechanism in place to provide a religious accommodation to some organizations, adding another accommodation would not be a significant burden on the government"In these cases, it is the Court's understanding that an accommodation may be made to the employers without imposition of a whole new program or burden on the government," Kennedy wrote
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