Sentences with phrase «against the amendment at»

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«The Fifth Amendment protects individuals against saying anything, testimony or statements, that could incriminate them,» says Paul Bond, who is also a partner at Reed Smith.

As a U.S. company, its pay vote is advisory, not binding; moreover the company's share class structure means that approval is effectively assured, with founders» Class B shares carrying ten times the voting power of ordinary Class A. Nonetheless, opposition has been bubbling up, with an amendment to the company's stock plan generating a 28 % against vote at the 2016 AGM.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

Realistic strategies for securing, let alone extending, the rights envisaged by those who drafted the First Amendment, if possible at all, require freedom, first of all, from the myths and shiboleths that have obscured a full view of what we are up against.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been at the forefront of the fight against the Johnson Amendment, initiating the annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday in 2008 in open defiance of the law.

Soon enough, with the college graduates we have in the state (look at the map of the counties who voted in correlation to those who voted against the Amendment), we will be greater than 35 %.

At the heart of this transformation lie certain assumptions concerning Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically whether and to what extent that section incorporated the Bill of Rights and made it applicable against the states.

Indeed, not all that long ago liberal Justices of the Supreme Court were accusing the State of Indiana of shredding the First Amendment by enforcing public nudity laws against table top dancers at the Kitty Kat Lounge in downtown South Bend.

As Lord Harries of Pentregarth and Iain McLean have pointed out, and as the Guardian recognised at the time; in the main debate on the civil partnership bill in 2004, six bishops voted in favour of (and one against) a wrecking amendment.

This means that we could have the odd situation where the big Unions vote against the McDonnell Amendment at the NEC but then issue instructions to delegates to vote for it when it comes to the conference hall.

Just 142 peers voted for the amendment, 209 voting against, with a majority not attending at all.

Johnny Tacherra, the GOP candidate hoping for a rematch against incumbent Democrat Jim Costa, told Roll Call he cooked up the «2nd Amendment BBQ» — scheduled to take place within the Full Spectrum Firearms showroom in Fresno on Saturday — after bumping into FSF founder Jon Rains at an NRA dinner earlier this fall.

(Members of the conservative John Birch Society spent Wednesday at the Capitol lobbying against a bill calling for Congress to convene a national convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.)

Members of the conservative John Birch Society spent Wednesday at the Capitol lobbying against a bill calling for Congress to convene a national convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

Outside of the WBFO - WNED studios, shouts for second amendment rights — mostly aimed at Governor Cuomo — were just as loud as chants against fracking for natural gas.

«This bill is a targeted assault against our values, punishing New Yorkers because we support women's reproductive rights and including the Collins / Faso amendment which would devastate the state's health care industry, put millions of New Yorkers at risk, and increase the total cost of this bill on New York to $ 6.9 billion,» Cuomo said.

This bill is a targeted assault against our values, punishing New Yorkers because we support women's reproductive rights and including the Collins / Faso amendment which would devastate the state's health care industry, put millions of New Yorkers at risk, and increase the total cost of this bill on New York to $ 6.9 billion.»

maries, ante, at 582 - 586, there is surely a danger that open primaries will fare no better against a First Amendment challenge than blanket primaries have.

At 10:30 a.m., New York for Democracy holds a rally in support of making this the 17th state to call for a constitutional amendment against «corporate personhood» and «money as speech,» the Well, LOB, 198 State St., Albany.

The amendment has put Collins and Faso both at odds with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office, who has railed against the provision and its impact on New York.

One group, New Yorkers Against Corruption, has begun questioning the cost of a convention — estimated in the tens of millions of dollars — whether delegates would be the same political insiders who pull levers at the Capitol and just what amendments could come out of a convention process.

Councilor - at - large Timothy Rudd voted against the amendment, as did Councilor Joseph Carni, of the 1st district, and Councilor Chad Ryan, of the 2nd district.

Donald Trump speaks to a crowd of Second Amendment advocates rallying against the NY SAFE Act Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

Second Amendment advocates rally against the NY SAFE Act Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

In an extremely rare move for the House of Lords the Liberal Democrats have tabled an amendment against the Brexit Bill at Third Reading.

Log Cabin Republicans facilitate Laguna Beach resolution against anti-gay marriage amendment: «Working with the City Council, California Log Cabin Republicans helped secure a resolution at the city council meeting this evening reiterating it's opposition to anti-marriage equality ballot measures.

The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings that it would derail the entire measure.

But her speech did little to lessen opposition to the proposals, as delegates at the conference made a last minute amendment to the motion against the plans to include industrial action.

A slew of anti-school choice activists, including the teachers union, state school boards association, and the state PTA, filed two separate legal challenges against the state's school choice laws, alleging that they violate the state constitution's historically anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funds from being expended at religious schools, and the state's «uniformity» clause.

The Constitution and By - Laws or the Standard for the breed may be amended at any time, provided that a copy of any proposed amendment has been mailed by the Corresponding Secretary to each member in good standing as of the date of mailing, accompanied by a ballot on which the member shall indicate a choice for or against the action to be taken.

The constitution and bylaws and the Standard of the breed may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed by the Corresponding Secretary to each voting member in good standing on the date of the mailing, accompanied by a ballot on which a choice for or against the action to be taken shall be indicated.

The Constitution and Bylaws and the Standard of the Breed may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed by the Board Secretary to each member accompanied by a ballot on which he may indicate his choice for or against the action to be taken, such balloting to be conducted according to the procedures described in Article IV.

The Constitution and By - Laws and the Standard for the Breed may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed by the Recording Secretary to each member in good standing on the date of the mailing, accompanied by a ballot on which he may indicate his choice for or against the actions to be taken.

The Constitution and Bylaws or the Standard for the breed may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been sent by 1st class mail by the Secretary to each member in good standing accompanied by a ballot on which a choice for or against the action to be taken shall be indicated.

The By - Laws may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed by the Secretary to each member, accompanied by a ballot on which he / she may indicate his / her choice for or against the action to be taken.

The Constitution and By - Laws may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed by the Corresponding Secretary to each member in good standing on the date of mailing, accompanied by a ballot on which a choice for or against the action to be taken shall be indicated.

The Constitution, Bylaws or the Standard for the breed may be amended at any time provided a copy of the proposed amendment has been mailed or sent in accordance with AKC's Procedure on Electronic Balloting for AKC Parent Clubs † by the Recording Secretary to each Voting Member as of the date of the mailing, accompanied by a ballot on which a choice for or against the action to be taken shall be indicated.

We hold, therefore, that where, as here, the investigation is no longer a general inquiry into an unsolved crime, but has begun to focus on a particular suspect, the suspect has been taken into police custody, the police carry out a process of interrogations that lends itself to eliciting incriminating statements, the suspect has requested and been denied an opportunity to consult with his lawyer, and the police have not effectively warned him of his absolute constitutional right to remain silent, the accused has been denied «the Assistance of Counsel» in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution as «made obligatory upon the States by the Fourteenth Amendment,» Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. at 342, and that no statement elicited by the police during the interrogation may be used against him at a criminal trial.

She found, however, that the casting decisions in question were «part and parcel of the creative process behind a television program — including the Shows at issue here — thereby meriting First Amendment protection against the application of anti-discrimination statutes to that process.»

For Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice the First Amendment «journalistic principles» aren't as clear - cut, particularly where a guy's reputation is ruined and the newspaper itself presented only part of the story by failing to note that all charges against Feyissa were dismissed.

It's almost as if the judiciary were at war against the Sixth Amendment.

The majority opinion of Justice Stewart was specifically approved by a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada in Hunter v Southam Inc., [1984] 2 SCR 145 where Justice Brian Dickson held, at p. 159, that s. 8 of the Charter containing the constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure is not restricted to the protection of property or associated with the law of trespass, at p. 159: «[I] n Katz... Stewart J. delivering the majority opinion of the United States Supreme Court declared at p. 351 that «the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places».

Since the amendment at issue here is designed to protect the public, the presumption against the retrospective effect of statutes is effectively rebutted.

«It is a major stretch beyond case law to assert that authority with respect to a private home, which is at the heart of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure,» Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Lee Tien tells Threat Level.

As Lyle Denniston recounted at SCOTUSblog, Kagan had contended that the ruling was no longer needed «given the purposes of the Sixth Amendment and the existence of other strong protections against coercion.»

To uncover the Constitutional underpinnings of individual privacy in the Bill of Rights, take a peek at the Fourth Amendment's golden rule against unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as rights under the First (freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly), Third (no quartering of troops), Fifth (no self - incrimination) along with the Ninth (the catch - all that preserves rights not specifically named in the Constitution) and Fourteenth Amendments (due process, equal protection).

In his posts, he sides against creating new laws and policies that might protect some but chip away at the First Amendment for all; calls out questionable ethical moves by fellow lawyers and judges in Texas; and shares random tidbits about little things he does to boost his advocacy — like taking improv classes and filing pleadings on quality paper stock.

In 1994, at the request of Governor Lawton Chiles, Loehr authored amendments to the Medicaid Recovery Act which paved the way for Florida's landmark lawsuit and multi-billion dollar settlement against the cigarette industry.