Sentences with phrase «bans as constitutional»

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed a complaint against the state's «assault weapons» ban on Friday and expressly described similar bans as constitutional.

Not exact matches

«Strike4Repeal,» as the day of action is called, hopes to pressure the government into calling a referendum on the constitutional ban.

A judge ruled that California's voter - approved ban on same - sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, violated the constitutional rights of same - sex couples.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

In response, Prime Minister Enda Kenny has proposed a bill that would «clarify» the abortion statute in Ireland, making a clear exception in the constitutional ban for cases of maternal health and including an unrelated provision allowing for suicide as a reason for seeking terminating the pregnancy.

««Privacy,» «he said, «is a broad, abstract, and ambiguous concept which can easily be shrunken in meaning but which can also, on the other hand, be interpreted as a constitutional ban against many other searches and seizures [than those intended by the Fourth Amendment].»

As he raised concerns over the sweeping changes to state government through a pair of constitutional amendments proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in a statement pointed to the relative short window of time debate would be held over term limits and creating a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Wednesday night formally confirmed the push for a pair of constitutional amendments that would ban outside income and term limit the state Legislature as talk of a special session before the end of the year heats up.

Ken Mehlman, the Republican strategist who engineered George W. Bush's re-election in part by campaigning on a constitutional ban on gay marriage — and then came out as a gay man himself — helped marshal support among recalcitrant factions in Albany.

It avoided the questions of constitutionality of regulating intrastate commerce (as - is, federal law would have had constitutional difficulties with alcohol bans in - state in the states that didn't pass state prohibition laws)

Although Bonacic said the Legislature must know in advance of a vote what the terms are, Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee Chairman Gary Pretlow, D - Mount Vernon, said the key is to first remove the constitutional ban on games of chance, and deal with issues such as casino locations later.

Mr Ford, a Democrat who is now a New Yorker, long opposed such unions, even backing a constitutional amendment to ban them as a member of the House.

The report underlines that due to an export ban on unprocessed forest timber and the constitutional protection of 60 % of the country's forest cover, Bhutan has maintained its status as a net sink for greenhouse gases (GHGs).

In this post I will focus on the competence issue by discussing the particularities of EU constitutional law and the (modest) challenge a ban on the sale of exotic imports such as seal products poses for EU legislative competence.

They could pass a Constitutional amendment banning the death penalty, and specify that it should be ratified by state ratifying conventions, as was done for the Twenty - first Amendment, thus bypassing the state legislatures.

«He is much more an Anti-federalist where state and national authority clash, more libertarian on issues such as gun control, and much tighter on some matters as the rights of the criminally accused than I... «We, however, agree on other important issues, such as finding no constitutional barrier to bans on late term abortions and requiring spousal and parental notification of impending abortions.»

The Court also overturned the publication ban, as the ex proprio motu powers expressed in s. 46 of the Quebec Code of Civil Procedures are an extraordinary remedy that should not be applied without even hearing submissions from either party, especially when dealing with constitutional rights.

Nine more wrote that the amendment should be rewritten to allow for gun control measures that currently would not pass constitutional muster, such as the Washington, D.C., handgun ban that was overturned in the landmark 2008 District of Columba v. Heller decision that also found Americans have an individual right to own firearms, never mind all this «well - regulated militia» business.

Some conservatives have portrayed the teens as pawns being exploited to take away constitutional rights, with the NRA insisting that liberals want to ban all guns.