Sentences with phrase «going against amendment»

The court ordered a dismissal of the Dwyer lawsuit, which was filed by a group of parents and school officials in June 2014 claiming the state is unconstitutionally cutting school districts» funding by going against Amendment 23.

When that judge a few years back commissioned a monument to the 10 Commandments to be placed in front of his courthouse, he was (arguably, I suppose, depending on who you talk to) going against this amendment.

Not exact matches

President Trump doubled down against calls for repealing the Second Amendment while speaking in Richmond, Ohio, Thursday, saying, «We're going to protect our Second Amendment.»

It sets distressing signals about race and protest, the same week as police moved in again on a peaceful Indigenous - led standoff against a North Dakota pipeline — and as Donald Trump rhetoric riles up believers in Second Amendment «remedies» when an election doesn't go their way.

It goes against everything for which the First Amendment stands.

The amendments, including laws against sharing faith in homes, online, or anywhere but recognized church buildings, go into effect July 20.

even your post is an opinion, it could be viewed and inciting hatred towards someone's religious belief, which goes against the first amendment and basic right of any amercan.

The adoption of such a constitutional amendment would be an act of repression for a large part of the community, and would actually go against the moral and religious convictions of most Protestants and Jews and many Catholics.

@chris, Interesting how the 1st Amendment, Freedom of Religion, seems to go against the 1st Commandment, You shall have no other gods before me.

For example, twenty states in the USA have enacted anti-BDS laws even though this goes against the first amendment protection for political speech.

Ironically Jacob Rees - Mogg, who has also talked about his Catholic faith, voted against the Dubs amendment but has rarely been criticised for doing so, even though this goes against any notion of Catholic teaching one can imagine.

«I think there's going to be a lot of advertising this fall both for and against the amendment,» he said.

Individual members of parliament can push amendments and in some limited cases a small party (or a small group within one party) can threaten to vote against their block on an issue that's very important to them but there is none of the «getting the votes» one - by - one that seems to be going on in the US.

Lord Hesseltine went against Theresa May on an Article 50 bill amendment last night and she promptly sacked him from five government advisory roles.

A Labour source in the Lords said the benefit of tabling such an amendment was that the party could not be accused of going against the Salisbury convention and trying to block the bill's passage.

«I'm totally against what was going on, I consider it a violation of the 4th amendment and the Civil Rights act of 1964.»

It would go to court and might be seen as a form of forced speech (against the first amendment).

Great news to hear Labour's fantastic Waheed Alli's amendment on #SingleMarket #EEA carried with cross-party support in Lords - taking strong stand against reckless hard #Brexit - unusually I went up to Lords to watch result in person!

Mr. Hoeven's amendment is designed as an alternative for moderate Republicans who may be worried about going against a scientific consensus on climate change.»

A lengthy discussion that follows of so - called Blaine amendments (the generic term for measures enacted in various state constitutions forbidding direct government aid to educational institutions with any religious affiliations) contends that since the ESA money goes to parents, state constitutional prohibitions against funding religious institutions are avoided.

You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based initiatives and school vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.

In my view, I think many critics of the Blaine amendments have gone too far in their public campaign against the Blaine amendments.

Going against the grain of his party, Congressman Bass voted against both amendments, knowing that each is important for conservation and coastal community job security.

Global efforts to dramatically reduce super greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change saw a major advance today as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol got the go ahead to crack down on harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Insolvency deposits go up by 16.5 % for petitions presented after 31 May 2011 (Insolvency Proceedings (Fees)(Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1167)-RRB--- # 700 instead of # 600 on a creditor's bankruptcy petition, # 525 as against # 450 on a debtor's bankruptcy petition and # 1,165 in place of # 1,000 on a wind...

Just how far does the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution go to protect against a warrantless search of an apartment?