There are a range
of constitutional issues in need of urgent legislative attention in Ireland, as often highlighted by the judiciary, covering important issues like abortion and childrens» rights.
Because of our extensive experience and record of success, we have been retained in many leading constitutional cases, appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada on a wide
range of constitutional issues.
While a
number of constitutional issues clearly require attention, much of what currently ails UK (in particular, English) politics are not specifically constitutional in nature, but are rather a symptom of how we practice democratic politics.
Sen. John Bonacic, the chairman of Senate Committee on Racing, Wagering and Gaming has a different explanation, namely that such a ban runs
afoul of constitutional issues.
It provided a wide - ranging, balanced
analysis of the constitutional issues facing the state, a focused action program in such key areas as education, budgeting and home rule, and the basis for proposed legislation to modify the revision process itself.
Nothing in the opinion of this Court, therefore, may properly be regarded as an adjudication on the
merits of the constitutional issues presented by these cases, which raise the question of the validity not of the private agreements as such, but of the judicial enforcement of those agreements.
In justifying this approach, the court pointed to several considerations that SCOTUS identified as benefits to merits - first: the importance and
frequency of the constitutional issue, the need of police departments for guidance on the issue, the purely legal, non-fact-bound nature of the issue, and the quality of the briefing (with amicus briefs from several advocacy organizations, a group of First Amendment professors, and DOJ's Civil Rights Division).
Kissel has represented a number of universities in relation to a
variety of constitutional issues, including issues related to university funding, constitutional autonomy, and academic freedom.
On CBC this morning mentioned that one of his «selling points» is his
understanding of constitutional issues, which would be helpful if we end up with a minority government again after the next election.
It also says Vermont's campaign finance law restricts First Amendment rights and «disproportionately restricts... the right of Option participants to associate with their political parties...» Corren's attorney John Franco says this case raises a
host of constitutional issues.
In this blog post, I distil
some of the constitutional issues in the party manifestos of the three largest parties in Westminster in the last parliament: the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats (if there's time, I will do another post on the smaller parties» proposals).