Sentences with phrase «passing unconstitutional laws»

Demand that politicians stop passing unconstitutional laws clearly designed to deny women access to a safe, legal abortion.

Unfortunately it takes a great deal of money to fight this type of case, which is how governments get away with passing unconstitutional laws all the time.

The ONLY recourse you and your gun loving friends have is to take the State of New York to court for passing an unconstitutional law.

If Peta spent their time and money doing this as a public service instead of demonizing responsible breeders, trying to pass unconstitutional laws and running around naked, they might get some respect.

Marberry vs Madison proves they pass unconstitutional laws.

Not exact matches

An administration official told reporters that the law «in many respects was a piece of massive government overreach» and that some of the rules within the law, passed in the wake of last decade's financial crisis, «may have even been unconstitutional.»

These unconstitutional laws have caused financial ruin to 90,000 affiliate marketers in the 13 states where the laws passed.

Mitt Romney, who had both passed an individual mandate as governor and supported Wyden - Bennett, now calls Obama's law an «unconstitutional power grab from the states,» and has promised, if elected, to begin repealing the law «on Day One.»

It is unconstitutional to pass laws that make homosexuality illegal.

You can disparage the Supreme Court justices all you want and it will not change the fact that sodomy laws are unconstitutional in the United State of America meaning that it is unconstitutional to pass laws that make homosexuality illegal.

There are a lot of things that you can call a judge rewriting a law so that the law becomes what Congress should have passed if Congress had asked the judge how to make an unconstitutional law constitutional.

This most likely will be decided in the courts and since most courts keep ruling in gays favor they should be able to over turn all the unconstitutional laws prejudice bigots have been trying to pass.

Twenty - one years after the RFRA was introduced in the House of Representatives by Chuck Schumer, passed nearly unanimously by Congress, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to strike it down as an unconstitutional «takeover of the Court's power to interpret the Constitution» and a violation of the Establishment Clause.

«In my view, the only way this goes anywhere is if the Supreme Court finds PASPA to be unconstitutional or if Congress reverses itself and passes a new law», said Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., President of the American Gaming Association.

Jacobs says the measure could be passed from a legal standpoint, and the law would stand unless it was proved to be unconstitutional.

On July 19, the Green Party of Tennessee, and the Constitution Party of Tennessee, jointly filed a new lawsuit in federal court, alleging that the new ballot access law passed this year is just as unconstitutional as the old one.

It is unconstitutional to change provisions of a law once Congress has specifically written those provisions into the law, and it is passed by the president.

The fact that parts of this act were already ruled unconstitutional by a NY judge, with more still being appealed shows how much real thought was put into it; within the first few weeks of passing this debacle almost all police, armed guards etc. were violating the law because the legislators in their infinite wisdom forgot to exempt law enforcement, not to mention all the people who went to bed and then the next day — due to the fly - by - night method of governing — people woke up breaking the law without having done anything.

It is very likely that the Ohio Libertarian Party will bring a new lawsuit, very soon, arguing that the new ballot access law passed by the 2011 legislature is just as unconstitutional as the old one that was declared unconstitutional in 2006.

They were on the ballot in 2010, and 2008, because the old ballot access law had been held unconstitutional in 2006, and the legislature had not passed a new law.

Lawyers for Minnesota's public - employee unions say that state's law, passed last December to help close a $ 312 - million budget deficit, is unconstitutional because it abrogates the workers» constitutional claims to contract and equal - protection rights.

«This legislature tried to retroactively take teacher tenure from those teachers who have earned it, and this is yet another law passed that the court has ruled unconstitutional,» Hall said in his statement.

While Arizona's tax - credit programs were fully vindicated by both the Arizona and U.S. Supreme courts, 10 the voucher programs were declared unconstitutional by the Arizona Supreme Court in Cain v. Horne under a provision of the state constitution that prohibits appropriations of public funds «in aid of» private and sectarian schools.11 In the wake of Cain v. Horne, the legislature passed Lexie's Law, 12 a corporately funded scholarship - tax - credit program to help fund private school scholarships for children with disabilities.

At the end of June, Amazon.com dropped thousands of California affiliates when the state passed a sales tax law that the online retailer believes is unconstitutional.

That would be plain unconstitutional today»: the ERA never passed, so it's not necessary under the constitution for citizenship law to treat the children of male and female US citizens equally.

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Congress could, of course, modify said law and pass it again, ostensibly fixing or otherwise addressing the aspects that were deemed unconstitutional.

Although the statute of limitations regarding medical malpractice does state that no medical malpractice suit can be brought after five years has passed from the initial act or error made by the doctor in question, Kentucky courts have made it clear that this «five - year rule» is unconstitutional and should no longer be considered as part of the law.

«like Charles Evans Hughes, Sr., later Mr. Chief Justice Hughes, who stood up for the constitutional rights of socialists to be socialists and public officials despite the threats and clamorous protests of self - proclaimed super patriots — men like Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., and John W. Davis, who, while against everything for which the Communists stood, strongly advised the Congress in 1948 that it would be unconstitutional to pass the law then proposed to outlaw the Communist Party — men like Lord Erskine, James Otis, Clarence Darrow, and the multitude of others who have dared to speak in defense of causes and clients without regard to personal danger to themselves.

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However, this currently does not prevent Parliament from passing laws that are likely unconstitutional because typically Charter tests are applied by our courts long after the fact.

Or limiting freedom of the press, denying democratic rights etc.... well, the Parliamentary Gallery might; and some scholars of constitutional law; and some people who have this unusual belief that the current majority has as much of an obligation to obey laws passed by the past Parliament (until the laws are repealed or declared unconstitutional (oops)-RRB- as a former Tory Cabinet minister accused of things we can't speak of (because we don't know and were never told).

The French constitutional court has held unconstitutional the law passed in January of this year (that's a fast decision by our standards) that made it illegal to dispute any genocide recognized by law.

But he failed to mention that Congress passed a law at the start of this year to extend unconstitutional, invasive NSA surveillance powers.

8th Circuit US Court of Appeals Strikes Down Unconstitutional Missouri Abortion Ban Law Passed in 1999