Sentences with phrase «rights act»

She instructed Mann to consider the population variation between districts and their compactness, and directed them to comply with the Voting Rights Act and to respect «communities of interest.»

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

Also, the federal Voting Rights Act requires that new boundaries be drawn in a manner which provides minority communities with opportunities to elect representatives of their choice.

The Conservatives threaten our Human Rights Act and may withdraw us from the European Convention of Human 5ights.

«A productive day in Parliament - with progress on banning illegal scrap metal dealing Main 70 Tory MPs vote to repeal the Human Rights Act»

Labour will retain the Human Rights Act.

His intention is clear — the Human Rights Act will be abolished and the UK will abandon the European Convention on Human Rights.

Those backing a move to include LGBT protections under the 1992 Florida Civil Rights Act have a message for legislative leadership: We'll be back.

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

The ruling marked the third straight time the county has had to redraw its map after a Voting Rights Act challenge by the minority community.

There is something fundamentally wrong with a state that is so grossly overcentralised (above all, when it comes to the affairs of England) and has such an overmighty executive, restrained only by judges implementing the Human Rights Act, unelected lords and journalists.

Theresa May claimed on Tuesday that an illegal immigrant was allowed to stay in the country by using the Human Rights Act and citing his cat - but later there were conflicting stories over the accuracy of the story.

Speaking at an NASUWT fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, NASUWT's Deputy General Secretary Dr Patrick Roach condemned the Government's attempts to undermine the Human Rights Act and curb the ability of trade unions to advocate and represent the interests of their members through the Trade Union Bill.

In the 25 years since passage of the Indian Gaming Rights Act, the Oneida nation says, «the Cayugas have never seen fit to enact the casino gaming ordinance required by IGRA or to get approval of it from the National Indian Gaming Commission.»

In recent weeks - following Triple Whammy Wednesday - David Cameron has repeatedly highlighted law and order issues (eg prison building and the Human Rights Act) and this may begin to help Tory standing amongst the strivers.

The leader of the immigration revolt — on an amendment, remember, which even the home secretary Theresa May had said was illegal under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights — was Dominic Raab, a bright international lawyer who knew exactly what he was doing, and was one of the stars of the 2010 intake.

Theresa May told the Conservative Party Conference about those she claimed had abused the Human Rights Act to stay in the UK including one illegal immigrant who could not be deported because he had a pet cat.

Judges found control orders placed on six Iraqis breached Article 5 of the Human Rights Act by imposing indefinite detention without trial.

The subsequent Human Rights Act 1998 came into force on October 1 2000.

Nick Clegg raised the stakes at the start of conference season with a pledge to the Lib Dems that the Human Rights Act was here to stay, a move which also irritated Mr Clarke.

Lord Lester's two private members» bills on making the European Human Rights Convention enforceable in British courts became the model for the Human Rights Act (HRA).

Most libertarians I've talked to view the portions of the Civil Rights Act that coerce the actions of individuals or their use of private property to be a ill - guided and would rather people «vote with their wallets» (e.g. by boycotting racist businesses.)

The Conservatives, led by David Cameron, pledged to abolish the Human Rights Act if they were elected to power and replace it with a British Bill of Rights; Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats on the other hand were adamant the HRA would not be repealed, creating something of a dilemma for the Coalition.

But he spoke out against the Human Rights Act.

But don't think that the speaker's civil rights weren't violated under both the public accommodations clause of the Civil Rights Act as well as the 14th Amendment.

Tech companies warned that the so - called «Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Act» would impose burdensome regulations, potentially stifling exciting new online services that could benefit consumers.

The government has won a supreme court appeal confirming that troops are not protected by the Human Rights Act.

The climax of the book comes in a passage about the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and the reader is pulled in by the chicanery and subplots.

«Any data obtained by us from the US involving UK nationals is subject to proper UK statutory controls and safeguards, including the relevant sections of the Intelligence Services Act, the Human Rights Act and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act [Ripa].»

If the Law Lords rule the restrictions imposed by control orders violate the Human Rights Act, the government will be forced to modify or replace the scheme.

One ironic point of people trying to use the Civil Rights Act here is that the it also contains this beauty, codified in 18 USC 242:

Ken Clarke has criticised David Cameron for «xenophobic» remarks in a speech about scrapping the Human Rights Act.

We should sweep away Labour's Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.

Mr Blair responded by taunting Mr Cameron over his plan for a British bill of rights to replace the Human Rights Act, which was criticised by former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke.

Theresa May is expected to pile more tension on the coalition by repeating her call for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped today.

On Monday, Mr Cameron said he believed the Human Rights Act needed replacing to help keep Britain secure and protect its freedoms.

The Human Rights Act has led to local people not being informed of dangerous offenders moving into their area, the shadow justice secretary argued during his keynote conference speech earlier today.

Efforts to replace the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights just resulted in a few guffaws from Clarke and Nick Clegg.

In the UK today, a number of fundamental individual freedoms are protected by the Human Rights Act 1998.

The Human Rights Act incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights 1950, and makes it enforceable in UK courts.

Mr Blair's response was to taunt Mr Cameron over his new plan to scrap the Human Rights Act, which was described as «xenophobic» by Ken Clarke, who heads up the Tories» Democracy Task Force.

The Voting Rights Act has recently been used to block a voter ID law in Texas and delay the implementation of another in South Carolina.

But sudden big changes in the UK constitution are not easily accepted, as we have seen with the likes of giving more power to the EU and the Human Rights Act, which gives the European Court of Human Rights jurisdiction in the UK and which the Tories want to replace.

Another flashpoint is the Human Rights Act, which, in opposition, the Tories said they would scrap and replace with a bill of rights.

Only a renewed pledge today to bring in Britain's first Bill of Rights and scrap the Human Rights Act — delayed from last year — is likely to spark any impassioned debate.

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The government has watered down its plan to put forward a bill on replacing the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights, bowing to reported disquiet among senior Conservative backbenchers.

The Human Rights Act doesn't say that that's what you have to do.

These maps were drawn before the Court's 2013 decision tossing out much of the Voting Rights Act, and they contain small deviations in population (less than 10 percent at their peak) across districts.

On highly visible and charged issues like the Human Rights Act, border controls and the deportation of Abu Qatada, the Government missed an open goal through mismanagement.»