Sentences with phrase «vote laws because»

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A vote on the measure was delayed for hours after Democrats revolted against provisions to roll back part of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law and allow more big money political donations, while conservative Republicans objected because the measure did not block funds for Obama's immigration order.

Because the case was tied up in court for years, he said, the narrative from the Democratic side ended up being about how unfair and difficult the law made it for many to vote.

The stakes in finding discriminatory intent are higher because it provides a window for opponents to argue that Texas should be forced to resume having changes to voting laws «pre-cleared» by the Justice Department or a federal court.

Hey, TC, no, we atheists are here partly because you Christian morons vote and impact laws in your ridiculous ways.

The time has come for politicians to stop hiding behind unjust laws that they themselves helped to enact, and to abandon that convenient shield of demanding a vote on the rights of full citizenship because they do not understand the difference between a constitutional democracy, which this nation has, and a «mobocracy,» which this nation rejected when it adopted its constitution.

Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «Under God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.

Making laws based on religious beliefs and voting for people just because they share your religious beliefs gives this nation an established religion.

It was precisely because of their deeply cherished faith that women were compelled to organize for the vote, for women to be declared persons under the law, for the rights of workers, for women to wear pants, for temperance even (because the victims of drunkenness were usually women and children), and so on.

If we still have our laws determined by the European Court of Justice, then our parliament is no longer able to make all our laws, and the votes of the British peoples do not count because our laws are made and interpreted by a foreign court.

I will not vote for him for president because he screwed us with HIS healthcare law and I found him to be like most politicians, useless

The majority of hispanic catholics thru out the us have voted Democrat and Im sorry to say the cardinal will have no influence on our votes, manly because the law of the land says obortion is legal and no matter how you slice it.

Robert, it is partly because believer idiots such as yourself also get to vote and impact the laws that the rest of us have to live by, and you are influenced by your absurd religio - dogma.

And if that's the case, are ALL politicians THAT stupid??? That is, to pass «bad» laws just because it will win them more votes?

Junius: because religious - deluded folk vote, and their beliefs impact our government and our laws.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Soooo... by that logic Peter all laws barring discrimination or hate crimes should be removed... Let's go back to the time when women and black people can't vote because the ruling party in their state (like mine, Arizona) says their flavor of bigotry is ok.

It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).

This makes it slightly easier to block laws they oppose because the Majority must first secure as many votes as possible in their own caucus before shoring up loose areas by flipping some opposition members with a few things they like.

A minister could use this power to start making changes on the ground - tinkering with law and regulators in a way that makes it all - but impossible for parliament to vote against the deal, because of the chaos it would trigger.

Opposition to Voter ID laws in America can be seen as a left - wing attempt to disenfranchise right - wing voters because one of the major concerns is that alien (as in from a different country, not different planet) residents may be voting, and in America aliens generally support the Democratic party.

Meanwhile, Mandela has an «outsider» strategy - not least because he can neither vote nor stand for election, because of his race, and because all of the democratic organisations he would be part of and allied to are proscribed by law.

Labour's complaint — that the Prime Minister's raising the question of English votes for English laws was simply a partisan ambush — is unconvincing, because it fails to answer the key questions.

The democrats are angry about the decision because it allows many southern states to finally implement laws requiring a photo id to vote, which has met heavy opposition from democrats.

Anyone over 50 — and therefore more likely to vote — was brought up in a different atmosphere when women did not have many basic freedoms either because the law forbid it or because society frowned on it.

But because the measure is a constitutional amendment, Florida law required that it get 60 percent of the vote — and that made it all the more challenging in a midterm election year, when turnout among younger voters is lower.

Because of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires that states with a history of discrimination receive preclearance before making changes to voting laws.

Like many blue - state Republicans, he voted against it primarily because of the new law's curtailment of the federal exemption for state and local taxes, a change that Cuomo has described in his letter as «an economic missile launched at the heart of the State of New York.»

I'm voting to close this question as off - topic because it is a question of philosophy or politics, not law.

Indeed, de Blasio's campaign Twitter account pledged a fight for election reform: «We're going to reform NYS» voting access laws, because lack of early voting & same day registration is disenfranchisement, plain and simple,» read a tweet from the account sent out Tuesday morning.

Under current law, absentee voting is only allowed if an individual expects to be absent on Election Day, or because of physical illness or disability.

How on earth could she tell the prime minister that «I propose that the government does not support this amendment because it would be incompatible with the ECHR and counter-productive» and then, as the home secretary responsible for enforcing law and order in Britain, simply sit there, just scared of her own backbenchers, and fail to vote?

• My mother - in - law, Win Francis, who has reached the ripe old age of 90 because of the hundreds of miles she has walked delivering leaflets for the Labour party, has just been informed she has been barred from voting, with no reason given.

A deal isn't a coalition and the SNP wouldn't need to prop up the Tories in this scenario — because devo - max and English votes for English laws would have meant that the SNP was «mainly governing» Scotland via Holyrood, and in rUK, the Tories would no longer need any Scottish votes (or even be able to use them)-- on devolved matters for Eng Wales and NI.

New York is one of only 13 states that does not offer early voting and because of that and other antiquated laws we have some of the worst voter participation in the nation.»

The Shadow Chancellor has denied the Labour Party would stall extra powers being devolved to Scotland just because they want longer to examine the Prime Minister's English votes for English laws proposal.

The «English votes for English laws» solution is attractive because of its simplicity: a single procedural change would effectively bring into being a new, but intermittently existing English parliament within the Westminster parliament; the latter would morph into the former whenever an «English bill» was being considered.

This is because, typically, the way Duverger's law works is, by forcing people to excercise tactical voting by voting for whichever of the 2 main party candidates they find least objectionable.

Flanagan did include «common sense» reforms to the SAFE Act on his to do list — a nod to the conservative upstaters who did not support him during the battle to replace Skelos as leader because of his «yes» vote on the controversial gun control law.

The reason you can «voters not having their votes cancled out or ignored in NYS elections» is because of the «Election Law» all you have to do is change it.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

I have a law degree and a long government background in the past (but I am planning on full retirement because I'm fed up with the nonsense), John Galt is my hero and I would love to see instant runoff voting and strong independent parties to get away from the polarization and attacks that the 2 - party system has saddled us with.

They won't pass laws making it easier for people to vote, change political parties or file an absentee ballot without an excuse, because to do so might raise voter turnout — and the risk that they might lose.

Last month, a law mandating microstamping passed the Democrat - controlled Assembly by a vote of 85 to 60 — a vote that, ironically, Meng missed because she was busy campaigning in the run - up to the primary.

Golub said that the federal law not only permitted, but required, that the federal account be used because the mailers included get - out - the - vote information that could have benefited congressional candidates in addition to Malloy.

The extension of the bill came up in the legislature but Governor Andrew Cuomo would not allow a last minute vote, the Post said, because the «extender bill,» included unrelated provisions, including changes to the loft law.

Why should 62 per cent of Scots who voted to remain in the EU have their country's prospects curtailed, as they see it, because of English votes; in a reversal of the famous West Lothian Question (why should Scots MPs vote on English laws?)

Brandon Lewis, the communities minister who led for the government in the debate, says the government only lost because of the impact of SNP, who were voting on a law that would not affect Scotland.

As he gains traction, the other Democrats in the race have stepped up to paint him as anti-abortion because he voted for a state law that required stricter regulations and inspections of abortion clinics.

The governor, a Democrat who faces a primary challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon, said his administrative action was necessary because the Republican - led state Senate has refused to pass a law to restore voting rights to parolees who've served their time.

«We in New York are one of the last in nation in voter turnout because our legislature and Governor has refused to pass laws that break down barriers to voting.