Tag: amendment
What Biden’s Move on the Equal Rights Amendment Could Actually Do
Presidents have no direct role in approving constitutional amendments. So what could President Biden’s pronouncement recognizing a new one actually do [...]
Biden Says Equal Rights Amendment Has Passed, but Does Not Force Certification
President Biden’s remarks were largely a symbolic gesture of support for a century-long campaign to enshrine gender equality into the Constitution. Bu [...]
Biden Say Equal Rights Amendment Has Passed, but Does Not Force Legal Fight
President Biden’s remarks appeared to be largely a symbolic gesture of support for a decades-long campaign to enshrine gender equality into the Consti [...]
National Archivist Rejects Bid to Certify the Equal Rights Amendment
With President Biden under pressure to add the an amendment explicitly guaranteeing sex equality to the Constitution, Colleen Shogan said she could no [...]
SNP tables amendment to scrap two-child benefit cap
Starmer challenged by SNP on two-child benefit capThe SNP has tabled an amendment to the King's Speech calling for the two-child benefit cap to be scr [...]
Arkansas Rejects Abortion Rights Amendment Petition on Technicality
The Arkansas secretary of state said that the group collecting signatures to put an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot had failed to submit some [...]
The Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle
Case after case challenging gun restrictions cites the same Georgetown professor. His seemingly independent work has undisclosed ties to pro-gun inter [...]
Eighth Amendment Features in Supreme Court Case on Homelessness
A group of homeless plaintiffs argue that local laws aimed at banning sleeping outside violated their constitutional rights. The city claims that’s no [...]
Justices Seem Likely to Side With N.R.A. in First Amendment Dispute
The National Rifle Association argued that a New York official violated the First Amendment by encouraging entities to break ties with the group after [...]
Here’s the latest on the First Amendment case.
The justices must distinguish between persuading social media sites to take down posts, which is permitted, and coercing them, which violates the Firs [...]
What Is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?
The provision disqualifies former government officials from holding office if they took an oath to support the Constitution but then betrayed it by en [...]
What Is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?
The provision disqualifies former government officials from holding office if they took an oath to support the Constitution but then betrayed it by en [...]
Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media
Challenges to laws in Florida and Texas meant to protect conservative viewpoints are likely to yield a major constitutional ruling on tech platforms’ [...]
Speaker Hoyle’s amendment decision ‘concerning,’ Sunak says
Rishi Sunak said the "usual ways in which Parliament works were changed" in the Speaker's handling of Wednesday's Opposition Day debate and vote.The p [...]
RNC supports Trump in 14th Amendment case at the Supreme Court
The brief stated that the rulings would ultimately lead to “chaos” not limited to a single candidate or election. “Once state courts begin purging ca [...]