Tag: amendment
Kansas’s confusing constitutional abortion amendment, explained
Next week in Kansas, abortion rights will face the first test at the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
In 2019, Kansas’s Suprem [...]
First Amendment Confrontation May Loom in Post-Roe Fight
The Supreme Court declared clearly last week that there is no federal right to abortion. But how the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organ [...]
What does the Second Amendment mean in 2022?
It’s difficult to overstate the rhetorical power of the words “Second Amendment” in the current political climate. Despite a number of horrific mas [...]
Republican judges are waging a bizarre war against the First Amendment right to protest
Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson accepts the Best Political Podcast award for Pod Save The People at the 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast [...]
Censure of Politician Did Not Violate First Amendment, Supreme Court Rules
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that elected bodies do not violate the First Amendment when they censure their members.Th [...]
Jackson Addresses 1st Amendment in Supreme Court Hearing
In the first set of questions Wednesday morning, Senator Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to review some of the Supr [...]
Michael Flynn Invokes Fifth Amendment Before Jan. 6 Panel
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol ran into a familiar roadblock on Thursday as yet another high-profile [...]
FTX.US Derivatives Unit Seeks CFTC Amendment to Clear Margin Trades Directly for Customers
The company says the change would allow customers to transparently assess and respond to derivatives risk in real time.
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How Jan. 6 Gave the 14th Amendment New Life
As the litigation makes its way through the court system, it could also help clear up a few broader questions:Was Jan. 6 an “insurrection,” legally sp [...]
A Public Flagpole, a Christian Flag and the First Amendment
“We don’t agree with Camp Constitution’s views,” he added, “but we defend its right to express them.”The Biden administration also filed a brief la [...]
8-word crypto amendment in Infrastructure Bill an ‘affront to the rule of law’
Legal experts have warned that a section of the Infrastructure Bill, which is due for a vote today, amends a part of the tax code and makes a failu [...]
Supreme Court: The NRA got great news from the justices on the second amendment
The biggest surprise in Wednesday morning’s argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen (“NYSRPA”), a major Second A [...]
Senate to Vote on Amendment to Curtail Aid to Afghans Who Fled Taliban Rule
Senate Republicans are pressing to use a spending bill needed to keep the government open past midnight to curtail assistance to Afghans who were q [...]
Inside Missouri’s ‘2nd Amendment Sanctuary’ Fight
Some of those consequences were detailed in the Justice Department’s affidavit.Nearly a quarter of state and local law-enforcement officials who wo [...]
Bitcoin Forecast: Infrastructure Modification Validates Crypto
BITCOIN PRICE OUTLOOK: CRYPTO LEGITIMACY VALIDATED BY INFRASTRUCTURE AMENDMENTBTC/USD value motion reclaims its 200-day shifting common after surg [...]