All Posts Tagged With: "supreme court"
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Concealed-Carry Challenge
On Monday, the Supreme Court left gun owners in doubt as to whether or not they have a right to carry a weapon in public because of the Second Amendment. With no comment or dissent, the highest court in the U.S. turned down the challenge made by gun rights activists to a law in New [...]
Senator Portman Changes Stance on Same Sex Marriages
In 1996, Senator Rob Portman a Republican from Ohio was a co-sponsor for the DOMA -Defense of Marriage Act. However, he has now changed his opinion and on Thursday night announced, he supported same-sex marriages. Portman explained in a column in an Ohio newspaper that he believes if two individuals, regardless of sex, were prepared [...]
Roe vs. Wade Today
Forty years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a number of state laws that restricted abortion in its landmark ruling on Roe vs. Wade. However, women wanting to terminate their pregnancy today are facing an increasing number of roadblocks throughout the country. In 2011, 19 states in the U.S. enacted in [...]
Supreme Court Will Hear Anti-Prostitution Free Speech Rule
The U.S. Congress requires that groups that receive funds for fighting HIV and AIDS worldwide have a standard of opposing prostitution. On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear if the 1st Amendment prohibits the U.S. Congress from making it a requirement for groups receiving those funds to have a company policy that opposes prostitution. [...]
Scalia Criticized for Legal Writings
Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice, found himself Monday defending legal writings that some people said were anti-gay and offensive. While giving a speech at Princeton University, Scalia received a question from a student who was gay. The student asked why Scalia equated laws that banned sodomy with those that bar murder and bestiality. [...]
Ruling Places Doubt on Healthcare Expanding For Poor
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted to uphold the overhaul of U.S. healthcare. However, its decision has caused doubt as to whether the upheld plan that is to extend coverage to over 30 million Americans who are uninsured, would reach the Americans who are the poorest. The court, in its ruling, allowed states to [...]
Obama Wants Congress to Act on Immigration
A week after he released the order to stop deportation of immigrant youth, President Barack Obama told Latino leaders Friday to urge Congress to change the immigration system. He gave a defense of his recent actions with regards to immigration. The president said that congressional Republicans blocked his DREAM Act, which forced him to issue [...]
Parties Strategize about Health Care Law before Verdict
House Republicans are now planning on their next move even before the Supreme Court release its verdict on Obama’s health care law. If the measure is not repealed, they plan to call for a vote to repeal the law to reinforce their opposition to the bill. This has been their political identity ever since Obama [...]
Governor Brewer Wants Law Enforcement Ready
Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona knows the U.S. Supreme Court might rule as soon as this coming Monday on the future of controversial immigration law in the state. Brewer wants to make sure that law enforcement is prepared for whatever might take place. On Tuesday, Brewer issued an order that required the Arizona Police [...]
Court Ruling on Healthcare Could Affect Medicare
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule later this month on the new healthcare reform overhaul put into place by the Obama Administration. Opponents of the healthcare law of President Obama have predicted there will be dire consequences for Medicare benefits ever since the overhaul was signed in 2011. The warnings have for the most part [...]
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