Constitutional

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 1 day ago
Bob Orr has returned to the helm of the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law, the think tank said Wednesday. ...

Source: www.chicagotribune.com --- 1 day ago
W hy do Illinois Democrats keep voting for those clowns of theirs? ...

Source: www.jsonline.com --- 5 days ago
A 33-year-old Clark County man can be tried on charges of possession of cocaine and a switchblade knife after the... ...

Source: services.inquirer.net --- 2 days ago
MANILA, Philippines -- Malacañang has doused speculations by some lawmakers that the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was being pushed to extend President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's term in office. ...

Source: jurist.law.pitt.edu --- 2 days ago
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Source: ma.gnolia.com --- 3 days ago
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Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 5 days ago
Sedgwick County, Kan., District Judge Clark Owens on Monday ruled that a state law requiring an independent, consulting physician to approve some abortions after 21 weeks' gestation does not violate the U.S. Constitution or the Kansas Constitution, the AP/Wichita Eagle reports. Subsequently, Owens also denied a motion to dismiss a criminal case against abortion provider George Tiller. ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 6 days ago
There have been several positive developments for the 2nd Amendment recently. There have been several pieces of good news lately relating to 2nd Amendment rights in the United States. By now everyone should be aware of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the 32 year old Washington, D.C. ban on citizens keeping guns in their homes. Florida has a new law which allows gun owners to transport their legally... ...

Source: www.isnare.com --- 5 days ago
Hardly the sexiest headline by any stretch of the imagination But there again when it comes to institutional reform and changes to the constitution, the subject matter is hardly guaranteed to instill much enthusiasm The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy is fighting Constitutional reform on two fronts... ...

Source: www.law.com --- 6 days ago
Attorneys Michael A. Asaro and Robert H. Hotz Jr. examine a new trend of federal prosecutors once again raising the bar for corporate cooperation by demanding that companies fire high-ranking executives who have not been charged with any crime, presumably because the government lacks sufficient evidence to mount a successful prosecution. The DOJ's recent push to oust managers and other corporate employees it cannot otherwise punish raises serious Constitutional questions, Asaro and Hotz write. ...

Source: www.heritage.org --- 3 hours ago
Washington is facing several difficult choices with respect to its friend Turkey. On the one hand, the U.S. supports democracy worldwide, particularly in the Middle East. A ban on AKP would be a setback to U.S. policies designed to foster Middle Eastern democracy. Yet prolonged rule by AKP may transform a U.S. ally into a hostile Islamic republic. ...

Source: globalvoicesonline.org --- 2 days ago
Following the failed referendum in Latvia on Constitutional amendments, Baltic reports that President Valdis Zatlers and - so far - the Civic Union party (PS) are instead putting forward their respective proposals for Constitutional amendments to an extraordinary session of the Latvian parliament - the Saeima. ...

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Source: www.indiaenews.com --- 5 days ago
With former Indian chief justice A.M. Ahmadi saying Muslims have let down the constitution by not availing of rights enshrined therein, a book launch event here Saturday turned into an occasion for introspection. ...

Source: www.findingdulcinea.com --- 6 days ago
The country’s majority AK Parti missed judicial closure by a one-vote margin. But can the party overcome the tug-of-war between hard-line secularists and the more religiously minded? ...

Source: www.thaindian.com --- 5 days ago
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) With former Indian chief justice A.M. Ahmadi saying Muslims have let down the constitution by not availing of rights enshrined therein, a book launch event here Saturday turned into an occasion for introspection. Ahmadi, in his no-nonsense address at the city’s India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC), urged the gathering of [...] ...

Source: www.sj-r.com --- 7 hours ago
Two Illinois Constitutional officers are considering dire options to deal with deep budget cuts, with one bracing workers for the possibility of taking several unpaid days off to reduce the need for layoffs. The offices of Secretary of State Jesse White and Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn confirmed to The State Journal-Register on Wednesday that hiring freezes, furloughs and layoffs are all part of the strategy being considered. The Constitutional officers had tens of millions of dollars cut out of their fiscal 2009 budgets last month when Gov. Rod Blagojevich slashed $1.4 billion out of an overall spending plan he said was more than $2 billion unbalanced. White spokesman Henry Haupt said the secretary of state’s office on Aug. 1 implemented a hiring freeze and a ban on overtime pay except for emergency situations. The office is working with several unions that represent its employees on an agreement to take furlough days this year, Haupt said. All 3,800 secretary of state employees — management and union alike — would need to take unpaid days off, he said. “We would do that in order to minimize potential layoffs,” Haupt said, emphasizing that furloughs wouldn’t necessarily alleviate the need to let some workers go. Haupt said he could not discuss how many employees might have to be laid off or how many furlough days workers would be asked to take. Those details are still being worked out in negotiations with the unions, he said. He did confirm ...

Source: www.africanews.com --- 3 days ago
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Source: scienceblogs.com --- 2 days ago
Digging for something else, I encounter Kathryn Jean Lopez arguing with an emailer about curriculum . The emailer objects to an earlier comment, where Ms. Lopez allowed that she's "the Discovery Institute's patsy" at NRO, but "I don't want public schools reading Cardinal Shönborn's tract on creation and evolution." In response, K-Lo: if Baton Rouge wants freshman reading his book as part of some class or activity, that would be ridiculous to consider unconstitutional. Ridiculous? The book is Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith , a work of Catholic theology. In what 9th grade class is that conceivably appropriate? Surely not biology since it isn't, and doesn't purport to be, a biology text. Among the gross errors in the book, it claims: If it is true that everything developed from one first seed, then there ought to be innumerable transitional stages, but noone has yet discovered any of them. The Cardinal has apparently never heard of fossils. I mean, the usual creationist plaint is that there should be more transitional fossils than we have, but to claim that none exist at all is simply absurd. Tiktaalik is a famous recent find, but Australopithecus finds are pretty well known, and it's trivial to show transitional fossils in the evolution of the features of modern horses. This is the sort of claim that actually makes students dumber, by giving them false information, and closing their eyes to the possibilit ...

Source: europeanlawnetwork.eu --- 4 days ago
In the week of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, the Slovak Constitutional Court has published its opinion on whether the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe (European Constitution) should have been approved by a referendum in Slovakia. The practical implications of the decision are not too significant, as the European Constitution is apparently [...] ...