And both Kavanaugh and Barrett questioned Katyal on the Rehnquist concurrence — with Katyal arguing that the federal judiciary should intervene to second-guess a state court ruling on its own constitution only if the decision reached a “sky-high” standard of ignoring established legal principles.
Source: POLITICO
Baha'is -- who number some 300,000 in Iran and have an estimated 5 million followers worldwide -- say they face systematic persecution in Iran, where their faith is not officially recognized in the constitution.
Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
— Chelsey CoxWed, Nov 9 20221:44 PM ESTKentucky rejects anti-abortion constitutional amendment in surprise win for reproductive rightsCounter-protestors hold signs in front of a rally encouraging voters to vote yes on Amendment 2, which would add a permanent abortion ban to Kentuckys state constitution, on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, on October 1, 2022.
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Voters in Louisiana are going to the polls on Saturday to cast ballots on whether to adopt an amendment to the state constitution to explicitly require that an individual be an American citizen to vote in the state.
Source: The Hill
“And most importantly, under the Russian constitution, he cannot be given up to a foreign state.
Source: The Guardian US
It will draft the organisation’s constitution and inaugural strategic plan, and hold its first general assembly, at which officer elections will take place.
Source: World Archery
President Ebrahim Raisi said in televised comments Saturday that Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched “but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible.
Source: Al Arabiya English
A leader of moderate Republicans in the US House has repeatedly refused to condemn Donald Trump, even after the former president, running for re-election in 2024, said the US constitution should be “terminated” to allow him to return to power.
Source: The Guardian US
The idea that state lawmakers exist free of any constraints imposed by their constitution and state courts makes a mockery of the separation of powers, which is foundational to the American system of government.
Source: The New York Times
“The reason we have a case is the power does not simply come from the state constitution but the power comes from the federal Constitution, which authorises the legislature to carry into effect,” Roberts said.
Source: Al Jazeera English
At the same meeting, members of the board proposed changing the union's constitution to allow a two-thirds majority of the executive board to suspend someone "where there is reasonable cause to believe that such individual has engaged in conduct prejudicial to the best interests of the association.
Source: Times Union
Republican leaders in North Carolina want the Supreme Court to restore a redistricting map that was drawn by the GOP-led legislature but rejected as a violation of the state constitution by the state’s supreme court.
Source: The Washington Post
I thought that he would be busy trying to figure out how to suspend the constitution on behalf of former president Trump,” he told CNN.
Source: The Guardian US
That court ruled that the Republican legislature, in drawing new congressional district lines after the 2020 Census, had violated the state constitution with an extreme partisan gerrymander.
Source: NPR
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also pointed to the state constitution’s role in determining the legislature’s power.
Source: Fox News
Legislators also point to Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph’s handwritten markup of the Committee of Detail’s early draft constitution, contending that because the Pinckney Plan appeared to have been the only one submitted to the committee that contained a version of the Elections Clause, “it stands to reason that that Plan was the source of the wording in the Committee’s initial draft.
Source: Carolina Journal
People could say maybe the constitution isn't that great.
Source: Raw Story
“The constitution is set for a reason, to protect the rights of every American,” Lawler said.
Source: Al Jazeera English
Dooley noted that “no matter whether the constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Source: Lowell Sun
Barbara Ann Teer's National Black Theatre, examine the anxiety-ridden discourse of racial authenticity and the articulation of misogyny and homophobia often deployed by the Black Arts Movement in service to a masculinist vision of Black liberation principles and its constitution of "real" Blackness.
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You’d think the message would be pretty clear: These extreme MAGA views, especially those where elections are only valid when your side wins and where the constitution only matters when it’s convenient, are being rejected by many within the GOP as well as outside of it.
Source: Las Cruces Sun-News
And the reason why that is, is that when North Carolina drew its map, the state court said, "Hey, this is unconstitutional under the state constitution map because it's a partisan gerrymandering and it's extreme gerrymander, and so therefore we're going to throw it out.
Source: USA TODAY
“With the former President calling to throw aside the constitution, not a single conservative can legitimately support him, and not a single supporter can be called a conservative,” Kinzinger tweeted Sunday, while tagging in his message the Twitter handles of McCarthy, as well as Reps.
Source: The Washington Post
Supreme Court is about gerrymandering–the practice of redrawing Congressional districts to favor one party-and arises from the North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision to strike down its Republican state legislature plan to grossly manipulate the state’s congressional districts in favor of Republicans as being unconstitutional under the North Carolina state constitution.
Source: The Daily Beast
“I guess what I don’t understand is how you can cut the state constitution out of the equation when it is giving the state legislature the authority to exercise legislative power,” she told the lawyer for North Carolina Republicans, who are clinging to gerrymandered voting districts struck down in state court.
Source: MSNBC
The concept was codified in China’s constitution in 2018.
Source: Hong Kong Free Press
The court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case from North Carolina, where Republican efforts to draw congressional districts heavily in their favor were blocked by a Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court because the GOP map violated the state constitution.
Source: CBS19.tv KYTX
(Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)He argued the files showed evidence of "fraud and deception" in the 2020 election and eliminating parts of the constitution would address it.
Source: Fox Business
Record early voting in runoff for Georgia Senate seatRead moreThe US constitution says senators must be 30 years old, a citizen for nine years, and “shall … when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen”.
Source: The Guardian US
Kpodoh lamented that the governors were hiding under the immunity cover provided in the constitution to recklessly divert ecological funds and perpetrate other financial misdeeds.
Source: Punch Newspapers
The ideal outcome would be for all the nations of the world (listening astutely to the demands of animals and those experts who most knowledgeably represent them) to agree to a legally enforceable constitution for the various animal species, each with its own list of capabilities to be protected, and each supplied with a threshold level beneath which non-protection becomes injustice.
Source: Los Angeles Times
The Biden White House rebuked Donald Trump after the former president said the US constitution should be “terminated” over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
Source: The Guardian US
America’s constitution has long had its detractors and admirers.
Source: The Economist
The most recent lawsuit went to the North Carolina Supreme Court, which threw out the Republican legislative majority’s latest maps, saying for the first time that they represented an illegal partisan gerrymander under the North Carolina’s constitution.
Source: WRAL News
A 1996 state ballot proposition subsequently amended the state constitution to define a school parcel tax as a special tax.
Source: Lake County Record-Bee
So, let's discontinue all the cutesy sounding initiatives du jour and get back to basics - the same educationbasics our constitution guarantees each child.
Source: StarNewsOnline.com
[with its] primary role in interpreting the state constitution.
Source: Star Tribune
Michigan voters also approved a Whitmer-backed amendment to the state’s constitution that will scrap that 1931 law and guarantee abortion rights.
Source: CNN
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