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The basic legal issue is straightforward and simple. Does the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures trump the all but unanimous community desire to test its children for drugs? The American Civil Liberties Union, representing Tannahill and his son, will soon test the question of how far...
As debate on a bylaw amendment broke down into noisy chaos and some council members appeared to be headed for the door, Plants loudly raised a point of personal privilege while Driskell tried to hold things together.
Next week's meeting, therefore, will have to deal with more bylaw amendments as well as a more substantive constitutional amendment that offers a way to resolve the question of how to assign members to the three standing committees.
An amendment offered last month by Jeffrey A. Letalien '01 and David B. Orr '01 to address the question of committee assignments in a downsized council failed to muster the necessary three-fourths majority.
Fried's constitutional arguments are that gender violence does not directly affect the national economy (thus VAWA is an invalid exercise of Congress lawmaking power under the Commerce Clause), and that Congress has no authority to use the 14th Amendment to regulate the behavior of individuals (because the 14th Amendment...