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The law in question, contrary to the staff's presentation, does not infringe upon the well-defined police powers reserved to the states by the 10th Amendment. What the law in question does is create a civil remedy, whereby victims of domestic violence can collect damages from their attackers.
The Supreme Court has, in the past 10 years, attempted to reverse the centralizing trend of earlier courts and shift power away from the federal government to the states, often claiming that such a scheme better satisfies the "original intent" of the framers. Recently, in its zeal to protect states...
There is no question that violence against women is a serious problem. But there are better ways of addressing it. Curiously, the attorneys general from 36 states who asked that the law be upheld did so citing systematic biases in their own departments and judiciaries against the victims of gender...
Regardless of how nice the pensions are, working for the government has just become considerably less attractive for nearly half of the American labor force following the Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling that states aren't required to pay their female and male employees equally for equal work. It's...
So, let's get this straight: The majority opinion in the age-bias case said that state hiring practices shouldn't held to the same high standards in age-discrimination cases as they would be in gender- or race-discrimination cases. Now the Court says there are no federal protections...