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When Starr took the independent counsel's job in 1994--against the advice of virtually everyone he knew--he was immediately assailed as a partisan Clinton stalker. It was an unusual position for him since he'd always enjoyed being the Democrats' favorite Republican--a lawyer trusted enough to be...
Or take a small thing like flag burning. Actually, it wasn't always so small. Only a few years ago, a constitutional amendment to ban this activity--the first-ever modification of the Bill of Rights--seemed inevitable. No one dared oppose it without expressing deep horror that anyone would...
Officials claimed the documents contained "explicit sexual content" which made them "inap-propriate" for an academic setting. In response, Manning filed a federal lawsuit last week claiming that her First Amendment rights to academic freedom and uncensored speech had been violated.
Moreover, the First Amendment establishment clause was very clearly intended to keep politics out of religion--not the other way around. Government can't interfere with religious organizations, but religious organizations (and religious people) certainly can get involved in government.
A little-known provision of the Constitution -- the 22nd Amendment -- states that no one who serves out someone else's presidential term "for more than two years... shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." So if Clinton were to leave office before January 20, Gore...