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Souter offered a rebuttal of what he termed “the fair reading model,” which calls for an analysis of the Constitution that is grounded in the language of the Constitution??at the expense of a more nuanced analysis that considers the contemporary values and outlooks that can shape judicial decisions...
...consistent with Boies’s and Olson’s ultimate vision. “We acted together,” Boies commented in The Wall Street Journal, to emphasize that this is “not a liberal or conservative issue, but an issue of enforcing our Constitution??s guarantee of equal protection.” Indeed, as Olson echoed in Newsweek, “legalizing same-sex marriage” would “represent the culmination of our nation’s commitment to equal rights...
...bipartisan duo is exactly right. Based on previous rulings by the Supreme Court, Prop 8 violates the Constitution??s guarantee that a state cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” But even more strikingly, if the Court upholds Prop 8, the ramifications would be much more devastating than a speed bump on the road to civil equality. If they affirm that Prop 8 and the Fourteenth Amendment are not mutually exclusive, they would, effectively, overturn the landmark decision in 1967 that made bans on interracial...
International media first focused on the small Central American nation in June when the Honduran military ousted then-President Manuel Zelaya while he was attempting to reform the national constitution??over the objection of the Supreme Court—to allow him to serve another term in office...
...People in the US are ignorant about laws in other countries,” he said. Waldron pointed to the United States Constitution??s inherent protection of hate speech under the first amendment, calling the US “an outlier” in that it is one of the few nations from those he discussed that overlooks international law prohibiting racial commentaries...