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...Criminal Court (ICC), an international body to prosecute individuals accused of war crimes. The new ratifications pushed the total number of countries in support of the ICC to 66, well past the 60 needed to begin the process of establishing the new court in The Hague. Even though the court??€™s ratification met widespread praise amongst the leading democracies in the world, President Bush and many other prominent American political leaders steadfastly oppose the court??€™s creation. Such stringent opposition is unwise and even harmful to America’s best interests...
...Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation that dedicated a system of inferiority to them in all areas of life from residential segregation to educational separation and political disenfranchisement. The result was the continuation of the socio-economic subordination of African-Americans in American society. After the Supreme Court??€™s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the system of discrimination enforced by law was transformed into institutional forms of de facto discrimination that have continued to depress the status of black Americans. Beyond mere history, it is this continuing and on-going legacy of harm from slavery...
...Supreme Court??€™s 2000 decision in Mitchell vs. Helms, for example, allowed religious schools to receive publicly funded computer and technological assistance, Sonne said...
...Casey said the Supreme Judicial Court??€™s decision could compromise the formal, established procedure for acquiring testimony...
...court??€™s ruling set a precedent for Massachusetts which Stanford’s lawyers said will allow lawyers to investigate discrimination claims more freely...