Word: court
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...Supreme Court's nine justices, split as widely as the rest of the population, temporarily deferred on the issue of abortion to the people, through their state legislatures. Although some anti-abortion activists are claiming victory after Webster, the Court's decision to allow state legislatures to place some restrictions on abortion merely signals the start of the battle...
...both sides will have to fight for public support and votes, and the Court will be able to use the new laws passed by state legislatures to determine what alternatives are acceptable and workable...
...cynical law-school adage says that if Americans ever held a referendum on the First Amendment, they would overwhelmingly reject it. They may soon get the opportunity. Many people were outraged when the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution's free-speech protection extends even to occasional political protesters who torch and trample the symbol of liberty, the American flag. Among the outraged was George Bush, who proposes to do something about...
Declaring that he was "viscerally" against the court's decision, the President called for a constitutional amendment to carve an unprecedented exception in the Bill of Rights and allow states to make flag burning a crime. Bush delivered his announcement while standing with Republican congressional leaders in front of the Iwo Jima memorial at a hurriedly arranged photo opportunity near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. "The flag is too sacred to be abused," he said. "If it is not defended, it is defamed...
Bush had initially been silent about an amendment, unsure that a President should meddle in constitutional law. Over the weekend, however, he took the national pulse via talk shows, and on Monday aides said he favored "legislation" to remedy the court's action. After his advisers told him that the Justices would surely strike down a new law, Bush said he wanted to codify his feelings in a constitutional amendment...