Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...disappointed, but I’m hoping that with an African-American president, our ideals of equality will be stronger and we’ll be able to move forward.” Proposition 8 passed on Tuesday with 52 percent of the vote, ending almost five months of legal same-sex marriage in California that was ushered in by a May ruling by the state’s highest court. Since mid-June, over 11,000 people have tied the knot in California, surpassing the total number of same-sex weddings in Massachusetts, which became the first state...
...alumni Bom Kim ’00 and Daniel M. Loss ’00. Its first seven issues were produced by the publication’s original owner, The Atlantic Monthly. In its early glory days, the magazine featured articles on everything from the ongoing legal debate with Facebook, a list of the most influential Harvard alumni entitled the “Harvard 100,” and a statistical analysis of the number of Harvard wedding announcements that made it into the New York Times wedding section. Manhattan Media, the organization that bought the magazine...
...course, there may be a simpler reason for what seems like a farcical outcome. Stevens himself offered it in an answer about his legal status during an online video debate posted on the website of a local television station. His seat belongs to a Republican, he said. The subtext was: Vote for me, and in the worst-case scenario, you can vote for another Republican in a special election if I step down. Voters may have followed that logic. While Democrats would have loved to have sent Young and Stevens packing, Alaska is a deeply red state, and Obamamania never...
...mantra in the rest of the country this election was "Throw the bums out!" in Alaska they were saying, "Let's keep our bums, thanks." Alaska Congressman Don Young, who spent a huge share of his campaign donations on legal fees to keep his nose clean in the face of an FBI investigation into his dealings with the same oil-services company behind the Stevens case, had a larger lead than Stevens Tuesday night - he was ahead of Anchorage businessman Ethan Berkowitz by 7 percentage points. "Pollsters were wrong, and they've always been wrong," Young told the Anchorage Daily...
Prompting celebration among conservative activists and dismay among proponents of gay rights, in Florida, 62% of voters cast their ballots in favor of Amendment 2, which also limits the legal definition of marriage to the union between "one man and one woman as husband and wife." The initiative, sponsored by the conservative organization Florida4Marriage, declares that "no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized...