Word: overturning
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Ironically, the gun ordinance itself is now dead. Last month the state supreme court declined to overturn a lower court ruling that the measure violated California's constitution. By that time, however, the recall petition had become a grievance catchall. Feinstein, 49, though widely regarded as bright and hard working, has alienated various constituent groups. In December she vetoed an ordinance, backed by the city's substantial homosexual population, that would have given unmarried couples, even those of the same sex, many of the rights of married people. Landlords and tenant groups are both critical of her housing...
...game by any means. Any scheme will be hotly debated and tested." Federal employee unions have already launched a campaign against the inclusion of Government workers in the Social Security system, which is less generous than their own retirement system. Business and labor lobbies are expected to try to overturn the advanced increases in payroll taxes, contending that employers and workers are already overburdened with taxes. Senior citizens groups may protest the slowdown of benefit increases. Whatever the pressures on Congress, something must be done to salvage the system before July 1, when it is scheduled to go bankrupt...
...SUPREME COURT'S 8-1 decision Monday to overturn a Massachusetts law allowing churches to veto liquor licenses within a 500-ft. radius of the church is not surprising. The case was a clear-cut example of violation of church-state separation. More fascinating though is the glimpse the whole case gives of a few local churches, waning in influence, trying to exert a little supposed moral leadership by using the power of the state...
Church and State. A few critics make the flimsy charge that the bishops' activism, particularly their zealous support for measures that would overturn the Supreme Court's abortion ruling, violates the constitutional principle of church-state separation. Not only is there no clear legal bar against such efforts, but just about every U.S. denomination has entered politics at one time or another. Says Archbishop Roach: "We may never allow the separation of church and state to be used to separate the church from society." Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger disagrees with the bishops' view on deterrence...
...antiabortion forces hurt their own cause by bickering over which approach to take. Some favored a constitutional amendment, sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, that would give states and the Federal Government authority to outlaw abortion. The Hatch Amendment, if passed, would directly overturn a 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing the constitutional right to an abortion, but it would require approval by two-thirds of both chambers and three-fourths of the states. Others favored the more radical approach, proposed by Helms, of simply passing a law stating that "life," as protected by the Constitution, begins at conception...