Word: protectionism
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News outlets have noted a high probability that Perry v. Schwarzenegger will eventually become a “landmark” civil rights decision on par with Brown v. Board (1954) and Roe v. Wade (1973), consistent with Boies’s and Olson’s ultimate vision. ?...
The 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...
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court obliterated their reasoning. Violation of the Equal Protection Clause, wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren, is related to “arbitrary and invidious discrimination,” regardless of the fairness with which punishments are distributed. Since marriage is one of the...
The head of the parliamentary legal affairs committee, Siegfried Kauder, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union Party, urged her to do the latter, saying the data may not even be admissible in court because of the manner in which it was obtained. Other officials and experts warned that...
While climate legislation isn't dead by any means - it still has powerful supporters on Capitol Hill, including Republican Senator Lindsey Graham - it faces an uphill battle in an election year. As a defense of last resort, the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate carbon emissions directly, but...