Word: punisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's Cabinet meeting. Almost no one doubts that the bill ultimately will become law. But even the fact that it could be temporarily blocked was a sign of the strength of the opposition, which last week also pushed through an amendment to the penal code that would punish journalists with jail sentences if they "abuse" the new press-freedom law by writing articles too critical of the regime...
...provided they can meet the federal-law requirement and prove injury of more than $10,000. The effect is to bar the draft as a weapon against dissent. It is, of course, still a crime to evade the draft, Medina explained. But the First Amendment forbids draft boards to "punish these students by reclassifying them 1-A because they protested as they did over the Government's involvement in Viet...
...reluctant to move, and state courts are prepared to back them up. Both Chicago's and New York State's open-housing laws have now passed significant tests in their respective state courts. More important, the Illinois and New York courts allowed their states the power to punish real estate brokers for discriminatory actions. In Chicago, the appeal of a local association of real estate brokers was denied. The association alleged on various grounds that their constitutional rights were being compromised by the city's fair-housing ordinance. The court thought otherwise, holding that a broker...
Only an ethics bill can give Congress a consistent standard for disciplining its members. In establishing definite codes of conduct for Congressmen, an ethics bill would allow Congress to punish its members quickly and decisively. And it would eliminite the dangers that Congress' motives would be misinterpreted by racial minorities and other pressure groups...
...meantime, Congress will have to let Powell have his cake and eat it too. As Supreme Court Justice Mathew Levy commented while citing the Harlem Democrat for criminal contempt of court, "It is not an easy task to punish a minister, a Congressman, a leader of men and a man of many natural gifts." As Congress must concede, without an ethics bill it is impossible to punish...