Make the drop," was what the late Mike Royko wrote decades ago in his Chicago Sun-Times column. It was in response to a woman who asked how her group could get the Equal Rights Amendment passed in Illinois. Puzzled, the woman asked, "Make the what?" He repeated, "Make the drop. Give them money ... bribes ... you can call it a contribution if it will make you feel better. In Utah, legislators have speed-dating, golf junkets, expensive luncheons and dinners, Jazz tickets, and call them contributions or part of doing business. But, it's all the same -- the drop. Some say it's OK to have $50 luncheons, but I can get you a good lunch for $8 max. They appear happy to be called out by constituents who are naive enough to believe they can make a difference on bills drafted by lobbyists who ...
Ten state employees have filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Jan Brewer in an effort to reverse a state policy that bans state benefits to the domestic partners of state employees. The employees filed the lawsuit Nov. 17 at the U.S. District Court in Phoenix. They argue the recently passed state law violates their 14th Amendment rights to equal treatment because it prohibits the partners of gay and lesbian state workers from receiving benefits.
... the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Pp. 682-691. MR. JUSTICE STEWART concluded that ...Reed, 404 U.S. 71 . and the fact that the Equal Rights Amendment has been submitted to the States ... 20] And 1 of the Equal Rights Amendment, passed by Congress on March 22, 1972, and submitted to th...
... his interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment-the equal protection clause--does not include disc... mistakenly believe that women have equal rights in the United States. . The move to pass an Equal ...Congress passed the ERA in 1972 with the requirement that the meas...
...-Conscious Concerns About the Form of Civil Rights Interventions D. Transporting the Logic of Reverse... associated with the race of those who passed the exam. (16) Not only does a concern with racial... unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. (28) But Loving, like Brown, promiscuously employ...
... V, which provides two methods of amendment. Strauss, however, contends that Article V's proce... of federal judges' favorite Bill of Rights ideas against the states through the so-called Inc..., one supposes that something like the Equal Rights Amendment might have passed if judges had n...
In the landmark 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific, a railroad company refused to pay a special county tax in California, arguing (much as sludge hauler Synagro would do in Pennsylvania more than a century later) that to treat it differently from everyone else violated its constitutional rights. [...] in California's Humboldt County, where the timber giant Maxxam and its contractors spent more than $350,000 to recall a crusading district attorney, voters this year approved a ballot measure banning campaign spending by nonlocal businesses, and specifying that "No corporation shall be entitled to claim corporate constitutional rights or protections in an effort to overturn this law.
... earlier, another Pennsylvania township had passed an anti-sludge ordinance, only to be sued by a slu... infringed on its rights under the 14th Amendment, passed after the Civil War to guarantee "equal pr...
... been a vocal supporter of the Second Amendment, which gives citizens the right to keep firearms. ...The proposed "Equal Rights Amendment" was passed by Congress in 1972 b...
... meaning to occur through amendments. This view, however, is problematic. Whether prece..., predictability, protection of reliance, equal treatment, and stability. (22) . With these benefi... under the Fourteenth Amendment, an equal rights amendment might have been ratified--either the onee with general language passed by Congress or one with more specific limitations ...
... about freedom of speech, reproductive rights, racial equality, gay marriage, and bioethics. Jud...Privacy 2. Sixth Amendment Right to Self-Representation 3. Ordered Liberty 4....(117) The Court passed no judgment on the actual expressions used. . Cohe...
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