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BOSTON (AP) --€” As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the future ofsame-sex marriage, the nine justices could consider the experience in Massachusetts, the state with the longest-running real-world test of what happens when gay couples are allowed to tie the knot. The legalization of same...
This position was upheld by the nation's Supreme Court in their Decision 1013 on the Santana "Right of Reply" case in June 2001. State-Press Relations Since the December 1998 democratic election of Hugo Chávez as president of the República Bolivariana de Venezuela, relations between the ...
Ahead of this year's election, other states are in the midst of legal battles over whether to remove Trump's name from the ballot, most notably in Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled to bar Trump from the ballot last month, with justices writing intheir opinion that Trump"in...
Washington is an outlier when it comes to the large number of statewide elected officials voters are asked to hold accountable. We currently elect nine statewide offices (not counting justices to the state Supreme Court). These offices are governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of sta...
by savannah walsh politics the constitution protects transgender people. the supreme court may have other ideas tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for youth looks like a clear case of sex discrimination—that is, if justices put precedent over politics. by cr...
If the US Supreme Court were a grocery store, the justices would be starting their 2004-05 term Monday with an announcement: "Cleanup in Aisle 3." On the first day of the term, the justices are set to confront the messy implications of a landmark 5-to-4 decision handed down in late...
The president appoints justices to the Supreme Court upon recommendation of the Judicial and Bar Council. The judiciary is independent. Media Overview Highs of the media's history in the islands include the Philippines' Constitution guaranteeing freedom of the press and the freedom of the press ...
Something you’ve probably picked up on over the last six years is that many of Donald Trump’s supporters are batshit crazy. Oh, sure, there are some “normal” ones out there who simply voted for him to get their taxes lowered, or to install anti-Roe justices on the Supreme Court, ...
The justices put the matter on hold after a federal district court judge ruled the government could not proceed with its plans. The Trump administration, though, then announced it would directly ask the Supreme Court to overrule the federal court judge, who...