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2008
Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations | Electronic Frontier Foundation
by mbertier
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In short, it appears that the Administration may view NSA domestic surveillance, including the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans detailed in EFF's Hepting case, as a "domestic military operation." If so, this Yoo memo would blow a loophole in the Fourth Amendment big enough to fit all of our everyday telephone calls, web searches, instant messages and emails through.
Killing the 1st Amendment planned--Fairness Doct
by WebAPP
Prepare for a major, frontal assault on the First Amendment – perhaps the worst in American history.
Amendment-backer dogged Domain deal from the start
by springnet
Brian Rodgers is no City Hall mover and shaker. But he has nonetheless shaken things up with his crusade to stop the tax subsidies that Austin granted to the high-end Domain shopping center in 2003.
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2007
22nd Amendment
by sbrothier
© Andrew Sloat
Music: “improv1” from Ptolemy's Guitar by Roland Satterwhite
Morse v. Frederick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by lukeslytalker
Morse, et al. v. Frederick, 551 U.S. ___ (2007), was a First Amendment student free speech case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a principal may, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at a school event w...
A Look Inside the 2nd Annual OKC Tattoo Convention
by edfmedia
An indepth look into the upcoming 2nd annual okc tattoo convention hosted by chris brady of fatco - first amendment tattoo company.
2006
US Schools Given Power To Strip Search Students
by RoseD1
US schools are going to be allowed to strip-search your children if they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe that they may be carrying weapons, drugs or "dangerous substances," Of course, having recently raped the Fourth Amendment,anyway, Congress c
School Officials Threaten Seventh Grader for Reading Bible
by jasontromm
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Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a civil rights lawsuit in defense of the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a seventh grader who was ordered by Maryland middle school officials to stop reading her Bible during free time at school or face disciplinary action. Institute attorneys have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to declare that prohibiting students from reading Bibles or other religious texts during their free time is unconstitutional.
ACLU Accused of Profiting at Taxpayer Expense
by jasontromm
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is guilty of "judicial blackmail," according to the American Legion, which is pushing for congressional legislation to end one of the ACLU's streams of revenue.
Judges would be stripped of the authority to award attorney fees to the ACLU and similar groups in cases involving the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment Establishment Clause, if the American Legion gets its way.
8 Employees Stabbed at Tenn. Grocery Store
by jasontromm
A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring four before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said.
Elartrice Ingram, 21, was charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, police said. The attack apparently stemmed from a work dispute, investigators said.
()() One more example of why we need to keep the 2nd Amendment and Castle Doctrine laws.
05.18.06 HI: Akaka calls Senate attention to Filipino Veterans' hardship during immigration debate
by aflciopolitical
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate today unanimously accepted an amendment offered by Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) to grant the children of Filipino World War II veterans special immigrant status for purposes of family reunification. The generation o
Dum Vivo Cano -- Students Sue to Protect Hate Speech
by jessebuck
In Pennsylvania a group of 3 students is suing the school district saying that their First Amendment rights are being violated because they are unable to harass gay students with hate speech.
Slashdot | Tilting At Windmills
by multilinko
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Anne Applebaum writes in the Washington Post about environmentalists who are opposing renewable energy sources." From the article: "Already, activists and real estate developers have stalled projects across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. In Western Maryland, a proposal to build wind turbines alongside a coal mine, on a heavily logged mountaintop next to a transmission line, has just been nixed by state officials who called it too environmentally damaging. Along the coast of Nantucket, Mass. -- the only sufficiently shallow spot on the New England coast -- a coalition of anti-wind groups and summer homeowners, among them the Kennedy family, also seems set to block Cape Wind, a planned offshore wind farm. Their well-funded lobbying last month won them the attentions of Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who, though normally an advocate of a state's right to its own resources, has made an exception for Massachusetts and helped pass an amendment designed to kill the project altogether.
04.06.06 ME: House, Senate disagree on minimum wage bill - A.J. Higgins
by aflciopolitical
AUGUSTA - A bill to increase the minimum wage to $7 an hour by Oct. 1, 2007, ran into trouble Wednesday when the House voted 74-66 for an amendment that reduced the increase and delayed its implementation. After defeating an identical amendment presented
Give Arkansas a Raise Now
by aflciopolitical
Coalition proposing a constitutional amendment that would increase the minimum wage in Arkansas by $1 an hour (from $5.15 to $6.15) effective January 1, 2007. Starting January 1, 2008, and each January 1 thereafter, the minimum wage would be adjusted base
03.28.06 AR: Solons get behind plan to increase minimum wage
by aflciopolitical
If Gov. Mike Huckabee gets a special legislative session rolling by April 3, lawmakers may head off a constitutional amendment to raise Arkansas' minimum wage by increasing it themselves. A compromise minimum wage plan could be included on the agenda for
03.29.06 ME: Approval for Minimum Wage Increase Pending
by aflciopolitical
A bill to raise the current minimum wage of $6.50 to $6.75 this October and then to $7 in October of 2007 appears to be on its way to final approval after the Senate this week rejected an amendment to add a training wage to the proposal. The amendment, pr
03.26.06 AR: Arkansas' minimum wage scenarios
by aflciopolitical
A proposed constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage in Arkansas from $5.15 per hour to $6.15 per hour is being considered on a call for a special legislative session. A proposed amendment in Arkansas would require an annual automatic increase or
A good idea suddenly has become a bad idea
by jasontromm
Earlier this week, Republican Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Crapo of Idaho proposed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Resolution that would have created a reserve fund to protect the Social Security surplus.
Cops go to hotel bars to arrest drunk guests
by jasontromm
The controversial police tactic of arresting drunks at bars and restaurants has gone to a new level, to include intoxicated people at hotels, even those who are registered guests with no plans on driving.
()() This seems to be a shocking violation of peoples' civil liberties. Don't these cops know the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment?
