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Noteworthy Senate debates throughout U.S. history
Baghdad :: Iraq | 9 days ago
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The Senate is about to embark on what could be the showdown of the year as top Democrats work to push through sweeping health care legislation. The legislative chamber, however, is no stranger to history-changing debate. Lawmakers need to look no further...
Tags: Modern United States Senate, Library of Congress, Andrew Johnson, civil rights, Woodrow Wilson, foreign policy, Donald Ritchie, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, rights act, Burdett Loomis, Iraq, Baghdad, Parliamentary procedure, United States Senate, Radical Republicans, Filibuster, Reconstruction, Scots-Irish Americans, Vice Presidents of the United States, Politics
A glance at the California Voting Rights Act
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility The 2002 law is intended to promote the election of more people of color in local races. It amounts to an attack on "at-large" elections — those in which candidates run citywide or within an entire school district — that some say can be biased against...
Tags: California, voting rights, california voting, rights act, San Francisco, Voting system, Political corruption, Instant-runoff voting, Tactical voting, Psephology, Voting Rights Act, Electronic voting, Social Issues, Law Crime
Party and Hone talk some more
Brussels :: Belgium | 19 days ago
Credibility 20:04 The Maori Party is having more talks today with outspoken MP Hone Harawira, as it clarifies details of what happened on his trip to Europe. The member for Te Tai Tokerau is in trouble after skipping an official meeting in Brussels to go sightseeing...
Tags: Hone Harawira, Mr Harawira, Paris, Hilda Harawira, Maori Party, Te Tai Tokerau MP, human rights, rights act, European Parliamentarians, party president
Human Rights Act defended by DPP
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Human Rights Act is not a "criminals' charter", the Director of Public Prosecutions has said. The rights enshrined in the act were "basic, fundamental, and so much part of our way of life that we take them for granted," Keir Starmer said. The law...
Tags: human rights, rights act, Keir Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions
Human rights act would give Canberra final say
Melbourne :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Australia a step closer to introducing a national human rights charter. A review commissioned by the Rudd Government has recommended creating a minimalist Australian human rights act, which would allow individuals to take the Federal Government and agencies...
Tags: rights act
Human rights act 'a triumph for elitists'
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Coalition says that if implemented, the recommendations would politicise the judiciary and be a triumph for an elitist group of academics, lawyers and social activists. Supporters of a human rights act say that argument simply does not add up, given...
Tags: rights act, rights consultations, Australia, federal government, consultations report, consultations committee
Tories wrestle with human rights
Manchester :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Conservatives wrestle with the Human Rights Act Peter Oborne's attempt to reclaim the legislation as a good Tory document has had a mixed reception in Manchester The leading Tory commentator, Peter Oborne , thought his original opposition to the Human...
Tags: human rights, rights act, public safety
High court rules narrowly in voting rights case
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The court, with only one justice in partial dissent, avoided the major constitutional questions raised in the case over the federal government's most powerful tool to prevent discriminatory voting changes since the mid-1960s.
Tags: voting rights, rights act
Supreme Court rules on Voting Rights Act
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility In a narrow ruling Monday, the Supreme Court decided a small district in Texas is exempt from key provisions of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, but the court avoided ruling about whether the law itself was Constitutional. "That constitutional question...
Tags: voting rights, US Supreme Court, rights act, court issued, Texas
Court hears challenge to Voting Rights Act
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Less than six months after the election of the nation's first black president, the Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that at its core questions how far race relations have really come in this country. At issue is a provision from the landmark...
Tags: voting rights, rights act, The Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy, South, justices anthony, rights law
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