There is nothing conservative about denying gays equal benefits and equal protection of the law.
The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York agreed with a district judge that the provision of DOMA deprived Windsor of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the law.
It is a depressing commentary on our times that spokesmen of democracies and supposed champions of human rights are willing to state publicly that granting Jews the equal protection of the law is an unacceptable imposition on their bigoted neighbors.
And, like all agencies, it may not arbitrarily or capriciously render determinations absent any evidence or explanation or by unexpectedly and inexplicably abandoning a prior position or policy, and it may not engage in the unconstitutional deprivation of property absent due process or the unconstitutional violation of the right to equal protection of the law.
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Due to these attorneys' anti-Zionist bias, they are actively weakening the political foundations of Israeli democracy, while undermining the normative foundation of the rule of law by denying equal protection and unprejudiced prosecution under the law.
The overriding legal question is whether the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law prevents states from defining marriage as California has.
Jeffrey Monsour, a 14-year employee of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, seeks unspecified damages, claiming violations of his rights to free speech and equal protection under the law, breach of contract and defamation.
Advocates for the same sex couples tried to make a very simple case that the state's 97-year old marriage law, which refers to husband and wife, doesn't live up to modern standards of equal protection under the law.
"I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage, " Baldacci, a Democrat, said in a statement released as he signed the bill.
Using its data crunching capacity, Facebook estimated that 2.7 million Facebook users changed their profile picture to a red equality sign in support of the proposition being argued before the Supreme Court - that government bans on gay marriage deprive our gay brothers of sisters of equal protection under the law.
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On Wednesday, SCOTUS dove head first into the issue of affirmative action, giving every indication that the nearly 50 year old effort to bring equal protection under the law to all members of American society may soon come to an end.
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Not surprisingly, this argument concludes by warning against the slippery slope: if you outlaw sharia because it includes some dirty water around the globe, you will have effectively outlawed all such religious and private adjudicative bodies unless you are going to discriminate against the law of Muslims, which would violate the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.
As a matter of historical doctrine, the old Equal Protection law would look with amazement on these developments.
Among those guaranteed rights and privileges are: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, due process and equal protection under the law, the right to privacy and the right to keep and bear arms.
He sued to overturn the law on a variety of constitutional grounds, including that violated his equal-protection rights and it was a bill of attainder singling his business out for legislative punishment.
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