Here we see not only an unconstitutional act of bullying, but an old fascist and totalitarian method where the state mobilizes people.
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The Obama administration calls the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, agreeing with the ruling of lower federal courts.
Morrison, Rehnquist, again writing for the majority, declared parts of the federal Violence Against Women Act unconstitutional, arguing, again, that no economic activity was involved.
It is an appeal from a May 24 decision of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, finding the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
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The official reason for this was to make the Net a "safe place" without government censorship--which made sense, I guess, given that the Supreme Court had not yet ruled the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional.
Some court watchers repeatedly said that the chief justice did not want to render a decision which, by finding the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, would plunge the court once again into the political thicket it encountered in 2000 with Bush v.
President Barack Obama believes the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, but continues to enforce it.
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So, it ruled that the Stored Communications Act is unconstitutional for allowing police to raid these electronic post offices without a warrant.
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Filburn argued that the Act was unconstitutional as applied to him because he was not using the excess wheat for any activity in the interstate market.
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In one case, the administration argued that a section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it denies legally married same-sex couples many federal benefits that are available to married heterosexual couples.
The 6-3 majority opinion upheld a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that had declared unconstitutional the Stolen Valor Act, a 2006 statute Congress passed "to protect the reputation and meaning" of military honors.
But what I can tell you is that the argument that the administration has put forward before the Supreme Court today is an indication that our lawyers have concluded that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
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It is not necessary for the U.S. Supreme Court to find the individual mandate portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be unconstitutional in order to strike down the entire act, but it would be sufficient.
At the time, Kerry also said he thought the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional because it violated the "full faith and credit" clause that requires states to recognize each other's laws -- one of the arguments Bush made Tuesday for why a constitutional amendment was needed.
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The argument that we have made before the Supreme Court and the argument that we have made publicly, including in a letter that the Attorney General sent to the Speaker of the House a couple years ago, is the argument that Section 3 -- let me make sure I got that right -- Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
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Much of the Patriot Act would be unconstitutional if such a right was specified.
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Much in the act may be unconstitutional even without such an enumerated right.
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The incumbent raised plenty of money without raising the caps on individual contributions, but Davis still challenged the law as an unconstitutional incumbent's protection act.
Joseph Bruno, the state Senate majority leader, who has been at loggerheads with Mr Spitzer since the summer (Mr Spitzer's office accused Mr Bruno of abusing his aircraft privileges), says the policy change is unconstitutional and contradicts a federal act which requires, among other things, a valid Social Security number to get a driver's licence.
The right answer that marriage belongs to the states would decide both cases before the Supreme Court, invalidating as unconstitutional the federal Defense of Marriage Act, but upholding the right of Californians, and by implication other states, to decide whether or not to allow same sex marriage in their state.
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The Texas case involves the infamous Tom DeLay redistricting and whether it's unconstitutional or illegal under the Voting Rights Act.
First the Court would hold that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional as a federal incursion on state power.
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The judge declared the portion of the Stored Communications Act allowing this disclosure to be unconstitutional.
But he thinks that the law, as written - the Military Commissions Act - was just flat out unconstitutional.
The act was challenged in federal court and found unconstitutional because it was a direct tax that was not apportioned to the states by population.
"President Obama, who was against same-sex 'marriage' before he was for it, and his administration, which said the Defense of Marriage Act was constitutional before they said it was unconstitutional, has now flip-flopped again on the issue of same-sex 'marriage, ' putting allegiance to extreme liberal social policies ahead of constitutional principle, " Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said in a statement.
In 1996, responding to a Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage for the purpose of federal law.
If it is ruled unconstitutional, they warn, the very power and effect of the entire Voting Rights Act would crumble.
If it were ruled unconstitutional, they had warned, the very power and effect of the entire Voting Rights Act would crumble.
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