Criminalizing conduct that is integral to one's status is equivalent to criminalizing status.
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Because it keeps the sex trade underground, criminalizing the buying of sex exposes workers to many of the same harms as criminalizing the sale, Mogulescu says.
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Mike Parson signed a bill criminalizing abortions after 8 weeks.
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Criminalizing crucial parts of researchers jobs could cause unintended harm.
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But even he knows that we are criminalizing political differences.
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Let the states decide what to do about criminalizing abortion.
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The city has 2100 laws on the books criminalizing homelessness.
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Criminalizing drug use and addiction doesn't address the core issue.
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Unfortunately, criminalizing poverty and homelessness is a growing national trend.
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Whatever one thinks of abortion, criminalizing it would be worse.
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The moment the focus shifts to criminalizing women, sympathy shifts.
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This can lead to criminalizing people who may be innocent.
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And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
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We're not helping to lock them up or criminalizing anyone.
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By criminalizing "fake news," it is heading in that direction.
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Wade, they also pose devastating consequences for criminalizing and punishing women.
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Nationally, there are no laws criminalizing homosexuality, sodomy, or lesbian sex.
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Further criminalizing immigrants is in direct opposition to reforming the system.
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Russia had passed laws criminalizing the promotion or normalization of homosexuality.
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" Criminalizing dissent is necessary, he added, because "lines are being crossed.
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The Alabama legislature is ignoring science, criminalizing abortion, and punishing women.
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That attitude is evident from his support for criminalizing flag burning.
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Courts have upheld criminalizing wearing a KKK hood on public property.
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This is about the criminalizing of people who are seeking asylum.
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"Laws criminalizing drugs were born from racism and discrimination," Skeer said.
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When they incorporate these gang members, they are criminalizing the protest.
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Council Member Lancman holds press conference to call for criminalizing revenge porn.
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"It's only good for violating human rights and criminalizing poverty," said Izquiel.
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When we talk about criminalizing gangs, we're talking about this punitive approach.
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Proponents of criminalizing abortion are, and should be, pleased with this development.
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Criminalizing the broadcast of crimes like Robert Godwin's shooting death is doable.
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"We're not interested in taking babies away or criminalizing moms," she says.
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Criminalizing any kind of violation of sexual rights doesn't really do anything.
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We are not criminalizing behavior, despite what one of your sources maintains.
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In 2014, Lebanon's parliament passed its first-ever law criminalizing domestic violence.
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She argues more broadly against criminalizing homelessness, poverty, and mental health problems.
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Virginia Supreme Court decision, which struck down state laws criminalizing interracial marriage.
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This is about criminalizing and ostracizing female conservatives for being female and conservative.
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This follows a troubling trend of criminalizing black women that starts with childhood.
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A handful of states try and discourage faithless electors by criminalizing the act.
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Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C., have now passed laws criminalizing nonconsensual pornography.
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Spain, for example, is a pioneer when it comes to criminalizing domestic violence.
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Criminalizing drugs pushes the market underground, into the hands of cartels and gangs.
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Elsewhere, there is a precedent for criminalizing online or virtual encouragement of suicide.
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Michelle argues the harms of criminalizing weed outweigh the harms of legalizing it.
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Even new laws are lagging behind when it comes to criminalizing revenge porn.
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His lawyers claim that the police are "criminalizing the ulema," or Muslim scholars.
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What's badly needed is to look at the real reason for criminalizing drugs.
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The president's tactic of criminalizing asylum seekers is having some effect on attitudes.
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The Senate and House have both passed versions of a bill criminalizing the practice.
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The United States has gone too far down the road of criminalizing public policy.
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Comey indicated before Congress that in private practice he had worked against criminalizing negligence.
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Melodie Conn's case is part of a trend of criminalizing survivors of domestic violence.
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Texas, invalidating a law criminalizing same-sex sodomy and overturning the dismissive 1986 decision.
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India India's top court struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex.
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Criminalizing encryption is the elimination of our right to self-protect from privacy thieves.
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Moreover, "criminalizing something doesn't mean that it's going to go away," Mishori told Vox.
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"They are criminalizing everyone without concrete evidence, without respect for due process," Ortiz said.
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Advocates worry that overturning the appeals court decision raises the specter of criminalizing homelessness.
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"We're casting a net even wider and criminalizing more people," Gonzales Van Cleve said.
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A Texas law criminalizing "revenge porn" was considered unconstitutional, an appeals court ruled last week.
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The ruling comes just a month after Kenya's high court upheld its laws criminalizing homosexuality.
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And like any other business it&aposs bad with lies, criminalizing consensual and transactional sex.
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The best defense against criminalizing the digital you might simply be the people you know.
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Honolulu likely won't be the only major American city criminalizing smartphone street-crossing for long.
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Like the newly passed law, its measures include criminalizing an increasing number of abortion procedures.
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Some of those new measures included doubling prison sentences for rape crimes and criminalizing stalking.
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He added that, in his personal view, care must be taken over criminalizing sexual attitudes.
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Queen Elizabeth II signed off Tuesday on a bill criminalizing "upskirting" in England and Wales.
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Several studies have shown that criminalizing sex work increases violence and health risks for workers.
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Feminism isn't about ending sexism; it's about criminalizing people who believe in "traditional" gender norms.
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Ms. Fransen, 32, and Mr. Golding, 36, have accused the government of criminalizing their opinions.
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Thailand has some of the world's strictest lèse-majesté laws, criminalizing insults to the monarchy.
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But Mr. Miller said prosecutors had now skated to the edge of criminalizing journalistic practices.
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We really caution against any solution that contributes to criminalizing more people in our society.
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Proponents of restrictive laws argue that criminalizing voter registration is necessary to prevent voter fraud.
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Ms. Getty made that gift contingent on Uganda reversing a December 2013 law criminalizing homosexuality.
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Like more than a dozen European countries, Germany also has a law criminalizing Holocaust denial.
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None of the statutes criminalizing obstruction of justice seems obviously and fully to apply, either.
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Other states' laws criminalizing sex between students and teachers have also fallen under legal scrutiny.
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The two bills covering foreign interference, espionage and influence transparency have been criticized as criminalizing dissent.
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The Massachusetts image is the newest law passed in 2014 criminalizing up-skirt photography without consent.
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Luttrell of Planned Parenthood said that criminalizing miscarriages is not the explicit purpose of the bill.
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"They are criminalizing us," said Karla Avelar, head of rights group, Communicating and Training Transwomen (COMCAVIS).
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Indeed, criminalizing political differences is a grave threat to the very legitimacy of the democratic process.
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Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill in 2014 criminalizing same-sex relationships in Nigeria.
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Studies show that housing is much less expensive than criminalizing homelessness or even offering temporary shelter.
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They begin criminalizing the most mundane actions — regardless of whether someone had harmful intentions or not.
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The C.P.C. movement took off in the late sixties, as states considered repealing laws criminalizing abortion.
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"There is no statute I am aware of criminalizing conflicts of Interest in general," Wisenberg said.
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Kay Ivey (R) signed legislation criminalizing nearly all abortions, with no exceptions for rape and incest.
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The verdict was the first conviction under a Belgian law criminalizing sexism in a public place.
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In the United States, some states — including New York — have laws directly criminalizing self-induced abortion.
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Criminalizing prostitution has been done in the United States, which I think makes women extra vulnerable.
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In 2016, the government passed a bill criminalizing defamation that critics argued would curb free speech.
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As Judge William Pryor wrote in a concurring opinion, criminalizing medical advice is a slippery slope.
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Despite Mr. Salvini's decree criminalizing the rescue boats, he himself has said that migration is down.
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Despite Mr. Salvini's decree criminalizing the rescue boats, he himself has said that migration is down.
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Repealing the law criminalizing homosexual sex will not save young men and women like them overnight.
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Sex workers have made some progress in bringing attention to the harms of criminalizing sex work policies.
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In Ohio, a bill criminalizing abortion after the six-week gestational marker was recently passed through congress.
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" But she, too, questioned forcibly removing homeless people from the streets, something she likened to "criminalizing homelessness.
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Unfortunately, it wasn't that long ago that laws criminalizing sex between people of the same gender existed.
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While about 40 U.S. states have laws criminalizing encouraging another person to commit suicide, Massachusetts does not.
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Russian lawmaker Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs introduced a bill criminalizing FGM in 2016 but its status remains unclear.
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Criminalizing their livelihoods sends a terrible message to our immigrant communities, especially in our current national climate.
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The Nordic model of criminalizing clients does not help prostitutes—instead, it increases danger for sex workers.
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Last September, India's top court struck down a law criminalizing homosexuality, though discrimination persists in the country.
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"Instead of criminalizing poverty, we're going to dedicate resources toward prosecuting abusive landlords," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said.
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"It's not criminalizing fare evasion," Patrick J. Foye, the M.T.A. chairman, said at the Monday news conference.
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" Remember: These leaders are not repressing violent radicals, Posner adds; they are literally "criminalizing dissent and debate.
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He was also one of the earliest advocates of criminalizing the wearing of face masks during protests.
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Massachusetts lawmakers recently introduced a bill criminalizing suicide coercion with jail time of up to five years.
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German industry association BDI meanwhile criticized Barley, saying the proposed change in law risked unnecessarily criminalizing companies.
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Comstock wanted to expand the nation's laws criminalizing the act of mailing obscene material over state lines.
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Thirty-eight states have laws on the books similar to Indiana's—that is, criminalizing harm to fetuses.
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Ms. Park used South Korea's laws criminalizing defamation to charge and imprison government critics and the press.
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A bipartisan bill criminalizing certain uses of a drone passed out of an Assembly committee on Monday.
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Prohibition has failed to decrease cannabis use while costing billions and criminalizing millions — disproportionately people of color.
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"I do not believe in criminalizing fare evasion," Mr. Foye said at a recent State Senate hearing.
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Yet some states are still working to ban abortion care, shutting down clinics, criminalizing providers and shaming women.
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The laws began to proliferate, and by 2011, 33 states had one or more laws criminalizing HIV exposure.
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Many European states did not have laws criminalizing participation in foreign wars on behalf of a terrorist group.
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A law criminalizing illicit enrichment was thrown out in February, sparking sharp criticism, especially from the United States.
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Studies show that criminalizing sex workers increases the likelihood they will experience physical or sexual violence by 300%.
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A case in point is New York, the most recent state to enact legislation criminalizing nonconsensual pornography. Gov.
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" Criminalizing these relationships, he said, would mean "citizens with legitimate concerns might shrink from participating in democratic discourse.
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Hadj Sahraoui said Europe and the United States must address the causes of displacement, instead of criminalizing migrants.
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The Trump administration's policy of criminalizing and incarcerating families crossing the southern border has been unnecessary and counterproductive.
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" Ahead of elections in Malaysia last year, a new law was passed criminalizing publishing or sharing "fake news.
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Mike Parson signed a measure into law banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy and criminalizing health providers.
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Free speech advocates say the bills are worrying, seeing them as opening the way to criminalizing peaceful protests.
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I feel that criminalizing the asylum process is going to strengthen the criminal networks that control the routes.
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Criminalizing hate speech, opponents say, would have a chilling effect on another hard-won victory: freedom of expression.
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Mozambique - 2014: Two articles in Mozambique's Portuguese colonial-era penal code criminalizing "vices against nature" were repealed. 9.
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Then we realized that the strategy he pushed forward ending up criminalizing and deporting a ton of immigrants.
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Meanwhile China has censored coronavirus content online and introduced a new law criminalizing posts critical of the government.
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In fact, many people don't know how prevalent it is, or the need for stronger laws criminalizing it.
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They tried to rob us of our beauty by criminalizing or violating our bodies, so that's nothing new.
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Last year, Elizabeth Warren's Massachusetts passed the NASTY WOMEN Act eliminating a 173-year-old statute criminalizing abortion.
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Many countries around the world apparently recognize that laws criminalizing abortion put women's health and lives at risk.
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Georgia's bill is another step toward the anti-choice movement's ultimate goal of criminalizing abortion, gutting Roe v.
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"No sooner do you win the battle than 10 other cities pop up criminalizing homelessness," Ms. Foscarinis added.
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The 2010 passage of a law criminalizing workplace harassment helped pave the way for Pakistan's own #MeToo movement.
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For instance, a law making it a crime to mislabel drugs would automatically be interpreted as criminalizing knowing mislabeling.
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The lack of legal recourse is why criminalizing revenge porn on state and federal levels is crucial for victims.
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In Germany, a new law came into force this month criminalizing some digital platforms being used for hate speech.
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Kahn says that the UK government has been "preoccupied with forced marriages" and has specifically created legislation criminalizing it.
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Sanders added that in the midst of that, the country has a cash bail system that's essentially "criminalizing poverty."
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A section in the US code defining a particular term isn't the same as a law criminalizing specific acts.
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"Let's be clear about what this is: a coordinated attack aimed at controlling, dehumanizing, and criminalizing women," he said.
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The text of HB 193 cites a 1975 state statute criminalizing abortion, which—though rendered unenforceable by Roe v.
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And a year later, India's highest court strengthened that principle when it struck down the law criminalizing gay sex.
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Laws criminalizing HIV increase shame, stigma, and isolation, making it harder for people living with HIV to access care.
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The organization's president, the law professor Mary Anne Franks, drafted the first model statute criminalizing nonconsensual pornography in 2013.
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Criminalizing abortion forces some to seek unsafe abortions, while others must marry, even if they are children, she added.
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We opened borders, helped them all out and closed the border behind them by criminalizing this type of fighting.
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While 44% said they agreed, 43% said they disagreed, showing a slower increase in support for criminalizing the practice.
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These include the ban on trans people in the military, criminalizing HIV transmission, harmful rhetoric and racist drug policies.
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He also reiterated his support for not criminalizing flag burning after Trump floated revoking the citizenship of flag burners.
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You have to hope the government looks at the evidence, because criminalizing people for drug possession is counter-productive.
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But rights groups were outraged that authorities watered it down so much it fell short of criminalizing marital rape.
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But when we do that, we start criminalizing people who do not fit the stereotype of the good immigrant.
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"Abortion reporting could be a roadmap to different kinds of restrictions, or even to criminalizing certain processes," she said.
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Amina Mohamed, the sports minister, said a team was working on legislation aimed at criminalizing doping by mid-2020.
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The arrests have also triggered criticism from local leaders in Peru's southern copper belt that authorities are "criminalizing" protests.
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"By criminalizing the pursuit of asylum, this policy runs counter to established immigration and refugee laws," the lawsuit said.
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Mozambique Two articles in Mozambique's Portuguese colonial-era penal code criminalizing "vices against nature" were repealed in 2014. 8.
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Our starting point with sex workers should be that of a victim based approach... rather than criminalizing their activity.
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Thirty-eight states have laws criminalizing harm to fetuses, which prosecutors could also apply to cases involving self-managed abortion.
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They are silencing democratic debate and criminalizing all human rights groups, even Jewish ones, that are in solidarity with Palestine.
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Women's rights activists want the law criminalizing abortion to be overturned, but little is getting done amid the ongoing crisis.
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"What really pushed us over the top," she said, was an ADF lawyer cheering India's top court criminalizing gay sex.
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Only a few weeks after his nomination, Massachusetts repealed a centuries-old law criminalizing abortion that was not being enforced.
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News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation.
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Harm reduction non-profits have discussed rolling back services in fear of follow-up legislation further criminalizing sex worker outreach.
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Policy makers need to address the urgency of these cases and to hold individuals accountable to laws criminalizing these behaviors.
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Opponents say that criminalizing hate speech will erode freedom of expression and do little to heal the country's racial wounds.
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Kenya, at the heart of a series of scandals in recent months, is also in the process of criminalizing doping.
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I think our current situation — our current mass criminalization, mass incarceration system — has roots in that criminalizing of Black men.
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The country's Supreme Court ruled that a 158-year-old law criminalizing adultery discriminated against women and was therefore unconstitutional.
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Our country has made so many mistakes by criminalizing things whether it's immigration, whether it's mental illness, whether it's addiction.
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But in 2016, under mounting pressure from the EU, Niger began criminalizing immigration and patrolling the deserts for illegal crossings.
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There are also divisions with among policymakers and the public over how to combat their use without criminalizing drug addiction.
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His proposals range from ending anonymous American shell companies to criminalizing the actions of those demanding bribes of Americans abroad.
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Currently there are five states that have laws explicitly criminalizing self-managed abortion: Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.
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It would also allow a dangerous foray of federal prosecutors into political statements, potentially criminalizing some spins but ignoring others.
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Instead of listening to us, the government is criminalizing us and treating us as if we are vandals and thieves.
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But even there, advocates say, laws criminalizing harm to a fetus can put pregnant people — and their children — in danger.
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Nepal's Supreme Court banned the practice in 2005, and last August the government went a step further by criminalizing it.
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Free Speech Coalition (2002) Video EQUAL PROTECTION - Re-examination of a 1986 high court precedent upholding state laws criminalizing homosexual sodomy.
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In an interview with Reuters, Gref said criminalizing compliance with U.S. sanctions could force international firms to pull out of Russia.
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Past Attorney General Eric Holder has condemned Sessions' reactionary policy of criminalizing bud, saying widespread incarceration is both ineffective and unsustainable.
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News is a flirty business & it seems like the current epidemic of #SexualHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation.
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If you can prosecute for publishing material in the public interest, you hand Trump a tool for criminalizing a free press.
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Neighboring Mozambique removed anti-gay laws in 2015, while São Tomé and Cape Verde have also abolished laws criminalizing gay relationships.
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Others have been jailed for unlawful association or under vague legislation criminalizing the circulation of information that could cause public disharmony.
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It's the healing of the nations and we've been criminalizing it, and the people who use it, for far too long.
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Groups like Amnesty International warn that further criminalizing sex work hurts everyone involved in trading sex, including trafficking and abuse victims.
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This week, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill criminalizing the spread of nonconsensual pornography, or revenge porn.
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When China passed its first national legislation criminalizing domestic violence in March, it was a hard-won victory for Chinese women.
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A professor at Harvard Law, writing for the New Yorker, suggested the case was about Americans criminalizing sex we don't like.
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At the constitutional level, this means that laws criminalizing sodomy or prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying must be struck down.
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This week, the House of Representatives passed the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," a bill criminalizing abortions after 20083 weeks.
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There has been no consideration given to how these interpretations could impact others in the future in criminalizing speech or associations.
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Our experience from the last few decades shows that criminalizing people for drug use does not stop them from using drugs.
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It's whether society as a whole can stop criminalizing poverty and embrace the idea that poor families are worthy of compassion.
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Neighboring Mozambique removed anti-gay laws in 2015, while Sao Tome and Cape Verde have also abolished laws criminalizing gay relationships.
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Those already working under similar laws tell us repeatedly that criminalizing sex buyers means that they too are criminalized and endangered.
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Missouri lawmakers passed a bill criminalizing abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, without exception for cases of rape or incest.
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I couldn't accept a deal that protected me while criminalizing so many others — from my colleagues to my aunts and uncles.
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Malaysia's Upper House passed a bill criminalizing the spread of fake news this week, the first step in it becoming law.
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Of course, criminalizing relapse isn't the only absurdity that exists at the intersection of drug addiction, criminal justice and public health.
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The government also passed laws criminalizing the open practice of Obeah, forbidding slaves from possessing guns, and preventing blacks from gathering.
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In 2017, local media quoted Ma'ruf as saying he regretted the Constitutional Court's decision to reject a petition criminalizing gay sex.
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In addition to fueling violence, the existing policy of criminalizing drug use has also resulted in mass incarceration, the report said.
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"The intelligence agency is criminalizing the biggest opposition party with underground measures," Alice Weidel, a prominent party leader, wrote on Twitter.
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But law enforcement has an undeniable role to play, so long as it's focused on stopping drug traffic, not criminalizing addicts.
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In 2014 they tried to pass a bill criminalizing same-sex marriage, but we went to court to challenge that bill.
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A draft bill criminalizing domestic violence was passed by the first chamber of parliament, the House of Representatives, in Morocco in July.
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Still, it's refreshing to see lawmakers taking these issues seriously and criminalizing a deeply disturbing trend made increasingly easy thanks to tech.
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The conservative authorities said the original law was modeled on anti-defamation laws in many other countries, including laws criminalizing Holocaust denial.
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She criticizes a 2013 government decree that established tolerant thresholds of possession for drug users, designed to avoid excessively criminalizing minor consumers.
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It's cropped up recently in coverage of a case out of Detroit, the first prosecution under a 1996 federal law criminalizing FGM.
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While not leading the way in criminalizing revenge porn, New York's bill is unique in providing civil recourse to targets of harassment.
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"Al-Azhar asserts that criminalizing harassment and those who commit harassment must be absolute and without any condition or context," it added.
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The challenge here is that criminalizing Facebook broadcasts of one's crimes does potentially infringe upon one's freedom of speech about those crimes.
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This doctrine acknowledges that the states and the federal government are separate "sovereigns," with distinct interests in criminalizing and prosecuting certain conduct.
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And the recognition that we should not be over-criminalizing black and brown youth...and the acceptance of immigrants, is pretty high.
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By singling out Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, they suggest, prosecutors risk criminalizing long-accepted ways of conducting politics in the state.
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This included the death sentence for repeat rape offenders, criminalizing stalking and voyeurism, and making acid attacks and human trafficking specific offences.
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Since then, sex workers advocacy organizations have ramped up efforts to pass state-level legislation to lift individual statutes criminalizing sex work.
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Tougher laws criminalizing prostitution were coming in, and they planned on using them as leverage for control over the independent street workers.
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A draft law criminalizing homophobic attacks was approved by Brazil's lower house of Congress, and in 2006 introduced to the upper house.
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It's a question of increasing salience as governors across the political spectrum sign legislation protecting oil interests and criminalizing acts of protest.
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In their appeal, Carter's attorneys said the conviction went too far in criminalizing a defendant who was not present at the scene.
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In 1929, Coleman Blease, a white supremacist South Carolina senator who openly supported lynching, came up with a solution: criminalizing unauthorized entry.
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Yet another problem with criminalizing acts through the administrative code is that it greatly expands the power of the police and prosecutors.
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Then we allow members of our ostensibly civil society to facilitate self-inflicted death in one instance while criminalizing it in another.
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In criminalizing and condemning people's identities, we create an environment where you are pressured to conform or else you suffer the consequences.
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Criminalizing the publication of classified documents is wrong in itself, and has the obvious potential to spread far beyond their initial target.
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In addition, many African governments are failing their girls by criminalizing teenage pregnancy, rather than addressing the root causes of the problem.
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It was not until 2012 that the country passed a law criminalizing sex with minors, setting the age of consent at 18.
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But a slightly different fear, that we're on a path to criminalizing normal relations between the sexes, has surfaced here and there.
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If you accept the disease model, criminalizing people for having a certain mental affliction is kind of crazy and cruel in itself.
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So why then do so many believe that addiction ends when people "hit bottom" and that criminalizing drug use helps people "bottom out"?
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Nixon has campaigned on increasing financial resources for early learning and poorer schools, and advocated taking a less "criminalizing" approach to student discipline.
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However, there are seven states — including New York — that have laws criminalizing "self-administered" abortions, some left on the books from the 1800s.
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Hadrwick upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, specifically, between homosexual adults.
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In which warped universe is it legitimate to claim to assist women -- in this case presumed to be under duress -- by criminalizing them?
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" In the majority opinion, Judge Margaret McKeown wrote that "Nosal and various amici spin hypotheticals about the dire consequences of criminalizing password sharing.
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The former Vice President and I also agree that we must end the practice of criminalizing poverty in America by eliminating cash bail.
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Prostitution only became an illegal act in Canada in 2014, when the Conservatives passed Bill C-36 criminalizing the purchase of sexual services.
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However, after many countries began criminalizing acid in the 1960s, he and his wife Christina started working with a less controversial tool: breathing.
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Passed in the wake of the 1980s Hollywood techno-thriller War Games, the CFAA is a federal statute criminalizing "unauthorized" access to computers.
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During a visit to Canada on Friday, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni cautioned against criminalizing NGOs, saying they "save lives and should be thanked".
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Advocates say criminalizing camping only ensures people stay homeless for longer, and ultimately violates the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.
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His case was against the girl's parents, but police refused to accept it because there was no law criminalizing the practice, he said.
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Although this is a contentious and complex issue, there is no reason why our democratic institutions cannot develop guidelines for criminalizing hate speech.
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" Fiorina's piece on Time magazine's website details her step-daughter's painful slide into addiction and emphasizes her own call to stop "criminalizing addiction.
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By criminalizing the purchase of ivory, the ban is meant to stop people from selling and buying ornaments and trinkets made from ivory.
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In their appeal, Carter's attorneys said the conviction went too far in criminalizing a defendant who was not even present at the scene.
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Like in Ireland after the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, Argentina's Catholics are also coming to grips with the morality of criminalizing abortion.
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Angola - January 2019: removed a ban on "vices against nature" from its penal code, which had been interpreted as criminalizing gay sex. 3.
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This means taking science and adolescent brain development into account, and not criminalizing typical adolescent behavior such as fistfights or infractions at school.
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But as the two high-profile cases of revenge porn this month clearly show, criminalizing revenge porn often isn't enough to stop it.
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Judge Robert Wilkins expressed concern that the court not be seen to be criminalizing the widespread practice of congressional staffers moonlighting for campaigns.
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More countries should follow the Nordic model of decriminalizing the people who are sold for sex but criminalizing pimps and buyers, she said.
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Many states have laws criminalizing the encouragement or abetting of a suicide, but cases like Ms. Carter's are fairly unusual, legal experts said.
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"Bills that propose banning or even criminalizing health care for trans minors truly are an assault on ability to survive," Strangio told VICE.
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When it comes to women's rights, governments across the region are generally more comfortable with criminalizing violence than they are with protecting freedoms.
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Even the suggestion of criminalizing dissent should send a chill down the spine of anyone who counts themselves as a fan of democracy.
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"The subway overpolicing we've been watching in recent days shows how cruel & corrosive criminalizing poverty is," tweeted Brad Lander, another city council member.
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Warsaw has in recent weeks upset the United States, Israel and Jewish communities with a law criminalizing suggestions Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.
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We absolutely do not believe and disagree with the premise that you should be criminalizing a woman&aposs choice to do with her body.
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Since the students' petition came from one of India's premier engineering institutes, it also referred to the economic impact of criminalizing same-sex relations.
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Harris's bill would give states the flexibility to determine how they intend to approach marijuana possession and sales — or even to continue criminalizing both.
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But draconian clauses — including criminalizing efforts to collect water through methods as simple as transporting it from one house to another — sparked huge protests.
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This is due to oversentencing, unequal application of the law and also that whole trend, throughout America's history, of just generally criminalizing black people.
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Now, a group of activists is drafting a plan that asks the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to change the law criminalizing abortion in Brazil.
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The study showed that the criminalizing rhetoric used regarding digital downloading is not an adequate deterrent for users looking for a quick Khaleesi fix.
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One in three of us will have an abortion by age 45, and criminalizing that common, necessary procedure will result in unnecessary maternal mortality.
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India's Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in an appeal to overturn a colonial-era law criminalizing homosexual acts, according to multiple media reports.
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The Act put a much needed stop to such practices, criminalizing the unauthorized excavation or appropriation of any ancient ruin or object of antiquity.
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Botswana's high court on Tuesday overturned two colonial-era laws criminalizing homosexual conduct in a massive win for LGBT rights on the African continent.
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Few have considered the implications of broadening the scope of the criminal code and handing the government wider discretion in criminalizing speech and associations.
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta signed a cybercrimes bill, criminalizing the publication of fake news despite pressure from international media rights group to stop it.
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"Throughout his career, Joe Biden has fought vigorously to protect a woman's right to choose and against measures criminalizing abortion," Brown told The Hill.
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Much of the answer lies in the 'War in Drugs' begun by President Nixon in 21625, which has emphasized criminalizing drug use over treatment.
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It would be a better use of taxpayer dollars than trying to intercept people in flight at a militarized border and then criminalizing them.
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Anambra has two laws criminalizing widowhood rites, says Ndidi Mezue, the states' commissioner for women and children affairs, but its enforcement has been slow.
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If other states are finding better ways to protect the children in their care — without criminalizing them in the process — why not New York?
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It was a performative case for criminalizing disagreement, a perverse and authoritarian pageant that preyed on the worst, darkest tendencies of the Trump movement.
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Rather than ending abortion, criminalizing abortion will merely create new ways in which the state can intensify the misery of the poorest among us.
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Abortion rights advocates have sometimes opposed fetal homicide laws out of concerns that they could be used to lay the groundwork for criminalizing abortion.
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Standing up for service workers should never be reduced to shaming and criminalizing the Black people whom they serve, because these plights are intertwined.
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Meanwhile, Assange's lawyer, Edward Fitzgerald, claimed the case could lead to criminalizing activities that were essential to investigative journalism, according to the news agency.
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President Bio said his government would work with civil societies and development partners to improve laws criminalizing rape and other forms of gender violence.
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Mass incarceration reinscribes poverty by criminalizing and penalizing low-income communities, which the racial and class composition of our jails and prisons bears out.
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And only a year before the Bork nomination, the Supreme Court rejected as "facetious" the claim that the Constitution prohibits criminalizing consensual gay sex.
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Over the last few months, hard-line Islamist groups have set up posters around Jakarta that say the current administration is "criminalizing" religious scholars.
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The measure would not affect statutes that make clear that no mental state need be shown for guilt — for example, laws criminalizing sex with minors.
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The government's proposal to pass a law criminalizing acts of sedition and subversion against mainland China -- referred to as "Article 22014" -- was the last straw.
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NAIROBI — Botswana's High Court on Tuesday declared that colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex were unconstitutional, in a huge boost for LGBT rights in Africa.
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That possibility prompted the Massachusetts legislature on Wednesday to pass the "NASTY Women" act, which would end centuries-old law criminalizing abortion in the state.
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Emily's List, a group that backs female candidates who support abortion rights, sent out a press release called The Comstock-Trump Agenda: Criminalizing Abortion Edition.
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After a years-long effort around criminalizing revenge porn, legislators and activists are once again trying to pass nonconsensual pornography legislation at the federal level.
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But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
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Georgia's bill is actually a personhood law in disguise, effectively criminalizing not just abortion providers, but also pregnant people for having abortions or even miscarrying.
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Still, the law criminalizing presidential threats does not target offensive humor, bad taste or political hyperbole, as the Supreme Court made clear in Watts v.
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The idea of needing to prevent or control HIV has also been used to support laws criminalizing homosexuality in over 75 countries as of 2015.
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Kenya's president in April signed into law the bill criminalizing doping that was demanded by the World Anti-Doping Agency to avoid the Rio ban.
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This is governing people by their data, and turning that data into ways of criminalizing people without due process or access to basic human rights.
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The items include criminalizing financing terrorism, instituting penalties for money laundering offenses, and establishing a fully independent Financial Intelligence Unit to monitor suspicious financial activity.
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By criminalizing public sleeping and similar acts, businesses and city governments are treating homelessness as an aesthetic problem instead of a moral and economic one.
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Kenya's president in April signed into law a bill criminalizing doping that was demanded by the World Anti-Doping Agency to avoid the Rio ban.
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Call your representative and ask them what they're doing to pass a clean Dream Act: one that protects immigrant youth without criminalizing their loved ones.
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The statutes criminalizing illegal entry do not require imprisonment, which would force family separation, rather than civil fines, or detention and deportation, which would not.
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During the court's deliberations last month, as it became clear that most justices would rule in favor of criminalizing homophobia, Bolsonaro strongly criticized the court.
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But I see it being done in our civil courts — not in a way that's criminalizing individuals so that they would lose their physical liberty.
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This accusatory mindset leads to a disproportionate emphasis on criminalizing the behavior, rather than addressing it as a societal problem that we all must own.
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" He adds, "It's never in society's best interest to incarcerate anyone for their words when there was not a law in place criminalizing such speech.
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"We have taken the first step, criminalizing traveling to and fighting with a terrorist organization in another country or receiving terrorist training," Mr. Ygeman said.
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She recommends criminalizing revenge porn, including online threats, in existing statutes against stalking and harassment, and making it easier for victims to sue under pseudonyms.
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Zelenskiy said his team had prepared a new bill on a law criminalizing illicit enrichment by officials, which he would submit to parliament this week.
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Moderate Islam will not emerge in Saudi Arabia under a repressive regime whose foundation is based on purging theological difference and criminalizing the Muslim other.
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Angola In January 210 Angola removed a ban on "vices against nature" from its penal code, which had been interpreted as criminalizing gay sex. 22012.
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Even as the Trump administration ramps up its war on immigration, with a renewed focus on criminalizing all border crossings, these problems may be getting worse.
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But the bill, which would also eliminate old laws criminalizing distributing birth control and barring single women from using contraception at all, has languished ever since.
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WILLIAMS: I don&apost think so because of a lot of things that Greg said, which are, you know, that the emphasis on criminalizing this behavior.
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Laws criminalizing homosexuality in Zimbabwe carry penalties of up to three years in jail, and police often arrest gays, then set them free without bringing charges.
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Cruz told me Senegalese officials have considered and rejected legislation banning the talibé system outright and criminalizing the act of holding students in this specific way.
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States clap back over pot clamp down: Attorney General Jeff Session has quickly become known as the national buzzkill for his hyperactive assault on criminalizing weed.
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These include restrictions on the media, criminalizing expression, limiting access to information, the arrest of civic and political dissidents, and persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.
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In June, his government passed what it dubbed the "Stop Soros" law, criminalizing NGOs it deems to be supporting illegal immigration by providing assistance to migrants.
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An Indiana legislator the other day announced a plan to introduce a "Protection at Conception" bill, criminalizing all abortions, when the State Legislature convenes in January.
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Castro said the administration is utilizing the law criminalizing illegal entry to incarcerate the parents of families and separate them from their children prior to deportation.
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And when it comes to actually addressing drug addiction and the overdose crisis, criminalizing people who use drugs simply doesn't work — and actually makes things worse.
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HB 56 made it a crime to employ, house, or even give rides to undocumented individuals, effectively criminalizing any contact with illegal immigrants in the state.
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Lawmakers have introduced a number of measures this year, from criminalizing those who prescribe hormone therapy to transgender youth to banning transgender athletes from sports teams.
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"Short-term immigration policies that attempt to address this problem by detaining people or criminalizing asylum seekers don't go to the root of problem," she said.
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The case raises profound First Amendment issues, as it could open the door to criminalizing activities crucial to American journalists who write about national security matters.
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"When you claim to decriminalize the sex worker but are still criminalizing everything else in their lives, you are still making their lives dangerous," Luo said.
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Singapore's gay movement: Inspired by India's removal of a colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex, activists are pushing to strike down Singapore's version of the ban.
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And so, rather than further criminalizing them, we try to connect them to services and assist in meeting their needs for a variety of different services.
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Mr. Ambedkar was instrumental in abolishing untouchability, criminalizing caste discrimination and violence in independent India, and enshrining a system of affirmative action in the Indian laws.
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New Delhi (CNN)India's Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 2377 years of anti-LGBT legislation.
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In July, an Ohio federal judge temporarily blocked a "heartbeat" bill that would have banned abortion as early as six weeks; criminalizing doctors who perform it.
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Tim Kaine of Virginia asked Brownback if there was any circumstance in which religious freedom could justify "criminalizing, imprisoning or executing" someone based on sexual orientation.
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But last month, Kenyan judges upheld laws criminalizing gay sex, a move that activists feared would set back the push to expand L.G.B.T. rights in Africa.
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"To argue that 'addiction is a disease' while criminalizing possession of the drug involved in the addiction is, then, to make an impossible case," she wrote.
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Deutsche Bank AG and Citigroup Inc denied wrongdoing, with the latter saying the regulator was effectively criminalizing practices long seen as the norm in the financial industry.
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It does more harm by adding kindle to Georgia's maternal health crisis and by criminalizing basic medical procedures that are a part of safe, effective medical care.
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You have millions of American women and men who stand with them are not going to be silent if a new Supreme Court appointee favors criminalizing abortion.
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"Probably more resources are spent chasing potheads than rapists in this country," he said taking a cutting view of attorney general Jeff Sessions' preoccupation with criminalizing marijuana.
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We are creating this wave of refugees, and then shamefully we are then criminalizing these refugees once they come here by detaining, deporting, and night raiding them.
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"Criminalizing peaceful speech appears part of the Malaysian government's larger effort to tighten the noose on anyone expressing political discontent," said Phil Robertson, HRW's deputy Asia director.
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That upset Suda and her friend, who say they felt unfairly targeted because of their race, and because the agent seemed to be criminalizing the Spanish language.
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In this 2000 case, the Supreme Court built off its decisions in Casey and Roe and struck down, 5-4, a Nebraska law criminalizing partial birth abortions.
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Like a lot of federal crimes, the statutes criminalizing obstruction of justice are so broadly drafted, reasonable minds can, and have, differed on what conduct is prohibited.
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To address this, a bipartisan bill was recently introduced in the House of Representatives, calling for the repeal of state laws criminalizing HIV non-disclosure and exposure.
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To achieve HIV prevention goals, states should repeal laws criminalizing HIV exposure, nondisclosure, and alleged transmission, and Congress should support the bipartisan effort to do just that.
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But the normalization and professionalization of the cannabis industry is complicated by federal laws criminalizing the plant, as well as the negative perception that still surrounds it.
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With the support of other families affected by Cline's actions, they shared their story with legislators and petitioned them to introduce a bill explicitly criminalizing fertility fraud.
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At this moment, criminalizing marijuana has never been more unpopular, nor a more unjust way to ensure that otherwise law-abiding people have to fear the police.
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There is no federal law criminalizing "domestic terrorism" in the US, as most laws relate to international terrorism, meaning there has to be some foreign connection involved.
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Federal and state lawmakers have developed a habit over the past several decades of criminalizing behavior as one of their go-to ideas for "fixing" societal problems.
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Now, McDonnell's prosecution was indeed controversial — many legal experts and politicians in both parties argued that his prosecution was a stretch and risked overly criminalizing ordinary politics.
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Many argue that criminalizing the drug has placed unfair penalties on communities of color and that its symptoms are not serious enough to justify its legal repercussions.
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As long as the problem is "theirs" and not "ours," we will waste precious time, resources and, most importantly, lives in criminalizing instead of stemming the crisis.
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Criminalization of abortion is just one of many means of criminalizing black and brown bodies, including immigration crackdowns, the "war on drugs" and civil child welfare penalties.
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The criminalizing of law-abiding immigrants who have lived in the United States for years, and of the migrants from Central America who arrive desperate for refuge.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A new Qatari law criminalizing the publishing of "false or biased" statements could "significantly restrict freedom of expression", rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.
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In the long American tradition of criminalizing modes of Black survival, the criticisms the Moms have faced inevitably put their individual choices, never the system, on trial.
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This is the same state and same governor who planned on criminalizing future Keystone XL pipeline protesters just to save themselves and their corporate partners a headache.
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Laws criminalizing LGBTQ people, in other words, are bad on their face because they're hateful and discriminatory, but they also have significant and negative public health implications.
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" Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School and author of "Trumped Up: How Criminalizing Politics is Dangerous to Democracy.
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In early 2018, a large coalition of conservative Muslim groups presented a case to the Indonesian Constitutional Court to introduce a new penal code criminalizing LGBT relations.
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"The military is criminalizing rather than treating mental illnesses and other traumas," Alex McCoy, the political director of the anti-Trump veterans group Common Defense, told me.
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Republican Senator Rand Paul warned against over-criminalizing campaign finance violations, telling NBC's "Meet the Press" that errors in disclosures should be punished with fines, not jail.
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While the 210 act is most well-known for criminalizing fox hunting, Sutherland said the vast majority of convictions secured under it have been for hare coursing.
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"Congress should act to guarantee a level of protection for animals across the country by criminalizing these inhumane acts," Deutch said in a release at the time.
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Last year, the Indian Supreme Court struck down a colonial era law criminalizing gay sex, a historic moment for gay rights in the largest South Asian country.
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The widespread outrage across India prompted quick action on legislation that doubled prison terms for rapists to 20 years and criminalizing voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women.
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If laws criminalizing HIV and stigma were gone, people might feel more at ease to disclose their status, whether at work or in an intimate or sexual relationship.
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Photo: GettyUp until this month, revenge porn wasn't criminalized in New York City, and there are still 11 states without laws criminalizing the unwanted distribution of private images.
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Still, criminalizing the use of cryptocurrencies without attaching identification would certainly be a deterrent, and individuals who don't take every step to hide their identity could be targeted.
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But they key law criminalizing "material support" for terrorism does not apply to investigations or prosecutions of domestic terrorists, such as violent white supremacists, that commit hate crimes.
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A total abortion ban criminalizing the procedure and classifying it as a homicide cleared a committee Tuesday and will now be debated at the Texas House of Representatives.
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I really think that our criminalizing our criminal justice system, having the first recourse, lock her up, lock them up, endangers all of our rights, and endangers democracy.
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"By criminalizing the publication of revenge porn, we are empowering victims of this heinous act to take action against their abusers and showing them a path to justice."
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The group said progress had been made since it's last report, with all countries in Asia except North Korea now having laws criminalizing some forms of modern slavery.
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We already know that the rate of teen suicide increases where abortion is unavailable, and we know that criminalizing abortion does not prevent women from terminating their pregnancies.
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But the country's 2013 law criminalizing "gay propaganda," which the government similarly argued was narrowly targeted to protect children, has since been used to broadly persecute LGBT Russians.
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Over the last few years, there has been a 60% increase in laws criminalizing public sleeping and a 1003% increase in laws prohibiting living in one's vehicle nationwide.
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I assumed Americans understood the far-reaching consequences of criminalizing a religious identity: mistrust, fear, loss of civil liberties, loss of livelihood, suppression of civic and religious organizations.
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It makes you wonder if what has gone on so far is not the pursuit of criminal conduct but, instead, is the criminalizing of perfectly normal political conduct.
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The bill passed by Alabama's legislature on Tuesday, criminalizing abortion and severely punishing the participating doctors, gives us a glimpse of how a Gilead could come to be.
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While decreasing the availability of K2 on our streets and in our bodegas is certainly important, criminalizing use without adequately addressing social determinants is unlikely to be effective.
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In India, a colonial-era law criminalizing sex "against the order of nature" rarely results in convictions but remains a powerful tool to harass gay men and lesbians.
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The government created a fast-track court for rape cases and introduced new laws, criminalizing acts like voyeurism and stalking and making especially brutal rapes a capital crime.
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A refusal to acknowledge Polish complicity came to a head last year when the government passed a law effectively criminalizing the term "Polish death camp" within the country.
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At the end of the 18th century in Louisiana, black Creole women were subject to laws criminalizing their apparently ostentatious beauty, unacceptable to the white women around them.
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Shortly after, Alabama followed Georgia and Indiana in passing increasingly restrictive bills criminalizing abortion — in Alabama's case, threatening doctors with 99 years in prison for performing the procedure.
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"Every city does this, criminalizing homelessness in some way," says Kath Rogers, a San Diego attorney bringing a class action suit against the city over its encroachment ordinance.
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Criminalizing this behavior is unfair to Native American voters and does nothing to solve the real problem of mail not being picked up and delivered to Native homes.
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In less than two months we've moved from uncovering accusations of criminal behavior (Harvey Weinstein) to criminalizing behavior that we previously regarded as presumptuous and boorish (Glenn Thrush).
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It is a narrow statute, criminalizing only willful acts "by means of bribery" that have the effect of obstructing the communication of information about crimes to federal investigators.
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Those of us who oppose a violent approach to the conflict in the Middle East should not be criminalizing one of the few potent non-violent tools available.
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In Russia Mr. Putin led a crackdown on gay rights by taking such steps as criminalizing behavior that could be seen as promoting anything other than heterosexual relationships.
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New Delhi (CNN)India's top court has abolished a colonial-era law criminalizing extramarital sex, in a landmark ruling campaigners have hailed as a victory for women's rights.
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The regulations appear to be aimed at criminalizing people living in Xinjiang who make online postings about ethnic conflict or tensions, as well as related violence and terrorism.
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And last year, a town in West Sumatra Province passed a law criminalizing what it called "immoral acts" between same sex-couples and prohibited residents from cross-dressing.
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Adam Brandt, a minor Greens party lawmaker who described the legislation as criminalizing dissent, was the only lawmaker other than Wilkie to vote against the bills in the House.
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According to the Associated Press, no city funds will be allowed to enforce laws criminalizing the hallucinogens, and police officers will be able to focus on higher-priority investigations.
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We&aposre having a conversation at what the Republicans want right now would be criminalizing a woman&aposs right to choose and what to do with our own body.
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The New York City Council proposed a bill fully criminalizing the tactic last year, but it failed to gain support when Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to veto it.
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At least a handful of those bills attempt to outlaw gender-affirming health care for minors by criminalizing doctors and, in some cases, parents who consent to such procedures.
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We all have a stake in how our neighborhoods are made safe for everyone, and can choose to do this work without criminalizing the poor and people of color.
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A draft law criminalizing homophobic actions was first presented to Brazil's Congress in 2001, but despite having wide popular support, the bill was never approved by the country's Senate.
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Rights activists say the amendments include criminalizing hate speech using too broad a definition of the offense and introducing tougher penalties such as longer prison terms for online crimes.
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All three banks denied wrongdoing and vowed to defend the charges, with Citigroup saying the regulator was effectively criminalizing practices long seen as the norm in the financial industry.
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Instead, they voted in favor of further banning and criminalizing abortion—with this other proposed bill, women who terminate their pregnancy can face up to five years in prison.
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Every single year, more than 22,800 women and girls die due to complications from unsafe abortion - a stark reminder of the life and death consequences of criminalizing health care.
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The United Nations General Assembly will hold a special session April 19 to April 21 to discuss changing its policies initiated in the 1960s criminalizing drugs and drug users.
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Harm reduction experts including Dance Safe in the US and The Loop in the UK advocate for an educational-based approach to reducing drug use rather than criminalizing it.
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As if the massive increase in arrests of immigrants were not enough, DHS has launched what appears to be a highly aggressive campaign aimed at demonizing and criminalizing immigrants.
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This is because criminalizing threats serves two purposes: avoiding the risk that the threat may be carried out, and also protecting against the terror inflicted on others by threats.
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Consider: There are a number of overlapping federal laws criminalizing assault on any member of the three branches of government -- judicial, executive or legislative -- while carrying out their duties.
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" The South Carolina senator added, "It appears the Trump Administration is continuing the Obama policy of criminalizing the War on Terror by not declaring Sayfullo Saipov an enemy combatant.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy and three of his colleagues simply held that the Stolen Valor Act violated the First Amendment by criminalizing a type of speech without providing sufficient justification.
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The campaign calls for a shift away from the current trend of criminalizing homelessness and toward housing-based solutions to end and prevent homelessness, at all levels of government.
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The tool that state and local first responders need from Congress isn't another law criminalizing the same conduct; they need a meaningful way to deal with hazardous drone operators.
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"It's important to remember that there are still nearly 70 countries around the world that have laws effectively criminalizing LGBTQ status," said a blog post on the Tinder website.
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"Criminalizing homelessness is cruel, shortsighted and an absurd waste of resources," Diane Yentel, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, wrote in a tweet after the ordinance passed.
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India's Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling last September that struck down the country's colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex, culminating a legal battle begun nearly 20 years ago.
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As the presidential campaign continues, Raven calls on Democratic candidates "to be specific about supporting decriminalization, not partial criminalization, and to recognize that criminalizing buying sex hurts sex workers."
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The Maharashtra government, run by Mr. Modi's B.J.P., responded by criminalizing the protesters and claiming that the strikes were a plot by the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
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Banning plastic bags (or criminalizing them, as Kenya did) means increased food prices for low-income residents and higher costs for local store owners to provide more expensive options.
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Instead, Warren plays into Trump's hands by calling for abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency; de-criminalizing illegal immigration, and providing all health care benefits to undocumented workers.
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And until Trump addresses the illegal drug epidemic as a public health issue rather than criminalizing it, the demand for drugs from Central America will only continue to grow.
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Even now, prosecutors in Virginia are trying to find new uses for old laws criminalizing abortion, applying them to women in ways that were never intended by the legislature.
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Federal and state laws offer various definitions of bribery aimed at criminalizing acts that corrupt the integrity of government by intermingling official actions with private payments or personal favors.
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Still, rights groups have denounced the crackdown, arguing it is not in compliance with the country's own laws and is criminalizing vulnerable populations simply for seeking a better life.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Constitutional Court has ruled that existing laws criminalizing abortion are unconstitutional and ordered them to be amended, paving the way for clearer regulation for reproductive rights.
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Read more: A timeline of the Weinstein scandal On March 20, the Swedish government advanced a bill that updates its definition of rape, criminalizing sex without clearly expressed consent.
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Israel has established a dual legal regime, a form of judicial apartheid, that provides virtual impunity for Israelis who commit crimes against Palestinians, while criminalizing Palestinian presence and resistance.
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Without specific laws protecting user data and criminalizing breaches of what would become a financial contract in the U.S., it's difficult to imagine a solution to today's data problem.
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The Treasury Department last week imposed sanctions both on the ship and Kumar, freezing any assets he may have in the U.S. and criminalizing any financial transactions with him.
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In this battle, the laws passed by the federal government criminalizing such murders go up against the traditional and communal mores of a village or clan or tribal group.
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Kennedy wrote the court's 5-63 2015 ruling legalizing gay marriage nationally, a landmark for U.S. gay rights, and its important 2003 ruling striking down laws criminalizing gay sex.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Balearic Islands on Monday banned matadors from killing bulls in the ring, becoming one of several Spanish regions to move toward criminalizing the centuries-old blood sport.
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These laws prohibit sitting or lying on public sidewalks, ostensibly for public health and safety, but advocates claim they have the effect of criminalizing people who have nowhere to go.
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" Hill said states like Alabama -- which passed a near-total abortion ban this week -- are "criminalizing something that is already so, so difficult for somebody to have to go through.
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Solidarity, Family and Social Development Minister Bassima Hakkaoui told 2M TV channel on Sunday that the law criminalizing violence against women has encouraged women to report and sue their aggressors.
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Criminalizing young black girls may lead to the "once a 'bad kid,' always a 'bad kid'" label that can be hard for black youth to shake off once it's placed.
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Russell, a young nonwhite boy (New Zealand actor Dennison is Māori), is essentially facing the self-fulfilling prophecy of criminalizing youths of color, in the form of a literal prophecy.
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The repercussions of their treatment extend far beyond women who try to abort at home—advocates warn that criminalizing women who self-induce abortions puts all pregnant women at risk.
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In particular, it's the provision of the CFAA that prohibits any action that "exceeds authorized access" to a system — effectively criminalizing violations of a website or app's terms of service.
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"The Hungarian legislation curtails asylum applicants' right to communicate with and be assisted by relevant national, international and non-governmental organizations by criminalizing support to asylum applications," the Commission said.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law this week criminalizing the spread of nonconsensual pornography, making New York the forty-sixth state to implement such protections for its residents.
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Essentially, this case is an example of letting law enforcement regulate medicine—and criminalizing what might otherwise be a malpractice case related to failure to follow the standard of care.
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City of St. Paul in 1992, the Supreme Court considered a St. Paul ordinance criminalizing hate speech after a cross was burned on the front yard of a black family.
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David Koch ran as the vice-presidential candidate for the Libertarian party in 1980, attacking campaign donation limits and calling for the repeal of laws criminalizing drug use and homosexuality.
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Maharashtra, home to several social reformers including B.R. Ambedkar who fought against caste discrimination, in 2013 passed legislation criminalizing practices related to black magic, human sacrifices, and other superstitious beliefs.
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To the many cruel consequences of criminalizing basic health services for women in the new Alabama statute, add injecting law enforcement and local prosecutors into their medical care and records.
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"The court is criminalizing conduct that ordinary Americans do every day online," Jamie Williams, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supported overturning Nosal's conviction, said in an interview.
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Re-criminalizing marijuana in light of current research findings, including my own research of more than 15 years, makes Sessions' proposed crackdown on legal marijuana look worse than reefer madness.
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The women complied, but they proceeded to beautify their wraps; a law criminalizing someone for being too beautiful while also being black is going to be ineffective for obvious reasons.
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But forget about all the angst and the hypocritical coke snorters: The most tangible damage to people and the environment arises from criminalizing little green plants and states of mind.
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This year Utah, Arkansas, Alabama and Texas were the first U.S. states to pass laws criminalizing sextortion, and similar legislation has been introduced in the District of Columbia, Becker said.
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It would do so both directly, by targeting police departments whose community-trust policies restrict officers from asking about immigration status, and indirectly, by criminalizing unlawful presence with harsh penalties.
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"Criminalizing essential and legitimate human rights work is a brazen attack on people seeking safe haven from persecution and those who carry out admirable work to help them," she said.
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Juul spoke out against the legislation, arguing that criminalizing e-cigarettes would "create a thriving black market" and encourage a return to "deadly cigarettes," as reported by the Washington Post.
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This means all states and countries across the world criminalizing the sharing of private sexual images without consent, whatever the motivation of the perpetrator, as well as threats to share.
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As a result, it is not clear whether statutes criminalizing obstruction of justice apply to the president and amount to another legal limit on how he may wield his powers.
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The Union should focus its efforts to stem the flow of migration on helping other sectors of Niger's economy grow and on regulating the trade, rather than further criminalizing it.
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Criminalizing "everyday acts of misbehavior" pushes kids out of school and teaches them that there is no limit to the power of the state to arrest them, the mother argued.
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President Bill Clinton would eventually sign the Communications Decency Act in 1996, criminalizing the online transmission of "obscene or indecent" materials to anyone known to be under the age of 18.
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Garner lost his life to the very system that's been criminalizing, condemning—and many, including myself, would argue—enslaving black men in America with a biased justice system as its vehicle.
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"He's extremely gun-shy about taking on powerful white people with lots of connections, but he has no problem freely criminalizing black people," said Ron Kuby, a longtime criminal defense attorney.
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Ugandan Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo, in an interview with local media Thursday, said present laws criminalizing gay sex - which in theory can come with a life sentence - were not tough enough.
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"Kidnapping for ransom remains a thriving business, boosted by European Union-sponsored policies aimed at criminalizing migrants and refugees and preventing them from reaching European shores at all cost," MSF said.
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The Stonewall Riots in June 1969 represented a breaking point for the community, fighting back against the police raids that had long threatened LGBTQ people, criminalizing the act of coming together.
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Ukraine passed a law criminalizing illicit enrichment in 2015 as a condition of it receiving bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund that kept the country afloat during a steep recession.
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The EU Commission, which is locked in a series of running battles with Orban including over reforms criminalizing support for migrants, dismissed the latest Hungarian campaign as "fake news and disinformation".
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While India's parliament passed some of its recommendations, such as criminalizing stalking and making acid attacks a specific offense, it did not agree with the panel's proposal to outlaw marital rape.
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Prosecutors said Hallinan and Neff conspired to evade state laws criminalizing such loans by paying three native tribes to pretend they were the actual lenders in order to claim sovereign immunity.
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These shifts, the results of many years of activism, can sustain the progressive movement in the dark days ahead when legislation criminalizing free speech and association is used to block advances.
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To the detriment of the entire city, Cuomo and MTA leaders have decided that criminalizing poverty and leaning on fines are the best approach to dealing with the MTA's financial insecurities.
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"Criminalizing expression like this threatens almost anyone willing to weigh in on the debate," Judge A. Wallace Tashima wrote in his opinion for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Politico reported.
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That means anyone who assists in a banned abortion procedure could go be charged with a crime, and it could go as far as criminalizing driving someone to get an abortion.
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The British government announced that the bill has received royal assent, the final step in criminalizing the act of taking a photo up a person's skirt without their knowledge or consent.
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Mr. Pence talked about the beauty of adoption — in the context of criminalizing abortion, that really means forcing women to bear children for other people — and "health care counseling" for women.
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Her essay "The Illegal Days" is precise and vivid on the way that criminalizing abortion affected the life of every woman, young or old, pregnant or not, sexually active or celibate.
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"Ireland has gone from criminalizing gays, having just one television channel and priests running the show, to now a liberal, European society," said Mark Neiland, a business owner in his 60s.
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"This is a very bad day for Egypt," said Ms. Hawthorne, the analyst, who predicted that the new law would weaken Egypt by effectively criminalizing the work of many aid groups.
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Press rights advocates jumped to Greenwald's defense on Tuesday, warning that the accusations against Greenwald could be seen as a silencing effort and a slippery slope toward criminalizing important journalistic practices.
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Mr. Gangi has argued that as long as we keep policing quality-of-life crimes in accordance with the "broken windows" approach to law-enforcement, we are essentially criminalizing skin color.
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Kelly's attorney, Yaakov Moshe Roth, warned the justices on Tuesday that letting the Third Circuit's decision stand could lead to "criminalizing ulterior motives even without bribes or kickbacks" for public officials.
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The eight academics on trial are the victims of a mounting political paranoia that's criminalizing Iranians with ties to the West, stifling science and research, and ultimately deepening Iran's environmental crises.
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In a 2015 statement of interest addressing a law in Boise, Idaho, the Justice Department warned that local laws criminalizing homelessness could violate the Constitution's protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
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But zero-sum thinking is, in some ways, a logical response to a dysfunctional system that seems to lurch from one extreme to another, from coddling pain to nearly criminalizing it.
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In the United States, similar actions by animal rights activists have resulted in "ag-gag laws" criminalizing covert investigations of farms, which activists say keep cruel practices concealed from the public.
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Proposals that could be included in a 2018 draft law include criminalizing street harassment and extending the statute of limitation for the rape of minors to 30 years from 20 years.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new law criminalizing violence against women that came into effect in Morocco on Wednesday does not fully protect women against forced marriage or domestic violence, activists said.
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According to the reproductive justice legal group If/When/How, there are five states—Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Oklahoma, and South Carolina—that still have laws on the books criminalizing self-managed abortion.
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" New York City alone could garner as much as $335 million, Stringer's office said, which "could be used to invest in communities most damaged by decades of criminalizing marijuana usage and possession.
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" While Egypt does not specifically have laws criminalizing homosexuality, BBC notes that authorities often arrest people who are suspected of engaging in consensual homosexual behavior on charges of "debauchery", "immorality" or "blasphemy.
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"We cannot promise you that if we ban someone on Bumble, that they will not go use another system," she said, in speaking of the importance of legislation criminalizing indecent exposure online.
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Sex between two people of the same gender is still illegal in India, and it's not just an outdated law — officials in India renewed the law criminalizing same-gender desire in 2013.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's president has submitted a draft law to parliament criminalizing illicit enrichment by officials, a condition for receiving support from the International Monetary Fund, the parliament website showed on Wednesday.
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In the United States, 33 states still have laws criminalizing potential HIV exposure, with most of these laws outdated and punishing behaviors that have no or only negligible risk of causing infection.
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Regardless of motive, criminalizing pregnant women ignores an important truth about early childhood: the bonding between parent and child during the first weeks of life is the foundation for lifelong mental health.
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Until those two developments, many Evangelicals and other Christians were actually open to (if not outright supportive of) de-criminalizing abortion, since they wanted to prevent babies being born out of wedlock.
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The NRA launched an ad campaign earlier this month explaining that Manchin's new "D" rating from the group is based off of his support for criminalizing private firearm transfers between family members.
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The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights will co-host the regional conference on defining and criminalizing torture with the government's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on Sept.
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More than 800 women die daily from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, 214 million women worldwide have unmet contraceptive needs, and countries are criminalizing and restricting access to safe abortion.
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While they arguably constitute a technical violation of the Logan Act, there isn't a prosecutor worth his salt who would consider criminalizing a conversation that would be legal in a few weeks.
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By criminalizing abortion, anti-abortion advocates are forcing medical providers to interrogate their patients' pregnancy outcomes, question every comment, and conspire with law enforcement to prosecute someone who was seeking medical attention.
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The consequences are strongly felt — the beginnings of criminalizing Black people, Black men in particular, making them out to be these poorly behaved, monstrous people for things like vagrancy, which meant nothing.
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Laws criminalizing defamation, the Official Secrets Act, the Unlawful Associations Act, the 1934 Aircraft Act, and section 131 of the Myanmar Penal Code have all been used against journalists in recent years.
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" The campaigners argue that the law already protects children from abuse and that the authorities should focus on enforcing those laws instead of wasting time on trivial cases and criminalizing "good parents.
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So when the Indian Supreme Court struck down this fall the country's colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex, Johnson Ong — 2,500 miles away in Singapore — saw it as a call to action.
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The answer is, the kind of the party that, long before Trump came on the scene, committed itself to denying the facts on climate change and criminalizing the scientists reporting those facts.
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But Ms. Safvi said she worried that criminalizing the practice, which is a "civil matter" because it involves marriage, was "a bit of an overkill" and could pave the way for misuse.
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In debates, he assailed Biden for helping to pass a sweeping crime bill in the 1990s and for his stance on criminalizing marijuana, saying his policies disproportionately harmed the African-American community.
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Australia: A new law criminalizing violent content online was seen as a model for creating a safer internet, but enforcement so far is largely passive and reactive, highlighting limits to the approach.
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"He is saying he wants democracy, human rights and free expression, but on the other hand the police keep arresting and criminalizing people," said Usman Hamid, executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia.
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The actions of the modern-day GOP lay bare its truth: it is engaged in a coherent, consistent and intentional strategy aimed at the ultimate goal of criminalizing abortion and punishing women.
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In some countries, Ms. Ghoshal said, longstanding laws criminalizing homosexuality are not enforced at all, while in countries that have never had anti-gay laws, there remains social stigma, violence and discrimination.
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The 10-Point Plan also introduces other methods of raising money for the subway, like "consolidating redundant functions" within the MTA (this could possibly mean layoffs), and combating fare evasion without criminalizing it.
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While the U.K.'s health secretary suggests the tech industry could "do really smart things" to block such content, experts say that stopping sexting is not only unfeasible but also risks criminalizing teenagers.
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So while there are a growing number of laws criminalizing non-consensual pornography, such as revenge porn, the images churned out by such AI-assisted software aren't covered by existing legislation, Citron explained.
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The week, a protest performance at the National Portrait Gallery, Disney's weird policy towards classic Fox movies, words about perception, the lack of food in video games, criminalizing the b-word, and more.
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"The US should immediately halt this practice of separating families and stop criminalizing what should be at most an administrative offence — that of irregular entry or stay in the US," the statement said.
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The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was to co-host the regional conference on defining and criminalizing torture with the government's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on Sept.
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Morocco adopted a law in September last year criminalizing domestic violence and various kinds of verbal and online harassment, "but much needs to be done in order to reduce evidence requirements," she said.
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The cases, brought by Brazilian rights group ABGLT and the Popular Socialist Party, ask the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) to acknowledge the "unconstitutional delay" of Brazil's Congress in criminalizing violence against LGBT+ people.
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Prosecutors said Hallinan and Neff conspired to evade state laws criminalizing such loans by paying three native tribes including Ginger's to pretend they were the actual lenders in order to claim sovereign immunity.
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Our report shows that states are building fences, engaging in pushback operations and criminalizing irregular migration to clamp down on the entry of people to their territories -- but such steps are often counterproductive.
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UNITED NATIONS – Laws criminalizing consensual gay sex have been scrapped in about 25 countries in the last 20 years, but more than 70 nations still have such prohibitions, a U.N. expert said Friday.
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Wade, abortion has been legal throughout the US; for decades, even the flagbearers of the anti-abortion movement have stressed that they don't believe in criminalizing women who choose to terminate their pregnancies.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Criminalizing marital rape could "destabilize" marriages and make men vulnerable to harassment by their wives, said India's government in response to a plea in the capital's high court.
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Security measures targeting one part of the population or criminalizing certain groups violated the rule of law and were severely discriminatory, Ruiz Cabanas said in a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Technology has increased people's options for freedom of expression and the backlash is growing, with governments around the world blocking or criminalizing the use of security apps to silence ideas they don't like.
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"I was advocating [15 years ago] that we have to stop arresting these prostitutes and start going after the johns and the pimps, because we were criminalizing the women," Harris told The Root.
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These measures would give state and local law enforcement boards authority to enforce immigration laws, allowing states to craft their own immigration rules and potentially criminalizing anyone who is here without legal status.
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Lewis did not provide a reason for the amendment, but outside groups have previously expressed concerns that provisions criminalizing the fraudulent use of Social Security numbers for tax purposes would hurt undocumented immigrants.
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And while prosecutors have fought back against a defense lawyer's assertion that the case is "criminalizing normal politics," their argument in court filings is that the lane closings were precisely that: normal politics.
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Popular dating app Tinder has introduced a new feature for LGBTQ users that will alert them when they are in a country that has "laws effectively criminalizing LGBTQ status," the company announced Wednesday.
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New Delhi (CNN)India's Lower House of Parliament has approved a bill criminalizing the controversial Islamic divorce practice known as "triple talaq" and making it punishable with up to three years in prison.
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Israel's Ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, said that the law could be seen as criminalizing Holocaust survivors, many of whom were betrayed to the Nazis by Poles, simply for speaking about their experience.
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What it suggests is that racial biases are creeping into classrooms filled with 4-year-olds and that schools are effectively criminalizing black children, particularly boys, when they are barely out of diapers.
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And when India overturned their law criminalizing homosexuality earlier this month, Kenyan activists hoped the decision would help put wind in their sails considering that India's law was also originally imposed by Britain.
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In essence, the 20003 law, universally regarded as illogical, unfair, and downright racist, had reared its old, dusty head once again, disrupting businesses, criminalizing dancing, and making us all worry about our livelihoods.
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But with this indictment, he has become the target for a case that could open the door to criminalizing activities that are crucial to American investigative journalists who write about national security matters.
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Its ban goes further than the others, criminalizing doctors and others who help induce abortions, as well as making those who are pregnant, potentially liable for murder if they prompt a pregnancy loss.
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"The U.S. should immediately halt this practice of separating families and stop criminalizing what should at most be an administrative offense — that of irregular entry or stay in the U.S.," Ms. Shamdasani said.
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Any talk of criminalizing all possession of handguns seems to me an attempt to mask the inability of police forces in larger centers, notably Toronto, to get the gang violence problem under control.
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Alabama needs to stop criminalizing rural people who cannot afford on-site sanitation, determine the extent of the problem statewide and provide funding for families to receive on-site septic systems that work.
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In October, Deutsch attended the Summit for Protecting Children from Sexualization in the District hosted by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which discussed similar efforts criminalizing transgender care in other states, he said.
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Members of Congress should use their own free speech, which includes a much bigger bully pulpit than most of us have, to oppose political initiatives they find offensive, rather than criminalizing specific campaigns.
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions issued a report calling on States to repeal laws criminalizing abortion and ensure women do not have to undertake life-threatening clandestine abortions.
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"His arrest unfortunately shows that he continues to be targeted by a government hell-bent on criminalizing him for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly," the rights group said.
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These policies are effectively criminalizing the immigrant community — putting trafficking victims and survivors more deeply into the shadows and limiting law enforcement's ability to investigate trafficking crimes because communities are reticent to cooperate.
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Taxpayer resources are best utilized to protect communities — including minority communities from the rising threat of white supremacy organizations — rather than criminalizing individuals on the basis of their race, religion, and political beliefs.
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Rather than berating yourself, though, please recognize the enormity of what you're up against as a young woman in America: a culture steeped in misogyny, devoted to brainwashing women and criminalizing female ambition.
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At the time, those who favored criminalizing booze, beer and wine included mercenary figures who profited handsomely from a black market created by prohibition, along with teetotaling "do-gooders" concerned with saving souls.
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In May, the governor signed a bill banning abortion at every stage of pregnancy and criminalizing the procedure for doctors, in what became the most stringent measure to prohibit abortion in the country.
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As financial and economic troubles threaten to undermine confidence in the Communist Party, Beijing is tightening the flow of economic information and even criminalizing commentary that officials believe could hurt stocks or the currency.
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Washington (CNN)2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said Sunday that a Bush-era law criminalizing border crossings should remain in place, pointing to the importance of a "legal mechanism" to hold smugglers accountable.
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In 2018, he spearheaded a social media campaign and a series of protests against the imposition of Decree 349, the new law in Cuba criminalizing cultural activity that is not authorized by the state.
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Jailed for racism: A woman became the first person to be sentenced under South African laws criminalizing racist language, after she called two police officers "kaffirs," a highly offensive term for black South Africans.
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On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives is scheduled to debate a bill that would allow towns in the state to "regulate attire" in public areas as a way of criminalizing female toplessness.
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Hard to begrudge people for wanting to lock him in those circumstances I think what leads to a bad place is criminalizing your political opponents because they're your opponents, which is what Trump does.
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"There's been a huge amount of progress at getting laws criminalizing revenge porn on the state level, but jurisdictional issues and budget constraints for Law enforcement have made them difficult to enforce," Bowden said.
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Mike DeWine signed one of the country's most restrictive abortion measures into law on Thursday, criminalizing the procedure after the first detectable fetal heartbeat — which can be as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Two leading European rights bodies have told Hungary that its "Stop Soros" bill criminalizing help to illegal immigrants is "arbitrary" and vague, unduly threatens non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and violates European law.
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Why it matters: Georgia criminalizing the procedure at a point when many women remain unaware they are pregnant comes as a growing number of Republican-led state legislatures are seeking to overturn abortion rights.
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For example, he has called for criminalizing the burning of the American flag despite repeated rulings of the Supreme Court (including conservative icon Antonin Scalia) that such acts are protected by the First Amendment.
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MPs in the UK are considering introducing the Nordic Model, which could prove hugely dangerous for sex workers—criminalizing clients only makes them far less likely to call for help if something goes wrong.
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Criminalizing addiction has the effect of dramatically expanding government by building a vast law enforcement, criminal justice and prison infrastructure to implement a "tough on crime" solution to what is effectively a medical problem.
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Although the partner did not test positive for HIV and was not in fact exposed to HIV, Rhoades was prosecuted and convicted under Iowa's law criminalizing transmission of HIV as a class B felony.
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Criminalizing poverty and homelessness doesn't solve any underlying problem, and in fact makes the situation worse and wastes community public resources that could be used to address the underlying causes of poverty and homelessness.
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While they voted to decriminalize the recreational consumption of hallucinogens by a modest margin, they overwhelmingly chose to keep criminalizing homeless people for sleeping outside: 82 percent of them voted no on Initiative 20183.
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The initiative draws on the knowledge of drug policy professionals, public health advocates, the medical community, and local activists to promote policy decisions that champion the public health without demonizing, or criminalizing, marijuana use.
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After a lively debate, members were convinced by those who argued that an affirmative consent standard gave prosecutors too much power, and risked criminalizing behavior the public does not see as deserving of prison.
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Since the accusations of political meddling, Australia has taken steps to curb foreign interference, introducing a series of bills aimed at strengthening the country's espionage laws and criminalizing efforts to interfere in Australian democracy.
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Being first generation and growing up with this music — and considering what's going on right now in the United States — it's really important to create spaces that celebrate these voices rather than criminalizing them.
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BILASPUR, India — If you had told Ayesha Kapur 10 years ago that she would help lead the fight against one of the world's oldest laws criminalizing gay sex, she would never have believed you.
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How the community manages that reaction — whether it works toward actually providing better opportunity for people who are homeless instead of just cracking down and criminalizing them — is the true test of a community.
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Were the court to reverse its abortion jurisprudence — that state laws criminalizing abortion violate a woman's constitutional right to privacy — it is widely assumed the issue would be left to the states to decide.
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But amidst national outcry surrounding reproductive rights, Hollywood actors and directors have made calls to boycott the state of Georgia, which recently instituted a "heartbeat bill," effectively criminalizing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
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We want so badly to avoid further criminalizing the men who have beat the odds, men like R. Kelly, that for nearly 30 years it was OK if that meant black girls weren't safe.
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INGRAHAM: On the porch, Martha&aposs Vineyard, with all the snowflakes who can&apost take the fact that there&aposs a civil libertarian out there who is actually principled on these matters of criminalizing politics.
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There remains no federal law against revenge porn, and though California is one of the states that have already passed their own laws criminalizing the practice, federal prosecutors dropped a case against Elam in 2014.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to hear a petition challenging a law criminalizing gay sex, a setback for gay rights activists battling in the country's courts to get the ban overturned.
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We already live in a world where politicians who are embarrassingly ignorant about women's basic reproductive biology are still trying to legally control it, among other things, by criminalizing miscarriage and forwarding fetal personhood laws.
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"Prostitution in itself is inherently violent," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding that laws aimed at curbing demand by punishing clients without criminalizing those who have been driven into prostitution were a better solution.
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The law, which would have come into force on July 1, is not criminalizing all second trimester abortions, but it is being criticized for prohibiting one of the safest and most effective procedures, IndyStar reports.
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The California senator's liberal bona fides have come under scrutiny from progressives, who say that Harris supported tough-on-crime policies as a prosecutor that disproportionately hurt minorities and the poor, such as criminalizing truancy.
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Britain, Japan and numerous U.S. and Australian states have passed laws criminalizing revenge porn, and social media giant Facebook said in March that it would use artificial intelligence to remove accounts that share such images.
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Child welfare advocates said the case illustrated serious concerns about cyberbullying, while free-speech proponents said Bristol County Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz's guilty verdict infringed on Carter's free-speech rights by criminalizing her words.
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We are calling for all women to join us for a mass civil disobedience in DC on Thursday, 28503/22019, to demand this administration stop criminalizing undocumented immigrants and tearing children away from their parents.
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By criminalizing a pastime that millions of Americans, including Presidents, enjoy, PASPA has succeeded in driving the billions spent on sports wagering underground, where it helps fund organized crime and prop-up shady overseas operators.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Britain is undergoing a subtle but alarming shift towards criminalizing peaceful protest and free expression, said a U.N. report on Monday that likened it to a "Big Brother" state of surveillance and suspicion.
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As the city government ponders criminalizing demonstrations, and law enforcement reacts with harsher tactics and officers march without identification numbers visible, many in Hong Kong cannot help but wonder is 2047 has now come early.
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Criminalizing extramarital or homosexual sexual activity is contrary to international human rights norms, and the code's punishments amount to grave human rights violations under international treaties prohibiting torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
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"there's a much broader sense of justice that needs to be had" But meanwhile, we started a war on crime where we invested every last dime we had in policing and arresting and criminalizing behavior.
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"We need to eradicate all laws criminalizing people on the basis of HIV status," said Naina Khanna, the executive director of Positive Women's Network, who recommends restorative justice models and counseling services in their place.
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Far from criminalizing trade activity, it can be seen as helping to protect both U.S. sovereignty and the rights of U.S. companies to do business where and how they want without interference from foreign powers.
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The report said the killings were part of a strategy by the government of President Nicolas Maduro aimed at "neutralizing, repressing and criminalizing political opponents and people critical of the government", which accelerated since 2016.
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NEW DELHI — It is one of the world's oldest laws criminalizing consensual gay sex, and after weeks of deliberation, India's top court is set to decide whether it should go the way of colonial rule.
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In a landmark ruling this week, the Indian Supreme Court didn't simply strike down Section 377, the odious British-introduced law criminalizing homosexual acts — it did so in a judgment of remarkable scope and eloquence.
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They had returned to educate mostly foreign visitors about a relatively recent period in history (1948 — 1994) where a nationalist government had succeeded in discriminating despicably against black Africans and criminalizing interaction between the races.
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Proponents of the home-grow model say it represents a third approach that falls somewhere between criminalizing use of the drug and creating a market in which businesses have an incentive to encourage marijuana use.
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If there were to be federal statute that allowed Americans to be charged for domestic terrorism, it would have to be artfully constructed so that it doesn't end up criminalizing protected speech, only violent conduct.
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If the court holds that the law can stand, the impact could be devastating and far-reaching — potentially criminalizing legal advice by immigration attorneys and the written and spoken words of immigrant advocates and activists.
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Rather than make web purveyors into censorious agents of the state it gets at the problem directly by criminalizing the use of the web "with the intent" to promote or facilitate prostitution or sexual trafficking.
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Some experts are concerned we will slip back into a 80s and 90s war-on-drugs era mentality—criminalizing drug addicts rather than treating them–which was proven to be ineffective at ending addiction struggles.
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But what it does show, I think, is how in criminalizing homosexual acts, you don't just target men who are living their lives as gay men, but you affect a whole range of sexual practices.
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Virginia (1967), in which the Court discounted Virginia's stated reason for its anti-miscegenation law as preserving racial purity for all races; it held that the actual reason for criminalizing interracial marriage was white supremacy.
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Clinton has released the more detailed plan, which includes banning assault weapons, blocking domestic abusers from accessing guns, criminalizing straw purchases, strengthening inspections of gun dealers, and repealing a law that shields gun manufacturers from lawsuits.
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Wade, criminalizing abortion, and punishing women for seeking healthcare, but recently, with the support of an anti-choice president who has promised to end Roe, they have drastically ramped up their attacks on women's fundamental rights.
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SANT JOAN DE VILATORRADA, Spain (Reuters) - In condemning Catalan separatist leaders to long prison terms, Spanish authorities have set a precedent that risks criminalizing any form of dissent against the state, one of the leaders said.
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"What's happening is a truly alarming spread of state legislation that, if passed, will have the intent or impact of criminalizing peaceful protests," said Lee Rowland, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union rights group.
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"As a general matter, I don't believe that we should be criminalizing activity between consenting adults, and especially when doing so causes even more harm for those involved," Booker said in a statement provided to Refinery29.
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Many see their parents use pharmaceuticals in the same utilitarian way, leaving them attuned to the hypocrisy of medicalizing drug use by one class of people while criminalizing use for exactly the same reason by another.
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Cunningham says it will be interesting to see how Massachusetts' legislature responds to Roy's family's appeals at Thursday's sentencing to pass a law criminalizing the enticement or assistance of a suicide, which many states already have.
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Africa has some of the world's most prohibitive laws against homosexuality, with 32 nations out of 54 criminalizing same-sex relations, according to the ILGA, an LGBT+ rights group, with punishments ranging from imprisonment to death.
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"RUSAF has made further progress since June including anti-doping education modules and securing the co-operation of the Russian criminal authorities and parliament in criminalizing the supply of doping products," he told a news conference.
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"The Trump Administration's sudden refusal to…defend a long-standing federal statute criminalizing this horrific act disrespects the health and futures of vulnerable women and girls," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement in May.
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The decision drew upon a 1962 Supreme Court ruling that struck down state laws criminalizing addiction to narcotics, holding that the government could not punish someone for a medical condition over which they had no control.
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" "If there's mandatory reporting with consensual sexual activity between two young adults who are in the same school or classroom," Panjabi continues, "that creates a culture where we're potentially criminalizing consensual sexual activity for young people.
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The most harmful effect of criminalizing marijuana may not be its restriction on medical uses, but its devastating cost to American society, which experienced a 500 percent increase in incarceration due to the war on drugs.
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The state introduces legislation effectively targeting Muslims, which in turn encourages and emboldens the counter-jihad movement — whose policy papers, polemics and protests propel the state to extend legislation, all but criminalizing aspects of Muslims' identity.
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The legislation would also strengthen criminal penalties for human smugglers, drug traffickers and money launderers, as well as criminalizing the surveillance of Border Patrol activities with the intent of profiting from the violation of immigration laws.
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The Food and Drug Administration's restrictions on mifepristone—one of two drugs involved in the abortion pill regimen—make it illegal to sell abortion pills online, and some states have laws explicitly criminalizing self-managed abortion.
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"Several of the journalists raised concern about the proliferation of laws criminalizing 'fake news' and the ways these laws are used to target critical media," Simon wrote, citing the term that Trump weaponized in late 2016.
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The state also charged two low-income women of color — Bei Bei Shuai and Purvi Patel — with "feticide" and sent them to jail, creating a dangerous precedent of criminalizing women who attempt to end their pregnancies.
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The European Union Justice Commissioner, Vera Jourova has told the social media giants, such as Facebook and Twitter, that they must eliminate both hate speech and fake news, or face legislation criminalizing them for not doing so.
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Police have long been harassing the homeless and criminalizing poverty, but with the passing of the new mta budget that officially approved the hiring of 500 more mta cops, we can expect this abuse to only increase.
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In the United States, more than two dozen states have laws criminalizing FGM, but not all of them explicitly prohibit transporting a child to another state that doesn't forbid FGM, which allegedly occurred in the Michigan case.
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Video Soros reportedly spent over $1.5 million on a political action committee to prop up the San Diego County candidacy of Geneviéve Jones-Wright, who attacked policies "criminalizing poverty" and pledged to form a police misconduct unity.
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But while the Nottinghamshire decision might seem like a feminist victory, criminalizing street harassment is not the best way to solve street harassment in the US, says Emily May, executive director of the anti-harassment group Hollaback!
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Kelly Cassidy, repeals a 1975 law which has been mostly blocked by the courts because it included measures such as criminalizing providers and letting husbands obtain injunctions in order to block their partners from having an abortion.
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Second, Republicans in Washington generally don't hesitate to jettison their stated belief in states' rights and intervene in state jurisdiction when it suits them, from raising the drinking age to criminalizing marijuana to banning partial-birth abortion.
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But once they reach the United States, they must run the gauntlet of an immigration system caught between assisting or criminalizing hundreds of thousands of Central Americans who have entered the United States in the past decade.
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UNODC said the number of countries that passed laws criminalizing trafficking grew to 158 this year from 33 in 2003 but there was still too few convictions with 15 percent of countries reporting no convictions at all.
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Officials are confident that a new law criminalizing bribery and corruption in sports federations, which were previously immune from investigation unless they requested it, will not dull the appeal of Switzerland once it takes effect in July.
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Writing for a three-judge panel, Circuit Judge Ann Claire Williams said the 2006 law did not violate the First Amendment by criminalizing speech or conduct that causes damage only to an animal enterprise's profits or goodwill.
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U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman reportedly concluded in the case that the law criminalizing female genital mutilation that Congress passed in 1996 was unconstitutional and said that the regulation of the practice is up to the states.
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It's very unlikely that Sessions will be prosecuted under laws criminalizing perjury, owing both to laws protecting sitting Congress members (which he was at the time of testimony) and due to the difficulty of proving a lie.
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People directly impacted by modern mass incarceration, draconian drug policies, police violence, and the laws intended to protect but end up criminalizing sex workers by police violence—they are not only demanding change, they're making it themselves.
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Because there currently is no federal law criminalizing domestic terrorism, some mass casualty attacks -- including certain indiscriminate mass shootings -- can fall between the cracks and leave federal agents and prosecutors without a crime to investigate and charge.
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In October, Deutsch attended the "Summit on Protecting Children from Sexualization" conference in Washington, which was hosted by the right-wing Heritage Foundation and featured discussion of similar efforts criminalizing transgender care in other states, he said.
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Most importantly, and this is no small feat, keeping the peace -- without tampering with human rights or criminalizing dissent - in a nation that faced 14 years of one of the worst civil wars in Africa's modern history.
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Cannabis oil for epilepsy – what you need to know Re-criminalizing cannabis is worse than 1930s 'reefer madness' The next step in the process of making this CBD product available is rescheduling by the Drug Enforcement Agency.
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Brazil, long a world leader the issue, has retreated under its far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who once said he'd rather his son were dead than gay and blasted a recent Supreme Court decision criminalizing LGBTQ discrimination.
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Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein apparently were concerned that criminalizing the Comey firing and other Trump actions that "took place in public view" would displace presidential accountability from the electoral and political realm to the courtroom.
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Some have argued that the law is unconstitutional in two ways -- it violates the First Amendment by criminalizing free speech, and violates the Fifth Amendment due process clause because the conduct covered by the law is extremely vague.
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What my big concern, I think that we have to realize that say no to drugs did not work for most of America, and the idea of criminalizing drug activity, I think it&aposs a self-inflicted pain.
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Constitutional experts say if the court decides privacy is a fundamental right, it could open up to review a law criminalizing homosexuality, a ban on the consumption of beef in many states and an alcohol ban in some.
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FATF also called on Iran to step up its own anti-money laundering efforts by "criminalizing terrorist financing" and putting in place the kind system for reporting suspicious financial transactions to central governments which FATF members have instituted.
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"Evangelicals are not living out the good news of the gospel as Jesus modeled and commanded when we prioritize criminalizing abortion as our single most important issue politically while neglecting issues of poverty or refugees," she told me.
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There was pain in recounting the violence and trauma that sex workers say results from criminalizing their work, but Monday's rally was still buoyed by the hope that Decrim NY could make significant strides toward preventing further harm.
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Rather than respecting our right to provide relief to migrants who have traversed thousands of miles in search of better lives, the administration is criminalizing our conduct in an area that government has historically done little to preserve.
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At a recent rally in Albany to repeal a statute criminalizing loitering for the purposes of prostitution, former sex workers stood next to lawmakers like Senator Ramos and Assemblyman Richard N. Gottfried, the chairman of the health committee.
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United States lawmakers took a step on Tuesday toward criminalizing doping in international sports, introducing a bill in the House that would attach prison time to the use, manufacturing or distribution of performance-enhancing drugs in global competitions.
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Laws that say, for instance, that people can't stay in public spaces longer than a certain number of hours have the effect of criminalizing people who are homeless, especially in communities where in winter the shelters get full.
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Doctors and reproductive health advocates also say that laws criminalizing harm to the fetus can lead to dangerous situations where a patient is experiencing a miscarriage and needs care, but becomes the subject of a criminal investigation instead.
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When it's clear that people will do a certain thing — and this runs the gamut from betting through drugs and liquor — we need to stop criminalizing the behavior and find ways to make it fairer, safer and cleaner.
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Since becoming president in 2007, Kadyrov has embraced aspects of religious fundamentalism that he says are appropriate given the region's Islamic heritage, criminalizing "immoral activities" like drinking or gambling and condoning honor killings of women who commit adultery.
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Her lawyers appealed to the state's highest court Thursday to have her conviction vacated based on various arguments involving the lack of physical evidence in the trial and the legal complexities of criminalizing suicide cases based on words alone.
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That's because the law was proposed by the same group of lawmakers in Russia who recently passed a law criminalizing the spread of online news that disrespects the government, said Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of network security rating company SecurityScorecard.
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"If you read through parliamentary debates such as those for the 2009 Policing and Crime Act, the narrative that surrounds them is based on this notion that we need to protect women by further criminalizing the industry," she says.
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Hong agreed, saying that because the state legislature does not have an adequate law in place to address this kind of case, they are more likely to introduce a law criminalizing this type of behavior in the near future.
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However, British Columbia Provincial Health Officer Doctor Perry Kendall takes a different stance and says that criminalizing W-18 will likely not make any difference, and could actually result in the creation of a stronger drug to replace it.
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On September 6, the Supreme Court struck down Section 377, a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, while on Thursday, a 158-year-old adultery law was abolished after the Court declared it retrograde and discriminatory toward women.
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"While laws criminalizing homosexual acts exist across Africa, LGBTQI people see Kenya as the least bad option as anti-gay laws are rarely enforced and there is less violence," said Adam Fitzgerald from the Refugee Coalition of East Africa.
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"It appears the Trump Administration is continuing the Obama policy of criminalizing the War on Terror by not declaring Sayfullo Saipov an enemy combatant," Graham said in a statement, referring to the 29 year-old suspect in the attack.
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NEW DELHI — India's Supreme Court on Tuesday started hearing a challenge to one of the world's oldest laws criminalizing consensual gay sex, a debate that has raised broader questions about how far to extend equal rights in the country.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A battle in Kenya's courts to throw out a British colonial-era law criminalizing gay sex has been reinvigorated after India scrapped similar legislation in a landmark ruling last week, LGBT rights campaigners said on Wednesday.
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What Muhammad Ali did—in a culture that worships sports and violence as well as a culture that idolizes black athletes while criminalizing black skin—was redefine what it meant to be tough and collectivize the very idea of courage.
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"It is just a continuation and incentivization of criminalizing poverty in our city," Cabán said, noting that if a driver doesn't pay the parking meter, the worst they get is a ticket, but people are arrested for avoiding public transportation fares.
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"By criminalizing the performance of an abortion (or attempted performance of an abortion) at all points in pregnancy, H.B. 314 directly conflicts with Roe and more than four decades of Supreme Court precedent affirming its central holding," the lawsuit reads.
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Today's activism around decriminalization is largely spurred by issues of social justice and the belief that criminalizing pot contributes to mass incarceration, according to scholar Emily Dufton, author of Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America.
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Mike Pence Reality Check: Mike Pence's record By Lisa Rose, CNN Stephanie Schriock, president of the pro-abortion rights political action committee, Emily's List, said a Trump-Pence administration would roll back women's rights, criminalizing abortion and slashing reproductive health funding.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's High Court on Friday upheld a British colonial-era law criminalizing same-sex relations in a judgment which campaigners said was a major blow to the fight for the rights of sexual minorities across Africa.
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In January, Arkansas has effectively made second-trimester abortions inaccessible by criminalizing D&E; the other procedure that would be used this far along in pregnancy, dilation and extraction or D&X, was banned by the Supreme Court in 2007.
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Jones' indictment has sparked an outcry among reproductive rights activists against the treatment of women, particularly women of color, in a state that has very recently passed a law criminalizing abortion at any stage, with no exceptions for rape or incest.
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We will also see change when, as the Movement for Black Lives advocates, communities control the laws, policies and institutions impacting them -- and when this nation invests in education, health and safety rather than criminalizing, incarcerating and killing black people.
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"This (law) also puts psychological pressure on women, so we are trying to change the mentality of our society at every level by legally criminalizing these social crimes," said Pokhrel, who was part of the committee that drafted the bill.
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But emboldened by Ms. Rousseff's political demise, her opponents in the legislature are working to reverse some of her party's hallmarks, including stringent environmental rules, protections for indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon and laws criminalizing abusive work conditions on cattle ranches.
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"The U.S. should immediately halt this practice of separating families and stop criminalizing what should at most be an administrative offense – that of irregular entry or stay in the U.S.," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told a briefing in Geneva.
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Alabama Republicans on Tuesday backed Senate candidate Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who believes in criminalizing homosexuality, barring Muslims from Congress, and many other vicious and hateful things, over the establishment pick, Senator Luther Strange.
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Legislators in more than a dozen states have introduced measures to loosen laws restricting access to or criminalizing marijuana, a rush of legislative activity that supporters hope reflects a newfound willingness by public officials to embrace a trend toward legalization.
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Virginia's policy of criminalizing possession of small amounts of the drug "is not working," Herring wrote, noting overall marijuana possession arrests are up about 2628 percent from 28503, with first-time convictions increasing from 22019,500 in 2008 to 10,000 in 2017.
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The lawmakers in the two states that have so far proposed laws criminalizing nonconsensual condom removal are fighting the good fight, and I'm so grateful for their passion, but I wish they'd chosen a different tactic: a civil law remedy.
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We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
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Revenge porn is an increasingly common form of online abuse, and although several states have enacted laws criminalizing it, in recent years victims of revenge porn have included everyone from celebrities to members of the military to members of Congress.
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It was the publication of Mr. Gross's "Neighbors" that motivated the first attempts, in 2006 during the first Law and Justice government, to enshrine historical policy by criminalizing the denial that Poles were innocent of any Nazi or Communist crimes.
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Western leaders have also criticized Poland's governing party for pushing virtually all critical voices off the state news media and for restricting free speech with its latest law criminalizing any suggestion that the Polish nation bore any responsibility in the Holocaust.
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It's a tricky dilemma for Americans, when our own country is persecuting asylum seekers and separating children from their parents at our southern border, or when certain states have passed laws criminalizing people with uteruses who don't carry pregnancies to term.
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Ms. Cabán is the Democrat best poised to become one of a growing number of prosecutors to show that can be done without infringing on civil liberties, criminalizing black and Hispanic Americans and mistaking punishment for the only form of justice.
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" In a statement, Amnesty International called Hernández's acquittal a victory for human rights and called on the government to end "the shameful and discriminatory practice of criminalizing women once and for all by immediately revoking the nation's draconian anti-abortion laws.
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If the Supreme Court does overturn the convictions in the Bridgegate case on the basis of the statute sweeping in too much conduct by criminalizing lies and misuse of funds by politicians, what might that mean for future corruption prosecutions?
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"It has gone to a new level of aggression when even viewing now is considered a crime even though there is no law criminalizing viewing content insulting to the monarchy," Sunai Phasuk, senior Thailand researcher at Human Rights Watch, told Reuters.
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"Myanmar is failing in its obligation to prevent genocide, to investigate genocide and to enact effective legislation criminalizing and punishing genocide," Marzuki Darusman, the chairman of the fact-finding mission and a former attorney general of Indonesia, said in a statement.
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The Pittsburgh system helps remedy a very real problem of limited child and protective services resources for addressing cases of abuse, but because the algorithm is poorly designed and is predicting the wrong variable, it risks criminalizing poverty in certain cases.
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According to this report, rather than criminalizing girls or insisting simply on change of behavior, governments, communities, families and schools should see poverty, gender inequality, discrimination, lack of access to services, and negative views about girls and women as the challenges.
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At the time, transplanting HIV-positive tissue was still a felony in California, and Dr. Peter Stock at UCSF asked California governor Jerry Brown for emergency legislation to overturn the law, so he could help the patient without criminalizing his team.
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"Using a law supposedly created to defend against ISIS, Javid is criminalizing as 'terrorists' those who have given more than any other British citizens in this struggle," the signatories, which included the linguist Noam Chomsky and Mr. Chada, wrote in May.
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"We are talking about criminalizing mental illness, in a way," said panel moderator Juju Chang, ABC Nightline co-anchor, in response to the description of Rikers Island by John Jay College Professor Stephanie H. Procell, a clinical psychology doctoral candidate.
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But in the past, combating fare evasion without "criminalizing" it often still meant an increased police presence in low-income communities of color—which are among the more likely populations to not be able to afford subway fares and be over-policed.
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" This bill would catch the law up to basic tech misbehavior by criminalizing the act of sending "intimate images" using "an electronic device," such as a cellphone "or any other electronic communication device, including devices capable of sending text messages or e-mails.
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Their stream was titled "House Judiciary committee Hearing on Criminalizing Nationalism for White People" and it was not just a stream of the hearing on their channel — it had two hosts, well-known white nationalists Henrik Palmgren and Lana Lokteff, doing live commentary.
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"We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," he said.
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That means eliminating discriminatory policies and practices and refraining from criminalizing or otherwise punishing failure to obtain an ID. If a government is going to transition from an analog system to a digital one, it needs to address exclusion before doing so.
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Hungary's campaign against Soros — which have included restrictions on a Soros-funded private university, and a "Stop Soros" law criminalizing NGOs deemed to be supporting illegal immigration — forced the Open Society Foundations to close its Budapest office last year and relocate to Berlin.
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But in the years following the momentous #NoDAPL occupation, something strange and insidious started to happen in legislative bodies: Conservative politicians in dozens of states began introducing bills that looked an awful lot alike, all with the express purpose of criminalizing pipeline protests.
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And under a new law criminalizing "abhorrent violent material" online, Australia is using the threat of fines and jail time to pressure platforms like Facebook to block such content, and it is moving to take down websites that hold any illegal content.
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The accolades in the black community were later followed by harsh criticism from two of New York City's powerful police unions who claimed that Thompson was "criminalizing" a tragic accident and that this would have a "chilling" effect on policing in New York.
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Recently, he indicated he would likely back the "NASTY Women" act, a Massachusetts bill that would end an old state law criminalizing abortion (which has been widely ignored for years but could resurface should Kavanaugh assume a position on the Supreme Court).
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But it's also bad, and impractical, to say in order to avoid criminalizing opponents, we can't react when our opponents are in fact criminals When "civility" and maintaining the status quo matters more than what's right and wrong, to Certain Kinds of Folk.
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Maybe there was no smoking gun tying these decisions to politics, but a culture of bias that was evident at the top of the FBI has worked to interfere with our elections and is criminalizing our politics — and we have to stop it.
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Many years later, Vidal would change the ending to a rape—hardly an improvement—but Polchin underlines how many of the classics of gay fiction utilized the same tropes as the homophobic media, effectively participating in this project of criminalizing or pathologizing homosexuality.
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Worthwhile reforms of our system include putting an end to partisan gerrymandering and expanding voter choice through procedures like instant runoffs and ranked choice voting, increasing campaign fundraising transparency, enforcing stricter ethics rules, and criminalizing efforts to solicit foreign interference in American elections.
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"By institutionalizing discrimination, laws criminalizing sex between men reinforce systematic prejudices toward gay men, bisexual men, transgender people and non-binary people, whether in the military or in the street or in the home," Amnesty said in a report released on Thursday.
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So when the government began implementing policies criminalizing cannabis, enough of the public was already in favor of more policing and reduce so-called "criminals" (which we know historically from data, have been Black and Brown people) from consuming weed in their communities.
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Why Accountability is also responsible for the widely known and loved #swipeitforward campaign, where participants descend on a busy subway station in neighborhoods across the city and swipe people into the subway with MetroCards, highlighting the predatory police practice of criminalizing poverty.
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Despite ayahuasca's legality at the international level, in 2010 the UN-sanctioned International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) recommended that national governments consider criminalizing ayahuasca at a national level, which might partially account for the uptick of ayahuasca legal incidents seen by the ADF.
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Last week, the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals announced it would hear arguments in a challenge to HB 214, an Ohio law criminalizing abortion if even part of a person's reason for seeking the abortion is a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
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In some ways, we can understand the societal experiment of criminalizing seduction as an attempt to solve the knotty problem of how to prosecute cases of sexual violence in which the perpetrator gets his victim's ostensible consent through false or coercive means.
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Mr. Zündel was convicted twice, in 1985 and 1988, under a rarely invoked law criminalizing the knowing publication of false news that caused, or was likely to cause, harm to the public interest, which the authorities interpreted to include Canada's commitment to tolerance.
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This combination of criminalizing the poor and gentrifying the trains brings into relief the fact that the MTA is not, in any meaningful way, a public agency accountable to the people who use it for their day-to-day need for mobility.
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The defendants argued, in essence, that politicians lie all the time about the motivations behind their decisions, and virtually every governmental decision involves some use of public resources, so criminalizing that behavior goes too far and would make too much conduct illegal.
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Such letters are required by state law, when an individual is slated, to be uploaded to CalGang, a state database that law enforcement officials say helps them fight gang activity, but that critics say encourages racial profiling and criminalizing normal social interactions.
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Opposition to the push to repeal the marry-your-rapist laws has been far more muted than that to other demands made by women's groups, including criminalizing marital rape and granting women the right to pass on their nationality to their children.
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Even though criminalizing H.I.V. is not effective in decreasing rates of H.I.V., one of the reasons the county wanted to prosecute and imprison Mr. Johnson was likely to prevent him from transmitting the virus to others in order to protect the public health.
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She makes particular note of how this shaming, in practical terms, results in criminalizing low-income mothers who may have no choice to but leave their kids in the car to do things like interview for jobs (her essay cites one such case).
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"Criminalizing peaceful activism and the use of Facebook is a violation of human rights and civil liberties [and is] a sign that the Vietnamese Communist Party is increasingly afraid of peaceful dissent," Duy Hoang, a spokesman for the Viet Tan, told VICE News.
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"Criminalizing a handful of administrative mistakes, a few of the thousands of transactions from Aaron's six years in office, to charge Mr. Schock two days after a national election has all the appearances of a politically calculated ambush," said Schock's lawyer, George J. Terwilliger.
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DuVernay, and her humbling roster of thinkers and activists, trace a dismaying line from a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution (used to re-subjugate freed slaves by criminalizing them) to the abuses of the Jim Crow South to today's mass incarceration crisis.
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"While a lot of times victims want to go to court, they also just want it removed so they can move on with their lives," New York Assemblyman Edward Braunstein, who co-sponsored a bill criminalizing spreading revenge porn that passed in 2019, said.
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The bill was proposed by a conservative Republican in the California legislature named Don Mulford, who sought to prohibit the public carrying of loaded firearms in the state — a move clearly targeted to disband or weaken the Black Panthers by criminalizing their signature tactic.
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"If a woman is isolated and forced to wear a burqa or the niqab, by criminalizing it, you will isolate her even more, because she might not be able to go out," said Khankan, who also runs a domestic violence support group, Exit Circle.
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What's happening: The lawsuit argues that Alabama's ban, which does not allow for exceptions against criminalizing abortion in cases of rape or incest, "directly conflicts with Roe and more than four decades of Supreme Court precedent affirming its central holding," according to the Post.
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Instead, it focused almost entirely on criminalizing addiction, passing laws to lock up people who use drugs and drug dealers through exorbitant prison sentences, such as mandatory minimums — an approach that many policymakers, including some Republicans, now consider a mistake and are looking to undo.
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When Ghoshal interviewed Tanzania's sex workers several years ago for a Human Rights Watch report about the widespread discrimination of gays in the country, she says they told her that policies criminalizing homosexual sex and prostitution in the country also hurt single women more generally.
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As one of the original promoters of birtherism -- the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was born in a foreign country and is not a US citizen -- Trump is no stranger to race-baiting, dehumanizing and criminalizing black and brown people for political gain.
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Now, as a writer who often returns to Cleveland for periods of time, I see how economic boom and gentrification is creating a city that relies more heavily on police—with cops cracking down on things like homelessness by criminalizing panhandling with city ordinances.
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"By criminalizing hazing as a mere third-degree misdemeanor carrying a maximum possible punishment of one year incarceration... and a $2,500 fine, it leaves no particularized ability for a prosecutor to pursue any semblance of justice for the victims of egregious cases," the report said.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the president has made the up-is-down claim that a Democratic law — the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, in conjunction with the Homeland Security Act and statutes criminalizing illegal entry — requires him to separate families to protect the children.
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These include calls to repeal President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, expand nonbinary gender markers on federal passports, ban conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth, and repeal discriminatory laws criminalizing HIV exposure currently on the books in 26 U.S. states.
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"This legislation is based on lies and a misinformation campaign, aimed at shaming women and criminalizing doctors for a practice that doesn't exist in medicine or reality," said Dr. Leana Wen, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement to Vox.
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A consortium of the global tech superpowers, including Google, Facebook and Amazon, also argued that it would damage Australia's relations with other countries because it would require "proactive" surveillance of all users worldwide, while criminalizing content reposted by users without the companies knowing about it.
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" A collection of immigration rights groups known as the ICE Out of CA coalition, said, "As the Trump administration continues to expand its cruel and criminalizing deportation machine, today's ruling represents, overall, a defeat for the President's hate-filled agenda and escalating abuses of power.
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They took on a more ominous tone later in the week, as the Justice Department began considering whether to bring a case against WikiLeaks that the Obama administration decided against pursuing, fearing it would start a trend of prosecuting news organizations and criminalizing journalism.
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" As for Lauer, 59, Rivera tweeted on Wednesday, "Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me," adding, "News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation.
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Senator Ted Cruz boasted that his immigration solution was the most detailed — "11 pages, single-spaced" — though it focuses so intently on criminalizing unauthorized immigrants that it seems more like a blueprint for keeping millions of people in prisons, rather than sending them out of the country.
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Gilberto Rosas is an associate professor of anthropology and Latina/o studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of the award-winning Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier, as well as many articles on borders and migration.
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The policing of female sexuality is something bourgeois women talk about often, with little understanding that what exists largely in the realm of metaphor for them remains, for poor women, a very literal and criminalizing surveillance of how they present themselves when they leave the house.
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Of course, moneylending was one of a handful of occupations that Jews were permitted to engage in, or, in not a few cases, coerced into engaging in, during the Middle Ages, which makes it understandable why noblemen and merchant borrowers would be interested in criminalizing interest.
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" Most major medical organizations oppose criminalizing pregnant women with addiction issues, and in 2017 Amnesty International released a report arguing laws that police pregnant women's behavior "in fact [drive] pregnant women away from vital health services, jeopardizing their well-being and violating their right to health.
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"Rather than its current emphasis on investigating and criminalizing free speech, the UAPD and administration's highest priority should be an immediate UA response to the death threats and the impact that the Border Patrol on campus has on many of our students, staff, and employees," they wrote.
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Writing this week in the newspaper El País, José María Ruiz Soroa, a lawyer, argued that the stalemate in Catalonia had allowed the judiciary to take center stage and undertake "a radical mutation of the rules of the Spanish constitutional game," by criminalizing the independence drive.
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The Nevada Assembly gave final approval on Tuesday to a bill that would repeal a 1911 statute criminalizing some abortions and also change what doctors are required to discuss with patients before an abortion, including eliminating a requirement that they discuss the "emotional implications" of the procedure.
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If laws criminalizing HIV and stigma were gone, people would feel more at ease to disclose their status, whether at work, or in an intimate or sexual relationship, ultimately resulting in more people getting tested, knowing their status and directly reducing the spread of new HIV infections.
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The Ferguson Commission and the Movement for Black Lives, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing black Americans, have outlined a number of policy recommendations that would positively affect the black community and poor people: end cash bail, demilitarize law enforcement and stop criminalizing poverty.
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"The case in Alabama is chilling because it represents the real-life consequences of anti-choice 'personhood' policies, which, by design, seek to demote the fundamental rights of women, and are a stepping stone in the anti-choice movement's ultimate goal of criminalizing abortion and punishing women," she said.
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On the same day, Kenya's high court ruled to keep a law criminalizing same-sex sexual activity; Brazil's high court ruled that homophobic and transphobic discrimination is a crime; and in the U.S., the Trump administration moved to end a policy prohibiting healthcare providers from discriminating against transgender patients.
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Every congressional Democrat running in the 2020 presidential primary voted for SESTA, legislation that supporters promised would end an "online sex trafficking crisis" (which research has shown to be largely "based on myths") by criminalizing sex-related online advertising—but that actually put sex workers at far more risk.
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"We are seeing an alarming trend of state bills introduced with the purpose or effect of criminalizing peaceful protest — an act that lies at the very core of the First Amendment's protections," Lee Rowland, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, told CNN in an email.
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"Yes, criminalizing it validates the fact that the government of Nepal thinks it is a criminal offense, but it does not in any way ensure that people will stop doing it," said Pema Lakhi of the Nepal Fertility Care Center, one of the country's leading menstrual hygiene activists.
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However, due to lack of information about HIV transmission routes and HIV-related hysteria, many states went further than the legislative requirement – criminalizing not just transmission, but also failure to disclose HIV positive status as well as activities that cannot possibly transmit HIV, such as spitting and biting.
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The new Irish law has included additional measures to combat gender-based violence, including criminalizing forced marriages, repealing legislation that previously allowed underage couples to marry, and allowing for victims of domestic abuse to apply for safety protection orders -- regardless of whether or not they live with their abuser.
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Seven states have laws directly criminalizing self-induced abortion, 11 states have fetal harm laws intended to protect pregnant people but which instead are twisted to punish them, and 85033 states have criminal abortion laws that have been and could be misapplied to people who end their own pregnancies.
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But Republican lawmakers have been so alarmed by the size and intensity of the demonstrations — for women's rights, immigrants and the environment — and by protests around the country before the election, that they have introduced measures in at least 10 states to intimidate free speech by criminalizing it.
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Some have called for allowing married women to keep their maiden name, penalizing workplace harassment (which the law says should be prevented but does not punish), further criminalizing nonconsensual sex crimes, prohibiting discrimination against L.G.B.T.s — and reforming the labor market to improve working conditions for so-called nonregular workers.
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Some have called for allowing married women to keep their maiden name, penalizing workplace harassment (which the law says should be prevented but does not punish), further criminalizing nonconsensual sex crimes, prohibiting discrimination against L.G.B.T.s — and reforming the labor market to improve working conditions for so-called nonregular workers.
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We now know, 45 years later, that the war on drugs is a war on people -- and more specifically, black and brown people, whom it has sought to demonize and silence, criminalizing generations of youth of color and creating severe drug-sentencing laws ultimately to target and incarcerate communities of color.
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We're now hopeful that Congress will pass legislation to ensure those suffering from addiction are protected consistently around the country by: Criminalizing fraudulent advertising: Congress should ask the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or the National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws to draft a model law banning deceptive marketing.
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Criminalizing matters of school discipline can have destructive lifelong effects on young people, Mr. Gupta-Kagan noted, citing evidence that when children are arrested and have even a single court appearance they are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to have further brushes with the law.
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Clare McGlynn is a professor of law at Durham University in the UK. She has worked closely with politicians and voluntary organizations to introduce new laws criminalizing image-based sexual abuse across the UK, as well as addressing policymakers in Iceland, Australia, and across Europe on the urgent need for action.
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People are already beginning to imagine bold possibilities: In January, Abigail Burman, a third-year University of California, Berkeley, law student, told VICE about her proposal for creating pro-choice sanctuary cities, which involves local governments shielding their residents from state or federal laws criminalizing abortion and self-managed abortion.
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Regarding claims of surveillance fears, the proposed provision criminalizing an act of planning and preparation to commit terrorism and other serious crimes will apply only to "organized criminal groups," and the listed crimes to which the provision may apply are rigorously limited to those likely to be committed by such groups.
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The AfD's candidates include a judge who called Germany's remembrance of the Nazi murder of six million Jews a "cult of guilt", a 77-year-old who once called the Holocaust "an effective tool for criminalizing Germans" and a lawyer who said police should be allowed to shoot at illegal migrants.
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Trump's dismissal of sexual harassment, cavalier declaration that he would prosecute women who had abortions, and VP selection of Mike Pence, who has made a career of criminalizing living while female (or gay), promise only to worsen persistent issues that affect women, such as the wage gap, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
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And just ten years after the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Congress passed "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," more commonly known as the Sedition Act of 1798, criminalizing a broad array of speech acts, including almost any criticism of the federal government.
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The verdict is a victory not only for the six defendants and their lawyers, but for other defense attorneys, anti-Trump activists, and free speech advocates who had criticized the mass arrests and prosecution as examples of government overreach and who worried the case signaled a new era of criminalizing political dissent.
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Because of the lack of programs that treat pregnant women with addiction, and the troubled history of criminalizing drug addiction in the US, pregnant women who use drugs are often targets of arrest and subject to harsh punishments, treated as though addiction is a personal failing rather than a public health issue.
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It's problematic, of course, to make sweeping generalizations about policing based on one incident, but this one feels like a representation of much that needs rethinking in law enforcement: it involved over-criminalizing a petty infraction; failed deescalation; ultimately no charges for anyone; and nominal changes to training procedures and policing policies.
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Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University and former federal prosecutor, said the judge's ruling appeared to be solid and that, while 27 states have their own laws criminalizing the practice, other states would need to pass laws or use existing assault or abuse laws if they wanted to bring charges.
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Wade has been in place for 46 years, and even though the majority of Americans believe abortion should be legal, and even though the data is clear that criminalizing abortion is not an effective and safe way to reduce abortions, we are still on the brink of witnessing abortion rights in America disappear.
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Youth leaders from the Center for Popular Democracy Action and Alliance for Educational Justice networks asked whether he could get behind our vision for police-free schools, defunding criminalizing infrastructure in schools, ending cooperation between schools and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and passing policies to protect the civil rights of young people.
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And I think that when they hear from their constituents and when they look at the numbers in their states, be it on criminalizing abortion or on, you know, health care, which has become very popular, I think these senators are going to have to really do their job and listen to their constituents.
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"When women stood up in record numbers to fight Kavanaugh's nomination, propelled by his alarming record and Trump's promise to nominate jurists committed to criminalizing abortion and punishing women we were told we were 'hysterical' because Roe was settled law," said NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue in a statement issued Tuesday night.
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Observers say the uncertain fate faced by the Sea-Watch 763's passengers is the product of an increasingly hardline campaign by Italy and other European states to close their doors to migration across the Mediterranean, in part by criminalizing the work of the NGO-operated rescue vessels working to save lives in the region.
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Observers say the uncertain fate faced by the Sea-Watch 3's passengers is the product of an increasingly hardline campaign by Italy and other European states to close their doors to migration across the Mediterranean, in part by criminalizing the work of the NGO-operated rescue vessels working to save lives in the region.
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The harm reduction part—strategies to try to lower the risks associated with drug use without criminalizing users—has been the main focus with the city investing in not only supervised injection sites, but also clean needle exchanges and "low-threshold" community health services, which make it easy for users to access care if needed.
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Editorial Since coming to power in Poland in 2015, the nationalist Law and Justice party has enacted one outrageous measure after another, placing the nation's courts under political control, trying to do the same with the news media, purging the civil service and, most recently, criminalizing any suggestion of Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
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"What seemed crazy to them back in 2007, when I was arguing that this should be criminalized and was a civil-rights violation, all of a sudden became non-crazy," Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, told the New Yorker in December 2016, referring to her recommendations to lawmakers which included criminalizing revenge porn.
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A study conducted in Toronto between 2010 and 2012 (laws criminalizing HIV exposure also exist in Canada) found that 7 percent of men who had sex with men were less likely to get an HIV test for fear of future prosecution — the study authors estimated that this fear could lead to an 18.5 percent increase in HIV transmission.
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Now, in moments, were going to highlight the sad two-tiered justice system in this country which we better save and we&aposre going to tell you who should really be facing charges tonight if we had equal application of our laws and equal justice under the law without political prejudice or literally criminalizing political differences.
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Meanwhile, former Georgia running back Todd Gurley once accepted a couple thousand dollars' worth of cash for signing autographs—and was promptly suspended by the NCAA for four games, a punishment that provoked hysterical state lawmakers into criminalizing major American universities acting like drug cartels protecting their turf the egregious, immoral act of giving college athletes money.
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"I always caution people to read the U.C.R. data as an approximation because it's imperfect," said Tess Borden, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who worked on a report published by the A.C.L.U. and Human Rights Watch in 22006: Every 22015 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States.
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"We have been working for a safer, more just and peaceful Mexico for years, and with this case we insist on the need to stop criminalizing users of drugs other than marijuana and design better public policies that explore all available options, including the regulation," Lisa Sánchez, director of MUAC, said in a statement translated by Newsweek.
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"Rafiki" concludes on an optimistic note, and the Kenya Film Classification Board banned the film because of its "clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law" — in May, the nation's high court upheld laws criminalizing gay sex — though the ban was temporarily lifted last year so that it would be eligible for an Academy Award.
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When Canada sought to legalize cannabis, a feat it accomplished in 2018, among the stated goals were a desire to eliminate the illicit market; to stop criminalizing populations, notably young people of color; and to have a regulated framework that prevents youth access, said Omar Yar Khan, a former chief of staff to the Ontario Minister of Health.
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Titus Molkenbur, a representative for the confiscated German ship, denied the accusation and said in an interview last week that Italy was criminalizing rescue operations and that the seizure was a "politically motivated" retribution for his not signing a new code of conduct for nongovernment organization ships championed by the country's tough interior minister, Marco Minniti.
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While politicians and pundits alike seem to agree that domestic terrorism is a real problem in the United States, criminalizing domestic terrorism poses unique challenges for legislators and law enforcement, from constitutional concerns regarding protected speech to practical concerns based on the FBI and Justice Department's long and occasionally less-than-storied history of battling terrorism on the home front.
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Trump was praising the Chinese government and President Xi Jinping for criminalizing fentanyl, but he also took the step of making clear he has no problem with China's government killing "pushers" of the drug, which has also helped fueled the opioid crisis in the US. It's not the first time Trump has spoken admiringly of other countries' use of the death penalty for drug dealers.
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" The New Yorker shows us what copyediting Donald Trump would look like: Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman penned "Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation": The Israeli website +972 reported last year about a pending bill that "would ban entry to foreigners who promote the [BDS] movement that aims to pressure Israel to comply with international law and respect Palestinian rights.
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Mr. Mueller's interest in criminalizing lies and misdirections "within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States," as Mr. Cohen's charging document states, is an admonition to anyone who has testified on Russia before Congress — a body, despite its recent fecklessness, that, at least to Mr. Mueller, is meant to provide oversight of the executive branch on behalf of all Americans.
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They largely operate outside the United States; consequently, criminalizing international terrorism enables us to exercise jurisdiction over their menacing plans and acts; and the ability to designate them formally as terrorist organizations enables us to starve them of resources — funding, personnel and other assets, much of which comes from outside the U.S. We cannot do that in our own country to our own citizens without imperiling their constitutional rights.
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The State Department warned Poland over legislation aimed at criminalizing acts that blame the country's government and citizens of being complicit in war crimes committed by the Nazis in World War II. "We encourage Poland to reevaluate the legislation in light of its potential impact on the principle of free speech and on our ability to be effective partners," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Related: This Is How One Pot Smoker Learned That Weed Plays a Mysterious Role in Psychosis Wendy Mariner, a Boston University School of Law and School of Public Health professor, said there's a long history of criminalizing addiction and vagrancy in the United States, though a 1962 Supreme Court ruling determined that governments couldn't criminalize addiction, but they could criminalize acts that addicted people engaged in, such as public drunkenness.
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Mr. Cuomo has repeatedly said he would not sign a budget without changes to the criminal justice system, and as negotiations pushed toward Monday's budget deadline, the Senate majority leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Westchester County Democrat, reiterated that she and fellow Democrats in her chamber wanted to "make sure that we're not criminalizing poverty, and that there would never, ever, ever be another instance of a Kalief Browder."
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Read more:The FBI reportedly raided financier Jeffrey Epstein's private island off the coast of St. Thomas, days after he died of an apparent suicideFBI agents are livid that Trump is amplifying 'bulls--- theories' about Jeffrey Epstein's death 'that have no basis in reality'New York Times columnist recalls Jeffrey Epstein saying that sex with teenage girls was historically acceptable and that criminalizing the act went against cultural normsJeffrey Epstein died by apparent suicide in jail.
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But Singapore already has laws that include the criminalizing of the transmission of messages known to be false, speech with the tendency to "promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population," even the uttering of words with the "deliberate intention of wounding" religious or racial feelings, on top of other regulations that give the government control over the mainstream media and the power to take down content.
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The Saturday Profile IMPHAL, India — In her makeshift campaign office, surrounded by plywood desks and a giant whiteboard, Irom Chanu Sharmila rambled a bit, talking about the nearly 16 years she fasted to protest abuses by the armed forces, about spending most of that time in a hospital ward being force-fed through a nose tube under a law in India criminalizing suicide and about her reasons for ending the hunger strike and emerging to contest coming elections in Manipur State.
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