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"strike down" Definitions
  1. (of a disease, etc.) to make somebody seriously ill; to kill somebody
  2. to hit somebody very hard, so that they fall to the ground

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Or he could strike down the mandate plus the law's protections for pre-existing conditions, or come back and strike down the whole thing again.
The red states leading that lawsuit want the courts to strike down the entire law; the Trump administration wants them to only strike down protections for pre-existing conditions.
He also might be readier to strike down Roe v.
The House has already voted to strike down the rule.
A more conservative majority could conceivably strike down redistricting commissions nationwide.
Just strike down the unconstitutional part, the mandate itself, they say.
But the judge did not strike down the voter ID law.
Go deeper: The Trump administration's ACA strike-down stance raises the stakes
It will also make it much harder to strike down new laws.
They will strike down and uphold legislation passed by duly elected lawmakers.
Wade and to strike down pre-existing conditions protections in the ACA.
There's the phrase: 'The gods blind those they want to strike down.
The effort to strike down Section 377 has been underway for years.
They wouldn't let a Fifth Circuit decision strike down the entire ACA.
The judge didn't just strike down everything that's related to the individual mandate.
That could allow them to strike down or roll back decades of work.
It is time for the Supreme Court to strike down this sham law.
The House voted Thursday to strike down a controversial rule for financial advisers.
Whatever files Steam and Sega strike down from Workshop is likely available elsewhere.
" He's "been open to using the First Amendment to strike down government regulations.
The legal battle to strike down Section 377 has gone on for years.
So the justices may still choose to strike down the rule as unlawful.
And under New Zealand's constitution, courts cannot strike down laws passed by Parliament.
Washington (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts will not vote to strike down Roe v.
This is what the radical right is using to strike down Roe v. Wade.
The court could strike down a sixfold rise in electricity prices on similar grounds.
Five justices agreed to strike down Texas's strict abortion limits – including conservative Anthony Kennedy.
Congress must vote to strike down this affront to our values as Americans. pic.twitter.
GOP lawmakers will turn to the Congressional Review Act to strike down these rules.
Carhart, to strike down a law against one kind of late-term abortion procedure.
The justices indicated that they would strike down at least part of the regulations.
Bullock), to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (Shelby County v.
The majority of Republicans have rallied behind Trump's effort to strike down the law.
To this day, Mr. Trump supports a lawsuit that would strike down the act.
So Tyler and Olson sued to strike down the state's same-sex marriage ban.
Now, let's be clear: The stay does not strike down the full executive order.
It also does not strike down or change any provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
Virginia was used as a precedent to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
British Columbia government lawyers filed two court actions on Wednesday to strike down the bill.
Progressives should also design laws to be more difficult for the court to strike down.
Burwell, a failed attempt to strike down nationwide tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
A lawsuit before the Iowa Supreme Court aims to strike down the state's voting restriction.
The House is also expected Friday to strike down the Interior Department's methane emissions standards.
Now it's judges who decline to strike down laws who stand accused of being political.
The Center now plans to seek a court order to permanently strike down the regulations.
House Republicans laid out plans Tuesday to strike down a controversial Obama-era coal rule.
And when the Supreme Court was asked to strike down racist voting laws, it declined.
So how can the court get past its ambivalence and strike down clearly unfair maps?
Given O'Connor's record, he's likely to strike down as much of the law as possible.
Attempting to "strike down" your fat cells may end up backfiring in an equally spectacular fashion.
Scalia, who died in February, would have almost almost certainly voted to strike down Obama's proposal.
New York to strike down limits on working hours, minimum wage laws, and other economic regulations.
Justice Gorsuch was the lone conservative to vote to strike down the "crime of violence" provision.
The House is also expected next week to strike down another round of Obama-era regulations.
When courts review agency decisions, they strike down those made in an "arbitrary and capricious" fashion.
During his tenure, Florida joined a federal lawsuit to strike down the law in its entirety.
If the Democrats take back Congress in 2018, can they strike down this question through legislation?
A new conservative justice likely won't lead the court to immediately strike down Roe v. Wade.
Ideological purity would have required him to vote to strike down the law on constitutional grounds.
What did the trial court need beyond the efficiency gap to strike down the Wisconsin plan?
Kennedy provided the key fifth vote to strike down the Texas law in Whole Woman's Health.
Clearly the president wasn't going to sign anything that would strike down his brand-new law.
He could vote again with the liberals, strike down Louisiana's law and affirm the 2016 precedent.
During that time lawmakers can pass a joint resolution of disapproval to strike down the rule.
After a Commodores punt, Bowers found tight end Mitchell Brinkman with a strike down the middle.
It's possible that the Supreme Court will eventually strike down a state's sex offender registry law.
He later voted with the majority to strike down the federal sentencing system on the same grounds.
Windsor, which cited the 14th Amendment to strike down the federal government's ban on same-sex marriages.
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down California's law vindicates the First Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech.
It is the second recent ruling to strike down partisan gerrymandering, after a similar case in Michigan.
It took until 2000 for the final state, Alabama, to strike down its ban on interracial marriage.
A bill, introduced today, would preserve key provision of Obamacare, which Trump has moved to strike down.
Currently, Republicans have the Congressional Review Act, which lets Congress strike down some regulations on the books.
The Senate is moving forward with a plan to strike down a controversial Obama-era labor regulation.
Carhart in 28503, he voted to strike down Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortions in Stenberg v.
Sure, it feels good to strike down an enemy, landing a clean headshot or choice grenade throw.
Five justices agreed to strike down Texas's strict abortion limits – including Anthony Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee.
No, the justices didn't strike down President Donald Trump's travel ban that targeted several Muslim-majority countries.
Advocates have also been hoping that a federal appeals court would strike down the 2017 repeal order.
The Byrd Rule can be used to strike down committee-reported provisions and to stop floor amendments.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government has vowed to strike down any further secessionist challenges in court.
The panel, which included two Republicans and one Democrat, indicated it might strike down ObamaCare's individual mandate.
Advocates have also been hoping that a federal appeals court would strike down the 85033 repeal order.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative government says it will strike down any such secessionist challenges in court.
The gun maker, Bushmaster Firearms International, insists the industry's immunity shield will eventually strike down the lawsuit.
Why it matters: This is the fourth federal judge to strike down efforts to invalidate Mueller's probe.
This story was updated again following a decision by a judge to strike down Alabama's abortion ban.
This story was updated again following a decision by a judge to strike down Alabama's abortion ban.
Congress also has the authority, which it has used, to strike down rules issued by the bureau.
That raises the possibility that the court could strike down the entire agency in one fell swoop.
But the GOP effort to strike down the law has been stymied by divisions within the party.
The judgment does not strike down the 2014 legislation that imposed document checks on tenants in England.
But on Monday night, the Justice Department asked a federal court to strike down the entire law.
If the Republican appointees stick together, they could strike down affirmative action by a 4-3 vote.
He voted in 22006 to strike down a law making it a crime to burn an American flag.
He also voted with the minority to strike down the 2010 Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.
And in Montana, residents voted to strike down a series of restrictions that limited medical use of marijuana.
All this dismayed him, as he had done so much to strike down "scientific" studies based on race.
One such error nearly saw the court strike down crucial parts of law; only semantic gymnastics saved it.
Republican attorneys general want the court to strike down the entire law, which would have the same effect.
Before he's able to fully strike down, I'm able grab the blade with my hand, holding it tightly.
The Trump administration and Republican attorneys general will be making a case to strike down the entire act.
But if elected, Mr. Trump could nominate a new Supreme Court justice to help strike down the rule.
The missile system is designed to strike down hostile air targets up to a range of 400 kilometers.
Petty tossed a perfect strike down the right sideline that Anderson caught in stride after beating JaCorey Shepherd.
This was the last legal avenue for campaigners seeking to use the courts to strike down the law.
Wanted to strike down travel ban: Liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The chief broke with his four Republican colleagues, each of whom voted to strike down the entire law.
And there is, at least, a small chance that it will strike down the CFPB in its entirety.
Republican justices can disable regulations at their leisure — or even strike down the very laws permitting such regulation.
HOUSE REJECTS FINANCIAL ADVISER RULE: The House voted Thursday to strike down a controversial rule for financial advisers.
It is also possible that a different plaintiff could still establish standing to strike down a statewide map.
It wouldn't automatically strike down any of these, but it could open the door to future court challenges.
But Mr. Whitaker also criticized famous decisions in which the Supreme Court declined to strike down laws that conservatives do not like, including 1930s cases involving President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs and the 2012 case in which the court declined to strike down President Barack Obama's health insurance law.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder's injunction doesn't officially strike down the law, it only impacts restrooms on UNC campuses.
Judge Schroeder has already signaled some reluctance to strike down the identification law, at least in the short term.
Back in the 1960s, the organization represented Mildred and Richard Loving and helped strike down laws barring interracial marriage.
Past proponents of originalism argued that courts should strike down laws only in the case of clear textual error.
States are beginning to make contingency plans in case the courts strike down the Affordable Care Act, WSJ reports.
Legal experts say it's unlikely that the appeals court will strike down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety.
The panel of judges ruled unanimously to strike down two laws, essentially legalizing gay sex, The Washington Post reported.
Chris Christie (R) on Monday lauded the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a federal law banning sports betting.
Google joined over 100 companies in signing an amicus brief asking an appellate court to strike down the ban.
A. The plaintiffs seek to strike down two restrictions in a law enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2013.
Todd also mischaracterized a lawsuit the Trump administration is currently pursuing to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act.
More recently, Kennedy was the key vote in 19773 to strike down strict regulations on abortion clinics in Texas.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who voted to strike down the Texas law, has since been replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
There's every reason to believe that a court including Kavanaugh would strike down everything elected officials tried to do.
The decision was the first from a federal court to strike down a congressional map as a partisan gerrymander.
Four of the justices strongly rejected the defendant's arguments; four of them voted to strike down the Oregon provision.
In that 2016 case, Justice Kennedy joined the court's four liberals to strike down parts of the Texas law.
Next in seniority was conservative Samuel Alito, who cast the fifth and final vote to strike down the law.
Republicans, and the Trump administration, have said the courts should strike down the entire law along with the mandate.
The opinion is the first federal court ruling to strike down a congressional map as representing a partisan gerrymander.
Experts say federal courts would most likely strike down such a tax if Mr. Trump tried to impose it.
The temporary restraining order, legally speaking, doesn't necessarily mean the judges intend to strike down the ban for good.
For both of these fundamental rights the court will scrutinize and oftentimes strike down any state regulation that burdens them.
Its opposers have given no logical reason to strike down the rule, other than to weaken federal influence over states.
Though it had been used only once before in history, Republicans used this power to strike down 15 Obama regulations.
A decision to strike down the reviews could fundamentally change the way patents disputes are litigated in the United States.
The court has been known to strike down attempts by EU governments to set up alternative centres of legal power.
For example, the Court once seemed poised to strike down core federal statutes under the Takings Clause, particularly environmental statutes.
She didn't completely strike down the possibility of becoming Biden's vice president pick at some point in the future, though.
The now often-memed Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined the Supreme Court bench and soon after helped strike down discriminatory laws.
The court would still be able to strike down what was clearly a discriminatory act motivated by animus towards Muslims.
Kagan also took aim at a broader trend: "weaponizing" free-speech protections to strike down economic regulations disfavored by conservatives.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hashim Mooppan faced a difficult challenge in convincing the court to strike down the nationwide injunction.
A decision to uphold or strike down the law would have immediate effect on dozens of states with similar legislation.
The three-judge panel issued the injunction after concluding that they were likely to strike down the order on appeal.
Hellerstadt in 2016, but Kennedy sided with the court's liberals to strike down a slate of restrictive measures in Texas.
In the 1955 ruling, the court unanimously decided to strike down the "separate but equal" doctrine created by Plessy v.
Two years ago, Kennedy was the fifth vote to strike down a Texas law imposing restrictions on access to abortion.
"The availability of arguments for judges to strike down pro-life laws -- that will also have an impact," she added.
But the governor said that he expected either state or federal courts to strike down ranked-choice voting as unconstitutional.
The lawsuit asks the court to strike down the administration's new rules and to enjoin the president from further sabotage.
That case went to the Supreme Court, and many believed it would finally strike down affirmative action — but it didn't.
More than 100 tech companies — including Google — signed an amicus brief asking an appeals court to strike down the ban.
Consider that Justice Thomas, along with Justice Scalia, voted to strike down huge swaths of constitutional law without historical justification.
The Senate voted to strike down the rule on March 23, but the House has yet to take it up.
While the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals did not strike down the agency it should not longer be considered independent.
Courts have effectively used this legal test to strike down overly strict laws but have upheld most mainstream gun regulations.
The catfish fight divided Republicans — 27 voted to strike down the inspections, while 26 voted to uphold them — with Sen.
Litigation may be the most effective means to strike down this unjust law, but definitive rulings may take several months.
And when that happens, it is hardly certain that Chief Justice Roberts will vote to strike down the Louisiana law.
The poll found that 57 percent of people supported the strike, down from 65 percent ahead of a strike in March.
Their expert testimony contributed to the Florida Supreme Court's decision in 2015 to strike down eight of the plan's 27 districts.
For this reason alone, Hidalgo's legal team argues, the court should take the case and strike down Arizona's death penalty law.
Which Scalia was happy to strike down in one of the most egregious examples of political policy-making in judicial history.
We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that will strike down every restriction on abortion adopted by the states.
According to behind-the-scenes reporting from the 2012 ACA case, four conservative justices wanted to strike down the entire law.
But if it feels particularly strongly that the executive actions are unconstitutional, it might strike down the DACA program as well.
They plan to strike down policies that require photo ID or purge voters from the rolls if they haven't voted recently.
The House also voted Thursday to strike down the Labor Department's blacklisting rule, which requires federal contractors to report labor violations.
Windsor to strike down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act denying federal benefits to lawfully married same-sex couples.
Under the Texas Plan, the U.S. Supreme Court would need a supermajority of seven Justices to strike down a state law.
Here are the odds that each Justice votes to strike down PASPA and allow New Jersey to legally offer sports betting.
Damore wielded these sources in an attempt to strike down the belief that women are sometimes professionally harmed by gender biases.
In June, it filed a legal brief in the case asking the judge to strike down Obamacare's ban on preexisting conditions.
Justice Kennedy–frequently the deciding votes to strike down restrictive abortion laws — retired, and Justice Kavanaugh now sits on the Court.
This is what Elena Kagan calls "weaponizing the First Amendment," allowing the court to strike down many forms of economic regulations.
Now he said he hopes people will support this "non-partisan" ballot issue to strike down non-unanimous decisions by juries.
The Congressional Review Act allows lawmakers to strike down regulations they disapprove of within 60 legislative days after they are passed.
Hopefully Israel's Supreme Court will strike down the law, but, in the meantime, Israel's president, Reuven Rivlin, did not mince words.
Case Cagle said the lawmakers would strike down a $50 million sales tax exemption if Delta did not restore the discounts.
" By The Post's Mike DeBonis and Rachael Bade  "Rudy Giuliani's bonkers column asking the Supreme Court to strike down Trump's impeachment.
Now the justices want the administration and red states fighting to strike down the health law to respond by Friday afternoon.
Judges Edith Jones and Edith Clement – the judges who had ruled to strike down the fiduciary rule – denied the AGs' motion.
Though she initially said she was disappointed by the decision, Reynolds said the state would not appeal the strike-down decision.
The Obama administration had been fighting the lawsuits, which ask federal courts to strike down the rule as illegal and unconstitutional.
But Park expressed confidence that the court would strike down the law as discriminatory with Kagan on the bench this time.
There is a chance — albeit a very small one — that the Supreme Court could strike down the CFPB in its entirety.
An earlier bid to strike down Botswana's anti-sodomy laws failed in 2003, after a case reached the national appeals court.
Morrisey, his opponent, signed on to a lawsuit to strike down Obamacare, filed by a group of Republican state attorneys general.
And if Congress and states can't even pass milder gun control measures, they're not going to strike down a constitutional amendment.
This decision also comes as other similar challenges seeking to strike down the citizenship question are playing out in California and Maryland.
The suits filed by the ACLU and Center for Reproductive Rights ask for the courts to strike down the new rules immediately.
"That's certainly not reason to strike down a federal law that has broad reach to tens of thousands of girls at risk."
But the Bush legal team rested on maximalist interpretations of the president's war powers, which the courts were later to strike down.
Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly wanted to strike down the mandate and protections for pre-existing conditions while leaving the rest intact.
Israel is turning into a "technical democracy," a country that uses the twin hammers of legislation and incitement to strike down dissent.
Embracing the ability to strike down on an unassuming prey all started with his grandmother, Golden Grams, and his uncle, Steve Berry.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
Gorsuch's concurrence is largely a rebuttal to Thomas and a defense of the Supreme Court's ability to strike down laws for vagueness.
The Midnight Rules Relief Act would save Congress time, by allowing lawmakers to strike down multiple regulations in one vote, Johnson explained.
More recently, he voted to strike down the safety standards imposed on abortion clinics in last year's Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt.
The reason is that if a court were to strike down one rule in a lawsuit, the other would likely still stand.
But as Tejinder Singh, a partner at Goldstein & Russell PC, noted in SCOTUSblog, Kavanaugh did not say he'd strike down the law.
The justices appeared poised to strike down Abood until the death of Antonin Scalia in February 2016 threw the term into upheaval.
Indeed, notes from the court's retired justices indicated that after oral arguments in Casey, there were five votes to strike down Roe.
He sided with liberals to legalize same-sex marriage, for instance, but helped the court's conservatives strike down limits on campaign contributions.
That same year, the justices rejected Blum and Fisher's bid to strike down the University of Texas's method for accepting new students.
Abortion: Kennedy voted with the court's liberals to strike down some of the most aggressive efforts to limit women's access to abortion.
This mission seemed determined to halt my progress, throwing waves of archers, harpies, and felbats to strike down Mercia over and over.
The court ruled against the Trump administration to strike down a long-standing ban on trademarks that incorporate vulgar words or symbols.
In one instance, a Trump appointee joined with a Bush appointee to strike down a key part of the Affordable Care Act.
A group of Senate Democrats are suing to try to strike down President Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general.
Three years later, in 1954, her experience helped lead the Supreme Court to strike down "separate but equal" segregation in American schools.
"If this judge is confirmed, then there is a dangerously high likelihood that he will strike down the Affordable Care Act," Sen.
When Democratic policies prevail despite all of that, they use apparatchik-stuffed courts to strike down legislation on the flimsiest of grounds.
It was a meeting of House Democrats early in 2017, during Republicans' drive that March to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
One piece of good news for consumers is that there almost certainly are not five votes to strike down the CFPB itself.
The FTC and DOJ can be more active in their scrutiny of mergers and companies' practices, and judges can strike down deals.
For a large part of its existence, it was determined to strike down "bourgeois" democracy and install the dictatorship of the proletariat.
That was significant because it was the first federal court ruling to strike down a congressional map as representing a partisan gerrymander.
It gets to send floods, bring droughts, strike down users and strip-mine their information, decide which community is targeted with what.
"Proponents of Internet freedom have opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to strike down President Obama's plan to regulate the Internet," he continued.
The case is part of a suit brought by 20 Republican state attorneys general and governors looking to strike down the law.
But there are doubts on the left as to whether Garland can be relied on to strike down the controversial 2010 ruling.
The Congressional Review Act allows lawmakers to strike down regulations they disapprove of with a simple majority in the House and Senate.
The Constitution does not permit just anyone to show up in federal court and ask the court to strike down a law.
Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau determined that financial companies cannot use arbitration clauses to strike down class action lawsuits.
Jenner's "Stormi Weather" costume featured a custom fluffy cloud dress by Alejandro Collection, which featured a golden lightning strike down the middle.
Wade, strike down even more campaign finance regulation, and narrow or abolish Miranda rights (as Scalia and Thomas once tried to do).
He asked a federal judge to block the county from selling his home or evicting him and to strike down several state laws.
Should the court strike down a law backing the program that lasts until March 2017, it would be a serious setback for Widodo.
Rosen predicts that Gorsuch would be quick to strike down an order explicitly discriminating against the individual free exercise of religion by Muslims.
After the 2012 case was argued, Roberts was part of a five-justice majority that wanted to strike down the individual insurance mandate.
As Obi-Wan Kenobi might have told them: strike down net neutrality, and it will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
This vote uses the Congressional Review Act, which lets Congress strike down recently passed rules by federal agencies, to block the FCC's action.
Plaintiffs in the so-called Jenkins case want a federal court to strike down the N.C.A.A. ban on player compensation on antitrust grounds.
The Justice Department now says the courts should strike down the entire Affordable Care Act — not just its protections for pre-existing conditions.
It means a Court that's very willing to uphold voting restrictions and very willing to strike down any or all campaign finance regulation.
The CRA has only ever been used once [in 2001, to strike down a Clinton labor rule on ergonomics issued in late 2000].
Trump has urged the justices to strike down the program, saying that could encourage lawmakers to negotiate with him on an immigration deal.
The Midnight Rules Relief Act, though, would save Congress time, by allowing lawmakers to strike down multiple regulations in one vote, Johnson explained.
Many Obama-era rules fall outside this window, but Republicans are determined to strike down those they can with the Congressional Review Act.
A group of landlords, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), persuaded a court to strike down the first-in-time rule in 2018.
Another factor in the reversed course was that in 2000, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor had voted to strike down the partial-birth ban.
In an interview with CNN in 2011, Clinton said there was "some chance" that the Supreme Court could strike down the healthcare law.
The Senate voted Tuesday to strike down a controversial Obama administration rule for financial advisers, setting up a showdown with the White House.
Feldman said if the Supreme Court were to strike down either one or both maps, it will likely do so on narrow grounds.
Though these armed women certainly look like they could easily strike down any foe, at least one element of their attire is questionable.
In 2013, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman signed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down California's same-sex marriage ban.
There's also precedent for appellate courts to strike down settlements that fail to account for such intraclass potential conflicts, the CCAF brief said.
Coakley, several conservative Christian groups filed a brief arguing that the court should strike down a "buffer zone" outside a clinic in Boston.
She noted that the current administration has sought to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, in federal court.
The five Supreme Court judges who heard the case have been asked to strike down the law; a ruling is expected on Thursday.
But they gave only the most preliminary hints about whether the courts will strike down part or all of Mr. Trump's executive order.
In the same way, the Supreme Court needs to come to grips with what it would really mean to strike down abortion rights.
Whenever I fired a perfect strike down the middle of the lane, I'd somehow manage to knock down only three or four pins.
What Trump isn't saying: His own Justice Department is fighting in court to strike down Obamacare's protections for those with pre-existing conditions.
It now seems increasingly likely that the court will eventually strike down the ban if it is still in place in the fall.
Prudential is currently seeking the removal of its SIFI designation, while MetLife is defending a federal court decision to strike down its labeling.
In the past year or so, federal judges have begun using other provisions of the Voting Rights Act to strike down these changes.
Roberts voted to strike down the plans, voicing a clear, if controversial, idea about what the Supreme Court had intended in Brown v.
North Carolina Republicans have asked the Supreme Court to block a federal district court's decision to strike down the state's congressional voter map.
Another possibility is that the justices strike down the law, or invalidate one of the two provisions at issue while keeping the other.
That earlier decision, issued in January, was the first from a federal court to strike down a congressional map as a partisan gerrymander.
In their eyes, refusing to strike down the resolution would make the US complicit in the UN's long history of criticism of Israeli policy.
The lawsuit requests that the San Diego Police Department return any such samples, and that courts strike down the city policy allowing their collection.
A second, narrower concern is that of faith groups which want to strike down the constitutionally-based bar on religious bodies receiving federal funds.
The Congressional Review Act (CRA) allows Congress to strike down new rules with a majority vote, and in this case, reinstate net neutrality provisions.
Those state officials want the courts to strike down the ACA's individual mandate and throw out the rest of the law along with it.
IRISH voters will decide in today's referendum whether to strike down the constitution's eighth amendment, which prohibits abortions except to save the mother's life.
Reality check: The administration is actively arguing that the courts should strike down the Affordable Care Act, including its protections for pre-existing conditions.
Kennedy's vote surprised those who had been following the issue and thought Kennedy might vote with the conservatives to narrowly strike down the plan.
On Tuesday, the House passed a resolution to strike down an Obama regulation blocking ISPs from selling their users' browsing data without their consent.
Oh, and something had to be done about the 800,000 immigrants facing deportation in six months thanks to Trump's decision to strike down DACA.
Wealth tax proponents might argue that progressives ought not trim their sails simply because they fear that hostile justices will strike down their policies.
Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan helped put the strike down when it sparked riots, but the incident also led to the Keene Act.
The pantomime of holding advisory votes on pay should end, for example; if investors strike down pay policies, firms should be bound to respond.
Now, conservative legislators see a greater opportunity to strike down the Supreme Court precedent that has stood in the way of more aggressive restrictions.
An abortion rights group on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to strike down a Louisiana law they say is designed to shutter abortion clinics.
He campaigned on repeal and replace in 2010, and as attorney general repeatedly joined lawsuits intended to strike down key provisions of the ACA.
Scalia reasoned that overturning Chevron would empower federal courts — at the time dominated by Democratic appointees — to strike down the Reagan administration's deregulatory measures.
Michigan Chamber of Commerce, an earlier campaign-finance ruling, to strike down BCRA's restrictions on campaign spending by corporations, unions, and other outside groups.
While a complete overhaul has been shelved for now, Congress is ready to strike down the Obamacare mandate in it's package of tax cuts.
In 2012, the Supreme Court used this Chevron standard to strike down the I.R.S. interpretation of rules in a case involving Home Concrete & Supply.
All five conservatives on the bench come out of a conservative legal movement that was formed in part to strike down anti-discrimination laws.
If wrongly decided, these cases could become vehicles to strike down the current $2,700 limit on individual contributions to federal candidates, possibly before 2020.
It was not entirely surprising that Gorsuch would break with the four other conservatives on the court and vote to strike down the provision.
But the courts will likely strike down another California law that undercuts the feds by forcing employers to tip off workers about immigration raids.
It's genuinely an open constitutional question whether anti-Muslim animus is sufficient reason to strike down any version of a visa ban as unconstitutional.
Since the Supreme Court controls its own docket, it can simply deny review after lower courts strike down laws squarely at odds with Roe.
Courts also ruled against, but didn't completely strike down, voting restrictions in Wisconsin, Texas, Kansas, and Georgia — and many other legal challenges are underway.
Holder to strike down a crucial portion of the Voting Rights Act that limited certain states' abilities to pass new restrictions without federal approval.
There may well be five votes to strike down Wisconsin's egregiously unfair maps, which would be a big win for the nation's political health.
The court's summary affirmance of the ruling to strike down the North Carolina voting districts gave no reasons, and there were no noted dissents.
They are backed by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, which would strike down the pre-existing conditions protections but not the whole law.
Why it matters: During oral arguments over the summer, the three-judge panel seemed likely to strike down at least some of the ACA.
Trump used the very first veto of his presidency in March to strike down a similar measure that had cleared the House and Senate.
Those advocates hope lawsuits over new restrictions make their way to the Supreme Court, where a conservative majority could strike down Roe v. Wade.
But former FCC lawyer Gigi Sohn says the courts could strike down more of the new rules if it finds the agency's response unsatisfactory.
Who knows what established rights the cadres of far-right justices who will now fill the federal benches for a generation may strike down?
Trump used the very first veto of his presidency this March to strike down a similar measure that had cleared the House and Senate.
The court would eventually strike down New York's new law too, but the backlash paved the way for a federal minimum wage in 1938.
Furthermore, the justices refused to strike down two state legislative and one congressional district on grounds of alleged discrimination in effect (rather than intent).
Starr's claim is not that Kavanaugh believes in deference to the elected branches of government and will be reluctant to strike down laws as unconstitutional.
Pettingill said he did not believe there was a precedent in Bermuda or other Commonwealth jurisdictions for the judiciary to strike down an existing law.
In June, the justices ruled 5-3 to strike down a Texas law that restricted abortion access, with Kennedy and the liberals in the majority.
Late last year, the states succeeded in getting a federal judge in Texas to strike down the law, though that ruling has not been implemented.
His brother, Kevin Dougherty, won a state Supreme Court seat with union help, then helped strike down the state's congressional map for being unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
The WPR also allows a simple majority in Congress to strike down any military action, which means it would pass with a 51-49 vote.
Currently, 22 European nations force transgender residents seeking to legally change their gender to be sterilized, but the ruling doesn't automatically strike down those laws.
Second, the CRA can only be used to strike down recently finalized regulations, which in practice seems to mean rules finished after mid-June 2016.
Congress voted to strike down four regulations using the Congressional Review Act in its last session, but then-President Obama vetoed each of those measures.
Led by Antonin Scalia, the justices ruled 8-to-1 to strike down his sentence and 6-to-3 to find the law unconstitutionally vague.
At the same time, they could achieve similar ends by refusing to strike down onerous restrictions on abortion providers and clinics passed by state legislatures.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Texas's appeal of a lower court decision to strike down the state's congressional and legislative voter maps.
But if the three judges decide to strike down some Texas state House district lines, it would set up another legal battle down the road.
Whitford, a group of Wisconsin voters asked the justices to strike down a legislative map that gave Republican state lawmakers a nearly insurmountable structural advantage.
When faced with this discrepancy, the courts should strike down the current system and require states to make best efforts to comply with the Constitution.
The opposition party led by fiery former premier Yulia Tymoshenko has vowed to strike down a reform to bring gas prices up to market rates.
This summer, federal courts have ruled in favor of suits seeking to strike down strict photo-identification requirements in Texas, North Carolina and North Dakota.
They say even if the district judge rules to strike down ObamaCare, a higher court, perhaps eventually the Supreme Court, would likely uphold the law.
Who can ever feel safe if there exists a type of outlaw that can brazenly strike down officers who are entrusted to keep us safe?
But Trump's opponents say that very exemption makes it much more likely that a judge could strike down that section of the order as unconstitutional.
The decision was devastating to Khan, the final and decisive blow in a long struggle to strike down the administration's most overt anti-Muslim policy.
The catch: It's definitely possible that a Justice Kavanaugh would be able to cast the deciding vote to strike down protections for pre-existing conditions.
Critics were disappointed that the decision did not strike down the legal prohibition against separate surnames for married couples, leaving it to the Parliament instead.
But under US law, a court can strike down an agency decision that is "arbitrary and capricious" — even if it doesn't violate any other laws.
The Supreme Court has historically been reluctant to strike down federal laws, particularly those that have become ingrained in the lives of millions of citizens.
Two federal judges strike down North Carolina's districts as unconstitutional; an oil tanker in the East China Sea is on fire after a serious collision.
Justice Samuel Alito, who agreed to strike down the law, said Congress could come up with a narrower statute banning vulgarity that conveys only emotion.
For his part, Justice Alito had made clear that he was looking for the perfect opportunity to strike down the court's 1977 decision, Abood v.
That would be especially true if the new system were combined with a rule requiring supermajority votes to strike down federal statutes on constitutional grounds.
A progressive jurisprudence would strike down policies like family separation and require a decent, intelligible and transparent process to decide on the rights of noncitizens.
Critics argue the ACE rule allows only the most minor modifications at power plants to reduce emissions — some they hope the court will strike down.
In the Obama years, red states tried to strike down the heart of the Affordable Care Act and succeeded in blocking a major immigration program.
It was the latest step in an originalist quest that Thomas helped start in the 1990s to use the Constitution to strike down gun laws.
The same America whose structural racism allowed the Supreme Court to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act and disproportionately disenfranchise minorities.
Rubio and Cornyn both signed on to a brief, backed by 43 GOP senators, earlier this year, urging the court to strike down Obama's actions.
Liberal states controlled by Democrats are taking their own steps to protect abortion rights, in the event that the high court does strike down Roe.
H. W. Bush made it clear that he wanted the power of the line-item veto to strike down elements of left-leaning spending bills.
It should not be in the hands of the federal government to strike down a successful legalization effort that has broad support in a state.
The move was prompted by the Hong Kong court decision to strike down a controversial anti-mask law that was heavily pushed by Chinese officials.
An attorney for the city of Phoenix told the Arizona Republic that the ruling is narrow and does not strike down Phoenix's anti-discrimination law.
When she draws to strike down Palpatine, she's empty-handed, and suddenly Ben has a weapon to defend himself against his own former knightly brethren.
Republican officials are now appealing a second decision from a three-judge district court panel to strike down the maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Day said in a statement to WABC that the judge's decision to strike down the ban surprised him, and he urged more children to get vaccinated.
It sends it back for the 9th Circuit Court to reconsider — but the Supreme Court's decision makes it difficult for courts to strike down the ban.
In December 2017, the Harvard Corporation, a university governing body, voted to lock in the rule in order to strike down the influence of final clubs.
In 2016, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the conservatives in dissenting from the court's 5-3 decision to strike down the Texas version of the law.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, this is the third state Supreme Court to strike down the death penalty amid concerns about inherent racial disparities.
Republican attorneys general want the courts to strike down the entire ACA, while the Trump administration says only its protections for pre-existing conditions should fall.
And if Congress and many states can't pass even milder gun control measures on these political grounds, they're not going to strike down a constitutional amendment.
He had a jurisprudential difficulty with it, namely that he thought it gave judges too much power to strike down or create exemptions to general laws.
But there's an argument to be made that Whole Woman's Health could do a lot more than just strike down laws similar to those in Texas.
We also shouldn't forget the Court's 2014 decision to strike down the mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptive coverage as part of taxpayer-subsidized health plans.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives' Oversight Committee voted on Monday to strike down a Washington, D.C. law that would allow physician-assisted suicide there.
Once you've accepted that you have to include death then you should be honest about death and indicate it can strike down anybody at any time.
What happened: The Senate voted to strike down the Interior Department's so-called stream protection rule just one day after the House moved to repeal it.
Wade in a 22019 decision, and his vote helped strike down Texas's abortion law H.B. 2, which would have shuttered most abortion clinics in the state.
Even if the court does not strike down political gerrymandering this term, nine justices should not be expected to safeguard our political rights on their own.
The goal of the law is to ultimately bring a legal challenge to the Supreme Court, so the conservative majority will strike down Roe v. Wade.
Experts say that arguments flies in the face of Supreme Court precedent on how much of a law to strike down when one part is overturned.
When my staff ultimately decided to strike down unlimited vacation in favor of a more finite policy based on tenure, I can't say I was surprised.
The current administration and its refusal to strike down on white supremacy is one challenge—but it is not representative of the entire battle we face.
They — and vulnerable incumbents in particular — have been hammering away at the Justice Department's attempts to strike down the Affordable Care Act protections for sick people.
But the ruling did not strike down the law entirely, ruling instead that new procedures must be found to assist potential voters lacking the required identification.
Following guidance in that ruling, the judiciary could strike down as unconstitutional any firearms regulation, especially now with gun friendly judges in the Supreme Court majority.
Casey, and delivered the fifth vote to strike down Nebraska's ban on certain late-term abortions in the last abortion case she heard, Stenberg v. Carhart.
Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Thomas claim to be "originalists," who believe that the court should strike down laws that violate the original understanding of the Constitution.
"Conservatives on the Supreme Court will never strike down even the most egregious gerrymanders unless Democrats prove that they can play the game too," Drum writes.
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.
It's not often that the Supreme Court gets the chance to strike down a Jim Crow law these days, but one such opportunity is fast approaching.
Regulators are moving to develop new standards, even as critics push forward to have the courts or Congress curb or strike down the rules down entirely.
But if the justices strike down Trump's decision to terminate the program, Democrats may not need to push for a bill enshrining those protections in law.
The Shelby court didn't strike down Section 3, so it's still an available tool for lawyers who want to use the VRA to challenge election laws.
But when radio DJs go at it, they are empowered by the almighty microphone to strike down with great vengeance and furious anger from the mountaintops.
Britain has given Putin until midnight on Tuesday to explain how the nerve agent was used to strike down Skripal, who had passed secrets to British intelligence.
In another case, Verrilli successfully persuaded the court in 2012 to strike down provisions of a harsh anti-immigrant law in Arizona on a 5-3 vote.
They've sided with California in Trump's efforts to strike down the state's "sanctuary" laws, and to block funding from cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
However the ECJ strike down of Safe Harbor brought fresh imperative to the process, and the EC set a three month deadline to agree a new deal.
The suit, according to the plaintiffs, is an attempt to strike down the Trump administration's unconstitutional Title IX policy harming student survivors of sexual violence and harassment.
And Clarence Thomas wrote a separate dissent questioning whether the Supreme Court even has the right to strike down federal laws for being too vague at all.
In oral arguments on Monday, the court's conservative majority indicated that they were ready to strike down mandatory union fees for public employees, on free speech grounds.
Columbia officials told the The Associated Press that they are hopeful the Supreme Court will strike down the travel restrictions, allowing the scholarship recipients to get visas.
Bolton, who wants to strike down the Iran nuclear deal and has advocated pre-emptive strikes on North Korea, is replacing H.R. McMaster as national security adviser.
Adopting a test for courts to strike down partisan gerrymanders would go a long way to ensuring that fair elections, not unfair election rules, decide who wins.
Musk made the comments after Tesla shareholders voted Tuesday to strike down proposals to split up the CEO and chairman roles and shake up the company's board.
Liberals have begun searching for creative ways to overcome a Supreme Court that now looks poised to strike down their legislative agenda for at least a generation.
Democrats are just one GOP vote shy of the 51-vote threshold for a Senate resolution of disapproval, which would strike down the FCC's December rules change.
He wrote Citizens United, in which Roberts was decidedly the swing vote, agreeing to strike down precedent only after having been pushed along in several earlier cases.
Yet if a court does not invalidate the entire arbitration agreement, Ms. Carlson has a second option: persuading the judge to strike down just the confidentiality provision.
Legal and privacy advocates say European nations are poised to strike down the deal if they decide the U.S. hasn't done enough to reform its spying programs.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear North Carolina's appeal of a lower court's decision to strike down its voter ID law, effectively killing the law.
Democrats are just one GOP vote shy of the 2628-vote threshold for a Senate resolution of disapproval, which would strike down the FCC's December rules change.
But now Leinenweber has gone even further — making his initial ruling permanent and going beyond it to strike down the underlying law, referred to as Section 1373.
They've used a special filibuster-proof process to strike down several regulations that were passed late in President Obama's term, the window for which has now expired.
The parties had also petitioned the court to reconsider its March decision to strike down the rule and rehear the case with its full panel of judges.
This week, Alabama passed a law effectively outlawing the procedure, raising the question of whether the Supreme Court will use it to strike down Roe v. Wade.
In 2016, he voted with the court's liberal justices to strike down a Texas regulation that made it more difficult for doctors and clinics to provide abortions.
The justices' remarks, which indicated easy familiarity with the major social media services, suggested that they would strike down the North Carolina law under the First Amendment.
In May, Ms. Lynch delivered an impassioned speech about transgender rights in explaining the Justice Department's lawsuit to strike down a discriminatory state law in North Carolina.
La Paz is clear evidence of the country's lingering divisions: While the referendum was supported here, four in 10 residents voted to strike down the peace deal.
Efforts to strike down a rule ordering new consumer protections on prepaid debit cards never made it to a vote in either the House or the Senate.
Abortion-rights groups expect the court to strike down the Louisiana law, arguing that to do otherwise would mean the Supreme Court going against its own precedent.
But soon after Trump entered office in 2017, Republicans in Congress voted to strike down the Obama-era regulation, called Planning 2.0, using the Congressional Review Act.
Even if five justices plan to strike down the executive order, they should do so now, and not in the fall, or worse, one year from now.
But if the courts ultimately strike down the Affordable Care Act — as the Trump administration is urging them to do — then Trump will actually need a replacement.
Cato is asking the court to strike down all of the SEC's previous gag agreements and enjoin the commission from entering broad speech prohibitions in the future.
Republicans lawmakers earlier this month voted to strike down the two rules through the Congressional Review Act, which gives them the power to roll back certain regulations.
In 85033, California politicians and activists rallied across the country to call upon the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an Arizona law enforcing federal immigration laws.
The Democratic Party of Virginia and two party activists are suing the Virginia State Board of Elections and want Judge Henry Hudson to strike down the law.
But with the Supreme Court poised to give judges a veto power over these agencies' actions, the courts could in effect strike down any regulation they dislike.
Leinenweber moved to strike down the underlying law, known as Section 1373, which mandates that local governments share the immigration status of individuals with the federal government.
Democrats are just one GOP vote shy of the 28503-vote threshold for a Senate resolution of disapproval, which would strike down the FCC's December rules change.
The decision is yet another legal setback in gun advocates' recent struggle to persuade the courts to strike down a wide range of firearms restrictions as unconstitutional.
Rand Paul calling on GOP leadership to "move forward with a 'clean' repeal," effectively detaching the debate over a replacement bill from a vote to strike down Obamacare.
Even if the courts strike down the order, partly or completely, it will stand as a declaration that open season on Muslims and Middle Eastern people now exists.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday listed a closely watched case seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act for discussion at the justices' private conference on Feb. 21.
"The court was right to strike down virtually all of its patently unconstitutional law," Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project said in a statement.
Katyal, the former acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, asked the justices in Monday's filing to hear Hidalgo's case, and to strike down Arizona's death penalty law.
Soraya Saenz de Santamaría, Spain's deputy prime minister, responded that "24 hours will be enough" for the state to strike down the referendum law once it is passed.
They also calculated that given the speed and altitude of the North Korean missiles, they would have been hard to strike down with their current missile defense system.
One research firm estimated before the ruling that if the Supreme Court were to strike down the law, 32 states would likely offer sports betting within five years.
Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced a long-promised resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which lets Congress strike down new rules with a simple majority vote.
In a stunning escalation, the Justice Department wants the courts to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act — not just its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
There are significant differences between the House and Senate versions—for one, the Senate bill may strike down the Affordable Care Act mandate requiring people to buy insurance.
It also follows the international success of the rainbow filter, which Facebook created in June 2015 following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down gay marriage bans.
Whole Woman's Health didn't just strike down specific laws; it did so in a methodical way that clarified how courts should be thinking about abortion laws more broadly.
In August, India's Supreme Court issued a long-delayed ruling that confirmed citizens' right to privacy and appeared to strike down the government's ability to make Aadhaar compulsory.
And one point of concern for many public health advocates is continued access to addiction treatment provided through the Affordable Care Act, which Trump wants to strike down.
The administration filed a legal brief last spring requesting the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down all of the health care law, also known as ObamaCare.
Tad Lipsky, the new director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, said Tuesday the FTC was "delighted" by the court's ruling to strike down the Advocate-NorthShore deal.
Republicans lawmakers voted to strike down these regulations through the Congressional Review Act, which allows certain regulations to be undone with only a simple majority in the Senate.
"We are disappointed that the court would strike down a statute that protects the health and well-being of Kentucky women," Bevin's spokeswoman Elizabeth Kuhn told the outlet.
So when I called Dr. Damasio, who teaches at the University of Southern California, I worried that he might strike down my humanistic observations with unflinching scientific objectivity.
And in March, he wrote a personal appeal to the Supreme Court to strike down the very policy that propelled him on this life trajectory: Trump's travel ban.
Shareholders are widely expected to strike down a proposal that would have forced Tesla to appoint an independent chairman, which would have removed Elon Musk from the role.
And there is still an outside chance that the Polish constitutional court will curb or strike down the law, as both the United States and Israel have urged.
The Senate voted Monday to strike down the Labor Department's so-called blacklisting rule, which requires federal contractors to disclose workplace violations before conducting business with Uncle Sam.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor lashed out at the court's majority, arguing Trump's comments targeting Muslims should have led the justices to strike down the ban.
After Safe Harbor's strike down, model contract clauses were one of the mechanisms the European Commission pointed to as an extant alternative available to companies to switch to.
Nine years later, he sided once again with the liberals on the court to strike down a Texas law that abortion rights supporters thought was the strictest nationwide.
In 2008 he was the fifth vote -- with the four liberals -- to strike down a Louisiana law that permitted the death penalty for the rape of a child.
The Supreme Court later partly agreed with him, voting 5 to 4 to strike down the limitations on firing members of the board — but not the appointing provisions.
"The court was right to strike down virtually all of this patently unconstitutional law," Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's immigrant rights project, said in a statement.
The lawyers invoked a California law that allows defendants to strike down lawsuits meant to silence criticism, cases known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP suits.
Roberts was, she says, initially inclined to strike down a key part of the law, the individual mandate, which required people to have insurance or pay a penalty.
For the next several decades, the federal courts could be available to strike down policies that progressives obtain in the halls of Congress, the presidency or the states.
The lawsuit filed this week seeks to give the sergeant his commission as a captain and strike down current H.I.V. policies affecting recruiting and deployment across the military.
However, Hawley is one of 20 Republican state officials who signed onto a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional.
The CNBC regular also commented on the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to strike down a 1992 federal law that effectively banned commercial sports betting in most states.
This seemed to frustrate some of the justices, who may have been looking for a way to strike down the disparagement provision without making a more general statement.
A 1992 precedent requires the court to strike down any law if it finds that it imposes an "undue burden" on a woman's right to have an abortion.
There is little doubt that a majority of the Court believes that the Second Amendment should be read aggressively to strike down a wide range of gun laws.
Justice Kavanaugh also asked whether the court would be required to strike down admitting-privileges laws even if all doctors seeking to provide abortions could obtain the privileges.
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main line of inquiry is that Russians used a mystery substance to strike down former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, two security sources said.
Monday, Kennedy provided the winning margin to the court's four liberals to strike down Texas's strict regulations of abortion clinics and abortion providers, in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.
And the FCC isn't the only one trying to strike down on spam calls: There's currently open legislation in Congress and the Senate taking aim at robocallers at well.
An eclectic group of academics and lawyers managed to pull off the all but impossible when they convinced a court to strike down Wisconsin's state districting on constitutional grounds.
To convince the high court to temporarily halt the plan, opponents had to convince the justices that there was a "fair prospect" the court would strike down the rule.
The National Labor Relations Board is seeking to strike down a decade-old Oregon law barring employers from disciplining workers who refuse to attend mandatory meetings opposing union representation.
The GOP's own platform, ratified in Cleveland last week, calls to defund Planned Parenthood, and condemns the Supreme Court's recent decision to strike down restrictions on abortion in Texas.
Upon leaving Congress a second time, Thornton was elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court, where he helped strike down a state law establishing term limits for members of Congress.
All nine justices (two of whom dissented, in part) voted to strike down the provisions, saying they constituted a violation of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
Bam Bam's arrival into the family is just Bernthal's latest effort to support pit bulls and strike down the unfairly negative stereotypes that have followed the breed for years.
A recent poll from YouGov and Take Back the Courts, a progressive group, found Democrats and independents were generally in agreement about the need to strike down the law.
The panel will decide whether to uphold a Texas judge's decision to strike down the health-care reform law that was passed in 2010 under former President Barack Obama.
Most legal experts do not believe the Supreme Court would ultimately strike down the entire law, but the uncertainty could pressure stocks in the near term, brokerage Oppenheimer said.
Often, litigators have to strike down law after law that ban panhandling and loitering, which means it sometimes takes decades to force police departments to comply with the constitution.
What happened: The House of Representatives voted 21984 to 220 to strike down an Obama Administration rule that would have prevented some people with mental illness from buying guns.
Earlier this year he convinced a federal judge to strike down MetLife Inc's designation as a financial company that is "systemically important," which would subject it to tougher regulation.
Faced with a rapid-fire succession of legal challenges, judges have refused to strike down or roll back laws Democrats argue were designed to disenfranchise minorities and the poor.
But more broadly, they say that if the court did decide to find the mandate unconstitutional, it would not make sense to strike down the rest of ObamaCare too.
Under Pai's leadership and with a likely 3-2 Republican majority once others are appointed, the FCC will almost certainly work to strike down the Open Internet Order altogether.
We know that leaders of and activists in the black community pressed the War Department and Roosevelt administration to confront the nation's "original sin" and strike down legal segregation.
His comments came after shareholders voted to strike down two proposals intended to split up the CEO and chairman roles held by Musk and shake up the company's board.
A federal court in Michigan on Thursday became the latest in the country to strike down its state's district maps, ruling that they were examples of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering.
He questioned whether judicial regulation of partisan gerrymandering, which might require a court to strike down a districting plan in certain circumstances, risks the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
That anxiety would intensify if the Republican-majority court moves to strike down laws and executive actions from the next Democratic president and congressional majority, in 2021 or thereafter.
Experts say a nationwide ban on assault weapons wouldn't work in the US due to the influential gun lobby, which has helped to strike down other gun control legislation.
Privacy concerns In the 2015 case, Schrems convinced the court to strike down an agreement known as Safe Harbor that allowed EU data to flow to the United States.
But Goldstein would be very surprised, he said, if Garland ruled to strike down the death penalty, which some of the more liberal justices have shown interest in doing.
DOJ said the courts should strike down the coverage requirement, as well as the provision of the law that forces insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
Given the drive by some Republicans to strike down the deal and the determination of some Democrats to preserve it, it is entirely possible that Congress will do nothing.
Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to strike down a sweeping new rule that would have allowed millions of Americans to band together in class-action lawsuits against financial institutions.
Federal courts still have the power to strike down maps designed to dilute the voting power of racial minorities, or maps that violate the "one person, one vote" principle.
The White House also points to states where the courts automatically strike down overly broad noncompete language, giving employers a stronger incentive to write narrower, less onerous noncompete rules.
For months, Donald Trump's opponents in both the Democratic and Republican parties have attempted to use his own words against him in an attempt to strike down his candidacy.
The branch the Constitution devotes the least amount of text to, the Judiciary, currently wields the most power, being able to police Executive behavior and also strike down laws.
In their brief to the Supreme Court, Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature called the lower court's decision to strike down the 2011 maps ''not only wrong, but dangerously so.
Republicans on the Financial Services Committee argued in a brief submitted this week that the Supreme Court should strike down the bureau's structure and ask Congress to fix it.
On the second play of the quarter, Ryan Tannehill threw a 45 yard strike down the middle of the field to wideout Kalif Raymond, who was running all alone.
Romania's Constitutional Court rejected on Thursday a request by the country's ombudsman to strike down a law that bars people convicted of a criminal offence from joining the government.
Another angle: The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would not review a decision to strike down laws making it a crime for homeless people to sleep outdoors.
One, an Austrian student named Max Schrems, who persuaded the European Court of Justice to strike down a safe harbor and pushed the US government to strengthen privacy protection.
In June, the US Supreme Court ruled that federal courts can't strike down maps on grounds of partisan gerrymandering, but state courts still have the ability to do so.
A court in Kenya is expected to deliver a long-awaited ruling in May on whether to strike down colonial-era laws banning homosexuality in the east African nation.
Whitford — 12 Wisconsin Democratic voters who sued to strike down the state legislature map, arguing it was gerrymandered against the party — failed to establish standing to bring their lawsuit.
An attempt to strike down Botswana's anti-sodomy laws failed in 2003, but activists made "incremental" progress later, said Anna Mmolai-Chalmers of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana.
Eventually, he got the help of a conservative think tank to file a lawsuit to try to get him out of testifying — by trying to strike down Mueller's appointment.
The ability of federal judges to strike down actions taken by Congress or the executive branch if they're deemed unconstitutional is a hallmark of the American system of government.
In our system, the legislative branch is empowered to enact and amend laws, and the judicial branch has long had the authority to review and strike down acts of Congress.
In a 51 to 49 vote, the Senate rejected an effort to strike down an environmental regulation aimed at limiting methane emissions from oil and gas drilling on public lands.
All eyes have been on GOP senators Susan Collins (ME), John McCain (AZ), and Lisa Murkowski (AK), who crossed party lines in July to strike down the "skinny" Obamacare repeal.
In other words, if the court were to strike down the executive action on Constitutional grounds, it could portend a way to limit executive action in other areas as well.
And because the law now contains this zeroed-out mandate which is unconstitutional, the proper remedy is to strike down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act root and branch.
"Even without the ERA we still have tools in our existing law and existing precedents to challenge and strike down many of the abortion restrictions we've been seeing," Garcia said.
Though it has not yet issued a promised full opinion, the court noted that the Pennsylvania constitution was "the sole basis" for its decision to strike down the congressional map.
Biden's plan does not include any contingencies that would kick in if federal courts currently considering a legal challenge to Obamacare strike down the law, in part or in full.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said earlier on Friday that it was overwhelmingly likely that Putin himself made the decision to strike down a former Russian agent on English soil.
"Free Press promised to see the FCC in court when the agency voted to strike down Net Neutrality in December," Free Press policy director Matt Wood said in a statement.
Experts believe that given the makeup of the court hearing the case, and its previous ruling against the parents program, the judges involved would likely strike down DACA as well.
"I am thrilled to see the Supreme Court finally side with New Jersey and strike down the arbitrary ban on sports betting imposed by Congress decades ago," Murphy said Monday.
Roberts has also come through for the right in cases with a clearer payoff for Republicans, like his decision to strike down a crucial element of the Voting Rights Act.
He asked no questions at argument and so did not tip his hand, but most prognosticators predict he will side with the four conservative justices and strike down agency fees.
In an exception that perhaps proves the rule, the high court on Monday upheld the Federal Circuit's decision to strike down a law that prevents disparaging names from being trademarked.
Another is Trump's positive response to the decision by a federal judge in Texas to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) because he deemed the individual mandate unconstitutional.
By ruling that the courts were empowered to strike down statutes contravening the Constitution, Marshall produced a win for the Jefferson administration that was also a win for the courts.
Earlier this year, Anthony Kennedy voted to strike down an abortion regulation for the first time since 1992, presumably reacting to what he perceived as overreach by the Texas legislature.
Representative Kevin Brady said that if the Supreme Court did strike down Obamacare, Republicans would act to protect some provisions, including coverage guarantees for people with pre-existing medical conditions.
Here's a look at some of Garland's most intriguing cases:  In 2628, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit voted to strike down the District of Columbia's handgun ban.
"The only constitutional rights the courts were concerned with were the rights of businesses to strike down any law designed to protect workers or consumers against unfettered capitalism," Cole said.
Asking for them just to release them immediately, or out of spite or a desire to humiliate, could serve as a reason for a judge to strike down the request.
The threat from President Trump and Republicans to take health care away — including a pending case that would strike down a large part of the law — has hit alarming levels.
The push to strike down the law gained momentum in 2001, when Anjali Gopalan, the executive director of the Naz Foundation, an AIDS awareness group, filed a lawsuit challenging it.
The previous North Carolina decision, issued by a three-judge panel last week, was the first from a federal court to strike down a congressional map as a partisan gerrymander.
But in 2016, Justice Kennedy provided the crucial vote to strike down, under Casey, a Texas law that shuttered half the state's clinics by imposing excessively burdensome requirements on them.
First, the Department of Justice asked the court to strike down the job security protections for the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was Senator Elizabeth Warren's brainchild.
"That would be the end goal of this litigation, is to strike down the FCC&aposs broad categorical exclusion and make them tailor it to very specific instances," Ryan said.
In essence, the Texas plaintiffs argue that if the zeroed-out mandate is unconstitutional, then the proper remedy is to strike down the whole Affordable Care Act in its entirety.
Kevin McDugle (R) vowed to strike down any education funding measure because he didn't like how the teachers were acting, veteran educator Cyndi Ralston announced she was running against him.
New York, Holmes dissented from a decision to strike down a New York maximum-hours law limiting bake shop workers to no more than ten hours of work each day.
It's a wonder that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts didn't chuckle when he swore McConnell in or that a lightning bolt from heaven didn't strike down the GOP leader.
The new ruling is narrow, applying to only this business, and did not strike down the city's law, said Eric Fraser, the attorney who argued on behalf of the city.
The premise that the man who had chosen not to strike down the most evil Sith the world had ever known ever considered killing his sister's only child was outrageous.
President Trump could appoint a firebrand conservative who would pick up where Justice Antonin Scalia left off, crusading to strike down assault weapons bans at the state and local level.
"Determined to strike down two provisions of a new Texas abortion statute in all of their applications, the Court simply disregards basic rules that apply in all other cases," Alito wrote.
After a federal court moved to strike down an expansive definition earlier this year, he praised the ruling in a statement and slammed the previous Democratic administration for its regulatory policy.
It's incredibly polished, and when everything clicks into place, and you strike down your target having laid out the most incredible plot ahead of that moment, it's just so much fun.
In other major victories, Verrilli urged the justices to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which barred the recognition of same-sex marriages for the purposes of federal benefits.
India's chief justice is already hearing a separate case to strike down the ban, and India's top court has previously argued that only parliament has the power to change Section 377.
It would be absurd to use the link between wholesale and retail markets as a reason to strike down a federal rule that helps conserve energy and strengthens the electricity grid.
Some even bet on whether the Supreme Court would strike down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992, which prohibits most sports gambling in states other than Nevada.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump lambasted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Thursday over two rulings in which the high court refused to strike down President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
If the justices strike down agency fees as a violation of workers' freedom of speech, labour unions in half the country will find themselves poorer, and less powerful at election time.
He concludes that courts may therefore rely upon Finnis's moral theory to strike down laws permitting assisted suicide, even though "conventional legal materials" never explicitly reference that theory or its intricacies.
The court, ruling 6-2, reversed a 2014 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to strike down the 2011 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regulation.
Two cloud-to-ground lightning bolts strike down over the mountains near White Sands National Monument while the Milky Way shines above and moon rays streak out from behind the clouds.
To go back 30 years or so requires judges to strike down amnesty laws and a change in political conditions, notes José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch, a pressure group.
" But if the justices strike down California's law, she said, this case "has potential to clarify what the free speech rule should be in assessing the constitutionality of mandatory abortion counseling.
Sessions in February asked a federal court to dismiss a claim joined by his predecessors seeking to strike down a Texas law they alleged had been crafted to suppress minority turnout.
Republicans lawmakers voted to strike down these regulations through the Congressional Review Act, which allows certain regulations to be undone while preventing the minority in the Senate from using the filibuster.
We recently examined 37 cases in which federal appeals courts considered the agency's regulatory impact analysis or other equivalent economic analysis in deciding whether to uphold or strike down the regulation.
If you simply take the original public meaning of the word cruelty, we would not be able to strike down a law today that allowed branding, cropping ears, flogging, pillorying, etc.
Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha on Tuesday said a North Carolina court's decision to strike down the state's GOP-drawn congressional map as unconstitutional could make politicians work harder in their campaigns.
The retirement immediately led to fears from abortion rights advocates that a new justice appointed by Trump could join with the court's other four conservatives to strike down Roe v. Wade.
But the same judges are also wrestling with whether to save or strike down in the ACA, which legal experts say is likely to end up before the Supreme Court again.
In Mr. Rosenthal's view, the Supreme Court supplied the best news of the week in its decision to strike down a Texas law that would restrict reproductive services available to women.
None of the Democratic or Republican candidates for the White House answered questions from The Hill about Obama's lobbyist policies and whether they would strike down or alter the executive order.
The court told a lower court to reconsider its decision to strike down Republican-drawn redistricting plan in light of its recent ruling in another partisan gerrymandering case out of Wisconsin.
SENATE VOTES TO BLOCK OBAMA FINANCIAL ADVISER RULE: The Senate voted Tuesday to strike down a controversial Obama administration rule for financial advisers, setting up a showdown with the White House.
Tesla said in a statement it filed the suit to ask a judge to strike down a 2014 Michigan law that bars Tesla from selling or repairing vehicles in the state.
The research is based on the GOP's repeal bill from 2015, which would strike down the law's mandates, subsidies and Medicaid expansion but leave in place some non-budget related provisions.
HARARE (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Saturday refused to strike down subversion charges against an American citizen who now faces 11 days in a Harare jail until her next court hearing.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced in December that the U.S. military services, after years of study, had decided to strike down gender barriers by opening all jobs to women who qualify.
The Supreme Court could decide to uphold or strike down HB2 in full or in part, leaving a variety of legal outcomes with different effects at the national and state level.
The Federal Communications Commission tried to cap prison phone rates under existing laws in 2015, but telecom companies successfully persuaded a federal appeals court to strike down the restrictions last year.
The cemented 5-4 conservative majority, reinforced by Roberts' overall record of never voting to strike down any abortion restriction, could lead to a significant retrenchment on abortion rights in America.
In an interview, Mr. Dush said he did not dispute their authority to strike down the Republican map, but complained that their order to draw new boundaries tramples on legislative powers.
As Kavanaugh noted, the text of the law creating the CFPB explicitly states that courts should retain as much of that law as possible if they strike down an individual provision.
Wednesday's arguments contained numerous references to the Hellerstedt decision, in which the court's since-retired swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined the four liberals to strike down Texas' admitting-privilege law.
"Maybe the aim is to get the court to strike down the order on Flores grounds," said Alex Nowrasteh, senior immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian research organization.
By leveraging our unique strengths — including our own proprietary data — we've been able to put together a smart, business-focused amicus brief urging courts to strike down the public charge rule.
It could use its legislative powers to strike down House legislation and its executive powers — treaty-making and confirmation of presidential nominations — to govern without the direct consent of the people.
The 5th Circuit wrestled during oral arguments over how much of the law to strike down, ultimately deciding to kick that question back to the lower court for a new hearing.
Even assuming, as Gerber does, that "arbitrariness" provides a sufficient standard for evaluating an impeachment, it is not likely any court would strike down the articles of impeachment passed last month.
Kennedy, who voted in the majority to strike down the Texas law, has since left the bench, and President Donald Trump's two appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, have joined it.
A Marquette Law School poll found in September that 53 percent of voters nationwide would oppose a Supreme Court decision to strike down the program, while 103 percent would favor it.
Renee Ellmers when they were drawn into the same district in 2016, said he expects the court to strike down the current map and didn't rule out retiring as a result.
And his vote to grant a stay on Thursday, in other words, does not mean he will vote to strike down the Louisiana law when the case returns to the court.
But the five conservatives want to set a high bar for when the courts should step in to strike down a state map on racial grounds — and they're in the majority.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A prominent Pakistani lawyer has filed a petition in the top sharia court seeking that it strike down a new law that gives unprecedented protection to female victims of violence.
It would have sufficed, she wrote, to strike down the extreme Texas law at issue in the case and then proceed in measured steps in later cases to consider other abortion restrictions.
There's still definitely a chance of a pro-choice doomsday scenario — an ultra-conservative anti-Roe majority, which then gets handed the perfect case it needs to strike down Roe for good.
The ruling does not immediately strike down the U.S. duties imposed in 2013 after Washington found that South Korea was unfairly subsidizing and pricing Korean-made washers exported to the United States.
When in 2004 the court decided not to strike down maps favouring Republicans in Pennsylvania, four justices determined that gerrymandering, while nothing to celebrate, was not a matter the judiciary could police.
Given all that, since the plaintiffs are "likely to succeed" in their effort to strike down the ban as unconstitutional, Judge Kollar-Kottely agreed to block most of the order, for now.
Last month, the Constitutional Court narrowly voted to strike down a similar petition filed by the Family Love Alliance, one of the conservative groups behind the move to push legislation through parliament.
If the court does strike down the executive actions as unconstitutional, will it do the same for the existing deferred-action program from 230, which covers hundreds of thousands of young immigrants?
The big picture: Trump's Twitter declaration comes after the Justice Department said last week the courts should strike down the entire Affordable Care Act — not just its protections for pre-existing conditions.
The BNP says it would strike down the DSA if it wins, but it cracked down on media organizations seen as unfriendly when it was in power more than a decade ago.
The language of the legislation simply allows Congress to strike down more than one regulation with a single vote; it does not require that all midnight rules be included in one vote.
A panel of judges rejected a call by lawyers defending Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama to strike down the case because it had violated the ethnic Chinese politician's human rights and breached procedures.
Last week, Congress voted to strike down three Obama-era regulations, including environmental and gun control regulations, and they'll use the CRA in more votes this week on education and labor rules.
Title VII also was deployed to strike down employer policies that explicitly punished pregnancy, ranging from automatic firing to forced leave to erasing women's seniority while they were out having their babies.
On Wednesday, the House voted to strike down the Interior Department's stream protection rule and the Securities and Exchange Commission's disclosure requirements for oil and gas companies through the Congressional Review Act.
"I struggle to understand why they would waste their time trying to strike down this rule and why not let the administration fix the rule," said Phil Hanceford of the Wilderness Society.
On Friday, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it was overwhelmingly likely that Russian President Putin himself had made the decision to use a military-grade nerve toxin to strike down Skripal.
John Conroy was part of the legal team that helped strike down Canadian regulations that banned personal weed growing for medical purposes, and he sees some parallels to the case for psilocybin.
A number of legal observers have predicted a lower court will strike down the Alabama state law, and a number of Republicans who are otherwise anti-abortion rights have criticized the legislation.
But such a vague standard would effectively give the Supreme Court free rein to decide which of myriad regulations they would like to uphold and which they would prefer to strike down.
At the time, civil rights lawyers suspected that the Obama administration settled the state's lawsuit to avoid giving the Supreme Court a chance to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act.
Voting rights advocates persuaded federal appeals courts to strike down restrictive laws in North Carolina, Texas and elsewhere as violations of both the Constitution and what remains of the Voting Rights Act.
If the Supreme Court justices are serious about curtailing abortion access in the United States, they might find it easy to strike down the law as an abuse of Congress' legislative power.
" In one post Hagedorn wrote in October 2005, he reportedly said that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down an anti-sodomy law in Texas "should render laws prohibiting bestiality unconstitutional.
The legislation, which seeks to address the objections of the Supreme Court in its decision to strike down Florida's capital punishment law, passed the Senate by a vote of 35 to 53.
We have a "colorblind Constitution," Justice Clarence Thomas asserted nine years ago, at the dawn of the Obama era, as he joined the court's conservative majority to strike down school-desegregation plans.
The judge as boogeyman has become the judge as savior — at least when intervening to block executive branch action or to strike down a regulatory requirement in the name of free speech.
It would have sufficed, she wrote, to strike down the extreme Texas law at issue in the case and then proceeded in measured steps in later cases to consider other abortion restrictions.
Many Senate Democrats are trying to sink the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh by arguing the 113-year-old conservative justice will strike down health insurance protections in the Affordable Care Act.
Many Senate Democrats are trying to sink the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh by arguing the 53-year-old conservative justice will strike down health insurance protections in the Affordable Care Act.
Legal experts say that the Supreme Court would almost certainly strike down legislation that reversed the legalization of same-sex marriage, but it is not clear how long the process could take.
The injunction wouldn't strike down the order itself, but it would force CBP agents to stop one aspect of its implementation until the court, and America, has figured out what's going on.
In 2016, when the court was short-handed after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Kennedy joined the court's four-member liberal wing to strike down a restrictive Texas abortion law.
The battle to strike down this law has been a long one, entailing years of petitioning at various courts, momentous wins at the lower courts, and further petitions that revoked such triumphs.
They do not want five people to be able to strike down protections for the unborn or for citizens whose consciences do not permit them to support contraception or same-sex unions.
The BNP says it would strike down the DSA if it wins, but it cracked down on media organizations seen as unfriendly when it was in power more than a decade ago.
" Justice Samuel Alito: "Determined to strike down two provisions of a new Texas abortion statute in all of their applications, the court simply disregards basic rules that apply in all other cases.
Montana Department of Revenue, multiple justices indicated that they might vote to strike down what are known as Blaine amendments, which bar some states from using public funds to support religious schools.
But here is the problem with relying on Rutan to strike down Michigan's independent redistricting effort: the eligibility rules for commissioners under attack in Daunt v Benson are not based on viewpoint.
"Near as I can tell, that's a really new development where a district court asserts the right to strike down a federal statute with regard to anybody in the world," he said.
On Monday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has already announced that it plans to sue the Trump administration to strike down the executive order on the basis of discrimination against Muslims.
Abortion rights groups already had reason to think, based on an earlier vote on a stay application in the case, that there are five votes to strike down some of the law's restrictions.
Wolf made a similar statement promising to strike down any anti-abortion law in the state earlier this year after Republican governors in Alabama and Georgia signed legislation restricting the procedure into law.
It is not hard to imagine a Democratic president and Congress doing the same in four years' time, if five Republican-appointed justices repeatedly strike down the ambitious social programmes these politicians promised.
It also comes after the Justice Department said in a court filing Monday that courts should strike down the entire Affordable Care Act, not just its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The Obama administration received widespread backlash for refusing to use its veto power to strike down the resolution, breaking from a longstanding policy of shielding the Middle East ally from U.N. reproaches. Sen.
Some might say the justices' action is unremarkable and should not be read as a sign that five or more justices are ready to strike down the Texas law in Whole Woman's Health.
Ultimately, pushes to strike down voter identification laws will also benefit the disability community, one reason why Mizner is collaborating with other ACLU staffers on voting rights issues like unjust voter ID laws.
Steve Vladeck, a legal analyst for the network and University of Texas professor, told CNN that Kavanaugh's views suggest he would go "farther" than previous courts to strike down limits on campaign donations.
Just two weeks ago, he sided with a 6900-2628 majority to strike down a California law enacted to promote women's health and protect them from fraud and deception at crisis pregnancy centers.
Republican leaders said they have the votes to strike down a bipartisan amendment scheduled Friday that would block funding for military action against Iran if Trump does not first secure approval from Congress.
During oral argument in February to determine if the court would strike down the Minnesota law, the justices posed a series of probing and challenging questions to evaluate the legal issues at stake.
Epps, a contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, says he expects the new conservative majority to strike down affirmative action while borrowing from the rhetorical playbook Roberts flashed in the Voting Rights Act decision.
Lawsuits looking to strike down the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of its own net neutrality rules will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the court said Thursday.
While the Fifth Circuit ruling found that the Texas law violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in having a discriminatory effect, it did not strike down the law in its entirety.
Virtually the only distinct elements of Trumpism that exists today are a hostility to immigrants and the travel ban, which is now a temporary half-policythat the Supreme Court could still strike down.
HARARE, Nov 4 (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Saturday refused to strike down subversion charges against an American citizen who now faces 11 days in a Harare jail until her next court hearing.
In December, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether to strike down a federal ban on betting amateur or professional games except in the four states that already have operations.
All four of the Court's Democratic appointees appeared reluctant to strike down the CFPB's current leadership structure, and Kavanaugh stated fairly clearly that he does not believe that the agency should be eliminated.
President Trump supports the lawsuit, which would strike down the entire health law, but ObamaCare's popularity has risen to a record high, posing a danger for Republicans in seeking to strike it down.
The push to strike down Section 226 began in earnest in 22001, when a terrified young man showed up at the Naz Foundation, an H.I.V. advocacy organization in New Delhi, pleading for help.
WASHINGTON — President Trump wanted to strike down a law that prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials, calling the ban "so unfair" to American companies, two Washington Post reporters recount in a new book.
So if the court is inclined to strike down the mandate alone, letting the rest of the law stand, that would be a much safer proposition than it appeared to be in 2012.
But the White House doesn't have one, and aides are suggesting it could be up to Congress to determine what would replace the Affordable Care Act should the courts strike down the law.
Russia has not responded to Britain's demand to explain by midnight how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent, the Russian embassy in London said.
The Trump administration filed a brief in May arguing the appellate court should strike down all of the health care law, reversing an earlier position that some parts of it should be preserved.
As the Trump administration steps up its efforts to strike down the healthcare law introduced by former President Barack Obama, the merger would also help Centene reduce its exposure to Obamacare healthcare exchanges.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a proposed measure in 2016 to make it legal countrywide, but the congressional commission that deals with changes to the constitution voted to strike down Peña Nieto's proposal.
Scholars continue to debate the soundness of Marshall's reasoning in Marbury, but the power of the judiciary to strike down laws and executive actions as unconstitutional has become a universal and long-lasting norm.
"The administration is seeking to codify child abuse, plain and simple," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, said in a statement, adding that she expected a federal judge would strike down the new rule.
However, the court said it did not have the jurisdiction to strike down the law or make an official declaration of incompatibility — a ruling that UK law is in breach of human rights legislation.
Today, a group of Democratic senators wrote to officials at the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice, asking that they strike down a proposed merger deal between T-Mobile and Sprint. Sen.
On the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down abortion restrictions in Texas, we're bringing Crow's images to your attention as a reminder of the state of abortion access nationwide.
The company maintains that moderators were never instructed to strike down ads depicting people as "undesirable," but it's since updated its language to remove the word from the rejection messages potential platform advertisers receive.
The big picture: The Justice Department is arguing that the courts should strike down the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and toss out its protections for people with pre-existing conditions in the process.
In Sunday night's blowout win over the Chiefs, Coates made his traditional once-per-game deep strike down the sideline, but he also ran a few nice routes and toe-tapped on the sideline.
With Berlin suffering health problems in 2014, the couple rushed to join the vanguard of efforts to strike down the state ban, so that Gerber could have spousal rights over decisions about her care.
Judge Robert Lasnik dismissed a lawsuit from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Uber that aimed to strike down a Seattle law that grants independently contracted Uber and Lyft drivers the right to unionize.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Friday it was "overwhelmingly likely" that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself had made the decision to use a military-grade nerve toxin to strike down Sergei Skripal.
It also is possible that conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has voted for the basic right to abortion but endorsed many restrictions, would join the court's four liberals to strike down the Texas law.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday hinted that it would strike down ObamaCare's individual mandate as unconstitutional, but the three-judge panel was not as clear about whether they would overturn the entire law.
Mehta did not signal how he intends to rule, but he made clear that he did not plan on issuing an order that would strike down Congress's constitutional authorities, including its ability to investigate.
Portman said Monday he opposes a GOP plan to overturn a controversial education regulation through the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to strike down certain recently enacted regulations with a simple majority vote.
The case then went to a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit where a Bush appointee and a Reagan appointee joined to outvote a George H.W. Bush appointee and strike down the law.
His reasoning ultimately persuaded the Supreme Court's conservative justices, who later overruled the lower court and voted 5-4 to strike down parts of the E.P.A.'s permitting program that Judge Kavanaugh found troubling.
No one will know exactly what the justices are thinking until they issue a decision this summer, and many abortion-rights advocates hold out hope that the Court may strike down the Louisiana law.
Because it is not a state, Congress must approve the city's budget each year before it can implement new programs and spending, and it frequently uses the opportunity to strike down the city's laws.
Chief Justice Roberts's vote was something of a surprise, as he had dissented in 2016 from the court's decision to strike down a Texas admitting-privileges law essentially identical to the one from Louisiana.
While her ruling did not strike down the state's bail law, it did set a precedent that other courts might follow, especially as comparable cases come up and are eventually considered by appellate judges.
Beyond the political implications, the human consequences will be enormous, as over 700,000 current DACA beneficiaries could lose protection against potential deportation if the Court allows the Trump administration to strike down the program.
In his first term, for instance, Justice Gorsuch sided with Justice Thomas to strike down a 19th century section of the Missouri State Constitution that prohibited public money from going directly to religious institutions.
Even as Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, for example, have not voted to overturn Roe, they have narrowly interpreted its breadth and declined to strike down tough state restrictions on abortion.
But the Supreme Court injected a dose of optimism into the industry when it ruled Monday to strike down a 250-year-old federal law that largely prohibited sports betting in the United States.
With the decision, the new conservative high court is keeping the country's abortion rights precedent unchanged —for now — keeping in line with its decision in 2016 to strike down a similar law in Texas.
The McGahn case The fight over McGahn's testimony could either lead appeals courts to strike down or endorse the White House's claims of absolute immunity for former and current officials who receive congressional subpoenas.
Now that the president has his labor secretary in place, I suspect the labor secretary and the Department of Justice will simply cease defending the many pending lawsuits seeking to strike down the rule.
In North Carolina, the decision to strike down such a law could have an impact in the state where Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is in a tight battle with Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Republicans spent most of 2017 trying and failing to repeal Obamacare — but that failure means little to a federal appeals court that is expected to strike down the Affordable Care Act any day now.
And it comes with a scorched-earth kicker: If the law is used to strike down a rule, the federal agency that issued it is barred from enacting similar regulation again in the future.
North Carolina's governor and legislature both sued on Monday to protect their law, saying the Justice Department was trying to strike down a "common sense privacy policy" meant to protect the state's public employees.
There's been a spate of anti-gerrymandering litigation and Pennsylvania (where the state Supreme Court is led by Democrats) might ultimately strike down its map, which would be awful news for Representative Pat Meehan.
Virtually the only distinct elements of Trumpism that exists today are a hostility to immigrants and the travel ban, which is now a temporary half-policy that the Supreme Court could still strike down.
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia has not responded to Britain's demand to explain by midnight how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent, the Russian embassy in London said.
The mess that is Brazil's political situation took a surprising twist when the new chief of the lower house of Congress said Monday that he wanted to strike down impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
Holder to strike down a part of the Voting Rights Act that required certain states and jurisdictions with a history of discriminatory voting laws to have voting and election changes approved by the federal government.
He occasionally voted with the liberals on abortion as well, such as when he voted in 20153 to strike down a Texas law that would have closed most of the abortion clinics in that state.
And Democrats worry courts would just strike down tougher laws or that stronger measures could lead to a backlash that gets Democrats kicked out of office, like the 1994 assault weapons ban is blamed for.
In one telling example, Ms Murad says her sister-in-law escaped from slavery because her captor's wife was weary of his abuse of Yazidi girls and called an American air strike down on him.
A U.S. district judge in Washington heard arguments about whether to temporarily strike down the first new rule, which is designed to bar almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the country's southern border.
The feds are suing to strike down provisions that prevent employers from letting ICE agents access "nonpublic areas" of the workplace during raids or giving ICE agents access to employee records without a judicial warrant.
The justices gutted certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act, including one that allowed the Justice Department to preemptively clear or strike down proposed voting rights changes in states with a history of voter suppression.
SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Inspectors from the world's chemical weapons watchdog on Monday began examining the poison used to strike down a former Russian double agent in England, in an attack that London blames on Moscow.
The Supreme Court's potential swing vote on its pivotal abortion case gave few hints on Wednesday whether he would be willing to strike down Texas's law, which is considered among the strictest in the country.
Though the ruling did not strike down the law, which human rights activists have called draconian, it may make it harder to jail peaceful protesters as Russia gears up for a presidential election next year.
Even people who care nothing about sports betting should take notice of the Supreme Court's decision Monday to strike down a federal law that sought to prohibit states from authorizing sports gambling within their borders.
He's afraid that if Democrats attempted such a fix but failed, conservative judges could take it as a tacit admission that there's a problem, and use that as a pretext to strike down the ACA.
Paul Clement, a lawyer for North Carolina's Senate Redistricting Committee, argued in briefs before the Supreme Court that the lower court was wrong when it identified a test to strike down the map as unconstitutional.
It was obvious to anyone watching Republicans scour the country to find just the judge willing to strike down the Obama administration's deportation-deferral program or its extension of civil rights protection to transgender individuals.
But Murrill's performance was so weak, and the liberal justices successfully exposed so many flaws in her argument, that it raised questions about whether Roberts might join his liberal colleagues to strike down Louisiana's law.
If the justices strike down Abood and rule that public employees have a First Amendment right not to pay fair-share fees, then all of these trivial matters of private concern risk becoming constitutional cases.
Once there, reproductive rights advocates worry that the newly empowered conservative majority, entrenched by President Trump in the wake of Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, will use the opportunity to finally strike down Roe v. Wade.
Mr. Whitaker's criticism of Marbury aligned with the view of some conservatives that the 1803 case — or at least how it came to be interpreted — gave the courts too much power to strike down laws.
Many progressive advocates have been pushing Democratic leaders and presidential candidates to speak out more forcefully on the court out of concern that it could be preparing to strike down a number of liberal cornerstones.
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.
There's only one reason the court would not strike down the Louisiana law and that is because Justice Kennedy, who voted to protect abortion access just three years ago, has been replaced with Justice Kavanaugh.
Trump's claim Monday that he "saved Pre-Existing Conditions" in Americans' health care is a false one, the latest attempt by the president to distort his yearslong record of seeking to strike down the ACA.
Would Chief Justice Roberts and the four conservative justices who signed his opinion turn around after Rucho and strike down a commission they specifically pointed to as a viable way to address warped electoral lines?
In June, Justice Kennedy reassured supporters of abortion rights on this point, joining the court's four-member liberal wing to strike down parts of a restrictive Texas abortion law by a 5-to-3 vote.
A federal judge has declined to strike down a consent agreement signed by Vermont's attorney general that allows doctors with religious and ethical objections to decline to personally counsel terminally ill patients on physician-assisted suicide.
However, as Ars Technica points out, it is likely ISPs will sue to strike down Oregon's new law, as companies like AT&T and Verizon had said they would do in response to other state efforts.
Britain gave President Vladimir Putin until midnight on Tuesday to explain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used to strike down a former Russian double agent who passed secrets to British intelligence.
Chad Readler, a nominee to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, is a Justice Department attorney who led a legal brief urging the courts to strike down the ACA's protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) sent a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr Monday urging him to reconsider the Justice Department's decision to strike down the Affordable Care Act and defend the remainder of the ACA.
McCain famously cast the decisive vote to strike down "skinny" repeal in late July, saying at the time that Republicans shouldn't ram through a partisan bill but should instead produce a bipartisan plan through regular order.
Conservatives and lawyers for people involved in the Russia probe have made similar arguments about Mueller, trying to strike down his appointment by saying the Appointments Clause requires a position like his should be Senate-confirmed.
The Constitution, not a judge's policy preferences, is the standard by which he or she should refuse to let the out-of-control executive branch rewrite the laws, strike down unconstitutional legislation, and uphold lawful actions.
Congress and President Trump might therefore be doing Mr. Obama a favor by using the authority granted by the Congressional Review Act to strike down regulations that are built on inadequate or disingenuous cost-benefit analysis.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose retirement last week created a new opening for Trump, sided with the four liberal justices to strike down the law in a 5-3 ruling following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Back in the 19th century, Justice Robert Grier had three strokes and Chief Justice Salmon Chase finally insisted that he resign, though not until Chase secured his key vote to strike down the Legal Tender Act.
Kennedy sided with the court's liberal justices to strike down the most contentious pieces of a 2013 Texas law, marking the latest high-profile decision in which the Ronald Reagan appointee has stepped to the left.
Chaffetz and the Oversight Committee earlier this month attempted to strike down Washington's legislation legalizing assisted suicide — the latest effort by the committee to use its jurisdiction to overreach in controlling local D.C. laws, critics say.
The lawsuit calls for the federal court to strike down a 2015 law passed to protect child-placing agencies should they deny adoption services due to a conflict with the child-placing agency's religious beliefs. Gov.
The Supreme Court has a big decision left to make as it heads into its final weeks of the term: whether to strike down a voter map for the first time as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Roberts came through as the swing vote in the ruling against adding a citizenship question to the 2628 census, while Gorsuch twice in the court's final week joined the liberal bloc to strike down criminal statutes.
With cellphone service still at a premium — the governor's office reported that just 54 percent of service was restored in Bay County by Wednesday, a week after the storm — it is harder to strike down speculation.
Flowers's defense team argued that Evans, who once delivered the keynote address at a meeting of white supremacist segregationists, racially discriminated against Flowers when he used his 11 peremptory challenges to strike down potential black jurors.
Judge Jesse Furman of Federal District Court, the first of three judges to strike down the citizenship question, has asked the Justice Department to respond to the charges and has scheduled a hearing for next week.
He spoke out forcefully on the need to fix the nation's broken criminal justice system, voting to strike down excessive sentences for juveniles and the intellectually disabled and to force states to shrink their overcrowded prisons.
The Justice Department, meanwhile, suggests that the court should simply strike down the removal protections and keep the agency in place by "severing" that language from Dodd-Frank and keeping the rest of the law intact.
Last week, after lobbying with the rest of the industry to strike down those standards, Ford announced that it would largely abandon the American passenger car market in favor of building more trucks, crossovers and S.U.V.s.
The Supreme Court's potential swing vote on its pivotal abortion case gave few hints on Wednesday as to whether he would vote to strike down Texas's law, which is considered among the strictest in the country.
The Daily Show, like many other organizations and people on the Internet, wanted to celebrate Monday's Supreme Court decision to strike down a Texas law that would likely have shuttered many of the state's abortion clinics.
In the absence of an explicit constitutional right to vote, laws like these are harder to strike down, even though they should be as intolerable as the poll taxes and literacy tests of the last century.
There is an off chance that the Court could use this lawsuit to strike down the entire CFPB — a decision that would dismantle much of the infrastructure Congress built in response to the 2008 financial crisis.
His adversarial stance at nearly every turn highlighted Schiff's law enforcement roots; the California Democrat was a federal prosecutor before becoming a congressman, and his eagerness to strike down the opposing side's defenses made that clear.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down a new California law that will prohibit employers from requiring workers to agree to arbitrate employment-related legal disputes.
But some Republican lawmakers have sought to strike down the new prepaid card rules, using a law called the Congressional Review Act that lets Congress team up with a willing president to repeal new federal regulations.
Republicans are preparing to open a new front in their push to roll back regulations across the government, using a maneuver that could enable them to strike down decisions by federal agencies that reach back decades.
But the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals' unanimous decision to strike down the law Friday shows the law was an undeniable tactic used by the state's elected officials to not so subtly disenfranchise black voters.
He noted that if they do hear it and strike down Colorado's law, it could lead to a scenario where weed is still technically legal, but the state won't be able to tax or regulate it.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that Canada's federal carbon tax is constitutional after a challenge from the province's Conservative government, in a blow to efforts to strike down Justin Trudeau's environmental policies.
The latest opponent is Supreme Court lawyer and professor of Islamic law, Mohammad Aslam Khaki, who petitioned the Federal Shariat Court to strike down the law for being un-Islamic and not providing adequate protection for men.
LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - Russia has not responded to Britain's demand to explain by midnight how a Soviet-era nerve toxin was used to strike down a former Russian double agent, the Russian embassy in London said.
In a huge victory for the pro-choice movement, the Supreme Court voted 5-3 Monday to strike down two major anti-abortion provisions that were part of an omnibus anti-abortion law Texas passed in 2013.
Behind the scenes: Trump has privately said he thinks the lawsuit to strike down the Affordable Care Act will probably fail in the courts, according to two sources who discussed the matter with the president last week.
The Initiative and Referendum Institute at the University of Southern California notes that the alcohol industry tried to use initiatives to strike down prohibition laws, and chiropractors needed initiatives to be allowed to practice in some states.
When explaining its decision the court referred to a ruling it gave in 1992 to strike down a federal proposal that would force states to dispose within their own borders of the radioactive waste that they generated.
Washington and Minnesota want to strike down the policy in its entirety as unconstitutional under the First, Fifth and Tenth Amendments and illegal under the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act.
Meanwhile, Schiff, an attorney from California, has spoken out against a Texas ruling to strike down sodomy laws, and has criticized Title IX, the law that ensures LGBTQ students have the same rights as their other peers.
As the most consistent conservative voice on the court, Scala argued forcefully that the Constitution offered no specific right to abortion and he voted to strike down laws that made distinctions by gender, race or sexual orientation.
Cited by Chief Justice Earl Warren in announcing the May 17, 1954, decision in Brown, Holt's evidence was a key component of the reasoning that led a unanimous Court to strike down Jim Crow segregation as unconstitutional.
Either way, pop music rules and I will strike down the first person who says it doesn't, with an original 1999 Britney Spears doll that I genuinely still have in its box on my bookshelf at home.
She's voted to strike down bills that would limit emissions from power plants, protect communities from toxic coal ash, ban the sale of ivory products in the US, and protect threatened species like the lesser prairie chicken.
Son originally thought the Vision Fund would be pursuing full takeovers but changed its strategy on the fly to avoid potential regulatory pitfalls, as U.S. agencies are far more likely to strike down acquisitions than minority investments.
Haymond this term, he voted with Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan to strike down a federal law that allowed a judge to sentence the defendant to additional years in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release.
The denial of E's refugee claim set in motion a constitutional challenge months in the making that could strike down a Canadian law criticized as the motivating factor for thousands of asylum seekers crossing the border illegally.
If the lawsuit or another one like it gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to strike down race-conscious admissions programs, colleges and universities may have to turn to alternative measures to ensure a diverse student body.
Only three weeks after the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the federal prohibition on sports gambling, Delaware has allowed its casinos to begin accepting single-game bets, and other states are expected to follow suit soon.
" Jim McLaughlin, a Republican strategist, said there's "no question about it" that Republicans would suffer political harm if the courts strike down the law and "people are losing their health insurance [and] people are losing their coverage.
Not only would this mean five certain votes to strike down attacks on voting, but also that the outrageous Shelby County decision would almost certainly be overruled as soon as an appropriate case comes to the Court.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. anti-poverty group said on Wednesday it is joining a Massachusetts lawsuit to strike down President Donald Trump's travel ban, as the law has blocked overseas partners from meeting with officials in Washington.
While the high court judge found the law "irrational and illegal," it will remain intact for a July hearing that will decide whether to modify or strike down the statue in its entirety, The Trinidad Express reports.
Gore came before the court, he voted to strike down this recount process as violative of — you guessed it — the Equal Protection Clause, citing the unfairness of imposing "arbitrary and disparate treatment" to ballots throughout the state.
Congress could overturn them using the Congressional Review Act, which gives lawmakers 2100 legislative days to nullify new regulations, but political analysts think that Republicans will struggle to get the votes needed to strike down the regulations.
As a result, most plans would likely still have an actuarial value of at least 56 percent — unless and until courts strike down the Trump administration regulation, a possibility, given that it conflicts with the ACA statute.
Fetal personhood laws are merely the latest attempt by anti-abortion proponents to enact severely restrictive laws in the hopes of inspiring a constitutional challenge fit for a conservative Supreme Court ruling that would strike down Roe.
Instead, the opinion by Judge Reed O'Connor is an exercise of raw judicial power, unmoored from the relevant doctrines concerning when judges may strike down a whole law because of a single alleged legal infirmity buried within.
So in Scalia's view, the court's pro–gay rights decisions read rights and limits into the Constitution that simply didn't exist, and therefore allowed the Court to strike down laws that were, in his opinion, constitutionally valid.
Hellerstedt, Justice Kennedy joined the court's four liberals to strike down parts of a Texas law that would have drastically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state, leaving them only in the largest metropolitan areas.
FHFA may disagree (now) with the 5th Circuit's holding on the constitutionality of its structure, but its biggest fear was that the 5th Circuit would strike down the 2012 deal as a remedy for any constitutional violation.
Should the Supreme Court strike down egregious gerrymandering early next year, Mr. Stephanopoulos said there was a faint chance that some states with the most partisan maps could be forced to redraw them before the 2018 election.
Mr. Krugman concludes by asserting that a Supreme Court with Judge Kavanaugh "would strike down everything" done by a Democratic Congress and president, including an increase in upper-income tax rates and an expansion of health care.
Limit the court's power to unilaterally strike down laws (as Abraham Lincoln suggested in his first Inaugural Address); break the iron grip of the two parties by introducing proportional representation for congressional elections (any state could try).
Alternatively, parties in the so-called Flores agreement — which currently limits the time children can spend in detention to 20 days and mandates other standards for detention — also could seek to strike down a new separation push.
So if the court is planning to strike down the ban in its entirety, why did it bother to make the distinction at this stage between prospective immigrants with bona fide United States relationships and those without?
Russia's ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin, this week told a Hezbollah-controlled TV station that Russian air defenses would strike down any incoming missiles, and suggested that Russian forces would retaliate against the source of any attacks.
Democrats have said they worry that Kavanaugh would move to strike down popular provisions, such as the requirement that insurers cover everyone regardless of medical history and do not charge more for people with certain health conditions.
The Supreme Court declined to strike down several Texas legislative and congressional districts on grounds of discrimination against Hispanic voters, in a blow to activists who want the courts to take a tough line against racial gerrymandering.
That would make it a lot easier for the courts to strike down the executive order — but because of the unique deference given to immigration law, getting courts to apply strict scrutiny could be a tough sell.
So a decision by the Fourth Circuit to strike down Maryland's ban could argue for the Supreme Court to eventually hear the case, since there isn't unanimity among lower courts on what is and is not constitutional.
It also led the Supreme Court in 2016 to strike down two key provisions of a Texas law that required abortion providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals and clinics upgrade their facilities to hospital-like standards.
Back in 2015, four conservative Supreme Court justices voted to strike down Arizona's independent redistricting body, saying the US Constitution guaranteed state legislatures must be involved in redistricting (rather than being cut out through a ballot initiative reform).
He suggested that rewriting the statute by "picking and choosing which provisions to invalidate" would interfere with the role of Congress and the "proper course" for the courts would be to strike down the law in its entirety.
In 2015, Roberts and three other GOP-appointed justices voted to strike down an Arizona law establishing an independent commission to draw congressional district lines, but the court's liberals prevailed when Kennedy joined them to uphold the law.
The Supreme Court decision to strike down two restrictive abortion laws in Texas will likely have a ripple effect across the country, potentially forcing other states to drop their own similar anti-abortion laws in the coming years.
In the mid-90s, he worked with Rove on the campaigns of several GOP candidates for the Alabama Supreme Court, an effort to stack it with "business friendly" justices who would strike down rulings that went against corporations.
Iowa's attorney general is urging a federal appeals court to strike down a rule that requires e-cigarette manufacturers to get U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market their products as less risky than conventional tobacco products.
A three-member panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not strike down the local ordinance, but voted 2-1 to overturn a federal judge who threw the gun store owners' lawsuit out of court.
The decision is seemingly at odds with one made last January, when the high court ruled 8-1 to strike down a similar law in Florida because it violated the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a trial by jury.
The court's move was interpreted by many as a shot across the bow of the Obama administration to indicate the conservative majority's willingness to strike down the regulations once they reach the court in 2017 at the earliest.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean human rights lawyers asked the High Court on Tuesday to strike down a decree by President Robert Mugabe allowing the introduction of "bond notes", which have raised fears of a return to a local currency.
The ruling on Thursday marks the fifth time a federal judge has sided with abortion rights groups since the Supreme Court made its 5-3 decision on Monday to strike down major provisions of the 2013 Texas law.
"We are one justice away from a Supreme Court that will strike down every restriction on abortion...we are one justice away from a Supreme Court that would undermine the religious liberty of millions of Americans," Cruz said.
Should be struck down for legal and policy reasons If the courts agree — and it seems like they must — that the individual mandate is no longer constitutional, then they should not hesitate to strike down the unconstitutional law.
Microsoft sued the Justice Department on Thursday, asking a federal court to strike down a law that gives the government the authority to prevent technology companies from telling their customers when their data is handed over to authorities.
Microsoft sued the Justice Department on Thursday, asking a federal court to strike down a law that gives the government the authority to prevent technology companies from telling their customers when their data is handed over to authorities.
He sought to assure voters ahead of the 2018 midterms that Republicans would protect those with pre-existing conditions, and the Justice Department is backing a legal effort to strike down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety.
In the same week he became the swing vote to strike down Texas's anti-abortion law, he voted to uphold the state's university affirmative action program, the first time he had ever found an affirmative action program constitutional.
The Obama administration did say that if the court struck down the mandate, it should also strike down provisions requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions and prohibiting them from charging people with those conditions a higher premium.
Legal experts also noted that the Supreme Court, where most people believe the case is headed, historically has been reluctant to strike down federal laws, particularly those that have become ingrained in the lives of millions of citizens.
In neighboring Wisconsin, the advocacy group One Wisconsin filed a federal lawsuit on Monday seeking to strike down that lame-duck Legislature's decision to reimpose limits on early voting that an earlier lawsuit had found to be discriminatory.
Simultaneously criticizing the Supreme Court's power of judicial review while criticizing cases where it declined to strike down laws regulating economic and health insurance matters was a sign of an "internally contradictory" and "ignorant" philosophy, Mr. Tribe said.
Two Republican state attorneys general, Dave Yost of Ohio and Tim Fox of Montana, filed a legal brief this week saying there was "no basis" to strike down the whole law just because the individual mandate was unconstitutional.
"Not only did some court not strike down that kind of conduct, but when the police commissioner tells the people with badges and guns to do or not do something, they don't obey the order," Mr. Gottfried said.
In order to save ObamaCare again, he will have to brush aside his own analysis from 2012, fueling objections that the 2012 rationale was a convenient and transparent ruse to avoid the need to strike down the law.
Were the Supreme Court to strike down or limit long-term solitary confinement in one case on those grounds, it would open the door for lower courts to honor additional challenges, eventually leading to change across the system.
Justice Gorsuch has only been on the court for a term and a half, but he has already joined with Justice Thomas (and the other conservatives) several times to strike down state laws without relying on originalist sources.
Even when Mr. Obama was in power, the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act ended its veto power over changes in election procedures in a range of mostly Southern states.
The move followed a similar vote last month by the Senate to void the antidiscrimination guidance and the resolution to strike down the rule will now go to President Trump, who is expected to sign off on it.
But to get around a potential Supreme Court roadblock, some wealth tax supporters are now floating the idea of fallback provisions that would raise other taxes on the rich if the courts did strike down a wealth tax.
California, New York and Oregon are pushing the New Orleans-based federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to strike down an Obama-era regulation that required retirement advisers to act in the best interest of their clients.
But even if the Supreme Court finds the 2015 amendment to be unconstitutional, DOJ and its backers argue, the answer is not to strike down the entire TCPA but simply to invalidate the exemption for government debt collectors.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A decision by the European Court of Justice to strike down German government plans to impose a highway toll that favors German drivers over their EU peers is incomprehensible, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Tuesday.
Britain and Russia have been trading public insults over the use of a Soviet-era nerve agent called Novichok to strike down former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury.
More than 150 ballot measures will be up for consideration on Tuesday, according to a Ballotpedia tally, including 63 measures placed on the ballot by petition that could create new laws or strike down old ones, circumventing state legislatures.
This year, as his race for Georgia's governor against Stacey Abrams has tightened and courts strike down his efforts to prevent hundreds of thousands of Georgians from voting, he's begun to scream bullshit about the Democrats hacking the election.
In McCutcheon, Chief Justice John Roberts resisted pleas from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to subject those limits to "strict scrutiny" as spending limits are, but he still gave lower courts several new tools to strike down contribution limits.
Blum's group was also behind a 2013 case that invalidated a central provision of the Voting Rights Act as well as a case this term seeking to strike down a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas.
In that case judges took only a little over a year to return their landmark verdict to strike down Safe Harbor, demonstrating they are willing to move quickly to defend EU privacy rights against the threat of mass surveillance.
But unless the group of judges on the country's Supreme Court shifts to the right—a strong possibility, with a Republican president and Republican-controlled Senate—the judiciary will continue to strike down any efforts to ban abortion outright.
It moved swiftly to strike down the EPA's compliance delay, ruling that "an agency issuing a legislative rule is itself bound by the rule until that rule is amended and revoked" through a formal, substantive "notice and comment" process.
We actually had an appeals court strike down one of the laws he had passed, which was that if you were going to provide abortions, you had to have a doctor on the premises with admitting privileges to hospitals.
Barring any big surprises today from the four justices who were ready to strike down agency fees in 2016 — or a shocking pro-union bent from Justice Neil Gorsuch — this is likely the end of the road for Abood.
The phrase "a substantial risk" practically encourages some degree of speculation from the courts, which is why, on appeal, Dimaya asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop his removal and strike down the clause as unconstitutionally vague.
Letters To the Editor: Re "Justices Overturn Texas Abortion Limits" (front page, June 28): I breathed a small sigh of relief over the Supreme Court's vote to strike down Texas' attempt to drastically limit legal abortion in that state.
Donald Trump's decision to strike down protections for young, undocumented immigrants; the botched response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; the ramped-up deportations and separated families at the border—all these should help Democrats win over Latino voters.
There's a school of thought that the court could strike down PASPA, leading to legal sports betting in New Jersey, or multiple states, or the entire U.S. A ruling could come anytime between now and the end of June.
The tobacco company R.J. Reynolds has launched a $12 million campaign in an attempt to encourage voters to strike down San Francisco's ban on selling flavored vaping products, hookah tobacco and menthol cigarettes in a Tuesday vote, Politico reports.
In the 2-85033 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the court denied petitions from a number of internet service providers and trade groups to strike down the strongest internet service regulations ever written.
If I read that message correctly, we can expect the same outcome when the states that are now busy banning abortion appeal to the Supreme Court from the lower-court rulings that will inevitably strike down the new laws.
Decades after the confirmation hearing, Thomas remains one of the most conservative justices on the Supreme Court, garnering a reputation as "the anti–Thurgood Marshall," notably ruling to strike down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
Assuming that Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony M. Kennedy and Sonia Sotomayor joined Justice Ginsburg then in voting to strike down the distinction, Chief Justice Roberts must have voted with Justices Thomas, Alito and Antonin Scalia to uphold it.
"We've had tax laws struck down, we've had other provisions where the WTO has taken...the decision they were going to strike down something they thought shouldn't happen, rather than looking at the agreement as a contract," he said.
For starters, it is the largest county to date to sign on to the administration's lawsuit against the state, which will undoubtedly carry weight as the case to strike down the dangerous sanctuary law moves through court this spring.
For example, if 51 percent of voters pass a law barring the other 49 percent from participating in future elections, some independent referee should call "foul!" and strike down that law — even though the majority of voters support it.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Friday that it was overwhelmingly likely that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself made the decision to use a military-grade nerve toxin to strike down a former Russian agent on English soil.
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's president asked the Constitutional Court on Thursday to strike down a lengthy ban on publishing opinion polls ahead of elections in February, a restriction seen by most opposition parties as an attempt to sideline political newcomers.
Most claim to be defenders of federalism and judicial restraint and therefore should face hard choices about whether to strike down progressive state gun control laws or wage laws in the name of the Second Amendment or economic liberty.
The meaning of Chief Justice Roberts's vote to temporarily block the Louisiana law is unclear, and it is hardly certain that he will vote to strike down the law now that it is before the court on its merits.
In a hard-fought victory for women's rights, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday to strike down parts of a restrictive Texas abortion law, establishing a precedent that has already dismantled similar legislation in states like Mississippi and Wisconsin.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Supporters and opponents of gay rights said on Friday they accepted a decision by Kenya's High Court to delay for another three months a ruling on whether to strike down a colonial-era law banning gay sex.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to strike down a North Carolina law barring convicted sex offenders from Facebook and other social media services, with justices noting the expansive role such online tools play in today's society.
The International Refugee Assistance Project is among the groups that have sued Trump, but Fisher said even if the Supreme Court were to strike down the ban, it wouldn't necessarily stop Trump from continuing to choke off the flow of refugees.
Table hosts who deal blackjack, baccarat, craps, and poker are fighting to strike down the current tipping policy, which requires them to forfeit fifteen percent of gratuities earned and give them to their immediate supervisors, who disburse it among themselves.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Texas abortion law that has shuttered nearly half the clinics in the state, saying the Republican-backed regulations would harm rather than protect women's health.
Deere had previously served as a spokesperson in the Arkansas attorney general's office when it asked courts to block same-sex parents from listing both of their names on a child's birth certificate and to strike down Fayetteville's LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance.
Despite the projected cost, supporters of the legislation remain hopeful that even some conservatives who have opposed Medicaid expansion under the ACA — and support an ongoing Texas lawsuit that would strike down the entire landmark 2010 health law — may be swayed.
The Screen Actors Guild said they are "extremely disappointed" by a federal judge's decision Tuesday to strike down as unconstitutional a California law that allowed actors to censor their age on the website IMDb, also known as the Internet Movie Database.
Editorial Just when President Obama was attempting a reasoned debate on gun control this week, Donald Trump was engaged in his latest pandering to the gun rights crowd — vowing as president to strike down laws that bar firearms from schools.
Britain has given President Vladimir Putin until midnight on Tuesday to explain how a nerve agent developed by the former Soviet Union was used to strike down Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, in the city of Salisbury.
But as long as internet providers want to strike down any regulation placed on them — always — commission-made net neutrality rules will be susceptible to regulatory ping-pong, with the rules strengthening and weakening every time the executive branch changes hands.
A federal appeals court seemed likely on Tuesday to strike down what remains of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, but sent more mixed signals about its willingness to throw out the rest of the health care law along with it.
On April 16th he wielded his veto for only the second time in his presidency to strike down a bill that might have forced him to end America's support for the Saudi-led war against the Houthi militia in Yemen.
On April 16th he wielded his veto for only the second time in his presidency to strike down a groundbreaking law that might have forced him to end America's support for the Saudi-led war against the Houthi militia in Yemen.
If the justices conclude that the state legislature overstepped its authority and strike down the law "it's going to do an injustice to adult survivors everywhere," said Lani Wallace, an attorney in Utah who works with child sex abuse survivors.
The Supreme Court's Monday decision to strike down a North Carolina congressional district map is being hailed as a victory for voting rights advocates — though some caution that the path ahead for Democrats fighting gerrymandering has just become more treacherous.
The order looks to build on what have been Republicans' only real legislative accomplishments so far this year, which employed a special, filibuster-proof process — the Congressional Review Act — to strike down rules from the end of the Obama administration.
Ireland's High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe's top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU users' data to the United States.
It is incumbent upon Senate Republicans to support a resolution to strike down the declaration, to start back down the road of reclaiming the constitutional authority that the Framers allocated to the legislature as a check on the executive branch.
Readler, who previously worked as an assistant attorney general for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, filed a brief last year supporting a lawsuit filed by Texas and other states seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
It also comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down a Texas abortion law imposing strict regulations on doctors and facilities in the strongest endorsement of abortion rights in America in more than two decades.
The government wants the court to strike down the Affordable Care Act's "guaranteed issue" and "community rating" provisions, which prevent coverage discrimination based on preexisting conditions, as well as provisions unrelated to the individual mandate, such as Medicaid eligibility expansion.
All too often, the relationship between constitutional rights and democratic values is portrayed as a conflict; lawyers and clients who seek to vindicate fundamental rights are portrayed as crusaders who strike down popular laws and thwart the will of the majority.
Gross, a deeply divided 5-4 decision issued in 2015, the Court concluded it was unable, due to procedural limits on its scope of review, to strike down a three-drug execution protocol that in reality does inflict such pain.
An article on Friday about a federal judge's decision to strike down a proposed class-action settlement between Uber and a group of current and former drivers referred incorrectly to the states in which some of Uber's concessions would have applied.
Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), the vice chair of the House LGBT Equality Caucus, is drafting a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf urging him to strike down the rule they have long called outdated and discriminatory.
In recent years, large corporations have been emboldened to argue that corporate speech rights entitle them to strike down state health care prescription information laws — those forbidding pharmaceutical companies from selling information about the prescribing patterns of individual doctors, for example.
Shelby County lawyers persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 to strike down a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act requiring states with a history of voter discrimination to get federal clearance for changes to their election laws.
Readler, who previously worked as an assistant attorney general for the civil division at the Department of Justice, filed a brief last year supporting a lawsuit filed by Texas and other states seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
Last month, most Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee voted for HR 28503, which seeks to strike down Section 22019 of the Dodd Frank Act, a law supported by oil and mining investors with nearly $10 trillion in assets.
And while Congress does not have similar veto power, it was able to strike down last month an arbitration rule from the bureau that would have allowed millions of Americans to band together in class-action lawsuits against Wall Street firms.
And Kennedy -- who voted to strike down the Texas law -- has retired and been replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, also a conservative who, as a court of appeals judge, wrote a dissent in a case that granted broader access to abortions.
But even if he does vote to strike down this Louisiana law, there is a much more honest way for anti-abortion advocates to approach the Supreme Court in the future: They can simply ask Roberts to overrule Roe v. Wade.
And although there were concerns about the fact that a single director could be too insulated from the Executive Branch, there did not seem to be an appetite for a ruling that would strike down the agency in its entirety.
As the nation enters 219, the Supreme Court is considering whether to hear at least one case asking it to strike down the death penalty, once and for all, for violating the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments.
Mr. Mulvaney said he thought Congress should strike down those rules, just as they recently did with a rule that would have allowed borrowers to band together in class action lawsuits against financial institutions over unfair and deceptive business practices.
BERLIN, June 18 (Reuters) - A decision by the European Court of Justice to strike down German government plans to impose a highway toll that favours German drivers over their EU peers is incomprehensible, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Tuesday.
"Using the First Amendment to strike down economic and social laws that legislatures long would have thought themselves free to enact will, for the American public, obscure, not clarify, the true value of protecting freedom of speech," Justice Breyer wrote.
Conservatives have been railing and battling against that principle, known as Auer deference, for years, but in the new, late-term ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts split with his Republican-appointed colleagues by refusing to strike down the longstanding legal rule.
In Whole Woman's Health, Justice Kennedy provided the crucial fifth vote to strike down two provisions of a Texas TRAP law, including a provision requiring abortion providers to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital before they can perform an abortion.
But while Trump might be confused about health care, the Justice Department and Republican state attorneys general who are party to the lawsuit the president referred to — which seeks to strike down the ACA — seem to be seeing things more clearly.
The case could now go directly to the Supreme Court, where its fate may rest with a single justice, Anthony M. Kennedy, who has expressed a willingness to strike down partisan gerrymanders but has yet to accept a rationale for it.
The soft-spoken but respected statesman issued a not-so-gentle reminder in a speech on Saturday that the president had the authority to strike down laws that he believed to be unconstitutional or which could dangerously balloon the country's deficit.
The more that conservatives on the court want to overturn precedents and strike down laws, the more useful it is for them to claim a coherent philosophy that seems to merely follow the dictates of the Constitution or a statute.
Six former Jones Day associates suing the firm for sex discrimination have asked a federal judge to reject the firm's bid to strike down their equal-pay claims as a sanction for bringing them despite allegedly knowing they were false.
The determination to revisit Roe comes amid renewed speculation about the possible retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, which would give anti-abortion forces their best opportunity in a generation to weaken or strike down the ruling that made abortion legal.
Washington (CNN)Gold Star father Khizr Khan wrote a personal appeal to the Supreme Court on Friday to strike down President Donald Trump's travel ban, using his family's story to argue the ban is unconstitutional and "desecrates" his son's sacrifice.
Both sides are awaiting a decision on Brown's motion seeking to strike down the law as unconstitutional on a variety of claims, from free speech to free exercise to equal protection, Brown's lawyer Jonathan Turley said in an e-mail.
The case was argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in September, and the court is expected to release a decision in the coming months on whether to uphold or strike down the rule.
While the outcome of the vote is by no means decided, proponents of commercial whaling gained some confidence from a vote Tuesday which saw Japan and its allies strike down a proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic.
Several amicus briefs, including those from the Consumer Bankers Association and the Credit Union National Association, argued that if the Supreme Court decides the CFPB's structure is unconstitutional, it must strike down all of the Dodd-Frank provisions creating the bureau.
During oral arguments, the court appeared split on whether to strike down a Texas law that requires doctors at abortion clinics to have patient-admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles and meet the same standards as a surgical center.
LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Friday that it was overwhelmingly likely that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself made the decision to use a military-grade nerve toxin to strike down a former Russian agent on English soil.
Given that the congressional map's proponents were Republicans and the Democratic Party has a healthy majority on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, many expected the court to strike down the map from the moment the court began its consideration of the case.
To be clear, Roberts voting for a temporary stay to prevent the law from going into effect does not mean that he will ultimately vote to strike down the Louisiana law when it comes back in front of the Court.
After the hearing, Vanita Gupta, former deputy assistant attorney general under President Obama and president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, told VICE News that she was not hopeful that the court will strike down the citizenship question.
Second, Ayotte made it harder for courts to strike down an anti-abortion law on its face — that is, before it can actually go into effect and harm somebody who might later bring suit to try to strike it down.
The problems in Georgia are hardly unique — with the Supreme Court's 2013 decision to strike down the part of Voting Rights Act that subjected states with histories of discrimination to federal observation, there has been a wave of new voting restrictions.
Fewer than 10% of eligible voters came out on Sunday in support of the effort, which sought to strike down a 2018 law that made it easier for trans people to change their gender identity and guaranteed their right to health care.
Republicans in the House and Senate have proposed killing the rules entirely using the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress and the president to strike down regulations finalized in the last 60 "legislative days" — a period that effectively dates back to mid-June.
Facebook has bought itself a little more time over a major legal challenge in Europe after the Irish High Court decided not to strike down a b82b mechanism it uses to transfer user data between its EU and U.S. businesses for processing.
The largest government-employee union has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington D.C. seeking to strike down a U.S. Department of Labor rule allowing states to contract with private companies to provide job-placement services for recipients of unemployment insurance.
Plenty of legal scholars on both sides of the aisle have, for years, argued that the US goes too far in embracing judicial review; few other countries give their Supreme Courts the power we give ours to strike down democratically enacted laws.
If O'Connor indicates before November that he's inclined to strike down the entire law or its most popular consumer protections, it'll be hard to brush off this case as irrelevant or to downplay Democrats' warnings — even though Texas could still lose on appeal.
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to strike down a federal law banning gambling on pro athletics in 46 states was a crushing blow to the federal government and professional sports organizations who say that legal betting could affect the level of play.
If approved as head of the EPA, Pruitt will be in the conflicted position of defending — or not defending — the agency against the eight lawsuits that are still pending, including one that seeks to strike down President Obama's Clean Power Plan rules.
In addition to ticking most of the aforementioned points of GOP consensus, like eliminating the mandate requiring people to get insurance, it would strike down the ACA's Medicaid expansion and replace income-based tax credits based on income with age-based credits.
It's shaping up as to be a replay of the close CJEU scrutiny that skewered Safe Harbor — a definitive strike down that instantly left thousands of companies scrambling to put in place alternative legal arrangements to avoid illegally processing EU citizens' data.
At this point you'd be forgiven for feeling a sense of deja-vu because it was via an earlier legal challenge, also brought by Schrems, that led Europe's top court to strike down the prior data arrangement, Safe Harbor, back in 2015.
The ruling would strike down popular ACA reforms such as compulsory coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and the extension of coverage to adults under 26 under their parents' insurance plans, and potentially mean 17 million Americans could lose their healthcare.
In a series of cases typified by Lochner v New York in 1905, which held that limits on working hours were unconstitutional, a constitutionally activist, but politically conservative, Supreme Court abandoned textual and original meaning in order to strike down progressive economic regulations.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vote by U.S. House Republicans on Monday to strike down a Washington, D.C., law that would allow doctor-assisted suicide has put the conservative Congress on a collision course with the liberal city that hosts it, local officials said.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a Republican, said her office will ask the state's Supreme Court to strike down the decision because the ordinance runs counter to a state law barring localities from broadening their own non-discrimination measures beyond the state's measures.
Reports that Roberts switched his vote to uphold the law, after initially voting to strike down the statute at the initial conference vote, lends credence to suspicions that Robert's unprecedented swing vote was an attempt to preserve the institutional prestige of the Court.
The court's move to strike down the state's voter ID law was a victory for rights advocates that will enable thousands of people to vote more easily and could boost Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's support in the state going into the election.
Nine of the 11 states with the highest rates of pre-existing conditions among adults under 503 have signed onto the lawsuit to strike down the ACA, according to data from insurance companies and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Texas abortion law that has shuttered nearly half the clinics in the state, saying the Republican-backed regulations would harm rather than protect women's health.
Though Reconstruction's end is often identified as the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877, the final blow would be the Supreme Court's decision in 1883 to strike down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, to which black leaders responded immediately with grave dismay.
GOP lawmakers have become more comfortable with breaking from Trump in 85033, including over the emergency declaration, the United States' role in the Yemeni civil war and the administration's support for a lawsuit to strike down all of the Affordable Care Act.
The National Labor Relations Board has rejected a bid to strike down Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc's rule prohibiting audio and video recording at its Alabama production plant, saying the company should have a chance to explain why it adopted the rule.
The software giant sued the DOJ in April 2016, asking a federal judge in Seattle to strike down a statute in a major data privacy law that governs the use of secrecy orders by the federal government regarding warrants on electronic data.
The precedent-shattering decision came as little surprise after the justices hinted during oral arguments in December that they were likely to strike down the 28503 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which banned sports gambling in almost every state but Nevada.
A previous lawsuit is attempting to have a federal judge strike down a law that limits early voting rights, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports, but Thursday's suit is the first to challenge the entire set of laws emanating from the lame-duck session.
While the White House maintains it does not want to curtail coverage for those with preexisting conditions, Democrats have pointed to a lawsuit the Trump administration is backing that would strike down the entire law, including its clause about protections for preexisting conditions.
For the past year, Pacific Legal Foundation had been litigating a constitutional challenge to these laws on behalf of restaurateur Chef Geoff Tracy, suing to strike down the laws as violating the First Amendment right of entrepreneurs to speak truthfully about their business.
BUSINESS DAY An article on Friday about a federal judge's decision to strike down a proposed class-action settlement between Uber and a group of current and former drivers referred incorrectly to the states in which some of Uber's concessions would have applied.
We already know from his dissenting opinion in Heller II that Judge Kavanaugh would strike down prohibitions on AR-15s and other assault-style weapons like those used in Parkland, Las Vegas, Orlando, Newtown, Aurora and so many other deadly mass shootings.
Tuesday's referendum in the state gave voters the chance to strike down a law the state Legislature passed last year that would prohibit employees from being forced to join a union or to otherwise pay "fair share" fees to a given workplace's union.
Does Ginsburg now reluctantly vote to strike down PASPA due to precedent created by Shelby County or does she stick to her guns and say federal laws that treat states differently are not novelties and Congress has every right to implement them?
The president has vented frustration with the serial failure of Republicans in the Senate to strike down the health care law, the signature legislative achievement of President Barack Obama, and he has threatened to work with Democrats to fashion a new law.
It's also worth being much more cynical on this issue: Do you really think, in your heart of hearts, that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court will miss an opportunity to strike down a wealth tax passed by a Democratic president?
Arkansas, which five years ago saw a court strike down its ban on abortions after 12 weeks if a heartbeat could be detected, this month narrowed the period, from 20 weeks to 18 weeks, in which abortions are permitted under state law.
The Supreme Court's decision this summer to overturn two Texas abortion laws was a sweeping pro-choice game-changer; it's already been used to strike down abortion restrictions in other states, and more court victories will probably follow in the near future.
To add insult to injury, it refuses to defend the A.C.A. in a ludicrous lawsuit in Texas — in which it now appears the judge may very well strike down a large part of the law, including the ban on pre-existing conditions.
Last September, they successfully convinced a judge to strike down a law that would've required providers not only to perform an ultrasound on patients seeking an abortion, but also attempt to show them the ultrasound and play audio of the fetal heartbeat.
Fundamentally, Scalia's conservatism rested on one idea: The US Constitution is more constrained than his more liberal colleagues would suggest — and trying to interpret the Constitution loosely will allow the Court to strike down legitimate laws and, in the end, undermine democracy.
In the 2013 case, the court ruled — along ideological lines — to strike down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which initally required states that had discriminated against blacks at voting places to seek federal approval before changing their practices.
The main trade group for generic drugmakers has sued New York to strike down a ban on opioid manufacturers passing on the costs of a newly adopted state tax intended to provide $100 million in annual funding for drug addiction treatment programs.
He was part of the majority of justices who initially voted in a private conference to strike down the individual insurance mandate -- the heart of the law -- but he also voted to uphold an expansion of Medicaid for people near the poverty line.
Justice Kennedy, as usual, holds the key vote on the issue, since the four more liberal justices are probably prepared to strike down Wisconsin's maps, while the four conservative justices are likely to say the court shouldn't get involved in the political process.
Yet the dispute comes as a federal appeals court is considering the government's request to strike down the entire law in a separate dispute, and reflects the sometimes unexpected consequences of the deep partisan divides over President Barack Obama's landmark legislative achievement.
In doing so, Verma sided with White House officials, including domestic policy chief Joe Grogan, who have challenged Azar on several major policy debates, including the administration's position on a high-profile lawsuit that could strike down the entire Affordable Care Act.
To really prevail — that is, to strike down the parts of Obamacare that actually matter — the plaintiffs needed to convince the court to embrace two other legal arguments that are far less plausible than the case against the non-mandate mandate itself.
The label "activist" used to be one that conservatives lobbed at liberal judges (and that liberals sometimes embraced), but it was the right that lashed out at Roberts precisely because he did not strike down a democratically enacted law (the Affordable Care Act).
Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA and expert on Second Amendment issues, has described Hardiman as a "Second Amendment extremist" who would vote to strike down gun control laws in states like California and New York if put on the Supreme Court.
"The adjournment is not something that should worry Kenyans, they are doing their job and we hope they'll do it well," Charles Kanjama, a lawyer for the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum, which is against the petition to strike down the law, told Reuters.
To strike down these partisan gerrymanders, he only needs to enforce the First Amendment's guarantee, which protects the right to associate with the political party of one's choice and forbids the government from subordinating voters because of the political party to which they belong.
Georgia is one of nine U.S. states that have passed strict limits on abortion this year, moves that activists on both sides of the debate have said were aimed at prompting the U.S. Supreme Court to review and strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v.
I'd like to think that perhaps I'd organize with my fellow Americans to turn our attention towards those truly responsible, and take the opportunity to storm the gates en masse and strike down those that had created the corrupt holiday in the first place.
But that consensus was tossed aside when in June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 vote to strike down a key provision that had enabled the Justice Department to challenge the worst of state and local laws that impeded voting.
In fact, legal experts say, the European high court could very well strike down the new deal before the U.K. actually exits the EU. In that case, there is a scenario in which the U.K. may decide to continue allowing data transfers under Privacy Shield.
"No sound application of neutral rules and precedents — whether based on the Constitution's original public meaning or Supreme Court precedent — could lead a court to strike down an entire congressional act based on the unconstitutionality of a single, inoperative provision within it," the states wrote.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R), who filed a brief opposing a lawsuit aiming to strike down the Affordable Care Act, said in an interview that aired Thursday on "Rising" that he would have supported the lawsuit in the immediate aftermath of ObamaCare's passage.
ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) - Dozens of large U.S. companies on Friday backed the Obama administration's bid to strike down a North Carolina law restricting the use of public bathrooms by transgender people, saying the law hurts their recruitment efforts and could discourage investment in the state.
New Delhi (CNN)India's highest court has moved to strike down a ruling from a lower court that prevented a Hindu woman who had converted to Islam from living with her Muslim husband, in a landmark decision that upholds the right of inter-religious marriage.
Unfortunately, Congress has already begun chipping away at these public/private retirement programs; the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate already voted to strike down a Department of Labor rule that makes it easier for local governments to establish publicly administered retirement savings programs.
The day after the denial, the Campaign for Southern Equality had called, connecting her and her co-organizer, Emily Turner, to Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who helped win the battle at the Supreme Court in 2013 to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.
Norman Siegel, the former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, tried unsuccessfully to strike down the Cabaret Law, filing a lawsuit in state court around a decade ago alongside Paul Chevigny, a civil rights lawyer, arguing it violated dancers' free speech rights.
AFSCME in June, which diminished the clout of unions by stopping them from collecting dues from all the workers they represent, conservatives have used the First Amendment to strike down laws that regulate corporations, help unions and limit the influence of money on politics.
The president previously complained about Bloomberg's hundreds of millions of dollars in ad buys on Monday, when Trump charged that the Democratic candidate was misrepresenting his administration's record on health care and sought to distort his yearslong attempts to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
Former President Obama took to Facebook to express his disdain with a federal judge's decision to strike down core parts of ObamaCare, writing that "Republicans will never stop trying to undo" the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is widely viewed as his signature domestic legislation.
And while this Court hasn't brought the absurd Lochner-era doctrines that effectively made it impossible to legislate working conditions back from the dead, it has, in Justice Elena Kagan's phrase, "weaponized" the First Amendment to strike down economic regulation and undermine organized labor.
Clarke Forsythe, the group's acting president, said the report was intended to be "an inspiration to state legislators" to enact new restrictions, and as a "rebuke to the Supreme Court's tragic decision" to strike down a far-reaching Texas anti-abortion law in June.
Indeed, the same day that Democrats were reeling from Trump's victory lap, the Justice Department announced it is moving to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act, which would leave millions of Americans without their health care and millions more exposed to poor insurance.
Most significantly, three justices -- Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor -- wrote separately to express their willingness to strike down the ban against "immoral" marks but to uphold the prohibition on "scandalous" ones by giving that term a very narrow interpretation.

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