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…2002. Maybe we should just pass an amendment giving everyone the constitutional right to a billion dollars. Except the gays. They can stay poor. AB (*) Note: While I don’t…

…course, something can fail to be prohibited by the Constitution yet still be illegal — speeding and assault are two examples. Still, pursuing a Constitutional amendment against gay marriage is…

…and even that is covered by the Civil Rights Act, not an amendment) limiting states’ ability to decide how to choose their districts. It will, however, be interesting to see…

amendment about trademark infringement into a defense bill … And that if he’s thwarted this time, he’ll be back again, like mold on a shower curtain, right? That says all…

Reproductive Freedom A “partial-birth” abortion ban, without exceptions for the health (there’s an exception for the “life” of the mother, but an amendment to add “health” failed to pass), passed…

…in 1995 to a state constitutional amendment added an optional party information box to registration forms. But wait, Hammer has more: “If you vote in a primary, you are declaring…

…world whether, for example, you pass an awful welfare reform bill or you pass an awful welfare reform bill with an especially nasty amendment by Phil Gramm attached to it….

…sensitive to Americans’ First Amendment rights and may assume the worst about visitors to its collection of seized domains. What’s more, the Justice Department is able to review the search…

…news, “A divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a Congressional mandate forcing the nation’s public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters do not violate the First Amendment, even…

…the Senate, with Dick Cheney holding the tie-breaking 51st, for an amendment to replace the Grassley-proposed and Senate Finance Committee approved version of the dividend tax cut. Zell Miller voted…