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Showing posts with label same sex marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label same sex marriage. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: Texas Supreme Court to take up same-sex marriage case

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Traditionalists in the state are finding ways to push back against Obergerfells v Hodges. - Click here for the article . Almost two yea...
Monday, November 14, 2016

From ABCNews: GOP President-Elect Donald Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is 'Settled' Law

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Obergerfells id safe, but - apparently - not Roe v Wade. Assuming Trump has influence over either of course. - Click here for the article ....
Saturday, October 29, 2016

My Statesman: Greg Abbott presses Texas Supreme Court to limit gay-marriage ruling

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More - expected - conflict between Texas and the U.S. - Click here for the article. Ratcheting up pressure on the all-Republican Texas Sup...
Friday, September 30, 2016

From the Pew Research Center: Where the Public Stands on Religious Liberty vs. Nondiscrimination - Two-thirds say employers should provide birth control in insurance plans, but public is split over same-sex wedding services and use of public bathrooms by transgender people

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The battle between the equal protection and free exercise clauses continues to rage. - Click here for the article . The U.S. public expres...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

From Slate: Texas Supreme Court Justice: States Can Deny Same-Sex Spousal Benefits to “Encourage Procreation”

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More conflict between the dominant political cultures in Texas and the United States. This fits material we've been discussing in 2306. ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

From the American Constitution Society: Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law

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A recently published book talks about how organized citizens groups have been able to transform constitutional law by developing and pursui...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Obergefell v Hodges

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This is the court decision that recognized gay marriage. It allows us to bridge consideration of both the courts and civil rights, so its wo...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Statewide officials in Texas push back against the gay marriage decision - but seem to accept that it is here to stay

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As 2306 students learned - the state of Texas delegates the handling of the bulk of its paperwork to the counties, much of this is handled b...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Some random news items related to Obergefell

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- Republicans Vow a Religious Liberty Fight . In a somber and defiant statement, Attorney General Ken Paxton  proclaimed his next battlefro...

The Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

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The argument - as best I can determine it - is that marriage is a fundamental liberty, which means that the government, state governments in...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Oral arguments on same sex marriage bans heard in the Supreme Court.

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We spent the early part of this week covering this in both 2305 and 2306, since it applies in different ways to each class. In 2305 - civil ...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Articles discussed this week in 2306 so far

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All of these are from the Texas Tribune: -  Business Group Blasts Religious Freedom Proposals . Texas' most powerful interest group si...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

From the Washington Post: Answering five questions about Indiana’s new discrimination law

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This might be useful for 2306 .
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Speaking of national / state conflict ...

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Vox explains the current conflict between the state of Alabama and the national government over same sex marriage. - Click here for the arti...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Federal judge rules that bans on same sex marriage do not address a legitimate state interest

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Just in time - well a slight bit late - for 2305's review of civil rights comes a decision by a federal judge in Michigan against the st...
Monday, March 17, 2014

What level of scrutiny will be applied to sexual orientation?

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For this week's look at the equal protection clause. The answer appears to be " heightened scrutiny ," but I can't tell ...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

From the Dish: The Marriage Equality End Game

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I just touched up slides for 2305's discussion later this semester of public opinion - which includes a look at the impact of peer group...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Attorney General Eic Holder announces that the federal government will begin treating same sex and heterosexual couples the same

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This development applies to a variety of topics we cover in 2305. One is civil rights, because it involves equal protection before the law a...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Has Windsor established a standard of review for sexual orientation under the equal protection clause?

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We discussed this in class, and couldn't find any clear language to that effect in the decision. Nothing like "strict scrutiny...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Elected Iowa Judiciary

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Iowa voters aim to vote out state judges who approved the recognition of same sex marriages. This is a reminder that it matters whether jud...