1. Capitol punishment
Nominated to Supreme Court by President Clinton, and took her seat on August 10, 1993. ... Nominated to Supreme Court by President Clinton, and took his seat August 3, 1994. ... With the primary function of lawmaking, introducing and voting on bills to become laws is its main form of influence. ... The powers vested to the House of Representatives include origination of revenue bills, and bringing of impeachment charges against federal officials. ...
This legislation was attached to a larger and popular Telecommunications Reform Bill. The Senate and the House voted to approve the Telecommunications Reform Bill in February 1996. After President Clinton signed the bill the ACLU filed a suit claiming it violated their First and Fifth Amendment rights. ... Another Bill that was introduced into legislation is the Child Online Protection Act or COPA. ...
On July 7, 1964, following one of the longest debates in senate history, Johnson signed the bill into law. ... Despite the strong support for the Civil Rights Act, President Bush exorcised his right to veto it, because he felt many aspects of the bill established employment quotas. ... So, when the bill was passed by congress again in 1991, President Bush reluctantly signed it. When elected President, Bill Clinton gave the American people what they wanted, a white house staff that "looked like America." ...
better or for worse the constitution often uses vague wording to state a law. This may have very well been intentional. Perhaps the framers of the constitution wanted to establish a belief but allow it to adjust to the interpretations of the times. What exactly did the framers have in mind when they closed the eight amendment prohibiting punishments that are "cruel and unusual-? We have learned that the framers intended for the Law of our country to be a "living law- with the ability to grow and conform to the ever-changing norms of society. ...
Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. ... Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to cease discrimination due to race, religion, or national origin. ... Dole proposed legislation to ban preferential treatment in federal programs and the Clinton Administration was considering reform to affirmative action by supporting a reformed version that complies with the 1995 ruling by the Supreme Court. ...
Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national attention in the struggle to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts. Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push f...
However, in November 1993, President Clinton signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA").RFRA was intended to restore the traditional protection afforded to prisoners to observe their religion, which had been weakened by decisions such as O'Lone. ...