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- 71: Capital Punishment and Issues
- ... white men were executed for raping nonwhite women, whereas most black offenders found guilty of raping a white woman were executed. Third, poor and friendless defendants, those with inexperienced or court-appointed counsel, are most likely to be sentenced to death and executed. Defenders of the death penalty, however, have insisted that, because nothing inherent in the laws of capital punishment ... have replied that the death penalty is inherently subject to caprice and mistake in practice and that it is impossible to administer fairly. Current Status A series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the 1970s made the death penalty in the U.S. unconstitutional if it is mandatory, if it is imposed without providing courts with sufficient guidance to determine ...
- 72: Censorship of Music in the Media
- ... U.S. 15(1971) is dis positive. In this case, a man was arrested for wearing a jacket emblazoned with an expletive, reflecting his opinion of the military draft. The Supreme Court threw out this conviction as a violation of the First Amendment. Surely the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to ... to restrict access to music have called certain music obscene and suggested that this might permit federal regulation. Such suggestions cannot be reconciled with First Amendment jurisprudence. Obscenity, which the Court has said is largely outside the boundaries of First Amendment protection, it is a very narrow and circumscribed area of communication. Being that obesity is easily confused with protected ...
- 73: The Biography of John Marshall Harlan II
- ... from a long line of political servants, of whom his grandfather is probably most notable. John Marshall Harlan I, whom John Marshall Harlan II was named after, sat on the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice from 1877 to 1911. Johan Marshall Harlan II is best remembered as the lone dissenter of the ‘separate but equal' defense to the upholding of Plessy ... his time as chief counsel, Harlan helped to investigate illegal gambling, as well as waterfront rackets in New York City. In 1954, President Eisenhower appointed Harlan to the United States Court of Appeals. Less than a year later, Eisenhower nominated Harlan to the Supreme Court. On March 16, 1955, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eisenhower's appointment of Harlan 71 ...
- 74: Japanese Americans During WWII
- ... homes and their business. They were only allowed to take what they could carry and forced into the most inhospitable areas our country had to offer. Our most hallowed judicial court, the US. Supreme Court, stated, in three different cases, that this suspension of due process was perfectly fine with them because of a "military necessity" This “military necessity allowed innocent American civilians to ...
- 75: Abortion: What Do We Do?
- ... when performed within 50 days of gestation. In the United States, especially since the mid-1960's, another word for "abortion" may as well of been "controversy". In 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Roe v. Wade, declared that the term "person" in the constitution did not include the unborn, in certain stages of pregnancy. Thus limiting state and personal freedoms with abortion. The court's decision, however has been interpreted in several different ways, and activists of any side of abortion can find something in the Supreme Court's judgement that can be ...
- 76: McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
- ... appear before the committee in October 1947, they took a confrontational stand. Like many of HUAC's other unfriendly witnesses of the period, they and their attorneys assumed that the Supreme Court would probably vindicate them; also, they used their public hearings as a forum to expound their own political views. Witnesses and committee members yelled at each other, and several of ... marshals. A month later the full House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to cite them for contempt. They were tried and convicted in the spring of 1948. Two years later, the Supreme Court's refusal to hear their case upheld the lower court decisions and confirmed their convictions (Feis 112). In 1947, when the Ten appeared before HUAC, the Supreme Court ...
- 77: The Existence of Prejudice: Past and Present
- ... the United States. In 1863, after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation was passed, and several constitutional amendments that changed the legal status of African Americans were also passed. The Supreme Court of the United States declared federal statues that were to enforce the amendments unlawful. The Supreme Court declared a law that made it illegal for private individuals to discriminate based on color and upheld the unconstitutional idea of state-enforced segregation. Until 1941, discrimination against ...
- 78: Search & Seizure In The Context Of Automobiles
- ... IV. The New Jersey Constitution has a similar provision granting security to the citizens in their papers, houses, and effects. N.J. Constitution, Article 1, Section 7. The United States Supreme Court has held that searches and seizures made without the benefit of a search warrant are unreasonable unless they come within a very limited and proscribed number of exceptions to the ... New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 91 S.Ct. 2022, 29 L. Ed. 564 (1971). One such exception involves automobile searches for contraband goods by a law enforcement officer. The Supreme Court has created this exception because it is not practical to secure a search warrant when there is probable cause to believe that contraband goods are in an automobile. ...
- 79: The Political Career of Richard Nixon
- ... perhaps, was that of a successor to retiring Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren. The Senate approved his nominee, Warren E. Burger, a district judge in the federal court system. He had difficulty, however, in getting Senate approval of an associate justice to fill a later vacancy on the Supreme Court. After rejecting Nixon's first two nominees--both Southerners--the Senate accepted Harry A. Blackmun of Minnesota, a United States court of appeals judge. Two more Nixon nominees, William ...
- 80: Abortion - Right To Choose
- ... the rights we have today. Here are some important cases: 1965 - Griswold v. Connecticut - upheld the right to privacy and ended the ban on birth control. Eight years later, the Supreme Court ruled the right to privacy included abortions. Roe v. Wade was based upon this case. 1973 - Roe v. Wade: - The state of Texas had outlawed abortions. The Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, but refused to order an injunction against the state. On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court voted the right to privacy included abortions. In ...
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