Trillion Dollar Coin: Posts on Legality and Constitutionality

http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/01/trillion-dollar-coin-posts-on-legality.html Trillion Dollar Coin: Posts on Legality and Constitutionality Enthusiasm for using Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) to produce a Trillion Dollar Coin, or coins totaling a few trillion...

Boehner Defends Legality of Gay-Marriage Ban

"  House Speaker John Boehner said on March 4 he is launching a legal defense by the House of the federal law against gay marriage, which President Barack Obama's Administration has concluded is unconstitutional. "The constitutionality of this law should be...

Arroyo changes focus of peace talks

"MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Thursday said her administration is still committed to pursue peace as they are not waging a war against the Muslim community. "These recent developments in the south lead to a change in the basic premise of our peace efforts....

To Push Death Penalty Or Not

"Five of the state's top prosecutors - who usually ask the questions in court - were forced to answer them on the witness stand Friday as defense lawyers for a convicted murderer mounted a challenge to the constitutionality of the state's death penalty."

The Constitutionality of Demanding ID for Air Travel

This hearing is taking place today, for any readers in the SF Bay Area. Even if found Constitutional (which it would not be), the efficacy of photo ID as a security tool is sketchy at best: for the policy to be effective, the somnolent rent-a-cop at the x-ray machine would...

NYC: Police Tactics Taken to Court

NEW YORK -- The constitutionality of the city's random searches of bags in the subways to deter terrorism will be challenged at a federal trial Monday by civil liberties lawyers who say the searches do nothing to accomplish that goal.