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The police can't do anything to compel this family to talk, they can't do anything legally. The family, anyone, has a Fifth Amendment right not to talk to police and I imagine these folks are going to exercise that right and they have every right to do so. Andrew Cohen
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment. Naomi Wolf
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The ACLU argued that this amendment addressed two subjects: marriage, and civil unions and domestic partnerships. They said people would be in favor of voting for marriage, but may not be in favor of banning civil unions. The Supreme Court rejected that argument and said that this amendment is about the singular purpose of marriage and maintaining and preserving the protections and obligations of marriage.
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The amendment to the energy bill I filed would have put a stop to the Skull Valley site, it would begin a study of alternatives such as reprocessing, storing the waste on site, and storing the waste at existing Department of Energy sites, Orrin Hatch
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The amendment to the Constitution will lay a solid legal foundation for the establishment of a complete and effective system to guarantee the environmental rights of the people.
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the Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society. Earl Warren
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The amendment I'm proposing does not change the decision to move forward with this cost-savings plan.
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The amendment goes far beyond just defining marriage between a man and a woman. What it does is prohibit recognition for all unmarried couples in the state.
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The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case. Robert Shapiro
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The American people are overwhelmingly supportive of a constitutional amendment that will protect traditional marriage between one man and one woman. Todd Tiahrt
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That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any way chill the desire to petition the government or lobby the government.
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We have the best police officers and firefighters in the world, and the mayor has no problem with them peacefully exercising their First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
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To make a long story short, the Lautenberg amendment would basically do away with gun shows and it would push these people out in the streets where we'd have more problems with guns,
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When you have mass surveillance, it's impossible to meet the intent of the First Amendment because reporters can't talk to sources because sources are afraid to talk. Pierre Omidyar
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We continue to believe that changes to the Wright Amendment will negatively impact local businesses, the economy and potentially thousands of jobs throughout North Texas.
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I think marriage is a civil contract. I don't know what they're raving about. We should all have the right to marry whomever we wish, whether it be male or female. That's what the 14th amendment provides: equal protection of the law.
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Just because a person is a celebrity, he or she does not have to give up his or her first amendment rights, it's as simple as that.
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Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs of artists, and the needs of large media corporations to make profits. Any time we chip away at the First Amendment, we should at least do it with some reverence. Marshall Herskovitz
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The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws. Noam Chomsky
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We are disappointed that politicians of both parties chose to toss overboard the First Amendment and free artistic and creative expression in favor of political expediency,
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I think if you get an amendment that exempts those two things, Social Security and a capital budget, you have an amendment that is workable, ... That will not be harmful in case you get into a recession. Richard Gephardt
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We're a little confused as to why this constitutional amendment is necessary because the courts have also protected that right to pray voluntarily in schools. Andrew Schneider
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We're also pleased that the governor vetoed two other pro-homosexual bills. One of them effectively would have silenced pro-family candidates on issues of sexual morality, and the other would have hampered efforts to collect petition signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage on the ballot.
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We care about this process. We can't let this amendment move forward.
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We can use all the assistance we can get to assure the amendment is passed.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections. Hank Johnson
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I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he's the one who's lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn't stem from personal opinion, I don't know what does. Jessi Klein
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From the outside, it looks like this amendment to the complaint was merely for manipulating the sentence, Alan Page
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For three years now, the administration has been sending the message that cruel and inhuman treatment is OK. Now the McCain amendment is going to wipe all of that away. It reminds everybody who's on the front line that the rules are the rules, and if somebody tells you they don't apply, don't listen to them.
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What you had was a lot of young volunteers who, frankly, objected to this election being decided behind closed doors, without the media having a full view and without our observers having a full view. We executed our First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner, with full decorum.
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Her Second Amendment positions would lose her the primary in North Carolina unless she modifies them. David Keene
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Here we are considering an amendment increasing an already huge appropriation by $1,000,000,000. It is like using a teaspoon in order to get a few taxes into the Treasury and at the same time at the back door using a scoop shovel to shovel them out. Everett Dirksen
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Just like the Berlin Wall, the Wright Amendment will fall.