The 17th Amendment under attack

The 17th Amendment under attack. The long-forgotten 17th Amendment — the one that gave us direct election of senators — has suddenly moved to ...

Repealing the 17th Amendment would be no small task

Back on this day in 1913, the 17th Amendment ... In the decades prior to the 17th Amendment's passage, that practice was continually attacked as ...

The 17th Amendment under attack | National Law Journal

The 17th Amendment under attack. The long-forgotten constitutional amendment mandating direct election of senators has suddenly moved to ...

17th Amendment weakened balance of power between states ...

My Times. Sign up for Threat Status · American constitutional rights have been usurped since 9/11 · Family, staff of Harris and Walz are warning ...

The Current Threat | The Heritage Foundation

The Current Threat. What would happen if the Electoral College was eliminated?

Article I - Annenberg Classroom

The United States responds to terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, by attacking Afghanistan, which had hosted the ...

How the Far Right-Wing Plans to Obliterate More of Our ...

Attacks on LGBTQ+ Rights. As conservatives continue their attack on the LGBTQ+ community, the next step will be medication used to protect ...

Assaults on the Courts | Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center works to defend the rule of law when courts are under attack. We also track state legislative efforts to weaken or politicize the courts.

Continuity of Government Oral Testimony of The Honorable Brian ...

In the aftermath of the 2001 terror attacks, our initial continuity of Congress focus was on ensuring that the House and Senate could be ...

New Hampshire's GOP Senate Nominee Wants to Take Away the ...

The next frontier in the Republican assault on democracy involves a scheme to repeal the 17th Amendment and let Republican-controlled ...

Abortion measures pass across the country, but access is still uneven

“I think that it's important to know that holistic care is under attack and that's why we want to use the power of local government to do ...

The Newest Attack on the Voting Rights Act

A federal appeals court launched an appalling attack on the landmark law on Monday. That's the bad news. The good news is that the decision is so unmoored from ...

Article V: The danger to democracy you may not know about

It is quite possible that such a convention could attack the very bedrock of our democracy, curtailing the protections of the First and ...

The Left's Attack on the Constitution - FCTA.org

The Left's Attack on the Constitution. -- Arthur Purves, FCTA president / 2018-09-28. On August 9, 2018, the New York Times ran an op-ed, entitled "Think ...

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True Threats | Constitution Annotated | Library of Congress

The Supreme Court has cited three reasons why threats of violence are outside the First Amendment — protecting individuals from the fear of violence ...

Harman v. Forssenius | 380 U.S. 528 (1965)

In suits attacking the constitutionality of the Virginia statutes, the three-judge District Court refused to abstain to afford the Virginia courts an ...

'Your body, my choice' and other attacks on women surge on social ...

Sexist and abusive attacks on women, like “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen,” have surged across social media since Donald ...

“Your body, my choice”: The misogynist MAGA attack, explained - Vox

... attack a classmate during the 2016–'17 school year. The fact that the attacks aren't new doesn't make them less scary for the people on the ...

Voting Rights Act (1965) | National Archives

The murder of voting-rights activists in Mississippi and the attack by white state troopers on peaceful marchers in Selma, Alabama, gained ...