These efforts were relying on a provision of the Constitution, in Article II, Section 1, that states ... In the late 1860s, ...

The drafters of Sections 1 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment understood Section 5 as providing an unquestionable constitutional base for the 1866 Civil Rights Act, and Section 1 as embedding the ...

It fails to recognize that the same word covers two distinctly different ideas: 1) complete ... within the meaning of the first section of the fourteenth amendment, than the children of subjects ...

The presidential oath is separately provided for in the final clause of Section 1 of Article II ... Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly anticipates such Congressional action by ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to overturn ... was necessary and proposed that the first sentence of Section 1 should read, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall ...

Guest opinion column author Paul Summers is a lawyer, a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and ...

Ordinarily, the courts carefully scrutinize state restrictions on the right to vote to assess their constitutionality under the equal protection clause of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to ...

The court held that a successful claim requires showing that: (1) the affected minority group is sufficiently ... that felon disenfranchisement laws did not violate Section 2, in part because the 14th ...

October 2024 marked the sixth anniversary of the Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018 ('Amendment') coming into force. Over ...

Background - On 19 September 2024, the Parliament of Western Australia introduced the Associations and Co-operatives Legislation Amendment ...

ITAT Ahmedabad held that self-assessment tax paid by the assessee losses its character as self-assessment tax once it got adjusted against the tax liability determined in regular assessment. Thus, ...