Efficient to give responsibility or congressional districting to political actors. They consciously chose to give the primary authority to state legislatures and then to police the possibility that state legislatures which the framers knew to be partisan institutions would engage in too much partisanship. They chose to Structural Solutions by giving authority. Decided the one person, one vote concept, we were pretty much saying certain acts by the legislature are unconstitutional, including race discrimination and others. Be that simply because the constitution says that a particular act is in the hands of one branch of government that that deprives the courts of reviewing whether that action is constitutional or not. Questionose the whether that ship has sailed is one way of presenting the question in front of the court today. I would submit you dont have a onesizefitsall solution for disability and i dont think this fits that. I took the central lesson to be the same claim, essential
Dissenting. Here is the oral argument from april. Mr. Stewart thank you, mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court the lanham acts ban on federal registration of scandalous trademarks is not a restriction on speech but a valid condition on participation in a federal program. On its face, and as applied here, the provision is is viewpointneutral. The scandalous marks provision is one of many contentbased criteria for federal trademark registration, and consideration of a marks content is essential. Justice sotomayor could you please tell me how youre defining scandalous mark . From your brief, i thought you were giving it a different definition than has been used by the agency for a while. Mr. Stewart well, the the term the adjectives that have sometimes been used as synonyms for scandalous by the agency are terms like shocking, disgraceful, offensive, and disreputable. I think Justice Sotomayor well, if you use all those adjectives, you run headon to tam. Mr. Stewart i think one s
Those taking part in fridays for future demonstrations across europe and as he assumes the e. U. Presidency he says solving Climate Change should be europes quote next heroic act. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us britain says 3 rainin boats tried to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the persian gulf now london says they were driven off by royal navy forget the h. M. S. Moat montrose escorting that tanker in the strait of hormuz the frigate seen here escorting other ships aimed its deck guns at the iranian vessels as a warning no shots were fired. Iran has denied that any of its boats tried to stop that tanker saying they were simply carrying out routine duties now the British Government called for calm after the incident we are concerned by this action. They said and continue to urge the iranian authorities to deescalate the situation in the region while this incident comes after a warning yesterday from the iranian president Hassan Rouhani he said that iran was ready to
Human fossils outside africa for the first time and. England prepare to take on australia in the cricket world cup semifinal at edgbaston. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. A Royal Navy Frigate has intercepted iranian boats that were harassing a British Oil Tanker in the gulf. The ministry of defence says hms montrose moved between the tanker and the iranian vessels, issuing a number of warnings over radio, before they moved off. Iran has previously threatened retaliation for the seizure of a tanker carrying iranian oil off gibraltar last week. The ministry of defence said three iranian vessels, believed to belong to the revolutionary guards, asked the tanker to stop in iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a warning from a Royal Navy Frigate. Its a strategically very important stretch of water between the persian gulf and the gulf of oman, bordered by iran and the United Arab Emirates. Iran has denied any encounter between its forces and foreign ships in the last
Up next, oral argument from the North Carolina gerrymandering case. This court has repeatedly failed to identify a standard r for partisan gerrymandering claims. The cause is not a lack of judicial imagination or a lack of claims that the particular map before the court was the most extreme ever. Rather, the root cause of this failure is the basic decision of the framers to give responsibility for congressional districting to political actors. The framers consciously chose to give the primary authority to state i would submit that you dont have a one size fits all solution. I took the central lesson of baker v carr to be that the same claim essentially when presented as an equal protection claim was justiceable. Mr. Clement, does one person have one vote that counts equally, which i take it to be the message of those cases now well accepted. Does one person have one vote that counts equally with others. Is the impact of her vote reduced based on her Party Affiliation . The answer is ye