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Mon Jun 8

• Constitutional complaint against Taylor Law: The New York State Taylor Law violates ten United States Constitutional amendments

Wed Apr 8

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Mon Apr 6

• Ironic that Same Sex Couples Can Marry in Cedar Rapids But Not in San Francisco | Sex and Relationships | AlterNet: RT @AlterNet: Ironic that Same Sex Couples Can Marry in Cedar Rapids but not in San Francisco http://tinyurl .com/d8zcty [from http://twitter .com/wurzelma/ statuses/14578 39065]

Tue Mar 3

• Suit Seeks to Force Government to Extend Benefits to Same-Sex Couples - NYTimes.com

Mon Jan 26

• Deniers for Obama by Mona Charen on National Review Online: ?I mean it, it would essentially bar abortions because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute.?

Mon Jan 19

• Sidebar - Bush v. Gore Set to Outlast Its Beneficiary - NYTimes.com

Sat Jan 10

• U.S. Supreme Court to hear two appeals on 'race politics' - Los Angeles Times: Justices will decide whether to strike down laws that provide special protections to minorities in the workplace and in the voting booth. The outcome could signal a major change in civil rights laws.

Mon Dec 1

• Shapiro v. Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Plyler v. Doe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thu Nov 13

• Prop 8 Legal Challenge Filed: [quote]Last May, the California Supreme Court found that depriving same-sex couples the right to marry violated equal protection ? and that LGBT people are a "suspect class." A "suspect class" is a group that has suffered discrimination and needs protection. The central purpose behind equal protection is to protect unpopular minorities from a political majority who could take away their rights. You can?t simply change the Constitution by majority vote to take away the right of gay people to marry ? because that right comes from the equal protection clause. As Herrera wrote in his brief, "without a judiciary that has the final word on equal protection, there simply is no such thing as equal protection.&qu ot; [/quote]

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