COLUMBIA, S.C. -– In the space of a few minutes here Friday night, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) went from talking about constitutional amendments to asking for people to send him text messages.
A petition is circulating and a movement is gaining momentum among performance artists and First Amendment scholars to ask Gov. George E. Pataki to issue the one thing that would clear Lenny Bruce's name today: a posthumous pardon.
Frank Engel before the vote on Amendment 4 to ask for the vote to be postponed, Esteban González Pons, Guy Verhofstadt, Udo Bullmann (the President reminded Members of the provisions of Rule 190), Daniel Caspary and Izaskun Bilbao Barandica on this request.
Just as it would be crazy to insist that the Catholic church open the priesthood to Buddhists, it would violate first-amendment principles to ask it to invite openly gay candidates into the clergy.
Most observers believe that the court is unlikely to oppose the ESM treaty, though many expect the judges to demand certain amendments, or to ask Germany's president to make his signature subject to certain qualifications.
If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?" Might want to ask Flynn that, eh? Flynn, who is asking for immunity for his testimony, earlier said: "When you are given immunity, that means that you have probably committed a crime".
"If I was back in my previous job would I argue that it makes sense for the Government of Canada to bring an amendment to Parliament?" asked Mr. Tellier, who was clerk of the Privy Council, which made him the top bureaucrat in Canada, before taking control of CN in 1992.
State air-quality officials and environmental groups expressed disappointment with Feinstein, who led the opposition to the Bond amendment, because she failed to ask for a recorded vote to eliminate the measure.
In 2011, Florida passed legislation that raised First Amendment questions by forbidding doctors to ask families about guns in the home.
It would be a good idea - as I pointed out in an amendment to the Napolitano report - to ask the Convention to guarantee the inclusion in the European Constitution of the famous paragraph 2 of Article 299 of the EC Treaty, which deals with the special application of Community provisions in the outermost regions of the European Union.
