There is an ongoing debate over whether Romney's comments about shutting down Planned Parenthood and his endorsement of the Blunt amendment directly influenced women voters, but there is no doubt that women are demonstrating an aversion to his campaign and to the Republican Party.
The Court also explicitly upheld the "discriminatory effect" prong of Section 5, stating that even though the Fifteenth Amendment directly prohibited only intentional discrimination, Congress could constitutionally prohibit unintentional discrimination to mitigate the risk that jurisdictions may engage in intentional discrimination.
These amendments can directly affect the chemistry of soil P by altering the amounts, distribution and transformations of P forms.
There are many different fertilizer formulations available and some include amendments that directly affect and inhibit microbial activity [ 126].
In a 2-to-1 ruling last June, the appeals court did not address the First Amendment challenge directly.
This amendment is directly aimed at restricting their ability to do just that, to the detriment of pregnant women.
The boundaries in our current campaign finance system go back to 1976, when the court ruled in Buckley v. Valeo that government limits on how much a candidate can spend violated the First Amendment by directly limiting speech, but that limiting contributions did not.
In many cases, Harlan took a fairly broad view of First Amendment rights such as the freedom of speech and of the press, although he thought that the First Amendment applied directly only to the federal government.
But the Reconstruction amendments were aimed directly at the states.
During the markup of the immigration reform bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved two new amendments that would directly benefit Dreamers.
Fast Track then empowered the executive branch to write legislation to change any U.S. law needed to conform to the agreement terms, avoid congressional committee amendment processes and directly submit legislation for a no-amendment, limited-debate vote, which was guaranteed within 60 days of submission.
