Before the final vote on the budget resolution on Friday, each of the party's leaders will have the opportunity to offer a wrap-around amendment, a measure that essentially substitutes for everything that has been voted on before.
The committee chairman, Phil Willis, last night said he wanted the inquiry to report before Christmas in order for its findings to feed into expected parliamentary debate on abortion around amendments to the human tissue and embryos bill, due to be introduced in the autumn.
"This is the beginning of a much longer conversation around this amendment and around youth democracy," said Yael Bromberg, the supervising attorney and clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown Law's Civil Rights Clinic and Voting Rights Institute.
But as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in giving Lessig the back of her hand last time around, "The First Amendment securely protects the freedom to make or decline to make one's own speech; it bears less heavily when speakers assert the right to make other people's speeches".
But as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in giving Lessig the back of her hand last time around, "The First Amendment securely protects the freedom to make--or decline to make--one's own speech; it bears less heavily when speakers assert the right to make other people's speeches". For all his talk about creativity, Lessig isn't any true creator's friend.
It would be all he could do to head off a post-Bloombergian boomlet to somehow get around another amendment, the Twenty-second, and usher him to a third term.
Unlike the district court, the court of appeals framed the issue primarily around First Amendment rights rather than on the governmental interest of protecting the health and safety of the public.
But in 1999, a Clinton administration lawyer, Harriett S. Rabb, found a way around the amendment; in a legal memorandum, she argued that taxpayers could finance experiments on stem cell colonies, called lines, that had already been cultivated with private money.
Much of the debate around the amendment comes down to what is called the mark-to-market accounting requirement.
Some of those lawsuits revolve around an amendment to the Michigan Constitution that protects public pensions, though it's unclear whether those legal challenges would hold up in court.
(An organized effort along these lines is already underway in several states). There is nothing in the Constitution that requires an elector to vote for the winner in his or her state, a loophole that might offer a way around the amendment impasse.
