He challenged the proposition, put forward by Ukip and supported by some in the Conservative party, that overseas aid should be cut in order to improve the UK government's deficit figures.
It is not necessary to challenge the proposition that, as a general rule, the state, having power to deny a privilege altogether, may grant it upon such conditions as it sees fit to impose.
"The widespread harassment and intimidation suffered by supporters of California's Proposition 8 provides strong support for an as-applied exemption in the present case," he wrote, reminding his colleagues that they had in January barred the closed-circuit broadcast of the trial of a lawsuit challenging the proposition based in part on fear that witnesses would be harassed.
Supporters of same-sex marriage, who filed several suits challenging the proposition after its adoption, argued that the change to the state's Constitution was so fundamental that the initiative was not an amendment at all but instead a "revision," a term for measures that rework core constitutional principles.
Proposition 5 and Gray Davis both won handily, and pending the outcome of several suits challenging the proposition, Davis is now negotiating with a coalition of tribes about the arrangements for bigger and better casino gambling in California.
Then, challenging the proposition that more guns equal more freedom, they expose Insurrectionism---not government oppression---as the true threat to freedom in the U.S. today.
On June 26 the United States Supreme Court struck down California's Proposition 8. Fresh off his victory at the Supreme Court, Adam Umhoefer of the American Foundation For Equal Rights (AFER), which filed the lawsuit challenging the proposition, joined HuffPost Live to discuss what he's experienced since receiving the historic news.
Raising tax rates for those with the highest incomes challenges the supply-side proposition that even moderately higher rates would hurt growth.
