Yasui v. United States, 320 U.S. 115 (1943) was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of curfews used during World War II when they were applied to citizens of the United States.
Mourdock questioned the constitutionality of Social Security and Medicare during a recent campaign appearance.
Broccoli, of all things, came up in the Supreme Court during arguments over the constitutionality of the Obama administration's health care legislation.
1 Both at his arraignment and at trial Whiteley challenged the constitutionality of the use of evidence seized during a search incident to an arrest which he claimed was illegal.
His most notable opinions were in Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque, in which the court declared that general judicial principles take precedence over the decisions of local tribunals in federal judicial review, and Springer v. United States (1881), which upheld the constitutionality of a federal income tax imposed during the Civil War.
Last March, during oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, Chief Justice John Roberts inquired into whether gays and lesbians were politically powerful.
And just last month during oral arguments over the constitutionality of a key aspect of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Antonin Scalia derisively called what's considered the most successful civil rights law in history a "racial entitlement".
As many of the justices on the Supreme Court indicated during oral arguments about the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, perhaps the question of marriage equality should be left to the people themselves, in the form of referendums and statewide legislation.
Still, it was stunning to hear Antonin Scalia talking like a Senate whip during oral arguments last week on the constitutionality of the health care law.
