Of course, his amendment would punish the household economies of 2.1 million federal workers, including members of Congress, by prolonging the current two-year freeze on basic pay rates for an additional 12 months.
The Senate voted after running through an obstacle course of Republican amendments and procedural objections, which kept lawmakers working through Wednesday night until 3 30 a.m.
Of course, whether the amendments as adopted accomplished the purpose intended, is a matter which we are not called upon to consider and as to which we express no opinion.
After a tumultuous legislative course, involving hostile amendments and other procedural maneuvers, Knight's bill ultimately died in the Legislature.
Well of course the Thirteenth Amendment is too, but the Thirteenth Amendment, you'll remember, has a second clause that said "Congress shall pass all appropriate legislation, to enforce it". All right, now how do you enforce the end of slavery?
"Kind of like you don't have to ask the government to exercise the First Amendment". Of course, the exercise of First Amendment rights is subject to some limitations, largely focused on whether their exercise incites "imminent lawless action" or knowingly commits damaging falsehoods.
And, of course, the Fourth Amendment indiscriminately nullifies ALL of the decisions that the Constitutional Court made between 1990 and 2011.
To be sure, the holding in Fisher later reaffirmed in Doe embarked upon a new course of Fifth Amendment analysis.
Of course, the First Amendment makes if almost impossible to draft a law that would place meaningful restrictions on the entertainment.
