The order effectively criminalized people based on their ethnicity and national origin.
The Constitution does not permit the government to criminalize speech based on the identity of the speaker.
The National People's Congress, China's Parliament, has scrapped a proposal that would criminalize abortions based on the sex of the fetus, the state media reported, despite a growing population imbalance between males and females.
In particular, he takes issue with Bill C-16, the parliamentary bill meant to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to criminalize harassment based on gender identity.
Because S.B. 1070 criminalizes people based on their appearance, it strikes a deep chord within the struggle for LGBT inclusion.
In the 1992 case R.A.V. v. City of St . Paul for example, the Court held that a St .Paul, Minnesota, ordinance criminalizing "fighting words" based on race, religion, or gender was unconstitutional because it penalized only certain messages.
Thirty-two states have criminal statutes based on perceived exposure to HIV -- regardless of the actual risk of transmission -- and 13 states have laws that criminalize certain acts, like spitting, by people with HIV/AIDS.
But the case highlights the injustice, waste and failure of a drug "war" based on criminalizing the sick.
A bill to outlaw abortions based on sex or race that Democratic lawmakers and advocates have called a "nightmare" made its way to the US House of Representatives committee floor late on Thursday, where Republicans invoked Frederick Douglass, the Book of Matthew and Thomas Jefferson in arguing that abortions they believe to be discriminatory should be criminalized.
At this point it is a naked fact that the state criminalizes and brutalizes people based on the color of their skin and calls it justice.
