Whilst my concerns with our loan pledge are about its constitutionality, my concerns with our budgets and the government's finances center on opacity, omissions and discrepancies.
In June 2013, the Supreme Court will have the opportunity to once again face down discrimination and uphold the right of every American, gay or straight, to marry the person they love, when it rules on the constitutionality of California's Prop 8. My name is Matthew Johnson Harris.
If you haven't been paying attention, the top tier of our nation's judicial branch this week heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of two laws that relate directly to my radical gay-married family (or as I like to think of it, my family) -- California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Who thinks about throwing them out?" "I think what I was most appalled about," he said, "was the constitutionality of them being able to come in and search my office.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (my former employer) has a case in the 9th Circuit challenging the constitutionality of the same program, focused on the expansive and secret partnership between AT&T and the NSA that has allowed the spy agency to siphon off huge amounts of data right off AT&T's fiber optic cables all over the country.
Now, in my own view, none of this has anything to do with the constitutionality of affirmative action.
As mentioned in my last blog post, this case is part of long lineage of court cases challenging the constitutionality of public education policies, practices and laws.
Exhibit A known to most of my readers would be how it is that the Chief Justice found a way to sustain constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act against the right wing conservative claim that Congress lacked constitutional authority to pass the measure.
It is my contention that judges who engage in an earnest, impartial, evidence-based search for the truth concerning the constitutionality of the government's means and ends, rather than deferring to the government out of a sense of institutional "humility" or "modesty," are more likely to ensure that the government operates within constitutional limits than judges who do not.
