"This is restricting the exercise of choice, which is not a pro-choice position," Mr. McCall said in an interview.
Even in its most cravenly deferential rational basis cases, the Supreme Court has always required at least a "fig leaf" of legitimacy--some assertion, however transparently false, of a public-spirited purpose for restricting the exercise of supposedly nonfundamental rights like the ability to earn a living.
Jen Psaki, speaking for the State Department, said, "The United States strongly opposes laws, including apostasy laws, that restrict the exercise of these freedoms, and urges all countries to uphold these rights in practice".
Targets brought in by the previous government restricted the exercise of judgment on which English police pride themselves, sapping morale and keeping bobbies indoors ticking boxes.To change all that, on December 1st the government published a bill that it says would implement the biggest shake-up in policing since the 1960s, when local forces were brought under the Home Office.
"The Office for Civil Rights has consistently maintained that the statutes and regulations it enforces protects students from prohibited discrimination and do not restrict the exercise of expressive activities or speech that are protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution," Dorie Nolt, Education Department spokeswoman, said in a statement this week.
30, 31 In addition, minding the grandchildren was found to be a major obstacle within the perceived behavioral controls that restricted the exercise behavior of women.
And to attempt to do this in a public school setting will be seen by many as violating the prohibition against both restricting the free exercise of religion and promoting a given religion (Basinger, 2010).
The First Amendment forbids Congress from passing laws that restrict the free exercise of religion--particularly private exercise.
Civil Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3, 109 U. S. 22. Just as the Black Codes, enacted after the Civil War to restrict the free exercise of those rights, were substitutes for the slave system, so the exclusion of Negroes from white communities became a substitute for the Black Codes.
The judge also tossed out a claim that the law restricted the plaintiffs' exercise of religious freedom because the mandate to buy health insurance conflicted with their belief that God would provide for their well-being.
Clearly, this calls into question any law that expressly restricts the "free exercise" of any specific religion.
