Robert G. Ingersoll

Does California’s three strikes law  defy the law of  the eighth amendment prohibiting the against cruel and usual punishment? In the case of Ewing v. California this question is put to the test when a man is sentence 25 years to life because of the “three strikes you 're out” policy. The defendant Gary Ewing was a multiple offender of several crimes from grand theft auto to drug possession..  On December 9, 1993, Ewing was arrested on the premises of a  apartment complex for trespassing and lying

and clarified so you can understand this article better. The case, Hernandez v. Mesa, would raise questions whatever the ruling is. If Hernandez won, it would imply that constitutional protections would extend beyond the border. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

referenced some of the people that attended: “Sitting behind Francis were Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and House Speaker John A. Boehner, both Catholics. Flanking the aisle at the front were Secretary of State John Kerry and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and not far behind them was Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, all Catholics” (Baker, Yardley 17). Others in the audience included three other Supreme Court associate justices, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

1. Who are the people on the Supreme Court? To learn more about them, go to the Web site for the Oyez Project at www.oyez.org and select two Supreme Court justices. The two Justics on the Supreme Court are John G. Roberts, Jr. and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. John G. Roberts, Jr. was appointed on 29 September 2005 by president bush at an age of 50. He is a republican, his confirmation vote was by voice and his ideologies are conservative. On the other hand, President Bill Clinton appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Supreme Court attests. The Court noticed that its point of reference requests a case-by-case examination when lower courts figure out if urgent conditions advocated a warrantless pursuit. In spite of the fact that the State contended that exigency essentially exists in any DWI related blood test given that blood-alcohol content quickly decreases with time, the Court found no argumentation to embrace a per se rule. The Court concurred that essentially postponing a blood test to get a warrant would

Public Participation and McCutcheon The main idea of this paper is to establish an assimilation of the McCutcheon case. The first goal is to review and summarize the history of the McCutcheon case. The second purpose will be, summing up the majority and minority point of views of this case. This suggests explaining why the chosen argument shows logical and legitimate influence. The third aim focuses on discussing whether the McCutcheon decision improves or demotivates the ability of the public to

The court decision that designed abortion law in the United State. In this case, Roe v. Wade (1973) verdict, the Supreme Court ruled that women had a constitutional right to abortion. Moreover, this right was based on an implied right to personal privacy from the Ninth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. According to the court that a fetus is not a person, but "potential life." Therefore, the fetus does not have constitutional rights of its own. In addition, the court set up a frame in which the

Roe vs. Wade: What will change if the decision is reversed? On January 22 1973, the United States Supreme Court made a landmark decision that is still affecting women today. Roe vs Wade gave women the choice to have an abortion. Countless cases since Roe vs Wade have amended that choice and a woman may now have an abortion before the 22nd week of her pregnancy. But with every new president comes new Supreme Court nominees and now our country is on edge that the right to have a choice will be revoked

According to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the people of the nation are entitled to the freedom of speech, but not all speech is the same. The internet provides us with an infinite amount of information, grants us access to virtually everything we could want and acts as an unrestrained vehicle of communication. In the day and age where technology is advancing and social media and internet are of rising importance, the Supreme Court of the United States has been faced with

In 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided a case that would instantly bring controversy to the entire nation. Roe v. Wade would decide if an abortion should be made legal and whether the woman would get to make the decision. Since 1973, the year abortion was legalized, there have been over 56 million abortions.   Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy by removing the fetus or embryo. There are two different types of abortion: induced abortion and spontaneous abortion. Induced