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Transcripts For CSPAN Rucho V. Common Cause Oral Argument 20240714

Efficient to give responsibility or congressional districting to political actors. They consciously chose to give the primary authority to state legislatures and then to police the possibility that state legislatures which the framers knew to be partisan institutions would engage in too much partisanship. They chose to Structural Solutions by giving authority. Decided the one person, one vote concept, we were pretty much saying certain acts by the legislature are unconstitutional, including race discrimination and others. Be that simply because the constitution says that a particular act is in the hands of one branch of government that that deprives the courts of reviewing whether that action is constitutional or not. Questionose the whether that ship has sailed is one way of presenting the question in front of the court today. I would submit you dont have a onesizefitsall solution for disability and i dont think this fits t ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Rucho V. Common Cause Oral Argument 20240714

Up next, oral argument from the North Carolina gerrymandering case. This court has repeatedly failed to identify a standard r for partisan gerrymandering claims. The cause is not a lack of judicial imagination or a lack of claims that the particular map before the court was the most extreme ever. Rather, the root cause of this failure is the basic decision of the framers to give responsibility for congressional districting to political actors. The framers consciously chose to give the primary authority to state i would submit that you dont have a one size fits all solution. I took the central lesson of baker v carr to be that the same claim essentially when presented as an equal protection claim was justiceable. Mr. Clement, does one person have one vote that counts equally, which i take it to be the message of those cases now well accepted. Does one person have one vote that counts equally with others. Is the impact of her vote r ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Rucho V. Common Cause Oral Argument 20240714

The possibility that state legislatures which the framers knew to be partisan institutions would engage in too much partisanship. They chose to Structural Solutions by giving authority. Once we decided the one person, one vote concept, we were pretty much saying certain acts by the legislature are unconstitutional, including race discrimination and others. It cant be that simply because the constitution says that a particular act is in the hands of one branch of government that that deprives the courts of reviewing whether that action is constitutional or not. I suppose the question whether that ship has sailed is one way of presenting the question in front of the court today. I would submit you dont have a onesizefitsall solution for disability and i dont think this fits that. I took the central lesson to be the same claim, essentially, presented as an equal protection claim when presented. Does one person have one vote tha ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140325

The constitution matters this family, this family is not some corporate ogre, trying to rule over their employees. Theyre my neighbor. They live a mile from my house. Theyre a quiet family. Great family thats lived out their faith. Theyre a Tremendous Community partner in so many ways in our community and around the country and quite frankly around the globe with what theyve done to take care of the poor and the needy and the people of faith all over the world. Theyre an incredible gift to our nation. Yet theyre being told, you cannot practice your faith anymore. This is not something new that theyre doing. The government changed the rules on them. They didnt change their practice. Suddenly a new administration walked in and changed the rules and said you can no longer live our faith at work. Well, im honored that theyve stepped up. Theyve said not so, not so for their business, not so for businesses around the country. All ....

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