Constitutionality

Activists can pressure their state representatives to evaluate the constitutionality of the surveillance, which is a violation of their privacy. Keeping activists under surveillance implies that the individuals are suspects, which requires due cause. BLM activists can hire lobbyists to push state representatives to create laws…

Most people have notice that health care has change and making health care unaffordable. The government needs to find a better plan to lower health care for Americans. With the health care prices increasing most Americans are going without proper care or without health care at all. Health care in the United States has become unaffordable to most Americans due to the increase of co-payments and deductibles; however, where some Americans may be able to receive Medicaid or health care through…

As with any developed country, government exists in Brazil to establish and enforce policy and to protect its citizens. However, a governments original purpose can become distorted in certain societies due to a competing worldview. With this is mind, we will examine the purpose for Brazil’s government and if their current worldview has manipulated this purpose. Brazil’s government is a Democratic Federative Republic with a Presidential system. The government itself is defined by the Federal…

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” While the right to privacy is not explicitly stated in the Constitution, the Supreme Court (“The Court”) in…

The defendant, Jamshid Muhtorov, was accused in 2012 of providing material support to an Uzbek terrorist group. The American Civil Liberties Union is now seeking to have the evidence thrown out as part of its challenge to the constitutionality of the NSA's programs. Journalists Were Monitored During the George W. Bush administration, the Justice Department's inspector general uncovered widespread abuses in FBI programs that relied on administrative or emergency orders to obtain telephone…

As defined by Roy L. Brooks, Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) is a collection of critical stances against the existing legal order from a race-based point of view. Lolita Buckner Inniss, “Other Spaces” in Legal Pedagogy, 28 Harvard Journal On Racial & Ethnic Justice, 67, 68 (2012). The explicit goal of CRT is racial anti-subordination by means of de-privileging and deconstructing certain legal methodologies. Id. at 70. An example of CRT in action would be using personal stories and anecdotes to…

people of color and the poor. The problems of education inequality are deeply rooted throughout American history. Under slavery, the education of African Americans was forbidden. In Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Southern state laws requiring ‘separate but equal’ racial segregation in public facilities. Facilities were separate, but they were all but equal. Education for Blacks was inferior to that of White…

Student produced school publications are a common creative outlet, providing news and entertainment sources for the student body, by the student body. These publications, whether they are newspapers, newsletters, magazines, or informative flyers, act as a way for school students to express themselves in an educational manner, while also bringing up topics of concern among teens in an informative and helpful way. This was the concept behind Hazelwood East High School 's student run newspaper, The…

The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was enacted into law in 1993 until 2011. The official policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was located at 10 U.S.C. § 654. The act dealt with homosexuality in the military. The act had three main provisions from which an individual serving in the military could be discharged. One of the provisions was that an individual in the military that was proven to have or attempted to engage in homosexual actions would have to be discharged. A second provision was that an…

In the mid 1800’s segregation played a big role in society. All public areas such as restrooms restaurants and schools were separate but not equal like the law said it should be. Even the railways were segregated, there were different railway cars for blacks and whites. The only exception was that nurses working on children of the opposite color were allowed to sit in the different compartments. A penalty of twenty-five dollars or up to twenty days in jail was the consequence for sitting in the…