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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right to have an abortion prior to the point of fetal viability.
The landmark Supreme Court case has been overruled. Here, we explain what the court case means, what it accomplished, and what might happen next.
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) A Texas law that criminalizes consensual same-sex sexual conduct furthers no legitimate state interest and violates homosexuals' right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision invalidates all of the remaining sodomy laws in the United States. Goodridge v.
In a 2015 TIME interview of over 50 legal scholars, University of California, Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Cornell Law Professor Steven Shiffrin both named Rodriguez the "worst Supreme Court decision since 1960," with Chemerinsky noting that the decision has "played a major role in creating the separate and unequal schools ...
Proposition 8 was a referendum for a state constitutional amendment placed on the ballot by the Texas legislature and approved by the voters at the November 7, 1972 general election. The measure amended sections 4, 22, and 23 of the Texas Constitution, changing the length of the terms of statewide elected offices in Texas from two years to four ...
Ahead of November, Vice President Kamala Harris pushes to revive the stalled John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a law aimed at preventing discriminatory practices during the voting process.
A Latino civic group is calling for an inquiry into what it says were civil rights violations committed by Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Election Integrity Unit.
Texas had twenty-four seats in the House, up one from the 1960s, apportioned according to the 1970 United States census. [1] Texas Democrats maintained their governmental trifecta after the 1970 elections. [2] This gave the Democrats full control over the redistricting process. [3] The Texas Legislature enacted its redistricting plan in 1971. [4]