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Topic: Justice John Paul Stevens

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“ There is no question about the legitimacy or importance of a state's interest in counting only eligible voters' votes, ”
Indiana voter ID law upheld by high court
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“ The court operates with a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel when it strikes down one of Congress' most significant efforts to regulate the role that corporations and unions play in electoral politics, ”
States grapple with Supreme Court ruling
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“ The concept of a 'wall' of separation between church and state is a useful metaphor but is not an accurate description of the practical aspects of the relationship that in fact exists, ”
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Governors get mangers under the Christmas tree
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“ If a non-discriminatory law is supported by valid neutral justifications, those justifications should not be disregarded simply because partisan interests may have provided one motivation for the votes of individual legislators. ... The application of the statute to the vast majority of Indiana voters is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting 'the integrity and reliability of the electoral process.' ”
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Saving Ariz.'s immigration law
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“ The Constitution assigns to the states the primary responsibility for determining the manner of selecting the presidential electors, ... ”
Stevens knew his own mind in Bush vs. Gore
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“ Even assuming that aspects of the remedial scheme (the recount allowed by the Florida Supreme Court) might ultimately be found to violate the equal protection clause, I could not subscribe to the majority's disposition of the case. As the majority explicitly holds, once a state legislature determines to select electors through a popular vote, the right to have one's vote counted is of constitutional stature. As the majority further acknowledges, Florida law holds that all ballots that reveal the intent of the voter constitute valid votes. Recognizing these principles, the majority nonetheless orders the termination of the contest proceeding before all such votes have been tabulated. Under their own reasoning, the appropriate course of action would be to remand (send down to the lower court) to allow more specific procedures for implementing the Legislature's uniform general standard to be established. ”
Stevens knew his own mind in Bush vs. Gore
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“ A prompt answer from this court will expedite the termination of this litigation and determine whether other similar cases may be prosecuted. ”
Court rejects civil-rights era murder case
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“ Indiana's 'Voter ID Law' threatens to impose non-trivial burdens on the voting right of tens of thousands of the state's citizens ... and a significant percentage of those individuals are likely to be deterred from voting ... (Citing the balancing test in a 1992 ruling) a state may not burden the right to vote merely by invoking abstract interests, be they legitimate ... or even compelling, but must make a particular, factual showing that threats to its interests outweigh the particular impediments it has imposed. The state has made no such justification here, and as to some aspects of its law, it has hardly even tried. ”
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Challenge to Ariz. law may be shaky
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“ The Constitution mandates that the government remain secular, rather than affiliating itself with religious beliefs or institutions, precisely in order to avoid discriminating against citizens on the basis of their religious faiths. Thus, the claim that prohibiting government from celebrating Christmas as a religious holiday discriminates against Christians in favor of non-adherents must fail, since it contradicts the fundamental premise of the establishment clause itself. ”
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Governors get mangers under the Christmas tree
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“ If there is to be a new procedure in which the president will play a different role in determining the final text of what may 'become a law,' such change must come not by legislation but through the amendment procedures set forth in Article V of the Constitution. ”
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Like the South, will line item veto rise again?
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