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LGBTQ rights in Illinois. Illinois is seen as one of the most progressive states in the U.S. in regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights and often viewed as one of the most liberal states in the Midwestern United States. [2][3] Same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1962, after Illinois became the first U.S ...
Northwestern University (JD) Signature. Patrick Joseph Quinn Jr. (born December 16, 1948) is an American politician who served as the 41st governor of Illinois from 2009 to 2015. A Democrat, Quinn began his career as an activist by founding the Coalition for Political Honesty. [1] He was elected lieutenant governor in 2002 and served under ...
Aguilar (2013), the Illinois Supreme Court summed up the central Second Amendment findings in McDonald: [245] Two years later, in McDonald v. City of Chicago , 561 U.S. 742, ___, 130 S. Ct. 3020, 3050 (2010), the Supreme Court held that the second amendment right recognized in Heller is applicable to the states through the due process clause of ...
In Illinois v. Perkins, 496 U.S. 292 (1990), the United States Supreme Court held that undercover officers are not required to give suspects a Miranda warning prior to asking questions that may elicit incriminating responses. In this case, an undercover agent posed as an inmate and carried on a 35-minute conversation with another inmate that he ...
The purposive approach (sometimes referred to as purposivism, [1] purposive construction, [2] purposive interpretation, [3] or the modern principle in construction) [4] is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common law courts interpret an enactment (a statute, part of a statute, or a clause of a constitution) within the context of the law's purpose.
Daniel Kálmán Biss[1] (born August 27, 1977) [2] is an American mathematician and politician serving as mayor of Evanston, Illinois. He previously served as a member of both the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate. Prior to pursuing a political career, Biss was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of ...
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [1][2] Beginning in 2013, the decision was cited as precedent in U.S. federal court ...
Rahm Israel Emanuel (/ rɑːm /; born November 29, 1959) [1] is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives for three terms from 2003 to 2009. He was the White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to ...