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The Act's congressional sponsors stated, "[T]he bill amends the U.S. Code to make explicit what has been understood under federal law for over 200 years; that a marriage is the legal union of a man and a woman as husband and wife, and a spouse is a husband or wife of the opposite sex."
In 2019, a Virginia law that required partners to declare their race on marriage applications was challenged in court. [50] Within a week the state's Attorney-General directed that the question is to become optional, [ 51 ] and in October 2019, a U.S. District judge ruled the practice unconstitutional and barred Virginia from enforcing the ...
Holder, Thomas was the sole dissenter, voting to throw out Section Five of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Section Five requires states with a history of racial voter discrimination—mostly states from the old South—to gain Justice Department clearance when revising election procedures. Congress had reauthorized Section Five in 2006 for another ...
Chariton (/ ˈ ʃ ɛər ɪ t ən / SHAIR-it-ən) [4] is a city in, and the county seat of, Lucas County, Iowa, United States. [5] The population was 4,193 at the 2020 census. [6] Lucas is the primary distribution center for and the former corporate headquarters of the Hy-Vee supermarket chain.
Formally, he says, the piece consists of two parts of nearly equal length, the end of the first section being bars 24–28. [4] The piece uses interval cycles, "inherently non-diatonic symmetrical elements". [5]
In 1976, a law was adopted which enabled abortions up to 12 weeks. After Germany's reunification , despite the legal status of abortion in former East Germany , a compromise was reached which deemed most abortions up to 12 weeks legal, but this law was struck down by the Federal Constitutional Court and amended to only remove the punishment in ...
The United States has a highly developed mixed economy. [40] [41] [42] It is the world's largest economy by nominal GDP and second largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). [43]As of 2024, it has the world's sixth highest nominal GDP per capita and eighth highest GDP per capita by PPP). [10]
Harlan is a city and the county seat of Shelby County, Iowa, along the West Nishnabotna River. The population was 4,893 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]