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On November 30, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub. L. 103–159, amending the 1968 Gun Control Act. This "Brady Bill" required the United States Attorney General to establish an electronic or phone-based background check to prevent firearms sales to persons already prohibited from owning firearms.
The Legal Tender Cases were two 1871 United States Supreme Court cases that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money. The two cases were Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis. The U.S. federal government had issued paper money known as United States Notes during the American Civil War, pursuant to the terms of the Legal Tender Act of 1862.
A common misperception is that the Supreme Court is the only court that may determine constitutionality; the power is exercised even by the inferior courts. But only Supreme Court decisions are binding across the nation. Decisions of a Court of Appeals, for instance, are binding only in the circuit over which the court has jurisdiction.
The United States Supreme Court should change the name to "Donald J. Trump's Supreme Court." Robert H Monz, West Palm Beach Justices simply punted the Colorado case
It would permanently preserve the Court’s independence; promote the rule of law; and preserve checks and balances on abuse of power. Our Constitution is silent on the size of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court rejected a business-backed challenge that could have scuttled the federal agency ... “Although there may be other constitutional checks on Congress’ authority to create and ...
Based on these grounds, the NRA told the Court "the whole Statute must be voided." [citation needed] In its 1997 decision in the case, the Supreme Court ruled that the provision of the Brady Act that compelled state and local law enforcement officials to perform the background checks was unconstitutional on 10th amendment grounds. The Court ...
The Supreme Court made a mistake for the ages when it granted ... rein in immunity and assure a sterner dose of constitutional checks and balances to the most powerful person in the world, the U.S ...