Tag: constitutions
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Takeaways from Trump’s Supreme Court win: He stays on ballot, but his legal peril is just starting
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Former President Donald Trump scored a clear win at the U.S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled that states don’t have the ability to bar him or any other federal candidates from the ballot under a rarely used constitutional provision that prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office
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France becomes the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right
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French lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a bill to enshrine abortion rights in France’s constitution, making it the only country to explicitly guarantee a woman’s right to voluntarily terminate a pregnancy
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Responding to US, France enshrines abortion access in constitution
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VERSAILLES, France — French lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to codify abortion access in their constitution Monday — a move directly inspired by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “I was inspired by the fact that in the U.S. abortion rights were not in the Constitution,” French Senator Mélanie Vogel, the progressive politician…
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In a historic vote, French lawmakers approve a bill that makes abortion a constitutional right in France
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PARIS (AP) — In a historic vote, French lawmakers approve a bill that makes abortion a constitutional right in France.
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Brian Mulroney, who led Canada into accords with US, dies at 84
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Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister who oversaw the treaty that tore down barriers to trade across North America, has died. He was 84. His daughter, Caroline Mulroney, announced the news on social media. “He died peacefully, surrounded by family,” she wrote. As Canada’s leader from 1984 to 1993, Mulroney built a rapport with…
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National Archives working to clean up red powder dumped on Constitution display by protesters
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Conservationists at the National Archives are still working to clean up the building’s rotunda area after a pair of protesters dumped reddish powder Wednesday afternoon on the display case housing the original U.S. Constitution
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Delay of Senegal’s Feb. 25 presidential election is ruled illegal, leaving date uncertain
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Senegal’s top election authority has voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling in December, saying the moves were unconstitutional
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Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?
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Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion