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Annual Easter Egg Hunt Scheduled at Constitution Park

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CUMBERLAND, MD — The City of Cumberland Parks and Recreation Department is excited to announce the return of the annual Easter Egg Hunt. The festive event is set for Friday, March 29, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Constitution Park, welcoming children aged 12 and under. This family-friendly activity offers an opportunity for children to meet and take photos with the Easter Bunny, so attendees are encouraged to bring their devices for pictures. To ensure a fair and enjoyable experience for all, the egg hunt will be organized into four age divisions: 3 years and under, 4-5 years old,

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Analysis-TikTok bill sets up fight over free speech protections of U.S. Constitution

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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers want to force a sale of TikTok by its Chinese owner or ban it from app stores, which legal experts said would set up a showdown with the social media company over the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment free speech protections. While the bill itself does not say anything about speech, the proposal has alarmed civil rights advocates, TikTok and users of the app, all of whom could sue to block the proposal if it becomes law. Legal experts said opponents of the law could argue it infringes free speech by preventing users from

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Moody’s and Fitch say Chile’s polarization, social demands persist after constitution vote

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SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A vote in Chile to reject a new constitution on Sunday reduced regulatory uncertainty but does not resolve social discontent or political divisions, rating agencies said on Monday. The result closes the rewrite process but “highlights ongoing political divisions and social polarization and could increase fiscal pressures,” said a report by Fitch Ratings. “Political uncertainty will continue to weigh on investment in key sectors and on economic growth, while social spending is likely to increase to address some of the demands that led to the constitutional reform proposals.” Chile is the world’s largest copper producer and the

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Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke Delivers Opening Statement Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government

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Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Good morning, Chairman Roy, Ranking Member Scanlon, Ranking Member Nadler and distinguished members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Protecting civil rights is essential to the Department of Justice. In fact, the department was created in 1870, in part, to confront the Ku Klux Klan and others who used terror and violence to prevent Black people from exercising their civil and Constitutional rights. Nearly one hundred years later, Congress gave new energy to this work by enacting legislation that established the Civil Rights Division and empowered it to

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‘Not The Way The Constitution Works’: Medical, Science Advocacy Groups Want SCOTUS To Protect Regulatory State’s Power

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‘Not The Way The Constitution Works’: Medical, Science Advocacy Groups Want SCOTUS To Protect Regulatory State’s Power Katelynn Richardson on October 29, 2023 Medical, environmental and scientific advocacy groups are urging the Supreme Court to protect the power of regulatory agencies, arguing that agency experts do a better job interpreting Congress’ policy goals than the courts. Groups warned in friend-of-the-court briefs that the Supreme Court could limit agencies’ ability to use expertise to make regulatory decisions if it overturns a 1984 ruling establishing Chevron deference, a legal doctrine that says courts should defer to agency interpretations of statutes when the

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‘Violates The US Constitution’: Liberals Slam New Mexico Gun Ban

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‘Violates The US Constitution’: Liberals Slam New Mexico Gun Ban Nick Pope on September 9, 2023 Two prominent liberals ripped New Mexico’s Friday public health decree temporarily banning non-law enforcement personnel from carrying firearms. Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu of California and David Hogg, a Parkland shooting survivor and prominent gun control advocate, took to Twitter to criticize the public health order. On Friday, Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham enacted the order, which bans individuals from carrying firearms in certain areas of the state for 30 days regardless of their permit status. “I support gun safety laws,” Lieu wrote,

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More than half of Australians oppose Indigenous panel in constitution, poll shows

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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than half of Australians would reject the inclusion of an Indigenous advisory panel in the constitution, a newspaper poll showed on Monday, as the government struggles to lift support for the landmark proposal ahead of a vote in about six weeks. The latest newspoll conducted for The Australian newspaper showed support for a “Voice to Parliament”, an Indigenous committee to advise Parliament on matters affecting them, continued to slide with only 38% of voters intending to support it, while around 53% will be opposing the proposal. Australia is facing a six-week campaign before

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Missouri Republican Launches Bid To Enshrine Abortion Exceptions In State Constitution

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Missouri Republican Launches Bid To Enshrine Abortion Exceptions In State Constitution Lillian Tweten on August 30, 2023 A former GOP political operative filed six petitions on Wednesday to create exceptions to Missouri’s abortion law, the Missouri Independent reported. Jamie Corley, who worked for three Republican politicians in Congress, submitted the petitions to create an amendment to the state constitution that would allow abortion exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities and the health and safety of the mother, according to the Missouri Independent. Each petition advocated for similar measures, although only three of the six limited the abortion timeline to

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Swing-State Dems Launch Bid To Enshrine Abortion In State Constitution

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Swing-State Dems Launch Bid To Enshrine Abortion In State Constitution Kate Anderson on August 8, 2023 Abortion activists are set to file paperwork for a constitutional amendment in Arizona Tuesday to ensure abortion access is protected in the state, according to The Washington Post. Arizona for Abortion Access, a political action committee, is sending the legislation to Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to try and get the amendment on the ballot for the upcoming November 2024 election, according to the Post. The initiative is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, NARAL

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Trump Lawyer Calls Jan. 6 Indictment A ‘Direct Attack On The Constitution’

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Trump Lawyer Calls Jan. 6 Indictment A ‘Direct Attack On The Constitution’ Harold Hutchison on August 1, 2023 Special Counsel’s Jack Smith’s indictment against former President Donald Trump over Jan. 6 is a “direct attack on our constitution,” an attorney representing Trump said Tuesday. Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election. Trump was ordered to appear before a federal magistrate Thursday. “I’m concentrating on the First Amendment issues,” attorney John Lauro told Fox News host Bret Baier. “I’m concentrating on this case, which is a direct attack on

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Justice Alito Says ‘No Provision’ In The Constitution Allows Congress To Regulate SCOTUS

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Justice Alito Says ‘No Provision’ In The Constitution Allows Congress To Regulate SCOTUS Katelynn Richardson on July 28, 2023 Justice Samuel Alito said “no provision” of the Constitution allows Congress to regulate the Supreme Court in a Wall Street Journal interview published Friday. Alito’s comments come in the face of Democrats’ escalating efforts to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court following reports alleging justices violated ethics rules, which Republicans have sharply criticized as an effort to delegitimize and intimidate the Supreme Court. Just last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to advance Democratic Rhode

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Lawsuit Claims Red State Banning CCP-Linked TikTok Violates The Constitution

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Lawsuit Claims Red State Banning CCP-Linked TikTok Violates The Constitution Katelynn Richardson on July 13, 2023 A group of academics filed a lawsuit against Texas Thursday for banning TikTok, whose parent company is tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on state-issued devices and networks, arguing the ban infringes on First Amendment rights. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed the lawsuit Thursday on behalf of a group of academics and professors, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, who say the ban has infringed on academic freedoms by bringing planned research projects and classroom discussions on TikTok to

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BETSY MCCAUGHEY: Biden Trashes The Constitution To Muzzle His Critics

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BETSY MCCAUGHEY: Biden Trashes The Constitution To Muzzle His Critics Betsy McCaughey on July 13, 2023 President Joe Biden has played his cards: all bluff, no aces. Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit accused of what Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty calls “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” Yet the appeal Biden filed on Monday is devoid of even one winning argument in his own defense. Count on it to go nowhere. Biden’s been caught red-handed violating the U.S. Constitution. On July 4, Judge Doughty announced that the evidence produced so far indicates

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JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: Biden Tramples The Constitution With Another Aimless, Endless War

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JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: Biden Tramples The Constitution With Another Aimless, Endless War Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on July 4, 2023 Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional, legal and moral requirements that must first be met before war is waged? Can the president and Congress dupe the public? These questions should be central to the debate over the U.S. involvement in Ukraine. What debate? The media are mouthing what the CIA is telling them, and only a few websites and podcasts — my own, “Judging Freedom” on You

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TREVOR DENNING: America Without The Constitution? It Almost Happened

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TREVOR DENNING: America Without The Constitution? It Almost Happened Trevor Denning on July 1, 2023 Every few months, it seems that the vast majority of Twitter is suddenly comprised of experts in US Constitutional law. Then we slip into a morass of sticky arguments about the role of the government: “Do we want more freedom, or more safety?” “More regulation or less?” “Is it time for a national divorce?” What we may not realize is that these questions have existed in one form or another from the moment of our founding. While I would never claim to be expert in

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JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: How The Unaccountable Feds Ignore The Constitution To Spy On Whoever They Want

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JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: How The Unaccountable Feds Ignore The Constitution To Spy On Whoever They Want Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on May 30, 2023 “We may even cheer on those who ask us to … forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear. … And rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.” — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, May 18, 2023 In response to President Richard Nixon’s

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‘They Could Not Win At The Ballot Box’: DeSantis Says Corporations Seeking To Do ‘End Run Around’ Constitution

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‘They Could Not Win At The Ballot Box’: DeSantis Says Corporations Seeking To Do ‘End Run Around’ Constitution Harold Hutchison on May 13, 2023 Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida accused major corporations of trying to do an “end run around” the Constitution in a Saturday speech in Iowa, an early primary state for Republicans. “We also need to restore integrity to the operations of our businesses, particularly large corporations. They have indulged in this idea that being woke is somehow their responsibility,” DeSantis said at the Feenstra Family Picnic near Sioux City, Iowa. “They have indulged in concepts like

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‘We Have To Live Up To The Constitution’: Trump Clarifies Comments On ‘Termination Of All Rules’

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‘We Have To Live Up To The Constitution’: Trump Clarifies Comments On ‘Termination Of All Rules’ Harold Hutchison on May 10, 2023 Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Americans had to “live up to the Constitution” during a town hall on CNN. “When you talked about the 2020 election results in the past you once suggested terminating the Constitution. Do you stand by those comments?” CNN host Kaitlan Collins asked Trump. WATCH: “I’m not talking about terminating the Constitution. I’m talking about cherishing the Constitution. The Constitution says it was supposed to have legal and well-maintained and well-looked at

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JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: Does The FBI Even Believe In The Constitution?

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JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO: Does The FBI Even Believe In The Constitution? Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on May 8, 2023 Last week, FBI officials boasted that in 2022 their agents had spied on only 120,000 Americans without search warrants! Under the Constitution, that number should be ZERO. This revelation is supposed to give members of Congress comfort that the folks we have hired to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution are in fact doing so. In reality, the FBI and their cousins at the National Security Agency continue to assault and violate a core freedom protected by the Constitution —

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Chile’s voters set to take big step in constitution redraft 2.0

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By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chileans will vote to elect 50 constitutional advisers on Sunday, a major step towards rewriting the constitution, after voters overwhelmingly rejected a first attempt in a plebiscite last September to replace the dictatorship-era charter. The so-called Constitutional Council that voters are set to elect will work as of June on the new constitution, based on a preliminary draft prepared by a commission of 24 experts that Congress appointed in March. But some of the 15 million eligible voters shrug when asked about the do-over after the failed push last year to rewrite

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‘Squad’ Democrats Revive Push For ‘Equal Rights Amendment’ To Constitution

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‘Squad’ Democrats Revive Push For ‘Equal Rights Amendment’ To Constitution Katelynn Richardson on March 28, 2023 Democratic Reps. Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley launched a new Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Caucus during a press conference Tuesday. The caucus is the latest attempt to revive the ERA, which fell three states short of ratification after Congress passed it in 1972. It also marks 100 years since the ERA was first introduced in 1923, Bush and Pressley said in a press release ahead of the event, according to The Hill. “With women and LGBTQ folks facing daily sexism, pregnancy discrimination, pay inequity,

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Macron backs enshrining right to abortion in French constitution

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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he backed including the right to abortion in the constitution, a move he said would send a signal of solidarity to women around the world. Macron made the announcement on International Women’s Day at a ceremony to honour Tunisian-born French feminist and lawyer Gisele Halimi, who died in 2020 aged 93. She was a staunch defender of the right to abortion. “I hope the strength of this message helps us change our constitution and enshrine in it the freedom of women to seek an abortion … so that nothing can

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’State-Funded Religion:’ Attorney General Says Faith-Based Charter Schools Violate Oklahoma Constitution

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’State-Funded Religion:’ Attorney General Says Faith-Based Charter Schools Violate Oklahoma Constitution Kate Anderson on February 23, 2023 Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond rescinded his predecessor’s decision to allow publicly funded religious charter schools Thursday, according to a letter sent to the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board (SWCSB). In December 2022, former state Attorney General John O’Connor declared that charters for religious schools were legal in the state of Oklahoma, according to his opinion. Nearly three months later, Drummond repealed O’Connor’s order in a letter to Rebecca Wilkinson, executive director of SWCSB, this week. In the two-page opinion, Drummond calls the

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Virginia Senate Ousts Youngkin Appointee Who Defended Constitution From ‘Racist’ Accusations

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Virginia Senate Ousts Youngkin Appointee Who Defended Constitution From ‘Racist’ Accusations Reagan Reese on February 8, 2023 The Virginia Senate voted to remove a Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed member of the State Board of Education on Tuesday after she noted that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution do not “enshrine slavery.” In July, Youngkin appointed Suparna Dutta, the co-founder of the Coalition for TJ (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology), a group fighting against race-based admissions policies in schools, to the Virginia Board of Education, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Virginia Democratic Sen. Ghazala Hashmi introduced an

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Constitution Could Still Include Right To Abortion After Dobbs, Federal Judge Says

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Constitution Could Still Include Right To Abortion After Dobbs, Federal Judge Says Katelynn Richardson on February 6, 2023 U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly suggested Monday that the constitution may include the right to an abortion, despite the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Kollar-Kotelly’s comments come in the context of the ongoing case against pro-life activists indicted on FACE Act charges last March for allegedly creating a blockade that prevented access to a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic. In their motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, attorneys for defendant Lauren Handy argue that

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