#statutes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #statutes, aggregated by home.social.
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https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/te-tiriti-duplicity-honoured-abroad-but-dismissed-at-home/ :
'#Aotearoa is facing its sharpest constitutional crisis in modern history, as the government professes adherence to Te Tiriti abroad while dismantling it at home, writes international legal practitioner Nicola #Hoobin.''In signing the landmark New Zealand-#India Free #Trade Agreement in April this year, the current #coalition #government exported the #Treaty yet again, embedding a dedicated “Cultural, Traditional Knowledge and Economic Cooperation Chapter” that requires all actions to be executed in a “manner consistent with the Treaty of #Waitangi”.
'.....the contradiction it presents to domestic strategy creates a fatal blind spot.
'In New Zealand public law, courts frequently look to international treaties signed by the executive as extrinsic evidence to interpret the scope of the Crown’s fiduciary obligations.
'So, for example, if #iwi launch #judicial #reviews against the rollbacks of the 19 targeted #statutes — which cover critical resource management, #biosecurity, and primary #industries — the #FTA texts become powerful legal levers.
'The Crown cannot easily look a High Court judge in the eye and argue that statutory Treaty obligations are vague, unworkable, or a threat to democratic certainty when the executive branch has formally executed international documents telling the UK and EU the exact opposite.
'The explicit acknowledgments in the EU and UK agreements effectively block the Crown from downplaying the constitutional status of Te Tiriti in a domestic courtroom.
'This inescapable double standard shifts the ultimate burden of accountability from global panels directly onto our domestic judiciary.
'Will the New Zealand courts now hold the Crown strictly accountable for its own #international admissions, enforcing the principle that a sovereign government can’t legally define Te Tiriti as a cornerstone of our constitution to the rest of the world while treating it as entirely disposable at home?...' -
https://theconversation.com/us-israeli-attack-on-iran-risks-plunging-the-world-into-turmoil-276818. "Donald #Trump neither tried to obtain #Congressional approval, nor did he pursue a [UNSC] #resolution ahead of these actions. And the attack has come in the middle of talks between #Tehran & #Washington. The facts are clear. This is an #illegal #war, both in terms of US #law & #international #statutes."
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#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump #lawyers to ask #appealscourt to toss $489 million #civilfraud #ruling
Not only did the #Ejudge #conclude Trump violated #civil #statutes, but also "that #defendants had engaged in #criminal, #illegal #conduct."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fraud-appeals-court-489-million/
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#Florida #SchoolBoard #Bans #SasakiAndMiyano #Manga claiming #Inappropriate #content that does not violate #state #statutes.
Sasaki & Miyano is a manga series by #ShouHarusono that follows the #budding #relationship between two #highschool #boys.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://animehunch.com/florida-school-board-bans-sasaki-amp-miyano-manga/
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#NorthCarolina's #Fascist '#DontSayGay' #law and #antitrans #sportsban #statute #challenged by #activists
The #Campaign for #Southern #Equality filed a #complaint with the #DepartmentofEducation, saying these #statutes #violate #federal #law.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NorthCarolina #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
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#State #bans on #MedicallyNecessary #GenderAffirming #HealthCare for #transgender #minors are #unconstitutional
As with #laws forbidding #medication to induce #abortions, the #statutes in #Texas and other #RedStates are entirely about #conservative #politics and not at all about #health and #science
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article279837789.html#storylink=cpy
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#US. #District #Judge #ThomasParker, a #Trump #appointee, #ruled the #dragban “is an #unconstitutional #restriction on #speech.”
The District Attorney wrote in a three-page “#notice” addressed to #BlountPride organizers and distributed to local #law #enforcement, “however if sufficient #evidence is presented to this office that the #unconstitutional #criminal #statutes have been #violated, our office will ethically and justly prosecute these cases in the interest of justice.”
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Carlson mused, “It does seem like #anarcho-#tyranny is one of these ideas, you know, that some political philosopher thought up a long time ago.”
Well, no. The expression belongs to #Sam #Francis—the late #paleoconservative columnist whose disgust with establishment Republicans, managerial elites (of any party), and the idea of a majority-minority America has led him to be widely cited by intellectuals of the #MAGA movement.
Francis’ idea was not that anarcho- tyranny was an age-old problem, but rather that it was the product of an “entirely new form of government” that was “unique in human history.”
In a 1994 article, Francis proclaimed that a first-of-its-kind “Hegelian synthesis” had been created by the upper class as the 20th century closed. This perversion forced the aggrieved masses to live under both anarchy and tyranny at once.
Here, he suggested, was a government imposing on "us" while allowing "them" to do as they pleased.
And the identities of us and them were clear: Francis wrote from a home office that was once #Robert #E. #Lee’s childhood bedroom. He was pushed out of the right-wing Washington Times in 1995 for, essentially, being #too #bigoted. He obsessed over any restrictions that could touch a middle-class white person: #speed #limits, the #tax #code, #gun #laws, and even #child #porn #statutes.
But he often ignored other oppressions enforced by the state: #slavery, #Jim #Crow, and generations of deliberate #economic #dispossession.
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Kid is going to kindergarten in #florida and I got an email from the school about #textbook adoption.
I admit I haven't been paying as close attention to anything other than the news articles-- but as we know the real stuff is in the #statutes, not the #media.
Can those familiar with how these are being implemented/enforced please help me with responding to this the email from the school.
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cc: #blackmastodon #queer #boost #DeSantis #school #equality #transrights #queerrights #gayrights -
#LGBTQ #teachers should be #celebrated, not #demonized.
The #Fascist ‘#DontSayGay’ #law, other #statutes in #Florida have devastating impact
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #Homophobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05/23/lgbtq-teachers-should-be-celebrated-not-demonized/
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Meet The #Judges Sitting For The #SupremeCourt #SameSexMarriage #Hearing
The #petitioners seeking to move the #court for a broader interpretation of #marriage have challenged legislation governing it. The petitioners are challenging the #HinduMarriageAct, the #SpecialMarriageAct, the #ForeignMarriageAct, and the #CitizenshipAct for a more liberal reading of these #statutes to give same-sex marriages the same status #heterosexual #marriages enjoy in #India.
https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/supreme-court-same-sex-marriages-india/
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Turns out #GPT4 helps understand/simplify statutory language:
In #lawschool, my prof — a non-technical person — suggested breaking down #statutes into IF THEN statements.
As a litigator/lawyer, I've found the practice very helpful — helping me (and clients + courts + juries) to better conceptualize [poorly drafted/structured] statutes.
GPT-4 does really well at this! (See screenshots)
P.S. @lexpedite , have you experimented with this?
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If you work for an agency you should always read a copy of their #budget, their #statutes, and #regulations. Outside the current political environment that’s all they care about at the top.
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New study: 48% of 204 states & jurisdictions do NOT have a "minimally viable" #OpenAccess database of their #statutes.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqac032A database of statutes was considered minimally viable when it was "(i) provided online & free for all without…registration or payment, (ii) searchable [by] statutes’ titles, (iii) searchable [by] full texts…, (iv) provided in a reusable text-based format & (v) comprehensive in its coverage of at least the laws currently in force."
