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Are There U.S. Laws or Presidential Actions That Cannot Be Overturned by Successor Presidents?
In U.S. history, presidents have often enacted laws or established policies that were intended to have long-term effects, sometimes beyond their own term in office. However, it seems that successor ...
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Does Bangladesh have something like Posse Comitatus Act?
I'm curious what's behind the reported Bangladesh army refusal to shoot protesters (unlike the police there). BTW, the government had declared an "indefinite nationwide curfew" a couple of ...
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Who is the U.S. official with the highest position within the U.S. government who has dual citizenship?
Who is the U.S. official with the highest position within the U.S. government who has dual citizenship? I was thinking of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I am not sure if he's the highest ranked, and I am ...
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What is the first country to implement a formalized dress code for its legislative body?
The US Senate has passed a resolution formalizing business attire as
the proper dress code for the floor of the chamber by unanimous
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Do Black Americans truly face harsher consequences for the same crime as white people?
Do Black people in America face harsher consequences for the same crimes committed by white people?
This will likely need some stats of reference if you can find them.
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What is a "cruel and unusual" punishment?
Earlier in July, a California judge struck the death penalty as unconstitutional because it is "cruel and unusual." However, if the death penalty actually was what's legally defined as a "cruel and ...
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What clothing is included in Tajikstan's recent sumptuary law?
The government of Tajikistan recently passed a law imposing restrictions on the types of clothing that are legal within the country.
This law has generally been described as a "hijab ban," ...
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How did George W. Bush make torture legal and what did Obama undo?
In the George W. Bush era, how did government organizations get away with using torture? Obviously it was illegal. What legislation did they pass, and what did Obama undo? In this article, it talks ...
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Are there laws against torture in the US?
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists, according to a poll.
Are there laws against torture in the US? If yes, what is the ...
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Why are South Korean content/censorship laws so strict?
I am from South Korea, and in my country, graphic content laws are extremely strict - so strictly enforced that the following events had happened:
19+ filter on Google and YouTube
Government blocked ...
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Is there a US and UK equivalent of India's AFSPA act?
The Indian AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Protection Act) protects Indian soldiers from nuisance from humanitarian associations, among other benefits.
Is there any US and UK equivalent law for ...
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Is it legal in the US to offer a candidate money to drop off a senate race to run against another candidate?
Hill Harper just tweeted this:
I didn’t intend for a private phone call to turn public. But now that
it has, here’s the truth.
One of AIPAC’s biggest donors offered $20m if I dropped out of the
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Supreme court case for disqualifying from rights
In a discussion I had recently about gun rights, someone brought up a United States Supreme Court case in which it was determined that an individual could become disqualified from particular rights. ...
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Why is Trump's FEC filing case different from Hillary Clinton's?
As I understand it, the charges against Trump are brought by the State of New York regarding a falsification of filing records by a campaign which was determined to have been made to influence (...
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Can campaign promises be enforced by a contract, or has it ever happened they were?
A common problem where I live, and I assume everywhere, for at least the past 4 decades (and I assume it has been a problem for centuries), is that politicians make a lot of campaign promises which ...
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Are intrusions within a foreign embassy considered an act of war?
Are intrusions within a foreign embassy considered an act of war? Let's say that the U.S. breaks into the Chinese embassy in New York and decides to arrest a criminal whom the Chinese government had ...
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What would have to happen for the recently passed "reform" bill in Taiwan to become law?
The Guardian's May 29, 2024 Taiwan passes controversial reform bill after violence and protests summarizes the current situation.
The bills were driven by the two major opposition parties, the ...
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What purpose do anti-Polygamy laws serve?
Question title says it all really. Polygamy is illegal in most US states, here in Britain and also no doubt many countries elsewhere, but why? What are the political motivators for this, especially in ...
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Why does the EU find the foreign agent law in Georgia against their values?
The draft law would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "foreign agents".
The EU, which gave Georgia candidate status in December, has ...
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Do originalist U.S. Supreme Court justices tend to be politically right-leaning?
Is there significant overlap between originalism and political conservatism?
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Why do many liberal countries criminalize polygamy? [duplicate]
Polygamy is a crime in many liberal countries (such as all 27 countries of the European Union). It is theoretically victimless, however. Why then would a liberal country criminalize it?
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Can Congress make certain construction projects immune from litigation?
In an article about the Joe Manchin pipeline deal I've noticed an interesting detail:
The provisions, according to the summary, will “require the relevant agencies to take all necessary actions to ...
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Why there seem to be no strict rules related to non-profit organization "overhead" in the US?
According to Investopedia, an organization can benefit from the non-profit tax status if it satisfies several conditions:
have a purpose within a designated list
an annual exemption form must be ...
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What do people mean by saying that safe storage laws are unconstitutional?
Safe storage laws are laws that require guns to be stored in safes which cannot be opened immediately. They are there to supposedly reduce suicide and to reduce the chances of your own gun being used ...
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Are there countries, besides Israel, that declare themselves nation-states for a particular ethnic group?
The Israeli Basic Law, controversially passed in 2018, specifies that
The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, in which it fulfills its natural, cultural, religious, and ...
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How effective are lawyers and NGOs (like Soldiers Mothers, Peaceplea and Conscript's School) in securing the rights of the mobilized in Russia?
After the start of the first mobilizations in Russia, a couple of organisations were created to help mobilized people to either escape military service or acquire them non-combat roles:
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Where can I find the final text of EU Deal for Double Food Standards?
This Politico article argues about the EU deal related to Double Food Standards:
After fighting long and hard to reach an agreement, the European
Commission passed a set of rules last week that ...
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In the US, are there laws that discriminate against men the same way as in other countries?
In many countries of the world, men are discriminated against according to at least part of the following points:
Army draft
Retirement age
Criminal punishment (either stronger punishment for male ...
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Why President's power to grant pardon to punishment or sentence are dealt separately in drafted language of article 72 of Constitution of India?
Constitution of India
Article 72 : [Title: Power of President to grant pardons, etc., and to suspend, remit or commute sentences in certain cases]
Sub Article (1) : The President shall have the power ...
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Could free speech be absolute? [closed]
Since the past few days, I have been spending some time on X (Formerly Twitter). I saw people being openly racist and calling it their "right to free speech". I personally don't give much ...
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Irreplaceability of Indian Reservation Law in constitution using Game Theory
Just to give the context: My underlying opinion here is that caste-based reservation should be abolished. And if any form of reservation is present it should be solely based on economic background.
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How does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) differ from Massachusetts health care reform (Romneycare)?
These two laws at face value have many similarities, but it is difficult to spot the differences. How are these two bills alike, and how are they different?
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Can a country declare all its mercenaries as its soldiers?
Ukraine hopes to save foreign soldiers sentenced to death, says lawmaker
Britain has condemned the sentencing of the fighters as an "egregious breach" of the Geneva Convention, under which ...
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Are there democratic countries that restrict offensive speech?
Are there (preferably democratic) countries that restrict speech that causes offense? I'm mostly interested in the following categories:
Personal offense.
Offense of the king, president or any public ...
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What were the negative effects that private companies had to face due to a lack of legal status in China?
In 2002, China promulgated the SME Promotion Law, which emphasizes
SMEs’ scientific and technological innovations and upgrading. In 2004,
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For countries without written constitutions, what power does the judiciary have to control laws passed by government?
In countries, such as the US, with written constitutions, courts can strike down laws they consider to be unconstitutional. For example, a law that prohibited people saying "hello" would be ...
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How can Quebec restrict immigration if it's part of Canada?
When the government announced its aggressive targets of up to 500,000
new immigrants a year, the province of Quebec, which gets to set its
own immigration limits, said it would not take in more than ...
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Do a majority of European countries accept LGBTI+ asylum seekers?
According to this paper:
Even so, since 2002 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) has been working on issues related to gender identity and
sexual orientation through the ...
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Are any countries other than France considering making abortion a constitutional right?
According to Today Online:
PARIS — France is set to enshrine the right to abortion in its
constitution Monday (Mar 4) at a rare parliamentary congress at the
Palace of Versailles after the bill ...
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How did the Colorado Supreme Court justify extending Section 3 of 14th amendment to the presidency? How did the minority opinion argue against this?
The NYTimes' December 19/20, 2023 LIVE: Trump Ballot Ruling; Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules includes the following:
The Colorado court’s lengthy ruling ...
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Which European countries have laws that closely resemble the Russian law against discrediting the armed forces?
European countries have a more restrictive interpretation of free speech than the US in some regards, e.g. many criminalize Holocaust denial etc.
Are there some European countries whose laws (in that ...
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Why didn't a conservative majority SCOTUS repeal Roe v. Wade before 2022?
I'm ignorant of the judicial branch, and I have a question, which I would like answered irrespective of the "pro-choice" or "pro-life" debate and focused on the workings of the ...
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How many people are in favor of legalizing marijuana, but have no intention of ever smoking it?
I know someone (an American) who supports legalization of marijuana, but he has no intention of ever smoking it. (He mildly disapproves of it, but doesn't think its consequences are severe enough to ...
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What is the relationship between Gov't economic policies/performance & collective action
Based on my reading of polsci and econ literature, I believe there is an extensive literature studying how collective action (e.g., through labor strikes or occupation groups) can influence economic ...
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Which countries have jurisdiction to investigate the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines?
Swedish officials said Wednesday that they have decided to close their
investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the underwater
Nord Stream gas pipelines which were built to carry Russian ...
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What is the distribution of illegal acts defined by the Computer Misuse Act actually done by children in the UK?
The UK National Crime Agency has annonced that one in five children are being criminalised by the Computer Misuse Act (CMA). They warn of life changing consequences for the children involved.
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Does any legislation permit three or more legal parents?
In The Netherlands, a group of eight political parties (representing 75% of the 2012 parliament and still >60% of the 2017 parliament according to current polls) has pledged, following an earlier ...
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Did President Trump ever answer questions on obstruction to Mueller?
The FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, overseen by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, has just finished. Now at some point in the course of the investigation, Mueller’s team sent President Trump a series ...
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Is there any Western country that may confiscate all personal property as criminal punishment to white collar crimes?
Tian Huiyu, former president of China Merchants Bank, was given the
death penalty with a two-year reprieve for crimes including taking
bribes, abuse of power, using undisclosed information for trading,...
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Is there political pressure coming from developed countries against developing countries that don't have a relaxed software patent law system?
In China it used to be difficult to patent software without a hardware element, but recently they relaxed their laws to allow for a lot of patent software being claimed by private companies. Now, I am ...
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