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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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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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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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Explaining the yesterday vote in US House on Mayorkas imeachment [duplicate]
I read in today news the following sentence:
Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah), the chair of the GOP conference, flipped
his vote to “no” seconds before the vote closed, a procedural maneuver
that allows the ...
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Was there any talk in the U.S. to reform the legal system and not rely on juries during patent litigation cases?
The legal processes and structures vary from one country to another. In some jurisdictions, patent disputes are resolved by specialized patent courts or judges without the involvement of a jury. The ...
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How can the US lead the ally group for protection force for the Red Sea if they are not members of the Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982? [closed]
The US had not signed the UN Convention 1982, how their leading in this role (Operation Prosperity Guardian) can be legal?
They didn't ratify the Convention, they didn't ratify any agreements. Thay ...
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Are there court proceedings records detailing why polygamy has been made illegal (in the U.S.)?
Polygamy (plural marriages) is illegal in all 50 U.S. states and outlying territories.
I would like to know the legal justification for why this is. Are there records showing how judges interpreted ...
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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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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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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
U.S. ...
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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 are the factors that would make it difficult for the U.S. government to block Huawei's patent lawsuits in the U.S.?
https://rollcall.com/2019/06/19/sen-rubio-wants-to-stop-huawei-from-filing-u-s-patent-lawsuits/
Sen. Marco Rubio wants to make sure that the Chinese
telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies can’t ...
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24th (Poll tax prohibition) scope?
When it comes to the 24th Amendment there is view academic, judicial, and on,one resources (at least that I can find). The 24th amendment reads:
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States ...
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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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Can the U.S. do anything to block China's ability to block merger deals?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-walk-away-54-bln-acquisition-tower-semiconductor-sources-2023-08-16/
NEW YORK, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) scrapped its $5.4
billion deal to buy ...
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