constitutionality

So, I learned something tonight. Remember a while back when the Nashville City Council passed an ordinance tightly restricting panhandling? Well, even though it passed council, it did not pass city lawyers on grounds of constitutionality. So, the ordinance never became law. Well, folks, I don't recall that very important point making the newspapers, or any press media. BTW it was a council

Presidential race generates more interest

By JANELL ROSS Staff Writer

In restoring the voting rights to convicted felons after they've successfully completed their sentence, society tells them they've been re-accepted into the community. This is critically important for felons who truly do want to make the changes in their lives they believe will lead them to a "normal" existence.

The U.S. Supreme Court has released its opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana, regarding the constitutionality of sentencing a person to death for the rape of a child in which no murder occurs. Patrick Kennedy is the first person in the country in the modern era of the death penalty to receive such a sentence.

P.J. Tobia on the activism Councilman Eric Crafton’s English First referendum petition drive has engendered:

P.J. Tobia on the activism Councilman Eric Crafton’s English First referendum petition drive has engendered:

Kay Brooks doesn’t understand how Mayor Karl Dean can take issue with the language “No person shall have a right to government services in any other language” in Eric Crafton’s English-Only charter amendment:

More on the renewed battle to make Nashville's official language English. This quote from Mayor Karl Dean:

Crafton decides to by-pass his liberal out of touch council members ans tries to take his English initiative directly to the people.
Just wait, the Tennessean and their status quo cronies will opine heavily against it.