Oregon Legal Research BlogWe can “vote” 365 days of the year, not just on election days, at least as long as our U.S. Constitution remains intact: Every Day is “Call Government Switchboard…
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International Animators Converge on Portland
…in life, so you may raise your eyebrows at me about why this Festival is posted on the Oregon Legal Research blog. You see, one of our city’s extraordinary graphic…
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Homeless in Portland: Business Alliance, Street Roots, and the Law of Urban Planning 101
always worth reading. The editorial needs a few footnotes, specifically citations to sections of the Oregon Constitution and other laws that are referenced. But their absence doesn’t take away from…
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Legislative Words: What are Congressional “Terms,” “Sessions,” “Adjournment,” and “Recesses”?
…only suspends it temporarily…. [Link to full CRS Report A regular annual session of Congress begins when the two chambers convene in January, pursuant to the Constitution (or to law)….
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Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: 90 Years-old in 2013
…Constitution to all citizens. In 1923, in Seneca Falls for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Woman’s Rights Convention, she introduced the “Lucretia Mott Amendment,” which read:…
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Presidential Action on Access to Justice (Memorandum, 5/18/21)
…in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to increase meaningful access to our legal system and an array…
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Printz v. U.S. (1997): Dual Sovereignty, Federalism, States Rights
This case arises in discussions of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You can find the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Printz v. United States online using just…
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Warrantless search allowed in mobile auto
…violate Article I, section 9, of the Oregon Constitution when the automobile is mobile at the time an officer stops it and there is probable cause to believe that the…