Word: equality
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...history of this legislation, however. Congress determined that it had two grounds to intervene in this issue: civil rights and interstate commerce. Under the enforcement clause of the 14th Amendment, Congress correctly asserted that it had grounds to intervene on behalf of women who were being denied equal protection by the state justice systems...
...commerce clause in civil rights jurisprudence. As they concede, the commerce clause is the very basis of modern civil rights litigation. What they do not see, however, is how the commerce clause has been used to protect disadvantaged groups from violations of due process and equal protection at the hands of the states...
...activists need not fear the VAWA; it is not an attempt to open the floodgates of federal legislation of intrastate economic activity. Rather, when viewed in its all-important context, it is simply a legitimate attempt to address an issue of interstate commerce and correct an admitted violation of equal protection across the states...
...serious problem. But there are better ways of addressing it. Curiously, the attorneys general from 36 states who asked that the law be upheld did so citing systematic biases in their own departments and judiciaries against the victims of gender-related violence. The 14th amendment guarantee of "equal protection under the law" does not mean that Congress may intervene on the grounds of state incompetence. A policy of reliance on the federal government--whose judges and juries may be equally biased--obscures the states' responsibilities to reform their own justice systems. The right way to fight gender-related violence...
Regardless of how nice the pensions are, working for the government has just become considerably less attractive for nearly half of the American labor force following the Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling that states aren't required to pay their female and male employees equally for equal work. It's the second time in two weeks that the Court has favored state governments over individual rights, and women's-rights advocates aren't pleased. At issue were two cases in which female professors at state universities sued for pay on par with similarly qualified male profs. The Justices sent...