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4 days ago · 26. (HC) The quote below comes from the Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963): The right of one charged with crime to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours. From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural ...
5 days ago · Library of Congress. The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before. The act imposes some new limits on the bulk collection of telecommunication metadata on U.S. citizens by American intelligence ...
5 days ago · In a case like Gideon v. Wainwright, you can also infer that this is a civil case because a person is, again, listed first (and a state is not listed at all). So, Gideon sued Wainwright.
4 days ago · Take the quiz. The meaning of GITLOW V. NEW YORK is 268 U.S. 652 (1925), extended First Amendment freedom-of-speech and Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection provisions to the states as well as the federal government.
5 days ago · A life-threatening leap of faith. “Bring out your son, he must die” (v. 27). a. A leap in the dark, i.e., unknown. b. A leap into the light, i.e., the Word of God. c. Father’s logic. “If Baal is a god, let him fight for himself” (v. 31, ELT). Gideon gets a nick name, i.e., Baal fighter.
5 days ago · There are thousands of people mentioned by name in the Bible, and some of them are unlikely heroes. In this new series, we explore some lesser-known people a...
6 days ago · Be Who You Are!
