Structure of the Court System: Crash Course Government and Politics #19
This week Craig Benzine is going to talk about the structure of the U.S. court system and how exactly it manages to keep things moving smoothly. We’’ll talk about trial courts, district courts, appeals courts, circuit courts, state supreme courts, and of course the one at the top - the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s all quite a bit to manage with jurisdictions and such, but it's important to remember that the vast majority of cases never even make it to court! Most are settled out of court, but also terms like mootness and ripeness are used to throw cases out altogether. Today, we're going to focus on how cases make it to the top, and next week we’ll talk about what happens when they get there.
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Supreme Court Allows Ohio to Scrub the Voter Roll
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Supreme Court rules on Ohio's voter roll purging
Supreme Court rules on Ohio's voter roll purging
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Ohio's move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to Supreme court
COLUMBUS (AP/WCMH) — Joseph Helle was expecting a different sort of reception when he returned home from Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and showed up to vote in his small Ohio town near Lake Erie.
His name was missing from the voting rolls in 2011, even though Helle had registered to vote before leaving home at 18 and hadn’t changed his address during his military service.
Helle, now the mayor of Oak Harbor, Ohio, is among thousands of state residents with tales of being removed from Ohio’s rolls because they didn’t vote in some elections. The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesdayin the disputed practice, which generally pits Democrats against Republicans.
The case has taken on added importance because the parties have squared off over ballot access across the country. Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to suppress votes from minorities and poorer people who tend to vote for Democrats. Republicans have argued that they are trying to promote ballot integrity and prevent voter fraud. Only a handful of states use a process similar to Ohio’s, but others could join in if the high court sides with the state.
Adding to the mix, the Trump administration reversed the position taken by the Obama administration and is now backing Ohio’s method for purging voters.
Helle, 31, describes himself as a “red-state Democrat” and did not vote for President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
“I’m not one of these people that flaunts their military service, by any means, but to be told I couldn’t do one of the fundamental rights I went off and served this country for was just appalling,” Helle said, recounting his reaction after being dropped from voter registration rolls.
Ohio has used voters’ inactivity to trigger the removal process since 1994, although groups representing voters did not sue the Republican secretary of state, Jon Husted, until 2016. As part of the lawsuit, a judge last year ordered the state to count 7,515 ballots cast by people whose names had been removed from the voter rolls.
A federal appeals court panel in Cincinnati split 2-1 last year in ruling that Ohio’s process is illegal. In May, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case.
Under Ohio rules, registered voters who fail to vote in a two-year period are targeted for eventual removal from registration rolls, even if they haven’t moved and remain eligible. The state says it removes names only after local election boards send notices and there’s no subsequent voting activity for the next four years. Ohio argues this helps ensure election security.
“It’s important for us to keep up-to-date, accurate voter logs,” said Aaron Sellers, a spokesman for the Franklin County Board of Elections in Ohio’s largest county.
Ohio State University law professor Daniel Tokaji, co-counsel in the case, says there are ways for Ohio to keep it's voter rolls clean. Whatever the motive of the Secretary of State, if Ohio or any other state is purging people from the rolls because of their failure to vote - that's a clear violation of federal law, period.
Helle said he had no idea his name had been dropped and said he mailed in absentee ballots in some years and not others. His local elections board said it has no record that Helle voted while he was away.
But even if he hadn’t voted, Helle said opting not to cast a ballot should be a voter’s choice and shouldn’t be penalized.
“That’s part of the free-speech argument to me,” he said. “Choosing not to vote is as important as choosing to vote. It’s one way to say, I do not believe in what’s going on here, or in either candidate, for instance.”
The main argument on behalf of voters whose registrations were canceled is that federal voting law specifically prohibits states from using voter inactivity to trigger purges. The state “purges registered voters who are still eligible to vote,” former and current Ohio elections officials said in a brief supporting the voters.
At the Supreme Court, voting cases often split the court’s liberal and conservative justices. Civil rights
What to expect when moving to Ohio (497,992 out of 1,000,000 views)
hio /oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/ (About this sound listen) is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.
The state takes its name from the Ohio River. The name originated from the Seneca language word ohiːyo', meaning great river or large creek.[22][23][24] Partitioned from the Northwest Territory, the state was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803.[11][25] Ohio is historically known as the Buckeye State after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as Buckeyes.[2]
The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the state Supreme Court. Ohio occupies 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives.[26] Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state[27] and a bellwether[27] in national elections. Six Presidents of the United States have been elected who had Ohio as their home state.
Why Ohio's way of purging voter rolls is at the Supreme Court
A case challenging the removal of hundreds of thousands of people from voter rolls in Ohio went to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Special correspondent Karen Kasler of Ohio Public Radio reports what's at stake in the Buckeye State, and Jeffrey Brown talks with Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal about what the justices asked in the courtroom.
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Ohio Listeni/oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/ is a state in the Midwestern United States. Ohio is the 34th largest (by area), the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.
The name Ohio originated from Iroquois word ohi-yo', meaning great river or large creek. The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803. Although there are conflicting narratives regarding the origin of the nickname, Ohio is historically known as the Buckeye State (relating to the Ohio buckeye tree) and Ohioans are also known as Buckeyes.
The government of Ohio is composed of the executive branch, led by the Governor; the legislative branch, which comprises the Ohio General Assembly; and the judicial branch, which is led by the Supreme Court. Currently, Ohio occupies 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives. Ohio is known for its status as both a swing state and a bellwether in national elections.
Sharing the Legacy Episode 7: Profiling
Interested in a career in immigration law or just starting out in the field? Award-winning immigration attorney Margaret W. Wong offers wisdom and insight from the past four decades in her video series, Sharing the Legacy. In Episode 6, Wong continues her discussion about clients. She shares historical information about immigration - both from her family's history as well as global policies of the past. Most of all, Wong expresses her enthusiasm for practicing immigration law. About Margaret W. Wong: Margaret W. Wong is an award-winning, practicing immigration lawyer. Born in Hong Kong, she is founder and managing partner of Margaret W. Wong & Associates, LLC, with offices in nine cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, and Raleigh. Wong is celebrating her 40th year in business and the beginning of her fifth decade in immigration and nationality law, and legal practice management. Adjunct professor of immigration law at Case Western Reserve University Law School, Ms. Wong is also National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Trailblazer, was listed in US News & World Reports’ Best Lawyers, enjoys a “Preeminent AV” rating by Martindale Hubbell, and was appointed by The Ohio Supreme Court as charter member of the Continuing Legal Education Commission for Attorneys. She is a life member of the Federal US 6th Circuit, 8th Judicial Ohio District, is a board member of the State of New York at Buffalo Foundation and the Law School Board, her alma mater, board member of the Cleveland State University Foundation, and of the Tri-C Foundation Board; and is a life member of the Ohio State Bar Foundation and the Federal Bar Association. She sits on Senator Sherrod Brown’s Ad Hoc Committee on Selecting US Marshals and US Attorneys in the Southern District of Ohio. She has helped hundreds and thousands of foreign born obtain their Green Cards and US citizenship, and fight deportation. She is past President of the Federal Bar Association Northern District of Ohio. For decades, Ms. Wong has helped employers obtain work permits for their executives and has assisted thousands of people in coming to the United States to become permanent residents, advance their educations, work, and pursue opportunities. Her clients come from every country around the world, from every walk of life, and range from governmental and corporate to ordinary people. The law firm's talented team handles every kind of immigration problem; its staff is multilingual, with proficiency in languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, and Albanian. Executives and large law firms seek her help when they have tough immigration problems. She is known for speed, quality, honesty, and persistence. She has won numerous awards, including two for philanthropy - the Margaret Ireland Award from the Cleveland Women's City Club and the 1997 Creative Philanthropy Award from the Women's Community Foundation. Crain's Cleveland Business has named her to their Women of Influence list and Cleveland Magazine has included her with its Most Interesting People. Ms. Wong also received the highly coveted Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May 1998 for her outstanding achievements and contributions to the multicultural fabric of the United States. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 2000. Other honors and awards include an Outstanding Alumni Award from State University of New York at Buffalo, Kent State University's Social Responsibility Award, and the Leadership Award from the United Black Fund. Her work has also earned her recognition in books such as Profiles of Ohio Women 1803-2003 and People: Cleveland's Most Valuable Resource, Millennium Edition. Ms. Wong is also an Urban League Board Member and VP. Ms. Wong is a civic leader who educates and inspires others. While she was serving as the first Asian-American president of the Cleveland Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the Cleveland chapter won the coveted Chapter Activity Award. She has presented numerous seminars on immigration and naturalization law for bar associations and the public. Committed to giving something back to the community and to mentoring young professionals, Ms. Wong has volunteered her time and expertise on boards of diverse organizations, including Notre Dame College, Cuyahoga Community College Foundation, Northeast Ohio Commission on Higher Education, Cleveland Bar Foundation, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Asian Bar Association, Town Hall, University Hospitals Health System, St. Vincent Hospital Health Care System, United Way Services, and the Cleveland State University.
Tennessee's Marriage Law Challenged -- Sky Arnold
Cincinnati, Ohio --- With a historic 6 same sex marriage cases on the docket the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is attracting an unusually large crowd outside its chambers in Cincinnati.
Chants of, We will win, echoed Wednesday afternoon.
The cases all challenge marriage laws in four states including Tennessee and Kentucky.
Greg Bourke filed one of them because he wants Kentucky to recognize his legal marriage from another state.
I'm a native Kentuckian. I love Kentucky as does my husband. We really want to see our state change to be more welcoming and inclusive of LGBT people, said Bourke.
It's a similar story for the 3 Tennessee couples including Franklin's Matthew Mansell and Johno Espejo who want their California marriage recognized.
That man who helped pass the laws they're challenging, David Fowler, tells Fox 17 News that recognition comes with a cost.
We are approaching a day if the courts intervene here where state lines and state sovereignty means nothing, said Fowler.
It's expected to be a few weeks before the Court makes its decision but even that isn't expected to end the debate.
The couple's behind the lawsuits openly admit their goal is to help further a nationwide same sex marriage legalization.
Both sides believe the final decision will come from the US Supreme Court.
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Leah Ward Sears is the former Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. She served on the court since 1992 when she was first appointed by then-governor Zell Miller, a Democrat. Sears became the court's chief justice in June 2005. She retired from the court in June 2009. [1] After Sears' final day on the court, Carol Hunstein was elevated to serve as chief justice.
In August of 2009, Sears will begin a one-year fellowship with the William Thomas Sears Distinguished Fellow in Family Law for the Institute for American Values. The fellowship is named for her brother who died in 2007 after returning from service in the Middle East. Sears will teach a seminar, Contemporary Issues in Family Law, at the University of Georgia Law School while on her fellowship. In October of 2009, Sears will begin working in the Atlanta offices of legal firm Schiff Hardin. [2]
Justice Sears has been mentioned as a possible Barack Obama nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. [3]
Justice Sears has a distinguished position in Georgia's history. She was the first African-American woman to serve as Superior Court Judge in Georgia. When appointed by the Governor of Georgia in February, she became the first woman and the youngest person ever to serve on Georgia's Supreme Court. Also, in retaining her appointed position as a Supreme Court Justice, Justice Sears became the first woman to win a contested state-wide election in Georgia.
Legal background
Leah Ward SearsSears is a 1976 graduate of Cornell University (B.S. Degree); a 1980 graduate of Emory University School of Law (J.D. Degree); and a 1995 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M Degree). She also has engaged in extensive studies at the National Judicial College. Prior to becoming a judge, she was an attorney with the law firm of Alston & Bird. In 1993, Justice Sears received the honorary Doctor of Law degree from Morehouse College.
Associations
Justice Sears' professional and civil affiliations are varied and numerous. The Justice is past Chair of the American Bar Association's Board of Elections. She is also the immediate past Chair of the Judicial Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, and she also served as Chair of the Atlanta Bar's Minority Clerkship Program. Justice Sears founded and served as the first president of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys. Chief Justice Sears serves on the Board of Directors of the Morehouse School of Medicine Center for Child Abuse & Neglect, the Board of Visitors of Mercer Law School, the Sadie G. Mays Nursing Home, the Georgia Chapter of the National Council of Christians and Jews, and she is a board member for Mission New Hope, a metropolitan Atlanta area substance abuse coalition. Justice Sears serves on the Cornell University Women's Council, the steering Committee for Georgia Women's History Month, and the Children's Defense Fund's Black Community Crusade for Children. In addition, Chief Justice Sears founded the Battered Women's Project in Columbus, Georgia.
Justice Sears is also a member of the Atlanta Chapter of Links, Inc., and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. The Justice is a member of the American, Georgia, Gate City, Atlanta, and National Bar Associations.
Accolades
Emory University has honored Justice Sears as an Outstanding Young Alumna and as the Barkley Forum Georgia Speaker of the Year. Georgia Trend magazine has honored Justice Sears as one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians, and in 1993 Business Atlanta magazine named her as one of the Under Forty and on the Fast Track. In 1992, she received the Margaret Brent Woman Lawyer of Achievement award from the American Bar Association, the Drum Major for Justice award presented by SCLC Women during Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Week, and she was honored as an Atlantan on the Move by 100 Black Men of Atlanta. Also in 1992, Justice Sears received the Excellence in Public Service award from the Georgia Coalition of Black Women, and she was named by the YWCA of Greater Atlanta as one of its ten Outstanding Women of Achievement. In addition, the Justice has written several articles regarding the legal profession which have been published.
Ohio Personal Injury Attorney Gives You Tips On Hiring a Car Accident Lawyer
Ohio Personal Injury Attorney Gives Tips On Hiring a Car Accident Lawyer.
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Inside Ohio’s fight over voting rules
No Republican candidate, and no Democratic candidate since 1960, has won the White House without securing the majority of votes in Ohio. With the stakes so high, Ohio’s voting rules have come under scrutiny -- in particular, a state policy purging thousands of voters who, some officials say, do not vote frequently enough. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Chris Bury reports.
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Where officers do not conform to the 'law of the land' they have
no authority and the right to resist them exists. A Public Officer,
as with a citizen, who unlawfully threatens life or liberty, is
susceptible to be injured or killed; for by such acts 'they draw
their own blood upon themselves' As stated in some cases, 'where
a peace officer has no right to make an arrest without warrant he
is a trespasser and acts at his own peril. 6A CJS., Arrest
Section 16 page 30; A sheriff who acts without process, or
under a process void on its face, in doing such act, he is not to
be considered an officer but a personal trespasser. Roberts v. Dean,
187 So. 571, 575 (Fla. 1939)
A person has a lawful right to resist an arrest by an unlawful
authority, i.e., an officer without a valid warrant. Franklin,118 Ga. 860, 45 S.E. 698 (1903)
What of the resistance to the arrest? The authorities are in
agreement that since the right of personal property is one of the
fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution, any unlawful
interference with it may be resisted and every person has a right
to resist an unlawful arrest. * * * and, in preventing such illegal
restraint of his liberty, he may use such force as may be necessary.
City of Columbus v. Holmes, 152 N.W. 2d, 301, 306 (Ohio App. 1058)
It is the law of self defense and self preservation that is
applicable. One has and unalienable right to protect his life,
liberty or property from unlawful attack or harm. * * * it is not
an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer,
even though he may have submitted to such custody without resistance.
Adarns v. State, 121 Ga 163, 48 S.E. 910 (1904)
An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted
to be restrained of his liberty has the same right, and only the same
right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any
other assault and battery. State v. Robinson, 145 Me. 77, 72 Atl, 2nd.260, 262 (1950)
A citizen illegally arrested cannot initiate the use of force and
neither do words alone justify an assault. However, when the officer
initiates the assault by physical contact, which is usually the case,
and there is an unlawful arrest, the citizen has the right to protect
his liberty to the extent of killing the officer. See Green v.
Kennedy, 48 N.Y. Rep. 653, 654 (1871) and/or Hicks v. Matthews, 266
S.W. 2nd. 846, 849 (Tex. 1954)
What rights then has a citizen in resisting an unlawful arrest? An
arrest without warrant is a trespass, an unlawful assault upon the
person, and how far one thus unlawfully assaulted may go in resistance
is to be determined as in other cases of assault. Life and liberty are
regarded as standing substantially on one foundation; life being
useless without liberty, and the authorities are uninformed that where
one is about to be unlawfully deprived of his liberty he may resist
the aggressions of the officer, to the extent of taking the life of
the assailant, if that be necessity to preserve his own life, or
prevent infliction upon him of some great bodily harm. State v. Gum,
68 W. Va. 105, 69 S.E. 463, 464 (1910)
It is the law that a person illegally arrested by an officer may
resist that arrest, even to the extent of the taking of life if his
own life or any great bodily harm is threatened. State v. Rousseau,
40 Wash. 2nd, 92, 241 P. 2nd. 447, 449 (1952); Porter v. State, 124
Ga. 297, 52 S.E. 283, 287 (1905); see also State v. Mobley, 240 N.C.
476, 83 S.E. 2nd 100, 102 (1954); Wilkinson v. State, 143 Miss. 324,
108 So. 711, 712-13 (1926); American Jurisprudence, 2nd Ed., Arrest,
Section 94, pp. 778-780; Thomas v. State, 91 Ga. 204, 18 S.E. 305
(1892); Presley v. State, 75 Fla. 434, 78 So. 532, 534 (1918);
Burkhard v. State, 83 Tex. Crim. 228, 202 S.W. 513; Mullins v. State,
196 Ga. 569, 27 S.E. 2nd. 91 (1943); Ownes v. State, 58 Tex. Crim.
261, 125 S.W. 405 (1910); Caperton v. Commonwealth, 189 Ky. 652, 655,
225 S.W. 481, 481 (1920)
The United States Supreme Court, and every other court in the past
deciding upon the matter, has recognized that at common Law, a
person had the right to resist the illegal attempt to arrest him.
John Bad Elk v. United States, 177 U.S. 529, 534-35 (1899)
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Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion law
(8 Feb 2019) A divided Supreme Court stopped Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics in a test of the conservative court's views on abortion rights.
The justices said by a 5-4 vote late Thursday that they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Vanessa Shields-Haas, a Louisiana nurse and volunteer who helped escort patients into the only abortion clinic operating in New Orleans, said she was pleasantly surprised.
Frankly, I was surprised. The new make-up of the Supreme Court indicated that it was likely that – that it would have gone through, which would have had devastating consequences for, um, women in Louisiana, families, loved ones, um, and our community, frankly, she said. It's clear that this law is about ideology. It's not about safety.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's four liberals in putting a hold on the law, pending a full review of the case.
President Donald Trump's two Supreme Court appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, were among the four conservative members of the court who would have allowed the law to take effect.
If the doctors succeed, they can continue performing abortions, he said. If they fail, they could return to court, Kavanaugh said.
The law is very similar to a Texas measure the justices struck down three years ago. Roberts dissented in that case.
Louisiana abortion providers and a district judge who initially heard the case said one or maybe two of the state's three abortion clinics would have to close under the new law.
There would be at most two doctors who could meet its requirements, they said.
But the federal appeals court in New Orleans rejected those claims, doubting that any clinics would have to close and saying the doctors had not tried hard enough to establish relationships with local hospitals.
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Pence Heads to Ohio to Discuss Business Issues
(1 Apr 2017) Vice President Mike Pence is returning to Ohio to discuss economic issues with businesspeople.
The former governor of neighboring Indiana is scheduled to visit the Columbus suburb of Reynoldsburg on Saturday.
His office says he will hear from small business owners and job creators and tour an electronic manufacturing services company. His office says Pence will also make some remarks.
U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi, an Ohio Republican, plans to join Pence.
Pence came to southwest Ohio on March 2 to promote the proposed repeal of the Barack Obama administration's health care overhaul.
House Speaker Paul Ryan last week pulled the legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act after it became clear there weren't enough votes to pass the legislation.
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