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  • The second is a group of decisions called the Slaughter-House cases.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local grandpaw 2010

  • But maybe the inadequacy of this definition can be revealed by considering the question of whether Slaughter-House was judicial activism, on the one hand the Court tortured the meaning of the 14th Amendment to achieve a desired political result, and seems to bear almost all of the traditional hallmarks of putative “judicial activism”, on the other hand, it did maintain the status quo.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Judicial Activism” — The Podcast 2010

  • In his classic Slaughter-House Five he quotes, in their entirety, the first six paragraphs of Truman's announcement of the bombing of Japan, in which he labeled Hiroshima simply a "military base."

    Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age Greg Mitchell 2011

  • The others are happy to leave it in the grave dug by the Slaughter-House Cases, especially since selective incorporation has occurred via the DPC.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Kurt Lash on Privileges or Immunities 2010

  • The first blow occurred in the well-known Slaughter-House cases of 1873, which held that the Privileges or Immunities Clause only protected uniquely federal rights, such as the ability to cross state lines to petition Congress.

    Rand Paul's Wrong Answer 2010

  • The Privileges or Immunities Clause never could evolve, moreover, because it was gutted by the ill-fated 1873 Slaughter-House Cases, which astonishingly confined privileges or immunities to those rights guaranteed to federal citizens, such as the right to petition Congress or to use interstate rivers.

    Court Wrong On The Chicago Gun Case 2010

  • Slaughter-House Cases limited its scope to rights of a purely national scope, such as the right to access a foreign embassy or to be protected when traveling on the high seas.

    The Supreme Court's Gun Showdown 2010

  • Slaughter-House Cases, the Court ruled that the clause did not safeguard the Bill of Rights against state laws.

    Guns and the States 2010

  • Slaughter-House or even address the original meaning of t he Privileges or Immunities Clause.

    The Supreme Court's Gun Showdown 2010

  • The Slaughter-House cases of 1873, though Justice Alito acknowledged that "many legal scholars dispute the correctness" of that decision.

    Five Gun Salute 2010

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