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Our decision, as noted does not expand the categories of people who may lawfully possess a gun and federal law generally forbids the possession of a handgun by a person who is under the age of 18. – Samuel Alito	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Clearview AI is a search engine that uses only publicly available images accessible on the internet, it is absurd that The ACLU wants to censor which search engines people can use to access public information on the internet. The First Amendment forbids this. – Tor Ekeland	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's no way also that the The US or any other foreign government can' singlehandedly' engage in a battle like Marawi because the Philippine Constitution forbids it, foreign troops and foreign military may help by providing intel, logistics, weapons but they can't, technically, actively participate in combat. – The US	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The FTC just doesn't sue media companies over their editorial policies, second-guessing whether a company is politically' neutral' would mean substituting a regulator's editorial decisions for a private company's — something the First Amendment forbids. – Berin Szoka	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Enemy of the People, history shows that tyrants and would-be tyrants always attempt to destroy a free press. And that is why the First Amendment to our Constitution specifically forbids government from interfering with the work of the press. – Sam Donaldson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If that fails, Julian Assange will surely argue in the Barry Pollack courts that the Constitution forbids criminal prosecution for publishing information that someone else leaked. – Barry Pollack	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There are Muslims who believe that the Koran forbids homosexuality, just as there are Christians who believe the Bible does, there are also Muslims who believe that honoring their God-given capacity to love is a form of worship. Ultimately, no one perspective can define a religion for all other people of that faith. – Tynan Power	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To prove a violation of the federal criminal civil rights statute, prosecutors must establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a law enforcement officer willfully deprived an individual of a constitutional right, meaning that the officer acted with the deliberate and specific intent to do something the law forbids. – Preet Bharara	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Anyway, (financial watchdog) KNF is going in that direction, when it forbids some banks from paying out dividends, thus strengthening (their) capital base and ability to cover losses, as a consequence, banks will have to save (in preparation) for worse times. – Marek Belka	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable. – Primo Levi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Our decision, as noted does not expand the categories of people who may lawfully possess a gun and federal law generally forbids the possession of a handgun by a person who is under the age of 18.

– Samuel Alito

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Clearview AI is a search engine that uses only publicly available images accessible on the internet, it is absurd that The ACLU wants to censor which search engines people can use to access public information on the internet. The First Amendment forbids this.

– Tor Ekeland

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There's no way also that the The US or any other foreign government can' singlehandedly' engage in a battle like Marawi because the Philippine Constitution forbids it, foreign troops and foreign military may help by providing intel, logistics, weapons but they can't, technically, actively participate in combat.

– The US

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The FTC just doesn't sue media companies over their editorial policies, second-guessing whether a company is politically' neutral' would mean substituting a regulator's editorial decisions for a private company's — something the First Amendment forbids.

– Berin Szoka

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Enemy of the People, history shows that tyrants and would-be tyrants always attempt to destroy a free press. And that is why the First Amendment to our Constitution specifically forbids government from interfering with the work of the press.

– Sam Donaldson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If that fails, Julian Assange will surely argue in the Barry Pollack courts that the Constitution forbids criminal prosecution for publishing information that someone else leaked.

– Barry Pollack

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are Muslims who believe that the Koran forbids homosexuality, just as there are Christians who believe the Bible does, there are also Muslims who believe that honoring their God-given capacity to love is a form of worship. Ultimately, no one perspective can define a religion for all other people of that faith.

– Tynan Power

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To prove a violation of the federal criminal civil rights statute, prosecutors must establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a law enforcement officer willfully deprived an individual of a constitutional right, meaning that the officer acted with the deliberate and specific intent to do something the law forbids.

– Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Anyway, (financial watchdog) KNF is going in that direction, when it forbids some banks from paying out dividends, thus strengthening (their) capital base and ability to cover losses, as a consequence, banks will have to save (in preparation) for worse times.

– Marek Belka

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

– Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

– Anatole France

added by anonymous
13 years ago

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

– Anatole France

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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