And if the state doesn't have a good reason, it should be struck down.
Should Obamacare be struck down or crippled, the Roberts court will be seen by many as politically slanted.
If Turkey and Armenia could only become friendlier beforehand, the resolution might then be struck down for good.
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In America such quotas would be struck down because they disregard the right of male directors to equal treatment.
If there were, tax legislation or practices that make some unwarranted differences between citizens would be struck down as unconstitutional.
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Yet there is no assurance that the Defense of Marriage Act will not itself be struck down by activist courts.
Blanket or near-blanket bans on the possession of handguns, such as those in Chicago and the adjacent city of Oak Park, will almost certainly be struck down.
"On the basis of what I heard, the questions of the justices, the response of the participants, I'm very optimistic that DOMA will be struck down, " Pelosi said.
The inflammation theory helps explain why even someone with low cholesterol can have a heart attack, and why so many patients with no previous symptoms can suddenly be struck down.
The Securities Industry Association, the lobbying group for the brokerage industry, is considering whether to argue that the Utah law be struck down or is subject to preemption by federal securities laws.
Other justices - Kennedy, Alito and Chief Justice Roberts - expressed skepticism about various sections of the millionaire's provision, meaning some or all parts of the law may well be struck down.
Solicitor General Donald Verrilli also appeared at the court representing the Obama administration, which called for Proposition 8 to be struck down but on slightly narrower grounds than Mr. Olson has advocated.
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Dozens of high-profile Republicans -- including former party Chairman Ken Mehlman, ex-presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman and actor Clint Eastwood -- filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that Proposition 8 should be struck down.
Chief Justice John Roberts, whose vote is also somewhat unclear, asked several questions that appeared to further the case of the challenger's attorney, Paul Clement, who argued the whole law be struck down.
It is not clear whether it will be struck down, but the questions that the conservative Justices posed to Clement were not nearly as pressing as the ones they asked to Solicitor General Verilli.
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Solicitor General Donald Verrilli received 10 minutes to present the view of the Obama administration, which called for Proposition 8 to be struck down but on slightly narrower grounds than Mr. Olson has advocated.
But he said there's no concrete evidence of the number of voters who are disadvantaged and without such proof, a law that's non-discriminatory on its face and has a legitimate anti-fraud purpose cannot be struck down.
The Attorney General -- and I think to be clear, the Attorney General wanted the entire piece of legislation, based on proving what he thought was one segment of the bill unconstitutional, that the whole bill would be struck down.
What happened on that particular provision was that after I had sponsored it and helped to get it passed, it turned out that there was a legal provision in it that was problematic and needed to be fixed so that it wouldn't be struck down.
In recent months, the U.S. Patent Office has put into motion proceedings that could lead key patents on embryonic stem cells to be struck down, meaning that companies that do research on the cells would not give up a share of future profits on their inventions.
Waiting for DOMA to be repealed or struck down in the courts will potentially take years.
Liberals who want the act struck down should be discomfited by the reason the court should give when doing this.
But, unlike his fellow-villagers, he was renowned for having a deficit: he had been born in a lean year, and, to make matters worse, an estranged aunt had once lifted him from his crib and praised Heaven for what a gorgeous, fat, rosy baby he was thereby sealing forever his fate to be generally impoverished, crippled, struck down and taken by the Devil at some unexpected time, in some terrifying way.
Justice John Paul Stevens added, I fear that the gun ban struck down today may well be the first of an unknown number of dominoes to be knocked off the table.
When he came up with a list of employees to be struck off the payroll, he was turned down by the opposition Peronists, who have a majority in the Senate.
Several officials from large health insurers said that if the mandate were struck down, their first priority would be persuading members of Congress to repeal two of the law's major insurance changes: a requirement to cover everyone regardless of his or her medical history, and limits on how much insurers can vary premiums based on age.
If the individual mandate is struck down or otherwise killed, insurers will be forced either to go out of business or jack up their rates.
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In October 2011 the Supreme Court struck down a new rule that sponsors and spouses must be 21 years old for the foreigner to be allowed in.
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Earlier this year, a court struck down a Food and Drug Administration rule requiring that certain drugs be tested in children.
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