...Obergefell v. Hodges Alcorn, 3 Obergefell v. Hodges: Right to Privacy Amy Alcorn Liberty High School 3AB AP Government Obergefell v. Hodges was a case that brought much controversy within 2015. It pertained to the idea that states bans on same gender marriage were unconstitutional. The case helped decide that under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, the right to marriage applies to not only heterosexual couples, but same sex ones as well (ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2015). This case began with a group of fourteen same sex couples deciding to sue state agencies in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan. They were fighting for the idea that the states banning same sex marriage and not acknowledging legalized same gender couples was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. The cases that went through trial courts regarding this were all found in favor of the plaintiffs. Though it appeared the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit felt a different way, as it was declared that it did not violate their rights to due process or equal protection. This caused the case to find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court (ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2015). There are two constitutional questions that come to play here; is a state required to allow a marriage between people of the same gender by the...
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...action by President Obama in 2010, the plan in summary increases the quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare in the United States (Democratic Party). When signed into law, Obamacare was not well-received by the right-side Republicans, who typically advocate for privatization of government services, especially healthcare. This could be seen in typically right-leaning states, where there was some discussion as to whether or not Obamacare was Constitutional, due to the omission of healthcare laws in the Constitution (not taking into account that the idea of universal healthcare did not exist in the 18th century). Many states even threatened to sue the government over the healthcare issue. Unfortunately, the states and Congress are still arguing over this issue, and it will most likely not be resolved by the time President Obama leaves office in January of 2017. Another Amendment that has caused some dissent in recent times has been the Fourteenth Amendment. This Amendment, one of the multiple instated during Reconstruction after the Civil War, extends ‘equal protection of the law’ to all citizens, of course conveniently leaving out women (Cornell University). This has most recently been applied to the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, a case which ruled on the legalization of same-sex marriages in all states and territories of the United States (American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio). A landmark decision, the case gave legal rights to those in the thirteen states...
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