I will
• be inspired by everything
l do
• remind myself that tall
trees and green grass are
worth all the rain
• challenge myself and others
to consider each side of an
issue
• remember that being part
of a six person class at the
UO is a once-in-a-lif etime
experience
• not procrastinate...
starting tomorrow
-I will
challenge my friends
to drink responsibly...
or not at all.
Zach Swanson
History Major, Honors College, UO
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f zonkala in September of 1994.
“[The decision] is not some
| thing we support because the way
we see it, it is one less way for of
| fenders to be held accountable,”
| said Janet Fiskio, a community ed
Iucator with Sexual Assault Sup
port Services. “We want survivors
to know that there are many other
ways they can seek to hold offend
Iers accountable.”
A legal advocacy program is
available through SASS to help
people who have been victims of
I violence.
“The Constitution requires a
\ distinction between what is truly
I national and what is truly local,”
| Chief Justice William H. Rehn
| quist wrote for the court. “If Con
gress may regulate gender-moti
1 vated violence, it would be able to
regulate murder or any other type
of violence.”
Attorney Michael Rosman, who
argued the case on behalf of the
two men sued by Bronkala called
the ruling “a very good day in the
I Constitution for the rule of law,”
He said that people who allege
they are victims of gender-based
violence “have perfectly good
remedies in state courts.”
However, Kathy Rodgers of the
National Organization for
Women’s Legal Defense and Edu
\ cation Fund, which represented
Brzonkala, said this is a severe
ttlf Congress may regu
late gender-motivated vi
olence, it would be able
to regulate murder or
any other type of
violence:
William H. Rhenquist
Chiefjustice ^
blow for women’s rights because
of the effect it will have on Con
gress.
“Congress identified a kind of
gender discrimination,” Rodgers
said. “Congress is trying to address
that with a creative, specific solu
tion and the court says, ‘No, you
can’t do that.”
Monday’s decision in United
States vs. Morrison followed the
Supreme Court’s 1995 ruling in
the United States vs. Lopez case
that struck down as unconstitu
tional a law that made it a federal
crime to possess a gun within
1,000 feet of a school. The justices
said gun possession was not
linked to interstate commerce and
the law usurped state authority
over such crimes.
O’Fallon said that this was the
first time in 50 years the court had
struck down a federal law on the
grounds that it exceeds Congress’
power under the Commerce
clause.
As for the United States vs. Mor
rison decision, President Clinton
said he was “deeply disappoint
ed” by the court’s decision that
victims may no longer sue their as
sailants in federal court. He signed
the bill into law as part of the
1994’s crime control measures.
The court outcome on Monday
was a split decision.
Rehnquist, along with Justices
Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin
Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and
Clarence Thomas supported the
states’ rights and limiting federal
power. The. dissenting were Jus
tices David H. Souter, John Paul
Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
Stephen G. Breyer.
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