How does Hope vs. Pelzer effect the country?
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Hope v. Pelzer established a fair warning doctrine for determining whether an officer can use a defense of qualified immunity. If the state of the law gave fair warning that their conduct was illegal, they lose the ability to claim qualified immunity.
301624
i really hope nothing...\ndon't want americans to f*** the world up more than they already have (By americans i mean the Bush Adminstration)
203771
It is no difference than like the war on drugs, big money. The government can and trying to stop the flow of drugs in this country but do they want it to stop, no. If did they would lose 3/4 of their police force. Within the borders of this great nation they wouldn't be able to seize land and vehicles, hire more personnel, court systems have to layoff 1/2 of their judges, layoff prison guards, quit building more prisons and lawyers will become homeless. It is always about money. Back to the question, for the last 10 years the courts have managed to get lawsuits pass on major cigarette companies for persons dying from cancer. They can no longer sponsor a race car or advertise on TV. But does this really hurt the tobacco industry, no. The government doesn't want to outlaw tobacco, they will no longer collect taxes for them. "Money". I did read somewhere last year of a national report that the young American people now days are less likely to start smoking than like 20 years ago. So if there become less smokers in this country don't worry, taxes always get higher and the sale overseas is still increasing every year.
367237
It will be a deep impact for USA. The united states will go to boggy!\nNo I don't mean that Iran is a powerful state. USA is very powerful and USa can beat Iran however, a war eating of the source of  a country. And many people in the world will hate USA. It is not good for American people:(
1019324
Not much effects on economy or social well beings..\nThis is because one party employs 'whips' to enforce bench members to 'aye' the motion, even though he/she felt differently..\n\n...if u know what I meant...
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Really, I do not think there will be much of a financial impact.\nRemember the campaigns last year urging people not to buy gas from Exxon-Mobile or not to buy gas on certain Mondays?\nDid that work?\nWhat about the anti-war protests? Any effect?\n\nI am guessing that, like most of us when we take a day off, Hispanics that take May 1st off will have to work more the day before and the day after.\n\nAt the end of May, we will celebrate Memorial Day. All government business will be closed. Millions of people will not work that day. This happens every year and somehow, we all seem to get through it without a catastrophic collapse of the American Government.\nAs for the schools. If parents are going to protest the fact that their children are receiving a free education for their children they are just ungrateful!!!\n\nIf I ran a business and people decided to take May 1st off to protest. I would fire them. I am sure a lot of people feel the same way.
676469
HUGE impact.  There are proved studies that show how much influence the media actually have over an election decision.
1099539
NO! i do believe that for average americans it gets harder and harder to find justice. and, the government claims no harm! right?\ni'm sure there will be more political statements made, but just as an everyday civy...i don't see where they care
452548
Yes, America is doomed.  Not for any religious reason but, American Idol is a cult that is eating the souls of everyone that participates.
668288
Sorry to hear that...\n\n...Sounds like a lot of the politicians we have in the U.S.
708674
Pre-empting daytime TV for endless hearings and investigations while they accomplish nothing in Washington, the economy begins to wane as taxes kick in and expenditures on social programs increase at the expense of defense and national security. Not wanting to deal with the terrorists in their backyard just means they will come to play in ours. And probably illegal aliens will get amnesty making those who applied legally for citizenship look foolish. At some point someone will realize our international influence has a great deal to do with our food production in this country, and the UN will try and take control of our farm produce. We already have lost most of our freedom of speech if it doesn't agree with the left. The careful avoidance of the gun control issue by democrats just means they have learned their lesson not to take on the NRA. the question will be can they last two years, until the Presidential race, before going liberal? I hope I am completely wrong, but I remember what the democrats were doing before 1994 when they had been  in control of both houses for decades. Had the "rising tide" of eager young republicans  kept the last of the pledges of the "contract with America", "term limits" and rotated out of office then they might not have been defeated as badly by the "change" attitude, or as complacent with status qou. The success of illegal immigrant and private property rights ballot measures in states that went democrat prove the republicans weren't paying attention to what were traditionally middle class values, democrat or republican. I think most people are just hoping for PROGRESS, low taxes, lower energy costs, some kind of peace (isolation is a utopian dream, 9/11 reminded us), so that life and prosperity can go on. But the influx of illegal immigrants to work cheap and demand benefits and exodus of good jobs, must be dealt with.
950433
It was so incredibly sad to hear the results of most of the gay marriage bans this election. I can't believe that as a country we seem to be so damn unaccepting of difference. As a ray of hope, though, I worked to defeat the gay marriage ban in Arizona, Prop 107. We managed to defeat it, so I think there's still hope for a better future. We just have to keep working on it. We'll show all those bigots that hate has no place in the world.
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Yes it will cause problems for the USA. Socialist societies/governments cannot sustain themselves...and eventually we will see the population on "save the children" commercials..and we will be expected to subsidize them.\n\n"...just 35 cents a day...less than the price of a cup of coffee you can..."
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While the immediate effect of the Missouri Compromise was to continue to equality between slave and free states in the Senate (Missouri and Maine), it reserved a vast majority of the area of the Louisiana Purchase into territories where slavery would be barred by federal law, and set the precedent of the northern access of slavery being on a designated parallel. This would have tremendous consequences because of the growing paranoia of slave-holding gentry in the South.\n\nWhen the slave-holding power in the South realized the actual consequences of the agreement, there would be a growing movement to not only marginalize federal power but to then force the acceptance of slavery as an institution into the psyche of people in the North. This would be seen in the Kansas - Nebraska act, in the Fugitive Slave Law, in the Compromise of 1850, etc. Slavery would go from the "Peculiar Institution," (an odd lifestyle but far away and not our business) to a forced acceptance (people in free states are forced through their taxes and law enforcement to help maintain slavery).\n\nThe people in the North had been led to believe that the problem was solved by the Southern acceptance of the Missouri Compromise, then they found they had been lied to and the problem began to get worse.
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I doubt it'll affect things much for the hard-line people.  The waffles in the middle...I don't know.  A lot of people really don't like Gates and most people don't know who Welch is.  So, their "charisma" won't have much effect.  I haven't really been following the campaign finance reform recently, but I'm guessing their financial contributions won't make that much of a difference either.\n\nIf you're suggesting that Gates is going to get someone to code up some program to skew the election results, there are better conspiracy theories that are more interesting floating around these days.\n\nEdit: I stopped following your train of thought after you made claims such as Welsh owning half of MSFT.  \n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqlqQoulrFM_sC_doXwDU8nsy6IX?qid=1006042633264\n\nYou have sources for that?  Does MSFT even write the software that counts election results?  Sources for that?  Most of your train of thought is just based on random suppositions that ring about as true as the Da Vinci code.  Might fool a few people but if you ask for real proof, it's just a nice story.\n\nThat said, I understand your position and the use of the Internet to pass on thoughts to help your cause, so I'll leave you to that.  You said it best yourself: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgCLJuynwt_Fyvagqj5DwFLsy6IX?qid=1006042425650
815654
It's premature to expect anything.  Politicians regularly promise the world and even promise to tie a nice little bow around it too.  Nobody wants promises - they want results.\n\nAnd whether anything is REALLY going to change or not is still completely a matter of speculation.  We will all have to wait and see.\n\nBut, as the saying goes, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results".  We may not get different results from the governement after this election, but at least we're not doing the same thing over and over.  And most of America clearly doesn't like the way various things are going.
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'ABC15.com' has the results listed. Basically, all the props relating to lessening illegal immigration passed...English is now the official language, illegals cannot sue or receive benefits or make bail. Both props relating to changing the way State Trust Land is handled (105 & 106) were NO so it will remain the same. The statewide smoking ban passed. The prop to prohibit confinement of animals passed. It looks like AZ is the one state where the Protect Marriage prop is not passing. The minimum wage increase passed...so we should see all grocery prices also increasing within the month. The eminent domain prop appears to have passed...so our taxes will be going up to pay all the frivilous lawsuits resulting. Check the website for complete details.