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Washington (AFP) - The US State Department on Tuesday criticized the Central African Republic's recent constitutional referendum, saying its removal of presidential term limits, among other changes, "undercuts the country's democratic governance." On Monday, the CAR's top court gave final approval to the results of the July 30 referendum, in which 95 percent of voters favored the changes. The constitutional rewrite, fiercely criticized by the opposition, scraps the CAR's two-term limit and extends the presidential mandate from five to seven years. The changes allow President Faustin Archange T...
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New York (AFP) - An original copy of the US Constitution -- one of only two known to be in private hands -- will be auctioned off in December with bidding estimated to go as high as $30 million, Sotheby's announced Tuesday. Five hundred first printings were made of the US Constitution's final text and provided to participants at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin, but almost all have been lost to history. Of the 13 that are known to have remained, 11 are owned by governments and institutions. Last year, one of the two privately ...
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Washington (AFP) - The first Black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was inaugurated Friday at a ceremony in Washington attended by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Jackson, who was nominated to the top court by Biden, will be part of a progressive minority in the body that decides some of the most important social and legal issues in the United States. But the 52-year-old may find her hands largely tied by the conservative majority of six justices -- three of whom were appointed by Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump. That majority has wielded its...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - California's governor signed into law Friday new gun control legislation modeled on a controversial legal approach used in Texas to curb access to abortions. Last year, well before the US Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to an abortion, the Republican-controlled state of Texas enacted a new law allowing individuals to sue anyone helping to terminate a pregnancy, if a fetal heartbeat could be detected. The Texas law allowed the individuals who filed the civil complaints, if they won their case, to receive "damages" of at least $10,000. Officials in the heavily D...
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Washington (AFP) - Stephen Breyer, the oldest justice on the US Supreme Court and the senior member of the bench's liberal-leaning wing, boasts a record of pragmatism in the hundreds of opinions he has authored in his long career. The bespectacled California native, aged 83, was nominated to the nation's highest court by Democratic former president Bill Clinton, and US media reported Wednesday that he plans to retire at the end of the current term in June. He has spent more than 25 years on the nine-member bench, which towards the end of his tenure has firmly leaned to the right of the politic...
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Washington (AFP) - The cryptocurrency donors who banded together for a failed try to buy a rare copy of the US Constitution have had insult added to their injury in the form of over $1 million in fees, data showed Wednesday. Over 17,400 donors joined in the headline-making effort to purchase the document at auction in New York, but people have been seeking refunds this week after losing out to a billionaire's $43 million bid. The crowd-funding endeavor used the digital money ether, which extracts a charge for each transaction -- so donors had to pay both to pitch in and to get their money back...
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New York (AFP) - Auctioneers revealed Friday the identity of the buyer of an extremely rare original copy of the US Constitution for a record $43 million -- a billionaire who will loan it to a museum to maximize the document's viewing. Kenneth Griffin, CEO of the hedge fund Citadel in Chicago, set a world record for a historical document at auction Thursday when he purchased the 1787 text, according to Sotheby's auction house, which staged the sale. The 53-year-old billionaire's personal fortune is estimated at nearly $21 billion, according to Forbes, making him the 47th richest American. Cita...
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Washington (AFP) - The 25th Amendment to the US Constitution provides for a president to temporarily hand over power to the vice president in the event he or she becomes incapacitated. President Joe Biden invoked Section 3 of the amendment on Friday to transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris during the period of time he was sedated for a routine colonoscopy. Biden, who turns 79 on Saturday, underwent the procedure during a physical on Friday at the Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the White House said. "In view of the present circumstances, I have determined to transfer...
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New York (AFP) - An extremely rare original copy of the US Constitution sold Thursday for $43 million -- a world record for a historical document at auction -- with a cryptocurrency consortium that coveted the text outbid by another investor. Sotheby's auction house, which staged the sale, said the item was one of only 13 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787 at Philadelphia's Independence Hall by America's founding fathers including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. The winning bidder was not immediately identified. A group of cryptocurre...
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New York (AFP) - An extremely rare original copy of the US constitution was sold Thursday for $43 million -- a world record for a historical document at auction, Sotheby's said. It is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787 at Philadelphia's Independence Hall by America's founding fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison and ratified the following year. The winning bidder was not immediately identified. A group of cryptocurrency investors had raised $40 million to buy the document but failed to secure the document, ...
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