Bernard S. "Bernie" Cohen (born January 17, 1934) is a politician and former member of the Democrats of Virginia House of Delegates. On April 10, 1967, he presented an oral argument to the petitioners in the case of Loving v. Virginia before the US Supreme Court. On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cohen's client, declaring an unconstitutional marriage ban, thus annulling the anti-marriage laws of 15 states. Although about nine countries failed to revoke the aberrant laws after the Supreme Court ruling, the law was no longer enforceable.
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Early life and career
Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an active Jewish immigrant worker in a local union. In an interview, Cohen links his father's union activities with his own respect for the working person and his status as a historically oppressed minority as an incentive to advance equality. He studied at City College of New York, and a law school at Georgetown University. In the 1960s he helped found the Virginia American Civil Liberties Union unit. Loving vs. Virginia
On April 10, 1967, just a few years from law school, Cohen argued as a lawyer for voluntary cooperation for the ACLU on behalf of the applicants Richard and Mildred Loving in the case of Loving v. Virginia before. United States Supreme Court. Co-counsel Cohen is a fellow Virgin Philip Hugs Hirschkop, who also recently completed a law school in Georgetown.
Richard Loving is a white construction worker, and Mildred is black and native American according to his lawyers, although in 2004 he claimed the Indian-Rappahannock and not the ethnic origin of Africa. They married in Washington, D.C. in 1958, and after returning to their home in Caroline County, Virginia, six weeks after their marriage, they were arrested and accused of violating an interracial marriage law, a crime that lasted one to five years. At the time of their marriage, twenty-four countries banned racial marriage. The couple were sentenced to one year in prison, but their sentence was suspended on condition that they leave the country for 25 years. At one point according to Hirschkop's lawyer, Mildred, despite being five months pregnant and mother of a small child, was held in a small dirty jail cell for a better part of the month. After the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mildred wrote Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, asking whether the law could allow him and her husband to live in Virginia. Kennedy sent the letter to the ACLU office in Washington.
Supreme Court ruling on Loving vs. Virginia
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision overturning a Virginia High Court ruling that supported the state to create and enforce a racial marriage law known as the anti-marriage law. The ruling ratified that an interracial marriage ban was unconstitutional and their presence in some states and no one else denied that the couple had equal protection under the law guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Most significantly, it reverses the state's right to enact laws that prohibit interracial marriages or enforce such laws in which they exist.
The Supreme Court ruling overturned an inter-racial marriage law of 15 Southern states, including all states of the previous Confederations. Some states, especially Alabama, continue to ban racial marriages on the books, although they can no longer be enforced. Alabama did not officially reverse the racial marriage ban until 2000 in special elections that sparked anti-marriage titles from the country's constitution. After Loving in power, it continued to enforce marriage law between races until 1970.
Richard Loving died at the age of 41 in 1975 in Caroline County, Virginia, killed by a drunk driver. Mildred Loving died of pneumonia on May 2, 2008, in Milford, Virginia, 68 years old.
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Working as a representative to Virginia House of Delegates
Dari tahun 1980 hingga 1996, Cohen bekerja sebagai perwakilan di Virginia House of Delegates.
Bekerja dengan Virginia House of Delegates 21st district
From January 9, 1980, to January 12, 1983, Cohen represented the 21st district for the Virginia House of Delegates, an area in Southeast Virginia comprising Virginia Beach and the Chesapeake. As a new student delegate in 1980, Cohen sponsored a controversial act to decriminalize homosexuality in a traditionally conservative, state of Virginia. Not surprisingly, the bill failed.
Working with Virginia House of Delegates, 46th district
From January 12, 1983 to January 10, 1996, Cohen served as a representative of the 46th district of Virginia House of Delegates. The 46th district consists mainly of the city of Alexandria, not far from the nation's capital.
Resolution of nuclear freezing, 1983
In early 1983, Cohen supported the Nuclear Freezing Resolution before the Virginia State Senate Rules Committee, which was eventually rejected 10-4 on 8 February. Cohen's resolution denounced "huge sums of money spent on testing, producing, and deploying nuclear warheads and weapons" and the tension placed on the rest of the federal budget. It further called for bilateral talks between the US and the Soviet Union to begin a freeze on the production of such weapons. The main critic of the bill is Bernard F. Halloran, a special assistant to the US Weapon Control and Disarmament Agency.
Much of Cohen's bills are not related to civil liberties, but are designed to support defendants or plaintiffs in legal proceedings and are written in complex legal languages. A large number of Cohen's bills are designed to benefit those applying for personal injury cases in Virginia courts.
Death with dignity bills, 1983
In early 1983, Virginia House passed the Cohen's "Death with Dignity" bill. This step allows severely ill patients to determine if they want to go through "a heroic artificial way to keep their bodies alive when there is no hope of recovery". On February 21, 1983, the Virginia Senate passed the "Natural Death Act," which relieved doctors of criminal and civil liability after them, with the consent of a severely ill patient or relative's family, the regulator interrupted. "The bill requires patients to be in terminal condition, and there should be" no reasonable expectation of recovery. "Physicians who feel they can not morally abide by the wishes of severely ill patients or family members to decide on a patient regulator may transfer patient care to another physician.
In February 1984, Cohen strongly opposed a bill preventing unregistered youth from selective services from attending public universities and receiving financial assistance. The bill passes Virginia House with a 67-33 vote, but has not been filed to the Virginia Senate.
Cohen co-wrote a blog post in 2007 for the Huffington Post on the legal status of same-sex marriage.
Depiction on television and movies
Cohen has been described as a character in several dramatizations of the case Loving . In the 1996 TV movie Tuan. & amp; Mrs. Loving, he was played by Corey Parker. In the 2016 movie Loving , she is played by Nick Kroll.
References
External links
- Historical biography for 1983
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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