This is the same group that a month ago had no constitutional problems stripping the lieutenant governor of the powers the state constitution grants him, and yet now they're raising constitutional objections that they didn't utter a peep about during the campaign season last year.» (nystateofpolitics.com)
But barring constitutional objection, there still might be good practical reasons to defer to proven, demonstrated expertise on questions of law — where the constating statute says so. (ruleoflaw.ca)
My comments start from three propositions which are rooted in constitutional theory: (1) absent constitutional objection, legislation binds; (2) administrative decision - makers enabled by statute can only go so far as their home statute allows (3) it is a court's job, on any standard of review, to enforce those boundaries; in American terminology, to «say what the law is» (Marbury v Madison; Edmonton East, at para 21). (ruleoflaw.ca)