Sentences with phrase «allowing unconstitutional laws»

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A law is not unconstitutional simply because it allows churches to advance religion, which is their very purpose.

At the same time, the precedent of having a unconstitutional law that allows a private foreign company the power to operate with little oversight in a European country is not a precedent to be desired.

He then mocked New York lawmakers who due to Andrew Cuomo's possibly unconstitutional haste, forgot to make exemptions in the law to allow police to carry more than seven rounds in a gun.

(CNN)- A federal appeals court sided with the government Monday, allowing the military to maintain its «don't ask, don't tell» policy during an appeal of a lower court ruling that the law barring openly gay and lesbian soldiers is unconstitutional.

New York's controversial receivership law that allows for the takeover of failing public schools withstood a court challenge by the teachers union, with a state Supreme Court judge this week rejecting a number of arguments aimed at deeming the statute unconstitutional.

On Monday, Georgia's Supreme Court decision deemed the Georgia Charter Schools Commission — a state commission that authorizes the creation of charter schools — unconstitutional, striking down a 2008 law that gave the state the power to create the commission in the first place and allowed the commission to fund charter schools with money that would have otherwise paid for public schools in local districts.

Thus, the Toledo law specifically prohibits, say, keeping a «pit bull» in a pen, which the state law allows — making the Toledo law unconstitutional because it violates home rule policy.

Steed contends the law allowing prosecutors «to pursue people who consider themselves plurally married but aren't legally married is unconstitutional.»

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada unleashed a seismic social, legal and political debate Friday by giving the federal government just 12 months to redraft unconstitutional criminal laws or allow prostitution to flourish as would any other business.

It also allowed the Court to declare a law unconstitutional with a simple majority, renamed Court judges «justices,» added a mandatory retirement age for judges, and gave the Court rulemaking powers.

The «business - friendly» Oklahoma Workers» Compensation Commission unanimously ruled that the state's 2013 law to allow corporations to «' opt out» of state workers» compensation — and write their own plans for dealing with injured workers — was... unconstitutional»!

This doesn't mean Congress can't write a law that allows for the such abuses to happen, but that doesn't make it a legal law and it gets overturned by the same chain of judges declaring it unconstitutional.

Under the law, trial hearings can be postponed three times for periods of up to six months each, allowing a maximum suspension of 18 months, a provision the court ruled was unconstitutional.