Sentences with phrase «critics say the law»

Critics say the law means that politicians are more unaccountable to the electorate because elections have been held historically on average every four years.

Critics say the law went too far to hinder banks from making loans that people and businesses need to spend and hire.

A lot of critics say this law was never designed for dealing with carbon dioxide, that in some ways Obama is resorting to it as a sort of kludge because Congress couldn't pass a climate bill in 2010.

Critics say the law, parts of which date from the 1960s, contributes to urban sprawl by allowing some parcels to be subdivided into too many lots.

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Marino was under fire after reports emerged that he'd boosted a law that eventually made it harder for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to freeze certain suspicious shipments, which critics say made federal efforts to fight opioid abuse more difficult.

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

The law, seen as a test - case in Europe's effort to rein in harmful social media content, has caused some speech to be removed unfairly, critics say.

Instead, there's a patchwork of state laws serving as the legal framework that critics say invites abuse and potential manipulation.

What's more, critics say, these laws are preemptive measures — offering to steel religious business owners from having to serve same sex couples, should the Supreme Court in June return a verdict giving same sex couples a federal right to marry.

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, the most prominent openly gay executive, assailed a new Indiana law that critics say could make it legal for businesses there to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

While supporters say the law protects small business owners» religious freedom, critics say it will allow for discrimination against gay customers and drive business out of the state.

Besides hunting down would - be terrorists, the new laws could be used to stifle dissent, remove due process and lead to the creation of a secret police force, critics say.

Lenders would still be free to charge annual rates well into the triple digits, but the law would eliminate what critics say is the worst aspect of payday loans: borrowers caught in a cycle of debt by taking out loans over and over.

According to CBS News, a 2006 law requires the Postal Service to prefund 75 years» worth of retiree health benefits — which critics say contributes to its disastrous financial situation.

Critics said traffickers used the platform to sell children for sex, however defenders say its ad hosting services are protected under freedom of speech laws.

Forcese and Roach were prominent critics of the Harper - era anti-terrorism law Goodale set out to reform, and they said he «gets a lot of things right.»

Critics say the Indiana law — and a pending religious liberty law in Arkansas — gives religious people a free pass to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Critics of Missouri's current law say that the illegality of the state's flourishing midwifery industry only leads to more dangers.

New York state will file an amicus brief in support of overturning a North Carolina law that critics say violates the civil rights of LGBT people by prohibiting municipalities from issuing ordinances that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with.

■ Lax personal financial disclosure laws, critics say, give corrupt legislators a way to mask political payoffs under the guise of part - time jobs.

The critics also said the state law wouldn't likely withstand a federal legal challenge.

The law forbids employers from firing older workers and replacing them with teens just to get the tax credit, although critics say that would be hard to prove.

A multi-billion dollar plan to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River could be even more expensive because of the Scaffold Law — a 19th century liability law critics say drives up liability insurance costs, a group looking to repeal the law warnLaw — a 19th century liability law critics say drives up liability insurance costs, a group looking to repeal the law warnlaw critics say drives up liability insurance costs, a group looking to repeal the law warnlaw warned.

Ironically, Albany's ethics watchdog, JCOPE, which critics say is too close to the governor — if not controlled outright by him — is reportedly investigating allegations that Libous used his political clout to secure a job as a politically - connected Hudson Valley law firm for his son.

Critics say the city law shields undocumented aliens who commit serious offenses, including sexual abuse, prescription drug sales, bribery, money laundering, harassment, grand larceny and drunk driving, from federal detention and deportation.

Klein says he hopes they pass bills to reform New York City's «stop and frisk» law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and the immigration bill known as the Dream Act.

Critics say state laws are far looser when it comes to ethical rules.

Critics of the legislation, which is among the most strict in the nation, say the law unfairly targets law - abiding gun owners.

Grandeau, now a private lobbying compliance lawyer and a frequent JCOPE critic, said his conversation with Agata took place at an Albany deli next to JCOPE's offices not long after the nonprofit disclosure law passed in June 2016.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson broadly welcomed the publication, saying, «It is very welcome that the Commission has confronted critics of Britain's equality laws head on.

Two proposed NYC Council initiatives aimed at changing law - and - order practices that critics say unfairly target minorities and the indigent have taken different paths, with one gaining steam as the other stalls.

Critics of the law have said the need to clarify the measure in order to exempt law enforcement is a sign that measure was rushed through the legislative process with far too little review.

Last year, Cuomo agreed to disband a Moreland Act Commission on corruption in exchange for a budget deal that included new anti-bribery laws, but critics said that the package he accepted was too weak, and did not go far enough.

Two proposed City Council initiatives aimed at changing law - and - order practices that critics say unfairly target minorities and the indigent have taken different paths, with one gaining steam as the other stalls.

Sources say Monserrate is also facing financial problems, and critics say it is questionable whether the law would allow him to assume office as a convicted felon.

AG Eric Schneiderman opposes two bills critics say would weaken the landmark I - STOP law that makes it difficult to obtain multiple opioid prescriptions and makes it easier for authorities to investigate the misuse of the highly addictive painkillers.

«We are on the same page politically,» said Credico, a longtime critic of state's infamous Rockefeller drug laws who campaigned in the Democratic primary on a platform calling for a $ 15 per hour minimum wage, Medicare - for - All, free SUNY and CUNY tuition, legalization of marijuana, a state - owned bank, and lower subway fares and bridge and tunnel tolls — all of which are issues long championed by the Green Party nominee....

«Sixty - eight percent of voters agree with critics of the governor that the new law has too many loopholes,» Greenberg said.

This system of excluding non-English MPs from purely English matters became law last autumn, and critics have said it effectively makes non-English MPs second class.

Critics of the program's limited scale, including State Senator Diane Savino and Assembly health committee chairman Richard Gottfried, said the governor's plan also relies on an unstable source for the drug's supply, and could potentially use marijuana seized by law - enforcement officials, instead of the purified and specially - grown strains developed to treat specific medical conditions.

Cor made the donations by taking advantage of state campaign finance laws that permit what critics say are end - runs around corporate donation limits through the use of limited liability companies.

Klein says he hopes the new coalition will ultimately be judged on policy, by passing bills to reform New York City's Stop and Frisk law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and by passing a bill known as the Dream Act.

Legislative Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (R - East Meadow) said the law still «increased transparency in the contracting process,» whether or not it satisfied critics.

Critics of the state's election laws say the antiquated and hard - to - understand rules are the main reason why the state regularly has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the nation.

Malliotakis argues that her critics take her votes out of context, such as her vote against a 2011 bill to bar discrimination based on race, gender, or national origin, which she said she opposed because it is redundant to existing state and federal law.

None of the state agencies charged with enforcing current ethics laws have done much of anything, and critics say their inaction has been a tacit blessing.

Supporters say new laws would bolster national priorities; critics see political interference.

«Critics of low - carbohydrate diets always invoke the laws of thermodynamics, but they're not understanding them properly,» says Feinman.

In particular, critics say the bill includes no penalties for companies that don't comply with the law, and that the bill's definitions of GMOs will exempt some ingredients from labeling requirements.

This law is so weak, critics say, that an EPA effort to ban asbestos — a class of fibrous minerals known to cause the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma — got struck down by a federal court in 1991 because the agency had failed to comply with another TSCA mandate that the agency pick the «least burdensome» way of regulating a substance.