Sentences with phrase «as a constitutional expert»

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Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Louis Seidman, a constitutional - law expert and professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, told Business Insider in July that whether Trump can pardon himself is «very questionable» as «a matter of constitutional morality.»

It can be traced back as early as 1990, when the religion clause expert Douglas Laycock noted that under Stevens» constitutional decisions religion is «subject to all the burdens of government, but entitled to few of the benefits.»

In the opinion of many constitutional experts, a majority of five Justices of the Supreme Court used the case as a vehicle to reason the Free Exercise Clause out of the Constitution.

@Stuart White: The Cabinet Office rule - book (draft of chapter 6, approved by the House of Commons Select Committee on Justice and drawn up in consultation, I understand, with the party leaders and with constitutional experts) lays it down that after an election the incumbent prime minister has a duty, as well as a right, to remain in office until there's clear and incontrovertible evidence that someone else is definitely in a position to command majority support in the house of commons.

«As an expert on the history of our founders and the founding documents, Sen. Loudermilk understands that the only path to fundamentally restoring our constitutional republic is over the heads of leadership in both parties,» Madison Project President Drew Ryun said in a release.

But, as Craig McAngus, expert in territorial politics and constitutional change at the Department for International Relations in the University of Aberdeen, points out, Norway has years of dealing with these tariffs and non-tariff requirements.

Mr Straw quoted the constitutional expert Venon Bogdanor, who said the past ten years could be seen as heralding a «quiet revolution» in UK government.

The aide also rebuffed suggestions by constitutional law experts that the Senate can not block Blagojevich's appointment of Burris on the basis that «anyone appointed by Gov. Blagojevich can not be an effective representative of the people of Illinois,» as the top five Democrats in the Senate asserted Tuesday in a statement.

Michael presented» Dangerous Make - Believe» on Saturday afternoon, and participated as one of the experts in the Constitutional Dialogue on Saturday evening.

There is growing support for a constitutional convention among academics, experts and pressure groups such as the Electoral Reform Society (ERS).

«In the face of such orders and the ethical dilemmas to which they give rise, medical professionals likely would decline to serve as expert witnesses in lethal injection cases in the first place, robbing the parties and the courts of appropriate expert testimony that would assist them in accurately adjudicating the important constitutional issues this and similar cases present,» the authors write in the brief.

As a teacher of US Government and Constitutional Law ~ I am not an expert on the realities of operational daily events in DC.

All of us involved in the case — recall that Jesse Rothstein and I served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Thomas Kane of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project and John Friedman of the infamous Chetty et al. studies (see here and here) served as the expert witnesses on behalf of the defendants — knew that all of the plaintiffs» claims would be tough to win given all of the constitutional legal standards would be difficult for plaintiffs to satisfy (e.g., that evaluating teachers using their value - added scores was not «unreasonable» was difficult to prove, as it was in the Tennessee case we also fought and was then dismissed on similar grounds (see here)-RRB-.

The tension between the Constitutional limitations and the broad RCW touches on what legal experts refer to as Dillon's Rule vs. Home rule, referring to the ongoing tug of war between city and state authority.

Joining my co-host J. Craig Williams and me as guests on the program are three experts in constitutional and media law:

Kathleen Sullivan is revered by clients and peers as a major force in the nationwide appellate sphere, who laud her keen insights and expert counsel in constitutional law and wider corporate disputes.

Constitutional law experts, such as Peter Hogg, speak about the relationship between the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) and Parliament as a «dialogue».

Constitutional law experts ask how Britain can extricate itself from the EU without undermining its status as a global law hub

CCLA will be represented by Anil Kapoor of Kapoor Barristers — an expert criminal and constitutional lawyer who has frequently acted as pro bono counsel for CCLA and whom we spotlight this month, below.

Garwill Law provides expert legal advice on customs and excise, tariff and excise tax, international trade law, constitutional and Charter law, immigration determinations, and administrative law (such as procedural fairness, reasonable apprehension of bias, or due process in courts and tribunals).

Ms. Kerr's argument, in a nutshell, is an almost Posnerian plea for judges to be attentive to facts and, in particular, to the information that various experts can provide about prisons, when they adjudicate constitutional claims brought by prisoners, as well as for lawyers to provide judges with such information.

It was, I said, «an almost Posnerian plea for judges to be attentive to facts and, in particular, to the information that various experts can provide about prisons, when they adjudicate constitutional claims brought by prisoners, as well as for lawyers to provide judges with such information.»

«They've tried to clean it up and there are some changes that will probably count as improvements when it goes through judicial review, but I think there are still serious constitutional questions,» said Andrew Siegel, a professor of law and constitutional expert at Seattle University.

Legal experts predict rumoured designation of Prince Charles as regent would send Canada into «unchartered constitutional waters»,

Constitutional expert Professor Peter W. Hogg, C.C., Q.C., has also reviewed Mr. Binnie's opinion and has said he is «in complete agreement with the Honourable Ian Binnie's conclusion that a person who has been a member of the Québec Bar for 10 years and is now sitting as a Federal Court judge is eligible to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada from Québec.»

Although most of us are not constitutional law experts and do not work on immigration issues, we can as individuals help to promote the rule of law.