Sentences with phrase «as branches of the federal government»

The federal courts have shifted the power to themselves as branches of the federal government, and politicized the issue at a new level of significance.

The ESRB would become the modern day equivalent of the Comics Code Authority back in the 1950s, except they would target violence in video games exclusively; maybe even as a branch of the Federal Government or NSA.

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Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.

And, as Barkun reports, before Timothy McVeigh parked that Ryder truck outside the federal building in Oklahoma City, he had visited not only the charred remains of the Branch Davidian site at Waco but also «Area 51,» the secret government installation in Nevada that fascinates conspiracy theorists.

He suggests that, in agreement with Lincoln, Supreme Court decisions should be binding only on the litigants and not on other branches of the federal government, nor on other states, as the case may be.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.

If the branches of the federal government are truly coequal, if the President and Congress are not subordinated to the Court by the Constitution (except insofar as the Court might declare them to be), then the theme of «judicial restraint» that runs wistfully through your symposium is less an appeal for the impossible than a misconstrual of the problem.

What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.

The USA was designed as a Constitutional Republic, with checks - and - balances between the branches of the federal government, and also division of power between federal state and local governments.

While addressing journalists, within the premises of Ado Ekiti branch of the Zenith bank, Fayose alleged the federal government through the EFCC of blocking his account which he described as an illegal act.

This action is an act of treason, as it is an attempt to overthrow a branch of the Federal Government of Nigeria by force, and it must be treated as such.

Starting with that program as a base, Grignano has branched out to work on obtaining a number of grants, including a magnet school grant from the federal government, which have helped make the school what it is.

It was intended for the nation's fleet and commercial buyers - such as big corporations, federal, state and local government agencies and branches of the military.

Sadly, what is truly needed is aggressive financial reform at the federal level, which is impossible as long as The Legislative and Executive branches of government are allowed to profit in any way, i.e., contributions to political parties & candidates in elections, personal investments, and the insider trading laws that they are exempt from.

Before joining PetSmart in October 2016, Kathy served as the Director of US Government Relations for Zoetis, the world's largest animal health company, and held various positions at lobbying firms, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and in the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal gGovernment Relations for Zoetis, the world's largest animal health company, and held various positions at lobbying firms, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, and in the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal governmentgovernment.

We don't need more divisiveness and finger - pointing as we face Republican denialists and «lukewarmers» in all three branches of federal government.

This act of congress caused a flurry of actions throughout the executive branch of the federal government, and as such, various departments and agencies developed procedures and policies to assure scientific information integrity.

When asked whether certain government agencies or branches should do more or less to protect people from global warming - related health problems, nearly half of Americans think the following should do more: federal agencies such as the CDC, NIH, or FEMA (47 %); the U.S. Congress (46 %); and their state government (44 %).

My embarrassment crested yesterday when I actually read some of the endless stream of two - dimensional media polls asking people to weigh in on what various members of Terri Schiavo's family should do — as well as what the medical profession, Congress, and the executive and judicial branches of federal government should do.

«It is a co-equal branch of the federal government with the power to act as a body in response to defendant's alleged foreign emoluments clause violations, if it chooses to do so.»

Todd & Weld filed suit on behalf of Judge Kendall in federal court challenging the removal proceedings as unconstitutional on separation of powers grounds as an illegal encroachment by the legislative and executive branches of government on the inherent right of the judicial branch of government to monitor and review judicial conduct.

These include: (i) state executive and / or legislative branches, on the grounds that they are regulating not attorney conduct but consumer services and corporate structures, (ii) federal agencies, such as the FTC, on the grounds that they are regulating not attorney conduct but restrictions on competition, and (iii) the executive and / or the legislative branches of the federal government, on the grounds that they are regulating not attorney conduct but trade and commerce, economic policy and the protection of human rights.

Auditors General as far back as 1990 have pointed out that First Nations are required to do far more reporting (the major means of accountability) to the federal government than any local government is required to provide to funding branches of provincial governments.

One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday.

«As we have said in our filings, the Constitution and the three branches of the federal government should be entrusted to strike the balance between each citizens right to privacy and all citizens rights to safety and justice,» he told the E-Commerce...

As experienced members of the U.S. military, your clients understand that each branch of service uses specialized jargon — this is also true of the federal government.

Why is it that one branch of the federal government, CMHC, attaches no value to farmland and yet another branch of the same federal government, Farm Credit Corporation, is perfectly willing to consider land as an asset?