Sentences with phrase «branch abusing its power»

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Because the Court does not seem to be disposed to correct this serious error, it is put upon the Congress of the US to perform its duty to support and defend the Con - sti - tu - tion of the US, by the use of its authority to apply checks and balances to other branches of the gov, when abuses of power and the exercise of excesses of power are evident.

Maureen Boyle, chief of the Science Policy Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Edward Bilsky, a professor of pharmacology and the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the University of New England, showed how opioids can commandeer the brain's natural systems that control pain and reward, and trigger a vicious response cycle that can diminish the pain - relieving power of medications, prompt users to reach for increasingly larger quantities of opioids and lead to deadly overdoses.

They also have the power to veto or reject the President's bills and investigate suspected abuse of power conducted by the other branches.

(We have some concerns about granting the Executive Branch more power to enforce exclusion orders, especially given the abuse of power we've seen in the domain name seizures cases, but we await the proposal's specifics.)