Sentences with phrase «branch officials»

And in areas in which the federal government lacked either the license or capacity to shape local policy directly, executive branch officials used federally sponsored litigation as a tool to advance reform.

The people elected executive and legislative branch officials at local and federal levels.

As we reflect on these realities, it is valuable to appreciate that executive branch officials make policy judgments at sentencing all the time.

But, most executive branch officials have, at most, «qualified immunity».

Several people have asked me why the federal conflicts of interest law, which bars every lowly executive branch official from acting on matters that affect their personal financial interests, won't apply to President Donald Trump.

Among the new measures pushed by branch officials, according to the New York Times: a mandate that Air Force Office of Special Investigations personnel «confirm that reportable cases have been entered in the federal database by seeing either a printout or a screenshot from the database.»

But the President is the head of the executive branch, so if he and an executive branch official disagree on need - to - know, the President wins (it's less «checks and balances» and more «the boss can tell his subordinates what to do»).

The Senate's leadership coalition, uneasy with the direction of the commission, fired a shot last week when Senator Andrew Lanza of Staten Island introduced a measure that would require increased disclosure for anyone contributing to an executive branch official if they were also bidding on state contracts.

However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, most recently in Bowsher v. Synar (1986), that executive branch officials serve at the pleasure of the president and may be unilaterally removed.

Disclosure forms are required for executive branch officials who have a policy - making position or are paid more than $ 88,000 a year.

People sue the president and other executive branch officials all the time.

Transparency is a means of holding all judicial branch officials accountable.

Although ethicists criticized the arrangement as falling short of the blind trusts set up by recent former presidents, Trump said he was doing more than he had to and noted that an ethics law that applies to most executive branch officials exempts the president.

In a motion to dismiss his indictment in July, Menendez's attorneys argued his meetings and interactions with executive branch officials can't be considered official acts under the McDonnell ruling.

Federal law does not prohibit the president's involvement in private business while in office, even though lawmakers and executive branch officials are subject to conflict - of - interest rules.

In the early morning hours of July 7, 2005, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed pay increases for state lawmakers, judges, and top executive - branch officials.

«Menendez is taking the position that it wasn't in his ability to take an official act to meet with executive branch officials, but the prosecution has done a great job of saying, «That's not what McDonnell says,»» said Mala Ahuja Harker, a former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

Their research focuses on state legislators, high - ranking executive branch officials, and supreme court justices.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP / WCBS 880)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is requiring top executive branch officials to undergo ethics training and to be re-certified every two years to work in what has been a scandal - plagued state government.

The FBI Director is a position within the executive branch of the US Government, thus the President is able to dismiss him like any other executive branch official.

Under the Constitution, the FBI Director is an executive branch official and can be removed if needed.

This statute, signed into law in 1978 in reaction to the Watergate scandal, orders the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to handle investigations into high - ranking executive branch officials.

[4] Johnson joined the Union of Communication Workers, becoming a branch official.

But at the last minute, this provision was expanded to cover about 28,000 executive branch officials.

One, in our system of government, executive branch officials are not empowered to give marching orders to duly elected legislators.

NADCP members receive access to information on pending or proposed federal legislation and regulations through the liaison between NADCP staff and key members of Congress and Executive Branch officials.

I've mentioned here and here the difficulty Oklahoma has had in terms of increasing judicial salaries through their linking process; the salaries of the state's executive branch officials are equal to those of judicial officials.

Lobbying, which includes efforts to inform and influence the decisions of government officials, including members of the US Congress and their staff, US Executive Branch officials, and commissioners and staff of independent agencies, as well as officials throughout the world.

[1] Even when subject to public election, a judge plays a role different from that of a legislator or executive branch official.

This lack of accountability raises legitimacy concerns, the most prominent of which is the fear executive branch officials will delegate controversial policy decisions to intergovernmental bodies in order to escape democratic deliberation.