Sentences with phrase «constitutional issues like»

But what are we to make of it when great constitutional issues like voting rights and the right of corporations to pour unlimited money into political campaigns are too often decided by one vote majorities aligning with whichever political party held an advantage in determining the court's make - up at the time?

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Q. Beyond the constitutional question, how important to you are issues like where the headquarters of the new regulator will be, where will its main offices be?

Is that why the post-Confederate pushing of constitutional issues always seems like whining...?

In general, based on the 2003 interview, it doesn't look like Santorum knows how to talk or think about this issue very well; he doesn't, for example, appear to know how to distinguish the three levels of the right to privacy debate: a) the natural rights level, b) the Constitutional level, and c) the plain - old law level, state and federal.

Of all the responses, I like president Barack Obama's the best: Kaepernick is «exercising his constitutional right» and «generated more conversation about issues that have to be talked about.»

Second, issues like abortion, euthanasia, and gay marriage should not be treated as isolated from the broader constitutional crisis.

We will include works on constitutional theory as well as on the empirical issues that underlie constitutions — particularly those that are important to uncodified constitutions like that of the UK.

He says in the past social issues have been the driving force, and he suggests for example items like ensuring a constitutional right to higher education, or health care.

Issues like the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, and ethics reform such as the constitutional amendment the governor first proposed in December for term limits and limiting outside income for state officials, lack the «political will,» he said.

As a result it has recently happened that the Constitutional Court had to issue a decree reminding the judges that there are statutory laws governing their decisions, so they can't just define «justice» as they feel like.

«We are happy to work with them on shared issues like constitutional reform,» said one.

He said Labour could not rely on past successes to win future elections, but had to spell out what they would do on issues like the environment, home ownership, constitutional reform and childcare.

The public relations firms» suit claims the rules violate the First Amendment as well as constitutional due - process protections «by unlawfully subjecting public relations firms like the plaintiffs to a disclosure and punishment regime designed for true lobbyists, when all they are doing is speaking to the press about public issues.

«How different it would be if the Conservatives had led on this issue, like for an English Parliament, then Labour would be doing anything and everything to keep the Constitutional issue closed down, as it is they see no downside to opening up the issue.»

The case's procedural history is very complex (the Advocate General referred to it as either Kafkaesque or tilting windmills like Don Quixote, depending on your point of view), so after only a brief factual discussion I will focus on the two major constitutional issues that the Court had to deal with:

I have to say that I did enjoy it, but issues like the living tree doctrine in the Persons case came up in Constitutional instead.

I'll admit, I'm not familiar with the California constitutional system, but this just seems like a bass - ackwards approach to the whole issue.

Especially for issues like acquitted conduct enhancements, it is nice to see Justice Scalia continue to stress the viability of «as - applied constitutional challneges to sentences.»

1) the Court argument is different: it goes «If the Treaty has a rule on whether a matter is subjuct to judicial review or not, you can't take the issue outside the Treaty» - it stems from EU being not a mere Intl org (where your argument would apply) and it is more like a constitutional limitation (i.e. To modify the rule you have to change the Trety, you can't do that with an intl agreement).

Defenders of judicial review like to point to the numerous occasions on which the «political branches» of government — that is, the legislature and the executive — act in ways that can not sensibly be supposed to be constitutional, and indeed with very little thought to the constitutional issues that their actions may raise.

The suit will almost surely raise constitutional issues concerning state power and patents but, for now, businesses will welcome a big new ally in the fight against patent trolls; others include Google (s goog) and patent scholars like Mark Lemley and Brian Love.