«Individual legislators rarely if ever even attempted to exercise the traditional prerogatives that we expect of congressional legislators: voicing serious dissent, pushing an individual legislative agenda, conducting open hearings on
contentious issues of public policy,» he wrote.
Judicial Power's account: Despite clear Strasbourg case law upholding legislation that bans assisted suicide, a majority in the Supreme Court were willing in principle to go beyond Strasbourg and to tell Parliament that the law on
this contentious issue of public policy was contrary to Convention rights and should be reconsidered.
Not exact matches
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the
contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City
public schools — along with several other major
policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline
of April 1.
I believe he was simply using the death penalty as an illustrative example
of a
contentious public policy issue with a tenuous link to appropriations... the point being, to what degree does the Governor get to «make new law,» if you will, in budget bills?