Sentences with phrase «elected branches»

Mr. Torres said he hoped a commissioner with a lower profile would be «more accountable to the democratically elected branches of government.»
Having raise the bar in that regare, at least for a sub-divison contract agency (that is not officially, as I understand it, a Governent elected branch despite its somewhat deceptive name); the quest for open reporting seems reasonable.
The lawsuit was a classic attempt to circumvent the legislature (the popularly elected branch of government) and to insinuate politics into the judicial process.
The section on JUDICIAL ACTIVISM, called «Rogue Justice,» explains that progressive judges have transformed the Court from being the least dangerous branch to a policymaker usurping the constitutional authority of the elected branches and underming our democracy.
The other is that the language of state constitutions is unclear and, therefore, provides no justification for regulating the elected branches» policies.
Since 2005, courts in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Oregon have dismissed such cases on motion, holding that control over school funding is the sole province of the elected branches of government.
Courts are not political branches of government; one of the basic rules of jurisprudence is that courts should not get involved in deciding something that's really up to the elected branches.
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