Sentences with phrase «executive branches as»

«It's also the case that there's corruption, we believe, in the executive branches as well.

The government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be republican in form and its legislative, judicial and executive branches as established by this Constitution shall be equally subordinate to the sovereignty of the people of Puerto Rico.

Skelos, who has made his financial disclosure information public, has said he would consider introducing legislation to police the executive branch as well, a vow that Cuomo shrugged off.

Now that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are no longer around to run the Executive Branch as a wholly - owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Chevron, et al, and the Obama administration and the Congress are moving to take action — however inadequate — to reduce emissions, the fossil fuel industry's campaign of denial and deceit will kick into overdrive, with the goal of undermining public support for the necessary action.

For example, secret executive orders and secret opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) can contain interpretations of law that are in many ways as binding within the executive branch as judicial pronouncements are.

Not exact matches

As chief executive of TD, Clark led an astounding U.S. expansion of the bank, adding 1,300 branches in just five years.

As the executive branch decides how to address the opioid epidemic, communities hit hardest by the prescription drug crisis are beginning to target the pharmaceutical companies responsible for selling the addictive drugs.

He rose up through the ranks of the party as a delegate assemblyman and then executive to the Shanghai branch of the party.

For example, in the aforementioned article, reference is made to a gentlemen named Martin Woods, who served as director of Wachovia's anti-money laundering unit in London for three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignored).

Under the law, if Cohn sells his Goldman stock to avoid a conflict of interest as a member of the Executive Branch, he will be able to indefinitely defer capital gains taxes on the sale, providing he invests the proceeds from the stock sales in government securities or an approved government securities mutual fund.

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended, gives the executive branch the ability to conduct investigations to «determine the effects on the national security of imports.»

There are many reasons to suspect that the finances and persona of Trump the individual and Trump the candidate were intertwined, just as the separation between the executive branch and the Trump administration has been anything but airtight.

Four banking professionals have joined Marquis Bank to lead the bank's expansion into Broward County with a loan production office and a new branch in Fort Lauderdale.The new team will be headed by Steven Sanzone, who joins Marquis as market president after spending the last 14 years as executive vice president and senior loan officer at Stonegate Bank.

Another of Ramirez's lawyers, Mark Rosenbaum of the legal advocacy group Public Counsel, characterized the DACA program as a promise from the federal government's executive branch that DACA recipients would not be targeted for deportation and said he hoped that promise would not be broken.

As Richard Rubin pointed out to me on Twitter, section 1043 of the Code is designed to help with similar situations when the certain executive or judicial branch members are required to divest to avoid a conflict of interest.

In order to facilitate appropriate congressional oversight, the Executive Branch may entrust classified information to the appropriate committees of Congress, as it has done in connection with the Committee's oversight activities here.

She has worked extensively with the executive branch, as well as elected officials in both houses and across the aisles of Congress, State Government, and in the private sector.

As a result of such multiple failures (still ongoing), the executive branch easily misled the American public.

So just as the veto is the primary check the executive has against the legislative branch, that of impeachment is the primary check the legislative branch has against the executive one, although it can be used against judges and any other «Civil officers.»

He was a professional journalist, and though he had served in the executive branch, he had done so as a public - relations man.

In office, Lincoln gave effect to his position against judicial supremacy by consistently refusing to treat the Dred Scott decision as creating a rule of law binding on the executive branch.

Roe v Wade was a Supreme Court decision and so falls under the executive branch purview to ensure compliance, I look at the Gay Agenda as simply fulfilling the American ideal of freedom and personal choice.

What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.

The Band's Chief Executive appoints the Commissioner of Corporate Affairs, and that appointment is ratified by the Band's legislative branch, known as the Band Assembly.

Styled with real pine cones, grapevine, holly berries, seed pods and evergreens, as well as live Amaryllis plants and white birch tree branches, the natural design scheme pays tribute to both the bare winter tree branches in Rittenhouse Square, and Executive Chef Jon Cichon's unwavering commitment to using only the finest, locally - sourced, seasonal ingredients.

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I don't see that as a «political» stance — that's a «I don't want a compromised person running the executive branch of our government» stance.

But the reality of corruption in the executive branch of government doesn't mean that allegations of corruption in the National Assembly especially as they relate to budget padding and constituency projects, should be minimized or ignored.

As described in the letter, the proposal from Cuomo provides more detail to what the governor has publicly called for in recent weeks, namely the creation of a «chief procurement officer» to oversee state contracting within the executive branch.

The Daily News reported today that Silver and the governor have agreed to an ethics package could give the Public Integrity Commission, which oversees the executive branch, the power to investigate the Legislature as well.

The legislative pay panel is expected to make its decision on salary increases for lawmakers as well as officials in the executive branch after Election Day this year.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Under the Obama administration, Democratic state attorneys general (AGs) typically worked in concert with the CFPB, while under President Trump, they would act more as a counter-weight to the executive branch.

Cohen contends that the white paper should be seen not as actual U.S. policy, but rather as a kind of «trial balloon» that the executive branch is floating to assert more power for itself, and to which other branches of the U.S. government will rightly respond.

«The President of the United States swore an oath to uphold the laws of our great country and as a member of the Executive Branch he needs to enforce those laws, including the Defense of Marriage Act.

There are also questions as to whether or not a commission appointed by the executive branch even had the authority to investigate the legislative branch of state government.

And as presidents from Jefferson to Bush have found, the leaders and members of the legislative branch have their own agendas, even if they nominally belong to the same party as the Chief Executive (lucky Washington pretty much got a free ride).

The New York trials will touch the executive and legislative branches of state government, as well as local governments.

The file, composed of highlighted and annotated blog items by Elizabeth Benjamin, one of Albany's dominant political reporters, paints a picture of an executive branch that's particularly averse to hints that Cuomo could be, as is widely assumed, conidering running for president in 2016.

Describing the Commission as the executive branch is a bit misleading (for starters, it's actually the only institution with the right of legislative initiative) and there are separate decision processes for foreign policy matters.

Some ward Coordinators and Branch executives of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have sent a word of caution to the MP for the constituency, Hon. Nii Armah Ashitey to declare his intentions of contesting as an independent candidate in this years Parliamentary elections else they will seek some other person to contest.

«We will keep looking hard at corruption in our legislative branch as we have been, but not just there, but in the executive branch, too — both in city and state government,» Bharara said on April 12 at a gala hosted by the good - government group Common Cause, where he suggested there should be more efforts at government reform.

She also served as Executive Director of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association as a contributing writer for Inside Sports Magazine and in various positions within all three branches of New York state government.

The governor, the state Assembly and Senate each have control over lump sum spending for the 2016 - 17 budget, with as much as $ 2.2 billion be directed by the executive branch.

The [Independent Counsel] Act, taken as a whole, does not violate the principle of separation of powers by unduly interfering with the Executive Branch's role.

Intensive negotiations occur between the legislative and executive branches of government, as well as between the various parties (which is to say two in the US or the UK, but countries in Continental Europe typically have more than that), and between members of parliament within those parties.

So then, no government (defined as those people operate in the offices of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches thereof) has been conferred by law to exact its will over the very People it claims to protect and serve, and who are the very source of law that is said to have established such a government.

David Cooper was until last week a member of the executive of the South Staffordshire Conservative association (when his three years as a branch chairman came to an end).

An administration official told the Times Union on Monday that panel appointees of the executive and judicial branch indicated at their meeting last week that they have soured on the idea of a raise for two reasons: because only two lawmakers have formally stated their case to the commission this year, and because ethics reforms approved this year have been lambasted as not properly addressing recent corruption.

In the lawsuit, Antonacci alleges that raises approved for elected officials are illegal, as were attempts by the executive branch to uphold those raises.