Sentences with phrase «federal power»

[I hope I am wrong, but I believe that 10 years from now, we will look back with regret and even shame on this misuse of federal power.

I suppose that when it's about the military, the right supports a strong federal power.

But if the plan were one for purely voluntary cooperation, it would stand no better so far as federal power is concerned.

Until we address the issue of excessive Federal power and the misuse of it, the gun issue is not going to be resolved to anyone's satisfaction.

Each state has «mirror» legislation that cover areas where Federal power doesn't reach due to constitutional limitations and they have their own «police».

This case also brings up an interesting example of the differences between federal powers and state powers.

Note that other federal powers are less subject to this restraint.

The left supports federal power much more than state power.

The appeals court, which has a reputation for narrowly defining federal powers, can throw out the rule if it chooses.

This objective can place them on the same side as the unions, which fear federal power and its ability to promote reform.

And civil rights, so goes the thinking, must be aggressively enforced via federal power on grounds that some states and districts can't be trusted to take rights seriously.

It is about how far federal powers extend and is the most important division of powers case in decades.

Stay tuned to see who wins the state versus federal power struggle over data privacy and security — exciting times are ahead!

Each of these subject matters is directly linked to at least one head of Federal power.

These principles are as applicable to the power to lay taxes as to any other federal power.

«We could convene technical conferences, we could do a notice of inquiry, we could initiate Federal Power Act Section 206 review proceedings, so there are many tools available to the commission to act within 60 days.»

[65] At the core of federal power over pipelines is determining where pipelines are located.

He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds.

Obama recommended a minuscule reduction in testing, Arne Duncan soon will be spending «more time with his family,» and part of the abusive use of federal power in education will be dumped into the laps of the states.

This month, the Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether the federal government's attempt to create a national securities regulator is a valid exercise of its trade and commerce law or simply the biggest federal power grab since Confederation.

News of a letter from former DEA officials (some of whom profit from drug - testing business and, therefore, have a vested interest in keeping it illegal) to President Obama urging him to use federal power to put down Washington's and Colorado's recent local votes to legalize use of marijuana in their states hit the media week.

For the first time in Nigeria, the opposition routed the ruling order for federal power.

New access to the procurement activities of six major US regional power authorities, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and federal power authorities which operate hydroelectric power, fossil fuel plants, nuclear power plants, wind turbines, solar panels and transmission systems

Scalia's vote was also likely affected by the sense that the Court should not expend political capital, especially with new Republican nominees soon to be voted on, on trying to limit federal power without any support from the political branches...»

(7) The right to appropriate and spend money under contracts or proper governmental purposes can not justify contracts that are not within federal power.

The Louisiana state Supreme Court refused to retroactively change Montgomery's sentence, and the Supreme Court must also now decide whether the court has an authority to do that, also making this a case of state - versus - federal power when it comes to certain kinds of sentencing.

For example, modern left is often promoting federal powers over state powers, which is in no way egalitarian, and may members of the Republican party, which is universally considered «right», believe in reducing the size of the government and restricting its power.

That doctrine, he wrote, permits «executive bureaucracies to swallow huge amounts of core judicial and legislative power and concentrate federal power in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution of the framers» design.

And with that, the teachers» unions joined the battle against federal power.

Does the ESSA really relinquish federal power?

Terminal defeat of the Clean Power Plan... an unconstitutional EPA regulatory power grab which obliterates guaranteed vertical separation of state and federal powers altogether... remains a central priority.

Overall, I can follow the reasoning, but you haven't really addressed part 1 of the question: is the claim that the left by and large want more federal power actually correct?

The entire conservative House delegations of several states, including Georgia, Mississippi, and Utah, voted for this legislation at the same time their state counterparts are pushing for a constitutional convention, complaining about federal power.

The Federal Government is allowing them to do it for the sake of more Federal power.

But perhaps devolving most existing federal power to the state level will end up being the most mutually acceptable path forward for both conservatives and liberals who don't want to be dictated to by people who don't share their values.

Should the impasse not be resolved, the group asks the federal government to utilize all appropriate federal powers at their disposal, including expanding, if required, the Ocean Protection Plan to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline project proceeds without further delay.

There are many areas where federal powers overlap state and / or local powers.

Having seized power through the electoral college used to elect the President of the United States, Donald Trump now intends to redeploy federal power away from civilian to military expenditures, to dismantle health care and other forms of income support, and to advance a neoliberal environment fostering business activity and investment.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909 - 1987) never attained federal power.

Apropos nothing, Edmond Dantes was definitely NOT the «Strong Federal Power supporter» type of character:)

When the left - on the practical level - sees the same downsides to Federal control of their pet issues as described above - they instantly want LESS Federal power on that issue and to make it a State one.

May God never be angry with Nigeria as to allow APC access federal power.

One of the things I teach in my class on education politics is that there are few principled federalists — that is, people whose views on the appropriate scope of federal power remain the same regardless of who's in charge in Washington.

Policymakers can either continue on the path of top - down regulation and accountability that has characterized the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era; devolve federal power to the states, which would in practice return to the laissez - faire model of the mid-1990s; or «rethink the fundamentals.»

Given the uncertain legal ground on which its new regime of not - quite - regulation rests, the department could face some unusual dilemmas if it attempts to bring federal power to bear against dissenters.