Sentences with phrase «flouting constitutional»

President Donald Trump has again asked a U.S. court to dismiss a suit accusing him of flouting constitutional

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But the lesson of the Nixon years is that Congress is the only institution with sufficient power and constitutional resources to stand up to a president who flouts the rule of law.

President Obama's constitutional law professor and mentor at Harvard, Laurence Tribe, calls Obama's attempt to flout the Constitution in order to get his way on the «Clean Power Plan» (CPP) a «trifecta» since it attempts to go around three major institutions of government: Congress, the courts, and the states.

The Court concedes, as indeed it must under our decisions, see Royall v. Virginia, 116 U. S. 572; Thomas v. Collins, 323 U. S. 516, that if denial of the right to speak had been contained in a statute, appellant would have been entitled to flout the law, to exercise his constitutional right to free speech, to make the address on July 2, 1950, and when arrested and tried for violating the statute, to defend on the ground that the law was unconstitutional.