Sentences with phrase «from enforcing the laws»

The department also plans to seek a court order from a judge to temporarily block the state from enforcing the laws.
On Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall denied the group's request for a preliminary injunction that could have stopped the state from enforcing the laws.
There's no reason to believe these items aren't related to the SAFE Act — but taking them away won't do anything to stop the executive branch from enforcing the law.
Phoenix passed an anti-puppy mill ordinance in 2013, but a temporary restraining order prevents the city from enforcing the law.
With almost 50 U.S. cities now enforcing bans, and an injunction prohibiting Phoenix from enforcing its law until a case initiated by Phoenix - based pet store Puppies»N Love is further evaluated, the future of bans is uncertain.
The Supreme Court of the United States has considered whether the National Bank Act («Act») prevented a state from enforcing its laws such as its fair housing laws against a national bank.

Not exact matches

The same can not be said for the Trump administration's top health officials — a substantial departure from the Obama administration's prominent public information campaigns and unusual considering the federal government is still tasked with enforcing the law.
If the feds enforce marijuana laws in the Golden State, legislators there want them to receive no help from local cops.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said in a letter to Sessions that Oregon state law dating back to 1987 prohibits state and local police from enforcing federal immigration law.
I have said from the beginning that my job is to enforce the law, and that is what happened today.
And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.
Since 2010, the number of IRS staff devoted to enforcing tax laws has dropped from over 50,000 to below 39,000, a decline of 23 percent.
While some in the industry believe that laws enforced in the crypto - space should be kept to a minimum, others recognize that sometimes it takes good, clear laws to restrain regulators from haphazardly enforcing their agendas in legal gray areas.
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Our children are packed into schools like sardines, surgeries are cancelled for lack of beds, seniors die from mistreatment, labour unions and universities are gutted and our health and environment are degraded because the government won't enforce the law.
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Wail away all you like, about the const - itution and how it is being mis - read, the true meaning of the separation of / from church and state, but it all does not matter — the law as currently interpreted and enforced says events of this nature are not legal!
The wishes of a god that can not even be proven to exist are not relevant to the laws of a nation that was built for the very purpose of freeing humanity from enforced religion.
On May 16, 2012, in response to a lawsuit filed by journalist Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf and others, [16] United States District Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled the indefinite detention section of the law (1021) likely violates the 1st and 5th Amendments and issued a preliminary injunction preventing the US government from enforcing it.
Coming from a place where religion and govt are supposed to be separate, I don't understand why the governmentally - enforced law that is supposed to act for everyone, needs to be tied to religious law that only relates to some.
Or it means we need to build robots like «Grot», from the Movie «The Day the Earth Stood Still», to enforce the laws...
Already in Nigeria, the Sudan, Indonesia and the Philippines as well as Brazil and Guatemala, rapidly growing religious factions are fiercely competing for converts, struggling for political power, inciting persecution and trying to legislate and enforce laws taken from various sacred precepts.
Europe now has dozens of laws to stop Christians from speaking out on controversial issues, not just in public spaces but in pulpits and private conversations as well, enforced vigorously through the criminal code.
That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?
He specifically had a symbol of religion built and put in a place of honor at a government facility, and the context of it being a list of laws from religious doctrine at a place where the law is created, upheld and enforced, certainly made the matter crystal clear.
The frequency and consistency of how laws regulating Christianity in such countries are enforced vary from being forced to pay a punitive fine to being deported.
Christians often decry those cultures where the government tries to enforce Muslim sharia law on the citizens, but from the perspective of many in our own culture, that is very similar to what Christians are trying to do when we try to enforce Christian law on non-Christians.
Churches were full; Christian festivals dominated the calendar; there was strict Sabbath observance; and the various patterns of Christian morality were enforced by peer pressure, even more than they were by law or from the pulpit.
The difficult thing is explaining where all of the energy came from in the first place, or where the law came from and even why it continues to enforce itself.
SO then, instead of enforcing existing laws, already on the books to prevent thousands from being slaughtered, we should just «love the Mexicans» and ISIS members pouring in thru the borders?
Insurance is permissible «in cases when the [U.S.] law enforces it and one can not... avoid it,» and» this will curl some hair, betcha» «if it is from the government (my emphasis) and is not implemented to make a profit but to assist employees and look after their affairs,» all insurance can be lawful.
You can not create laws which are enforced by the government to take money from the rich and give it to the poor.
By contrast, a child's right to protection from a parent's brutality is a matter of both moral principle and law which the courts will enforce.
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American parent to the child that babbles on his or her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges — even especially in our law schools; let it be written in textbooks, spelling books, and in TV guides; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
He attempted to enforce clerical celibacy, forbade pluralism, (the holding of two or more church offices and drawing the income from them), endeavored to exclude lay interference in ecclesiastical affairs, affirmed the right of Rome to review important cases under canon law and thus increased appeals to the Holy See, ordered that tithes for the support of the Church be given precedence over all other taxes, and took vigorous measures for the suppression of heresy.
Send a quick message to the Egyptian Minister for Agriculture (via the Egyptian Ambassador in Australia), urging the Egyptian government to pass and enforce laws protecting animals from cruelty.
Prenup laws (which are inevitably the legal avenue through which marriage plans will be enforced) are such a patchwork from state to state, not just in how the law is actually written, but also in how courts interpret them.
In Cicero, the Interfaith Leadership Council secured an agreement with the Cicero Police Department to issue a regulation dissuading officers from enforcing immigration law.
17Police are prohibited in South Carolina from enforcing safety belt laws at checkpoints designed for that purpose.
Patty Rundall, of the British Baby Milk Action, a group that advocates for breastfeeding, and who also represents the Baby Feeding Law Group, which advocates for laws controlling marketing of infant formulas, sends this most interesting article from The Independent about the latest efforts by Nestlé (really, no relation) to prevent the UK Health Department from enforcing marketing restrictions on infant formulas.
The federal government could, however, decide to resume enforcing these laws any time it wanted to and the states would have little - to - no recourse to stop it from doing so, other than attempting to argue in court that federal drug laws aren't authorized under the Constitution in the first place.
However, what I believe to be more worrying is that there is increasing evidence that the current law of 24 weeks is not yet being enforced properly — a factor largely absent from the devolution debate.
This includes the ability to make and enforce laws and the ability to defend its space from others.
So, Trump's plan to take money from cities that don't enforce the law is probably Constitutional.
I am pleased that my bill to prohibit sex offenders from residing near a pre-kindergarten or kindergarten has passed the Senate, and that this legislation will also go a long way towards ensuring that the law is properly enforced
But an excessive focus on enforcing tax law could prevent the establishment of effective systems better - suited to encouraging public contribution — systems that have emerged from and succeeded in the developing world to which the Treasury is so keen to offer assistance.
This explicit grant of power would also prevent the sort of federal pre-emption that stopped Bush - era state AGs from enforcing even state laws against federally chartered banks.
Isn't there something that prevents the executive branch from effectively overriding the legislature by refusing to enforce certain laws?
Open Loop blatantly violates procedures and laws without a single action from the responsible agencies that are supposed to enforce rules and regulations here in the city of New York!
The state Assembly last year adopted a sanctuary state measure to prevent state and local law enforcement officers from making arrests based on immigration status and from enforcing federal immigration laws.
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