Sentences with phrase «go against the constitution»

Emanuel is suing because he says new rules for a federal crime - fighting grant go against the Constitution and the city's values.

They are mandated to jail, detain and deny bail to any perceived enemy of the regime even when this means going against the Constitution of Nigeria.

Not exact matches

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

Oh boy, care to explain how you think one small ruling is going to impact the Constitution when so much has already gone against the hype of your belief system?

Shepard goes to great lengths to show the negative consequences of ordering human societies in ways that work against our genetic constitution.

The aim of this political movement was to do a hit and run, go inside really quickly, open the windows and explain to people how things work inside the parliament, fight against Icesave being socialised and get the new constitution going and the injustice that people felt by losing their houses and mortgages would be rectified.

This clause goes against article 44 (3) of the Romanian Constitution.

Aside from the practical implications, the blanket nature of the bill goes against the very foundation of our unwritten constitution.

He was arrested and convicted, but fought back because he believed the conviction went against the basic freedoms guaranteed to him by the US Constitution, Dromm said.

He said «we will cover the election but we will not pay the money that the EC is demanding and we are going to see what decision the EC is going to take against journalists who intend to cover free and fair and peaceful election in accordance with the constitution of the country.»

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

He said, «It is about the party invoking a clause in the constitution in recognition of a decision he had made by ceasing his membership of the party by going public to say he voted for a candidate other than the candidate of the party, and also saying that he was advocating to his constituents to vote against the decision of the congress which is the highest body of the party.»

According to earlier testimony, an April 2010 email from Sinnreich to the town said that a municipality guaranteeing a private loan would go against the New York State Constitution.

A lengthy discussion that follows of so - called Blaine amendments (the generic term for measures enacted in various state constitutions forbidding direct government aid to educational institutions with any religious affiliations) contends that since the ESA money goes to parents, state constitutional prohibitions against funding religious institutions are avoided.

Furthermore, the SCC found that the primacy of EU law does not go against the supremacy of the Constitution; once the EU legal order is accepted into the Spanish system, and within the competences attributed to the EU, «the Constitution is not the standard of validity of Community law, but the Treaty itself», and the SCC may not generally control the legality of EU secondary law.

A court can not strike down a law for being a stupid idea; it can only strike down the law for violating a more fundamental law (i.e. state and federal constitutions, including striking down state laws for going against...

Just how far does the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution go to protect against a warrantless search of an apartment?

According to the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution, states must recognize the same - sex marriages performed in other states, even when this goes against the state's own public policy.