Sentences with phrase «immunity clause for»

An All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator representing Zamfara Central, Kabir Marafa, yesterday said the ongoing debate by the National Assembly to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT Act was an attempt to introduce immunity clause for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and shield him from prosecution.

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His argument on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, rests on a strained parsing of the Reconstruction debates intended to show that the Privileges and Immunities Clause (which the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated shortly after the Amendment's adoption) was intended to make the Bill of Rights operative against the states.

The immunities of the Speech or Debate Clause were not written into the Constitution simply for the personal or private benefit of Members of Congress, but to protect the integrity of the legislative process by insuring the independence of individual legislators.

However, although the pre-disestablishment marriage law has been retained for the Welsh Church, including the putative right to be married in one's parish church, that right is abrogated by the third lock, which grants a conscience clause (and immunity from suit) to clergy who refuse to perform same - sex marriages.

Sen.Yusuf Yusuf (APC - Taraba) has called for the removal of the aspect of immunity clause pertaining to criminal offences committed by political office holders.

After lifting the immunity clause on all government officials for the upcoming Purge, the NFFA plots to eliminate Roan by attacking the senator at her well - guarded home in Washington, D.C. Forced to go on the run when a trusted staff member betrays them, Leo cautiously teams up with some fellow survivors — including corner shop owner Joe (Mykelti Williamson), Mexican immigrant Marcos (Joseph Julian Soria) and reformed gangbanger Laney (Betty Gabriel)-- in order to protect Roan by any means necessary.

We believe the Court's decision may set the stage for the Second Circuit to hold Section 470 unconstitutional: The Second Circuit strongly hinted that if Section 470 were to require nonresident lawyers to maintain a physical office within the state, it would violate the Privileges and Immunities Clause.

Earlier in 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that New York's Judiciary Law § 470 requiring out - of - state attorneys to maintain a physical office in New York to legally practice law in the state does not violate the privileges and immunity clause of the Constitution.

At issue before the Supreme Court was whether the immunity clause in s. 43 of the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Act had the effect of barring her claim for Charter damages.

It reasoned that the Speech or Debate Clause afforded absolute immunity for respondents» activities in investigating the funding of Hutchinson's research, for Proxmire's speech in the Senate, and for the press release covering the speech.