Sentences with phrase «legislating from»

As we've noted on this blog many times the Feres Doctrine, a 60 - year - old Supreme Court - created policy (talk about legislating from the bench) bars U.S. military personnel from suing the government for personal injuries suffered while they are in the armed forces.

The bits played on Morning Edition suggest that, although conservatives have been the ones to most vehemently denounce «judicial activism» and the evils of «legislating from the bench,» the conservative justices (primarily Thomas) have been the ones most likely to invalidate laws passed by Congress, while Breyer is the justice least likely to do so.

«This sort of radical, ideological legislating from a 12 - year Albany insider clearly puts him out of the mainstream of New York and disqualifies him from being the people's lawyer and the state's top law enforcement official.»

At some length and with deep knowledge of the region, these articulate and informed South Carolinian Christians discussed how their fellow - believers were being wiped out across the Middle East and how, at home in America, secular judges were taking away religious liberties and «legislating from the bench.»

When legislatures become all female then the issue can be legislated from a postion of those with a right to choose in the first place.

Remember, it is unconsttutional to legislate from belief.

Culture can't be forced or legislated from the top down.

Three Superior Court judges put the confirmation hearings on hold, and the leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly responded with an alarming statement that was essentially a frontal assault on the independence of the court: «Their decision to legislate from the bench will have profound consequences, and they should immediately reconvene their panel and reverse their order.»

As is typical on the Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court was busy agreeing to hear cases that may give it yet another chance to legislate from the bench.

10th Circuit Record Shows «Refreshing» Disinclination to Legislate from Bench WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2017 — Noting Judge Neil Gorsuch's «refreshing record of leaving lawmaking to elected lawmakers,» the American -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

In the 23rd Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan (OCA, 2007), the Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) certified that, in spite of the substantial increase in CPP benefit payments that would result from the retirement of the baby boom generation, the current legislated contribution rate of 9.9 per cent for employers and employees combined would be more than enough to pay for benefits through 2075.

Her remarks suggest that any attempts by the U.S. Congress to legislate comprehensive privacy protections would face hurdles from the Trump administration.

Just days before that, the Government of Alberta legislated its new carbon tax as the centerpiece of a climate plan that will also transform the province's coal - reliant electricity system into that will also eliminate coal from the province's electricity system in the next 14 years.

But the concept of Too Big To Fail was legislated under Obama and Wall Street indictments / prosecutions fell precipitously from the previous Administration.

A corrupt, transaction - based business model that breeds abuse from its very core can not be legislated into a good business model.

Carbon pollution from these sources is forecast to hit 66 megatonnes (Mt) in 2050, compared to the province's legislated target of 12.6 Mt.

It was time for the FED Chairman to make his legislated appearance to Congress and Mr. Bernanke rightly refrained from being dragged into the battle over the budget.

Despite being the only organization with the provincially legislated mandate to investigate cruelty complaints, the BC SPCA receives no direct funding from the B.C. Liberal government.

This marks a major shift in the meaning of death, from ineffable human destiny to legislated human right.

what i disagree with — is when people who suffer from delusional thinking attempt to legislate their theistic morals onto the rest of society — depriving people of their freedom, rights, liberty and equality.

Reacting to the result on Wednesday, Archbishop of Sydney Dr Glenn Davies said in a video posted online: «Although this won't prevent me from continuing to teach that marriage, in God's good design, is between a men and a woman... the reality will be, in a very short period of time, our Parliament will legislate for same - sex marriage.»

JUDGING THE JUDGES Patrick McKinley Brennan's review «The Forms Behind the Laws» (April) begs fundamental questions of interpretation, blurs the distinction between legislating and judging, and proposes a mode of judicial interpretation that would, in its practical application, be indistinguishable from judges who make decisions based on personal preference.

But even that doesn't matter because you can't stop people from being gay, you can't legislate feelings.

If you can't legislate stupid at least we should at least collect taxes from them.

Part of the confusion of Cobb's position stems from the fact that the extensive continuum, conceived of as a set of relations underlying past, present, and future, is part actual and part potential — actual in as far as it is constituted by actual entities enjoying actual relationships legislating what are real potentialities governing the relationships of future occasions; and merely potential in so far as these relationships are viewed as factors determining what forms of definiteness are, and are not, possible as factors in future fact.

There are also christian lawmakers and lobbyists who try and legislate that belief in hopes of conversion, which is where the hate from the other side comes in.

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.

But if these events have not set off alarms, it is even less likely that people would be sensitive to that subtler shift of power that runs to the root of the American regime itself: In one issue after another touching the moral ground of our common life, the power to legislate has been withdrawn from the people themselves, or the «consent of the governed,» and transferred by the judges to their own hands.

I'm sure there are many who would attempt to legislate Christianity our of existence (not that I think that's possible), but secularism protects you from that possibility.

But few elections are won from the margins, and the art of compromise continues to be the sine qua non of legislating.

He sees politics as «the master art» which must direct «the rest of the sciences», including economics, and «since, again, it legislates as to what we are to abstain from, the end of science must include those of the others, so that this end must be the good for man.»

It is also unlikely he started a «Christian coalition», to legislate against Nero from crucifying Christians.

Does Almighty God want man to honor Him from the cesspool of government, and does God want man to legislate faith?

Abortion has come to the fore in a handful of states where self - proclaimed «pro-life» Democratic lawmakers are facing allegations from conservative groups that their support for the healthcare bill legislated federally - funded abortion.

Any jurisdiction, anywhere that's legislated additional gun control laws hasn't benefited from it, whether it's been Washington, DC, Great Britain, or Australia or Canada.

Depends, that effect can range from someone knocking at my door to spread the gospel (mildly annoying) to legislating laws that disenfranchise a group for no reason (horrible) to using their faith as a tool to help the less fortunate (good).

Picture that ethic legislated: we would have a nation of 200 million - plus amputees, right eyes and right hands being removed from all but the listless or lustless.

Recently the Philippines has legislated a law declaring that those who bring nuclear weapons into the territory of the Philippines will be imprisoned for a sentence of at least six years and up to a maximum of thirty, and that all airplanes or ships carrying nuclear bombs will be arrested.4 There have been indications that the United States has explored plans to relocate the United States military from the Philippines to Taiwan.

Our very Constitution binds us, that is to say, the very breath of our political nostrils binds us, to disown all distinctions among men, to disregard persons, to disallow privilege the most established and sacred, to legislate only for the common good, no longer for those accidents of birth or wealth or culture which spiritually individualize man from his kind, but only for those great common features of social want and dependence which naturally unite him with his kind, and inexorably demand the organization of such unity....

They might take all their morals from what is legislated — but I certainly hope they are the exception and not the rule.

Representatives from both sides of the aisle are currently in discussions to determine how to legislate universal background checks and the scenarios where a person can not purchase a gun because they've been wrongly put on a watch list.

If the Supreme Court is to be kept from legislating, the key issue in the controversy over the interpretation of section 1 can not be the meaning of «liberty» and «equality» but the meaning of «due process of law» and «the equal protection of the laws.»

People who are unable to separate the dictates of their faith from const!tutionally guaranteed freedoms try to legislate their religious rules on others.

It makes it tricky because due to the way GM is legislated in this country, we had to drop canola oil from our ingredients.

Stop legislating the fun out of the game, stop changing the game from what has helped make it so successful.

Attempts to legislate social eating habits can not come from a program like Child Nutrition.

Therefore, all Governments should legislate to prevent commercial interests from damaging breastfeeding rates and the health of their population.

Ministers are now under pressure from the legal profession and its law reform advisory body, the Law Commission, to legislate to give full legal force to pre-nup deals by which couples agree how to divide their property when they divorce even before the wedding.

The Let's Move campaign has quite obviously stayed away from legislating anything, which is why it's not really very useful.

McKay proposes to beef up the territorial extent statements on each bill; and to improve the discussion of «Sewel motions» received from the three devolved parliaments, permitting the UK parliament to legislate on their turf.