Sentences with phrase «like judicial power»
Impeachment is a use of something like judicial power by the legislative branch.
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Or since it is a political affair that must be somewhat like a judicial proceeding, we might think of it as a mix of legislative and judicial power, but one only exercised by the legislative branch.
Related: Why has the Supreme Court of the United States not used its power of judicial review to audit constitutionally - questionable laws like the Patriot Act?
He argues that «under any conception of our separation of powers, I would have thought powerful and centralized authorities like today's administrative agencies would have warranted less deference from other branches, not more,» and that judicial deference has «added prodigious new powers to an already titanic administrative state.»
Like the heated question of whether a non-entrenchment clause could be dug into our law to protect UK parliamentary sovereignty, this one wasn't about law, or even constitutional theory; it was essentially about differing ideological positions vis a vis judicial power.
References to literature in judicial opinions, like metaphors and similes, derive their power from surprise; therefore, if used frequently, they lose their novelty, like the oft - repeated punch line of an outdated joke.
A libel case, like all lawsuits, involves the government's judicial branch using its coercive power to make you pay money as a result of your speech, based on a law requiring you to pay money for certain kinds of speech.
Likewise, the Polish Sejm's giving itself the power to select members of the national judicial council (i.e., the body responsible for nominating Polish judges) might not be a cause of concern, because those judges will still enjoy some protections from the majority party like civil service tenure.
One example of a lack of the same, i.e., judicial arrogation of divine - like power over mortality — and talk about from the sublime to the ridiculous — is this report from Paul Levy of Public Citizen's Consumer Law & Policy Blog about a favorite topic of mine, too: the reduction of trademark law to the role of handmaiden to Big College Pro Football's money grab over, well, everything: