Sentences with phrase «new constitutional issues»

A preliminary review undertaken by the bishops concluded that no new constitutional issues are created through the mandate.

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[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 20New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 20new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Q. Beyond the constitutional question, how important to you are issues like where the headquarters of the new regulator will be, where will its main offices be?

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

WCNY launches 6 - part series on potential issues a New York State constitutional convention could address.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

«Mr. Bloomberg's hypocritical support of constitutional protections, only when they don't impact the New York City budget, coupled with his uneducated and uninformed statements on the issue, serve to fan the flames of aggression, and undermine the potential for peaceful resolution of these matters, while perpetuating a long dormant policy of Indian termination which dates back to the days of General Custer's failed battle of Little Bighorn.»

In addition, if the Prime Minister can obtain concessions on constitutional issues such as more powers for national parliaments, the removal of the much hated reference to «ever closer union» in the EU treaties or even the promise to renegotiate a new EU treaty at a later stage, he can perhaps persuade another handful of Tory eurosceptics to campaign to remain in the EU.

That back of the ballot contained a question asking New Yorkers if they wanted to hold a constitutional convention — it's an issue that comes around once every 20 years.

New Yorkers For Constitutional Freedoms, a group that vehemently opposed the legalization of same - sex marriage, is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to apologize for comments he made during a panel discussion on the issue earlier this month.

The Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of the conservative advocacy group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, is among more than two dozen signatories of an open letter to Trump that presents pointed questions about the current Republican front - runner's commitment to culture - war issues including abortion, same - sex marriage and gambling.

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms has issued a statement congratulating Rose Belforti on her re-election in a race that has implications far beyond the Finger Lakes municipality where it took place.

SUNY New Paltz professor Gerald Benjamin, who has been on the front lines pushing for constitutional reform for decades, said he is not surprised government reform organizations are coming around on the issue.

The results echo those recorded at the ballot nine months ago, when Capital Region voters narrowly voted no on Proposition 1, the constitutional amendment authorizing the state to issue seven new casino licenses in select regions.

Genting issued a statement saying that company officials «continue to want to invest in New York and plan to do so for years to come,» but that the uncertainty surrounding Mr. Cuomo's efforts to push through a constitutional amendment to create a framework for casinos in the state made it difficult to reach a deal.

The issue is whether the new ballot access law, passed in 2011, is constitutional.

By early evening, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders had reached a deal on a number of issues including a redistricting plan, expansion of the state's DNA data base, pension reform, and a constitutional amendment to allow up to seven new gambling casinos in New Yonew gambling casinos in New YoNew York.

«After thoroughly reviewing the issue, the Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York has determined that a state Constitutional Convention is unnecessary, would be overly costly, and could result in the reversion, elimination or diminution of many current constitutional rights and safeguards,» said Justice Deborah Dowling, the grouConstitutional Convention is unnecessary, would be overly costly, and could result in the reversion, elimination or diminution of many current constitutional rights and safeguards,» said Justice Deborah Dowling, the grouconstitutional rights and safeguards,» said Justice Deborah Dowling, the group's president.

Election Day next month is shaping up to be a comparatively sleepy affair statewide, as ballot propositions for constitutional amendments, along with whether to hold a constitutional constitutional, the only issues all New Yorkers will face when they head to booth.

The New York Conference of Mayors has issued a voter guide ahead of the constitutional convention, weighing the pros and cons of holding the con con itself.

If this campaign is not to become the most depressing in modern times the central issues, apart from sovereign debt, should be these: urgent reform of the City; the need to build a more balanced economy; youth unemployment; poverty in an era of spending cuts and pay freezes; electoral reform and a new constitutional settlement; the European Union and Britain's place within it; withdrawal from Afghanistan and a multilateral foreign policy.

The Green Party of New York (GPNY) State Committee made a decision at its quarterly meeting on Saturday, September 16 to issue a statement that it would decline to endorse either the pro or con side of the New York State Constitutional Convention vote in November.

The stronger SNP presence will also serve as a constant reminder of the more pressing constitutional reform issues likely to dominate the new Parliament.

The groups, including the pro-choice Family Planning Advocates, and the Christian conservative New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, had argued that making their donor lists public could pose a danger to their contributors because they lobby on controversial issues.

Now, almost 20 years later, many of the state constitutional issues we explored in the mid-1990's persist, and new ones have emerged.

We see waivers on a variety of policy issues to accommodate implementation challenges, state - specific statutes or constitutional requirements, or to encourage innovation and new ideas.

As explained in the «Constitutional Issues» section below, with the exception of New Hampshire, existing tax - credit scholarship laws restrict the use of tax - credit scholarship funds to covering tuition and fees at private schools.

The board would be created by a constitutional amendment and be charged with approving all administrative rules related to the DPI; design and issue a new state report card and audit the DPI's accountability measures to «ensure DPI is effectively using, but not abusing, its authority to help low - performing schools and teacher preparation programs improve.»

There are various constitutional ways the legislature could fix the funding issue through existing or new funding streams while still saving the state money.

The amendments include a new process for giving notice when an appeal raises a constitutional issue, as well as new deadlines for serving and filing appeal documents.

A group of six drivers who were issued penalties under the new provisions have issued a constitutional challenge of the new regime, arguing the penalties imposed (including driving prohibitions, impoundment, fines, and the requirement of an ignition interlock device) are criminal in nature and fall outside the province's jurisdiction.

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that there was no reason to decide the constitutional issue since they found that the police did not create suggestive circumstances in Perry's case.

On recent redistricting fireworks in Pennsylvania — which are being decided under that state's constitution, and thus do not directly affect the federal constitutional issue or the situation in other states — see Nate Cohn, Matthew Bloch and Kevin Quealy, New York Times and Dave Wasserman, Cook Political Report.

Bright went on to explain that the team has been handling Brexit - type issues for some time now in the context of the constitutional changes already underway within the UK — for example, advising The Crown Estate on the implementation of the new Scottish devolution settlement.

Last week, in R. v. Cloud, 2014 QCCA 1680, a split judgment from which Chief Justice Nicole Duval Hesler dissented, the Court denied leave, saying that the case did not meet the narrow criteria for raising a new (constitutional) issue for the first time on appeal.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.

That the new ministry opened for business before fundamental constitutional issues between the judiciary and the executive had been sorted out is an outright scandal.

Over the past year I've written about the Emoluments Clause; the No Religious Tests clause; limits on presidential power as defined in the steel seizure case; the meaning of the oath of office; how the Appropriations Clause constrains lawsuit settlements involving the federal government; how and whether gerrymandering by race and for partisan advantage affects constitutional rights; judicial independence; the decline and fall of the Contracts Clause; the application of Obergefell to issues of public employees and birth certificates; Article V procedure for calling a new constitutional convention; and too many First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment controversies to list.

The suit will almost surely raise constitutional issues concerning state power and patents but, for now, businesses will welcome a big new ally in the fight against patent trolls; others include Google (s goog) and patent scholars like Mark Lemley and Brian Love.

The question of inserting a new preamble gained momentum during the Constitutional Convention in 1998, the Australian Government's formal process of consultation on the issue of whether Australia should become a republic.

Moana Jackson, Ngati Kahungunu / Ngati Porou and a lawyer working in New Zealand on Treaty / constitutional issues and international Indigenous rights, including as a member of the UN Committee on Indigenous Rights.