Sentences with phrase «not against the legislature»

He also tried to diffuse tension over his Moreland Act Commission probes, saying he's not against the legislature.

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And, in the legislature I stood before my colleagues and Indigenous leaders to publicly apologize that the Alberta government did not stand up against residential schools.

The most advanced affirmations of religious liberty at the time of the founding of the republic, Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (submitted to the Virginia legislature in 1779 and enacted 1786) and James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessment (1785), were not widely known until our century.

Florida Supreme Court says legislature, governor had no right to save Terri Schiavo's life The Florida Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the state legislature should not have given Gov. Jeb Bush the power to feed mentally disabled 40 - year - old Terri Schiavo against the wishes of husband, who wanted to starve her to death.

Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).

When I asked whether he'd vote for or against the legislature's maps, Gottfried replied, «We don't know what the final bill will look like.

Cahill says he's also like to do more to combat public corruption, and he criticizes the current Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, for not speaking out against a decision by Governor Cuomo and the legislature to end a Moreland Commission probe of corruption.

The senator is rallying against the idea of legalizing same sex marriage in New York, an idea that's set to be considered by the legislature in Albany this spring and has the strong support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not to mention a growing coalition of residents and gay - rights groups.

But Assemblyman Nojay says for now, they aren't going to promote any specific candidates, though they hope primary challengers will emerge to run against incumbents in the state legislature all the way down to offices for local county sheriff and county clerk.

Late in the day, the New York Public Interest Research Group also came out against the legislature's bills, saying, in a statement, «We can not say with confidence that it will lead to a better product in the form of fairer district lines».

Cahill says he'd also like to do more to combat public corruption, and he criticizes Schneiderman for not speaking out against a decision by Cuomo and the legislature to end a Moreland Commission corruption probe.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

In 2015, Governor Cuomo banned non-essential state travel to the state of Indiana after that state's legislature passed a controversial religious freedom measure that did not prohibit discrimination against LGBT citizens.

Both are supporting Democrat Laura Hartmann against incumbent Republican Jim (not Joe) Maloney in the Town of Ulster - Town of Kingston county legislature race.

It's not good news for the American Chemistry Council, which had sent a representative to a Putnam County legislature meeting to lobby against the ban.

Cuomo, who faces a primary against Cynthia Nixon, would not outright say whether he preferred the legislature appoint an interim attorney general, but repeatedly noted the Democratic Convention taking place in two weeks and the elections later this year.

And he says at a time of rising corruption convictions, which include the indictment of both leaders of the legislature in 2015, JCOPE's number of actual investigations has been low, and with the exception of a $ 300,000 fine against former Assemblyman Vito Lopez, accused of sexual harassment, the fines have been «meager» and often directed at small community organizations that don't have the money to pay the fines.

Cuomo did not mention anyone by name, but Senator Grisanti's Democratic opponent, Michael Amodeo has said he's against the property tax cap, as well as a new pension tier enacted by Cuomo and the legislature.

And if Cuomo opens New York to hydrofracking — as we expect he will — we will demand that the legislature ban fracking and run candidates against legislators who don't vote for the ban,» Hawkins said.

Cuomo and the legislature agreed in 2013 to exempt borrowing by the state Dormitory Authority, which is controlled by Cuomo appointees, from being counted against the state's legal borrowing cap because they said taxpayers won't be liable for the debt.

As laid out by discreet sources, Bernardo, after losing her bid for a third term in the legislature two years ago, isn't given much of a chance against the well - heeled incumbent.

However I believe the County Executive's heart is in the right place; he is not against the poor as his first priority was budgetary and staying within the 2 % total property tax Cap which he and the County legislature did.

The proposed amendment will be accompanied by a statute which will provide insurance against the amendment not achieving second passage and place an additional constraint on the legislature's ability to amend the lines proposed by the commission.

Now Jindal is turning against PARCC, signaling his willingness to withdraw from the consortium if the legislature doesn't require it first.

In April 2013, she announced that she would register hundreds of thousands of new voters and run candidates for city council and the state legislature who supported the schools against those who didn't.

Ignoring Connecticut's collapsing fiscal situation, the Governor and legislature actually handed the charter schools even more scarce public funds, even though those schools discriminate against Connecticut children by refusing to accept and educate their fair share of students who require special education services and those who aren't proficient in the English language and therefore need additional English language services.

We learned about how they used the legal route because the legislature wouldn't make the change and understand that discriminating against people wasn't okay anymore.

[29] The legislature chose not to provide a specific cost consequence for an insurer's failure to participate in mediation, such as substantial indemnity costs against a losing defendant or deprivation of full costs of a winning defendant.

It was in order to attain that objective that the legislature collected in Annex I to the directive the commercial practices which are, in all circumstances, unfair and which, therefore, do not require a case - by - case assessment against the provisions of Articles 5 to 9 of that directive.

Presumably their governments and legislatures have gone through a similar debate to the one that Yosie outlines above, balancing the desire for a «fair share» against the respect of a decision not to assume a legal status that does give a property claim.

This would certainly be an option against the board - it may not be available against the legislature - courts generally feel that they do not have any authority over the legislature (legislators, yes, the legislature, no) due to the principle of separation of powers.

In this particular case, it can reasonably be inferred that the B.C. legislature did not consider that training with a Christian philosophy was in itself against the public interest since it passed five bills in favour of TWU between 1969 and 1985.»

One concurring justice, Justice Zinter, agreed with the majority's interpretation of the law, noting that the court was obligated to apply the statute against the «owned - but - not - insured» exclusion, but he also recognized the inconsistencies that stemmed from the decision and openly encouraged the legislature to add clarity to the statute.

Nevertheless, against the background of the history of previous non-recognition; the subsequent respect accorded to native title by this Court and by the Federal Parliament; and the incontestable importance of native title to the cultural and economic advancement of indigenous people in Australia, it is not unreasonable or legally unusual to expect that any deprivations and extinguishment of native title, so hard won, will not occur under legislation of any Australian legislature in the absence of provisions that are unambiguously clear and such as to demonstrate plainly that the law in question has been enacted by the lawmakers who have turned their particular attention to the type of deprivation and extinguishment that is propounded.