Sentences with phrase «of the legislature by»

Democrat Parete, recall, won election last month as chairman of the legislature by forming a coalition of Republicans and three Democrats, much to the dismay and irritation of majority Democrats.

Following a June 7 subpoena to the Ethics Commission and the clerk of the legislature by Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota for records related to the Ethics Commission and financial disclosure forms, Levy said he would file the county financial disclosure forms from 2006 to the present.

However, the Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Shehu Sani, told one of our correspondents that the probe is the same as meddling in the affairs of the legislature by the executive.

The bill, which passed both houses of the legislature by a near two - to - one margin, would leave specific implementation points to the discretion of school administrators.

Properly restrained judicial constitutional review accepts the primary law - making responsibility of legislatures by acknowledging the wide ambit of legislative choices available to elected officials».

Not exact matches

I know this action by the state legislature troubled him as it does all of us.

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

By March the Nazi Party controlled 44.6 % of the Reichstag and managed to pass the infamous Enabling Act, which allowed the German cabinet to pass laws without the legislature or the president.

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

Sources also say the goal is to have a new deal that can be ratified by the national legislatures of all three countries.

We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

Court of Appeals Judge Eugene Pigott issued a separate opinion in the cases, concurring with the results but saying the state's definition of parenthood should properly be set by the legislature.

Opponents of legal weed in Oregon say they would take their fight to the Oregon legislature, pushing for stricter laws designed to limit access to pot by children, among other efforts.

• In Vermont, state Sen. Kevin Mullin (R) worked with AARP Vermont on a bill that passed unanimously in both houses of the legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) in April.

In 1992, the then - government of the NDP's Mike Harcourt took a significant step in curbing the power of lobbyists by banning them from the speaker's corridor in the legislature.

Harper also holds the unique status of having been condemned by the Nova Scotia legislature because of comments he made about the Maritimes.

Prior to the adoption of general incorporation statutes in the mid-1800s, the best evidence as to corporate voting rights is found in individual corporate charters granted by legislatures.

In an unusual act of cooperation in Washington, this legislature was eagerly supported by Democrats and Republicans.

Sen. L. Scott Frantz, the ranking Republican on the legislature's finance, revenue and bonding committee, said the disproportionate impact on state revenue by one group of taxpayers — in this case, the super-rich — is «pretty frightening when you think of it.»

«In my view, the Nebraska legislature pulled out all the stops to give TransCanada the prize by cutting off any ability on the part of the state's citizens to mount a meaningful challenge to the permitting process.

By John Horgan, leader of B.C.'s New Democrats The citizens of B.C. have given me the privilege of working for them in government and the legislature for two decades.

Said the Chamber of Commerce head Hoan: «We are awaiting the details of the proposal by the governor and state legislature as they work towards restructuring our tax code to adapt to the loss of [that] deduction.

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, known as the «notwithstanding clause,» has just about acquired the status of a zombie law in recent decades, left largely untouched by legislatures (at least in the Rest of Canada).

Out of 120 votes in the provincial legislature since the NDP took office, the two parties voted together 90 per cent of the time, says the report by John Whittaker, a policy analyst with the Calgary - based research centre.

Robinson introduced the Distressed Animals Act in the legislature on Tuesday and was joined by advocates from the BC SPCA in support of the proposed changes.

Another would overturn the 17th amendment, thus returning us to the appointment of Senators by state legislatures.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

He makes a big deal about the fact that one of the paths to amendment that Article V allows is a proposing convention called for by 2/3 of the state legislatures, and then ratified by either 3/4 those legislatures themselves or 3/4 of special state - ratifying conventions.

Judge Reinhardt does one more thing: he dismisses as improvident, antiquated, or unwarranted all of the traditional arguments asserted by medical professionals, courts, and legislatures against assisted suicide.

If the «wall of separation» is lowered, we are told, our schools may be returned to the days of prayers prescribed by state legislatures; evolution may be banished from the classroom and replaced by «creation science»; and religious minorities may be at the mercy of intolerant majorities.

In contrast, decisions of legislatures and executive officials can be reversed by majority vote — a much easier process, notwithstanding inertia and entrenched political interests.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

But the lawyer for the plaintiffs, supported by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said unlike legislatures, Greece had no official policy on prayers.

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

It should be noted here that Obama has not waited for the «inconsistency» of this law to be acknowledged by the legislature.

Sadly, this call for episcopal discretion in political matters is belied at every turn by the bishops» heavy - handed lobbying, in the parishes and in the legislatures, for a particular program of immigration reform.

Perry has been getting ample good press lately, and below Pete adds two new favorable stories — one of which adds a new wrinkle by showing his formidable talents as a thrice elected, institutionally weak governor who can effectively deal with a largely simpatico Republican legislature.

Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because the majority - elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.

Wills's contention that Madison was a proponent of legislative supremacy among the branches is unconvincing given that it was the overweening power granted legislatures by the state constitutions that Madison and other Federalists sought to avoid at the federal level in the Constitution.

In Republican - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to loosen gun control increased by 75 percent, where in Democrat - controlled legislatures, the number of laws proposed to restrict gun access increased 10 percent, according to the Harvard Business School study.

It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation of increase of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent Assembly to include propagation of religion as a fundamental human right of the citizen.

A ruling in November, 2003 by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts similarly affirmed «marital» rights for gay and lesbian couples and handed the matter on to the legislature of the Commonwealth.

In the State of Colorado in 1944 a special session of the legislature was called to consider a bill to outlaw the holding of property by all persons of Japanese origin.

The ban passed both houses of the French legislature by overwhelming margins earlier this year, and is scheduled to come into effect in the spring.

Would they improve the ability of parents to control the education of their children (a right once said by the Supreme Court «to override the desire of the legislature to foster a homogeneous people with American ideals prepared readily to understand current discussions of civic matters»)?

And yet, that question of principle would have to be faced quite as well by any legislature that would install same - sex marriage and seek to bar polygamy.

It follows that the minister may be forced to violate the sanctity of the confessional by testifying at the police station, in a pretrial hearing, in court, before a grand jury or even before the legislature.

It should be something legislatures can not turn on or shut off at will, something that is anchored in the essential right of freedom of association protected by the First Amendment.