Sentences with phrase «unconstitutional act by»

In addition, Ives Tweeted directly to the then - President Obama to protest what he felt was an unconstitutional act by the premier:

The party at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday said «We immediately challenge this unlawful and unconstitutional act by INEC,» the PDP insisted.

It is important to remember this, so that you can be reminded how very, very unconstitutional this act by the republican members of the Supreme Court is

Not exact matches

World War 3 Sharing links unrelated to the reckless, criminal and unconstitutional act launched by Donald Trump and the U.S. government last night feels kinda inappropriate.

Kali Digital Ecosystems, the company behind upcoming cryptocurrency exchange CoinRecoil had filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court, calling this move by the government as «unconstitutional», as it violates various articles and acts in the Indian legal system.

According to the standard account of the matter, the power of judicial review — that is, the authority of the federal judiciary to invalidate acts of Congress and the President when they are deemed to be unconstitutional — came to be entrenched in our law by the acceptance, tacit or otherwise, of the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was ruled unconstitutional for use by state or city governments, so the State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts were passed.

There the Court sustained the President's view that the statute at issue was unconstitutional without any member of the Court suggesting that the President had acted improperly in refusing to abide by the statute.

The plaintiff is seeking: A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, particularly Articles 88 (5), 218 (a) and (e), 284 and 287 thereof, the 1st defendant can not act as the legal representative for Honourable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta, the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Ghana, in a pending investigation bordering on conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant; A further declaration that the purported response filed by the 1st Defendant on behalf of the said Honorable Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta in respect of the petition concerning conflict of interest and abuse of office before the 2nd Defendant is unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect whatsoever;

«This is the latest evidence that Anthony Brindisi is a phony Albany politician who claims to represent law - abiding gun owners when in reality, he is backed by a gun control group and votes to fund Cuomo's unconstitutional SAFE Act.

* A declaration that the detention of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at an unknown location, without access to his lawyers, family and doctors, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

* A declaration that the arrest of the applicant by EFCC on January 5, 2016 at his home at No. 14, Drive 1, Prince and Princess Estate, Abuja, constitutes a flagrant violation of the applicant's fundamental rights guaranteed under sections 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, & 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and is ultra vires, null and void and unconstitutional.

The fact that parts of this act were already ruled unconstitutional by a NY judge, with more still being appealed shows how much real thought was put into it; within the first few weeks of passing this debacle almost all police, armed guards etc. were violating the law because the legislators in their infinite wisdom forgot to exempt law enforcement, not to mention all the people who went to bed and then the next day — due to the fly - by - night method of governing — people woke up breaking the law without having done anything.

There is no legal impediment hindering the Court of Appeal from returning the APGA candidate in the circumstance because the hitherto hindrance in Section 140 (2) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) has been struck down by the Federal High Court as unconstitutional.

Last week, Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng introduced the «No Funds for Unconstitutional Executive Orders» Act, which would prohibit any funds made available by Congress from being used to enforce Trump's Muslim travel ban.

«Most importantly, going by the APC government's use of the so - called anti-corruption fight to harass, intimidate, arrest and detain opposition figures, there is no doubt that categorising whatever is termed as a hate speech as an act of terrorism is unconstitutional and an attempt to gag Nigerians, especially the press.

These people's human right was trampled upon by the lagos state government and the act is also unconstitutional.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education found legally segregated schools to be unconstitutional, but it was not until the legislative and executive branches put the full strength of the federal government behind desegregation efforts, by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that serious progress was made in the South.

By July 1996, every Kentucky school must be engaged in local decision making — so proclaimed the Kentucky Education Reform Act, passed in 1990, after the State Supreme Court declared the public education system unconstitutional.

This is a blatantly unconstitutional act, by which the President intends to confront and reverse action by both Congress and the Supreme Court.

No sooner had U.S. District Judge Callie Granade ruled that the Alabama Marriage Protection Act, along with the added protection of the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, was unconstitutional and Alabama had to allow gays to wed, than ol' reliable Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore threw a grenade on Granade's ruling by telling the state's probate judges not to carry it out, under threat of penalty.

Canna Clinic brought its own application at the same time for an interlocutory injunction to restrain, suspend, exempt from, and stay enforcement of the by - law and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act on the basis that those laws are unconstitutional.

The blog post does not include the court documents but says that is based on the grounds that the AG's threats «represent an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech and are clearly barred by federal law,» to wit, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The unions responded by bringing a motion to institute proceedings to have certain provisions of the 2010 Act declared unconstitutional.

This law is more restrictive than the former Illinois Grandparent Visitation Act, which was declared unconstitutional on its face by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2002 in Wickham v. Byrne.

this Court take notice of cases that meet the technical prerequisites of § 1252; in other cases where an Act of Congress is held unconstitutional by a federal court, review in this Court is available only by writ of certiorari.

The new Act is more restrictive than the former Illinois Grandparent Visitation Act, which was declared unconstitutional on its face by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2002 in Wickham v. Byrne.

Although the statute of limitations regarding medical malpractice does state that no medical malpractice suit can be brought after five years has passed from the initial act or error made by the doctor in question, Kentucky courts have made it clear that this «five - year rule» is unconstitutional and should no longer be considered as part of the law.

«In a series of decisions, many written by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist himself, the Court declared unconstitutional acts of Congress that had been passed by broad bipartisan majorities...» More here.

Law professor and prolific blogger Jonathan Turley has «agreed to represent the United States House of Representatives in its challenge of unilateral, unconstitutional actions taken by the Obama Administration with respect to implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).»

Bill C - 51 (An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act) was tabled in Parliament yesterday to modernize the Canadian Criminal Code by repealing or updating a variety of the unconstitutional, outdated or unused provisions that still exist.

Michelle Josef, who had already started the process at CAMH leading to the surgery, launched an application alleging that the defunding of the surgery was unconstitutional because it exceeded the regulatory power conferred upon Cabinet by the Health Insurance Act, was enacted in bad faith and infringed the equality rights guaranteed by s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and was not a reasonable limit that could be justified under s. 1 of the Charter.

A judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice declared the impugned provisions of the Act unconstitutional by reason of violating the Applicants» right to vote under s. 3 of the Charter, and the violation was not justified under s. 1.

This matter went to the Supreme Court of Canada as a reference case (i.e. a question asked of the courts by the government), and led to the determination that the section of the B.C. Motor Vehicle Act which made it an absolute liability offence to drive while prohibited was unconstitutional.

The use of the active duty military in a law enforcement role is not unconstitutional but it is prohibited by the posse comitatus act.

he unanimous judgment in Canada v. Federation of Law Societies, written by Justice Thomas Cromwell on behalf of the court, renders provisions of Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act unconstitutional as they apply to lawyers.

But I am very pleased with the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada released this morning in The Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, holding that British Columbia's court hearing fees are unconstitutional by effectively denying access to people to superior courts, contrary to section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867....

That version was in 2006 determined to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a decision that prompted the passage of the original Military Commissions Act later that year.