Sentences with phrase «voting laws just»

But many politicians speaking at the rally says it's other politicians, specifically white males in Albany who like the antiquated voting laws just the way they are, holding the state back.

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«Shareholders can vote, but boards can just ignore them under the «business judgment rule» backed by state laws and courts.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

Making laws based on religious beliefs and voting for people just because they share your religious beliefs gives this nation an established religion.

Just as persons under a certain age are not allowed to drink, drive, or vote, the sale of X-rated videos to children should be forbidden, either by industry self - regulation or, if this does not work, by law.

If enough of congress voted on it (greater than 2 / 3rds majority), we elect a racist president, and the Supreme Court just rubber stamped it without reading, the 13th amendment COULD be repealed, and slavery could be «allowed» again by federal law.

Lawmakers asking «WWJD» while writing or voting on laws to be passed just tells me they can not think for themselves and can't take responsibility for their own actions.

And if that's the case, are ALL politicians THAT stupid??? That is, to pass «bad» laws just because it will win them more votes?

At this point, there was a significant push to enshrine the office as a two term limit for the sake of changing status quo and in 1951 they drafted an amendment to the constitution doing just that (Though it allowed the incumbent FDR and VP Truman to be exempt from this law until they were voted out, though this did not happen.

Lapan added: «Implementation of the DADT repeal voted by the Congress and signed in to law by the President last December is proceeding smoothly, is well under way, and certification is just weeks away.»

For this was the first bill to go through the new English Votes for English Laws (EVEL) system of scrutiny which was approved by MPs just 12 days ago.

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale, said he was surprised and disappointed with the slow response of the leadership to proposals for English votes for English laws in the Commons saying: «Why we couldn't have had a good offer ready... just beggars belief in my opinion.

«Tonight's vote sends a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Gov. Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate about 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well,» he added.

While the 55 % -45 % referendum vote preserved the territorial integrity of the UK, David Cameron's linkage of English Votes for English Laws to plans for further devolution to Scotland, just minutes after the announcement of the result, undoubtedly played into Scottish nationalist hands.

This has led New York to not be able to pass tangible victories that to the left are all the more important in the age of Trump: the Dream Act, updating the state's antiquated voting laws and enshrining protections for transgender New Yorkers in law, not just regulation.

E.D. Florida is also a closed primary state, so registered independent voter in Florida attempting to vote in a party primary would probably be violating the law that @ notstoreboughtdirt just referenced.

If the Electoral Commission misunderstood the law and gave Vote Leave a permission it shouldn't have then that will just make it all the clearer that the referendum was mismanaged; that it did not take place as Parliament intended.

As Mr. Rangel's lead whittled down to just 802 votes over the weekend, the Espaillat campaign hired election law guru Marty Connor and promoted a hotline available for voters to register complaints about Election Day shenanigans.

The question of English votes for English laws, the so - called West Lothian question, requires a decisive answer so just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues on tax, spending and welfare, so too England as well as Wales and Northern Ireland should be able to vote on these issues.

How on earth could she tell the prime minister that «I propose that the government does not support this amendment because it would be incompatible with the ECHR and counter-productive» and then, as the home secretary responsible for enforcing law and order in Britain, simply sit there, just scared of her own backbenchers, and fail to vote?

• My mother - in - law, Win Francis, who has reached the ripe old age of 90 because of the hundreds of miles she has walked delivering leaflets for the Labour party, has just been informed she has been barred from voting, with no reason given.

But if Republicans fall short of the 50 votes needed to pass a replacement, with Pence casting the tiebreaking vote, Short said lawmakers should just repeal the existing law.

Some 65 % of 2,048 people surveyed agreed it was time to stop Scottish MPs voting on laws that affect England, with just 15 % opposed to the idea and 20 % saying they did not know.

The Shadow Chancellor has denied the Labour Party would stall extra powers being devolved to Scotland just because they want longer to examine the Prime Minister's English votes for English laws proposal.

Just minutes before the vote was due, justice minister Dominic Raab said the government would table its own amendment later during the bill's passage through the parliament to put into law the idea of a meaningful vote on the final deal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo swiftly signed New York's new sweeping anti-gun measures into law, just minutes after the Assembly finished an over four - hour long debate and voted for the bills.

The Swiss version of democracy is one of the world's most direct, meaning that the vote of the people is able to make laws rather than just elect representatives.

A one year delay until September 2016 will put the new law front a center just eight weeks before voting.

In response to the David Cameron's interview for BBC1's Countryfile programme, in which the Prime Minister says: «I always thought the hunting ban was a pretty bizarre piece of legislation, I think there should be a free vote in the House of Commons... My problem has always been that it was just taking the criminal law into an area of activity where it didn't really belong»; Alice Barnard, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, said: «The Prime Minister is totally right to question the Hunting Act, especially from a legal basis.

The McKay Commission report into the consequences of devolution on law - making found English resentment at Scottish and Northern Ireland MPs voting on laws just for England was growing and that the status quo could not continue.

This ominbus election law bill includes the provision that when a party meets the vote test to remain qualified, that status lasts for four years, not just two years.

Just weeks ago the Welsh public voted to restore the sovereignty of British law — not to introduce a new Bill that would permanently gold plate every single edict and directive emanating from Brussels.

After weeks of delay and tactical disagreements inside the cabinet, Brown staked his authority on committing his party not just to a referendum on the alternative vote, but also to making the law introducing the referendum a legislative priority in the remaining six weeks of parliament before the election is called.

The League, along with Citizen's Union, also wants the legislature to adopt a law that requires the same changes, just in case the constitutional amendment, which requires the approval of two consecutively elected legislatures, plus a public vote, does not ultimately pass.

Who knows but she'd make it law in a heartbeat if the Democrats had a majority in the Senate, oops they already have that but they just can't get along enough to vote together.

With a majority of just 12 and an increasingly united opposition, the vote over a change to the law could bring David Cameron's honeymoon period following the election to a sudden end.

«They were yes votes on this law just a few weeks ago and now they're no votes?

«It's not just a stamp saying ’35 votes — it becomes law.»

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you again for something else you did for us just one year ago, when the 15 members of the Erie County Legislature voted unanimously to make the Library Protection Act a permanent local law.

Votes in the House of Commons are not just about passing laws, or not passing laws.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

The Prime Minister insisted: «The question of English votes for English laws, the so - called West Lothian question, requires a decisive answer so just as Scotland will vote separately on their issues of tax, spending and welfare, so too England as well as Wales and Northern Ireland should be able to vote on these issues.

But Buchanan leads banker Christine Jennings (D) by just 386 votes and a recount is already underway in the district — as mandated by Florida law when two candidates are separated by less than a half percent.

Just days after receiving our demand to repeal the SAFE Act from Senator Kathy Marchione, and what amounted to a small patriot army, the governor, exhibiting a lack of respect, wisdom and discretion, cut a closed - door, back - room deal with Senator Dean Skelos, who then opened NY's Senate floor for a vote on a bill that would divide Republican Senators upstate from downstate and create a separate, unequal class of citizens: the law enforcement officer class.

The American Bar Association, Section of State and Local Government Law, has just published the Second Edition of «America Votes!».

After advancing legislation that overturned the term limits law ---- allowing both Bloomberg and herself another four years in power ---- Quinn faced an unusually tough Democratic primary in 2009, garnering just over half the vote in a three - way race.

Nicholas's Law never came up for a vote in the GOP - controlled state Senate, just as the SAFE Act repealer never came up for a vote in the Democratic - controlled Assembly.

After the vote, attorney and Pace Law professor Vanessa Merton said: «Did we just make Westchester a «Sanctuary County?»

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Councilman Jumaane D. Williams also lashed out at Mr. Cuomo in his praise of the RGB, writing in a statement that the vote sent «a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Governor Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate approximately 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants, but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well.»