updated Mon. May 6, 2024
-
New Jersey Herald
April 27, 2018
A popular way to begin the first day of class in constitutional law in many American law schools is to ask the students what sets the U.S. Constitution ... that the separation of powers is integral to the Constitution not to preserve the prerogatives of each branch of government but to divide governmental powersÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
April 27, 2018
Whatever one's opinion on the matter, the Supreme Court yesterday found that the U.S. Patent Office's inter partes review ("IPR") proceeding, ... This is because Article III of the Constitution vests the judicial power of the United States in the judicial branch of government (the so-called Article III federal courts)Ãâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
April 27, 2018
This post is co-written by David R. Mares, the Institute of the Americas chair for Inter-American Affairs and professor for political science at the University of California San Diego and the Baker Institute scholar for Latin American energy studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at RiceÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
April 26, 2018
Actually, Alexander Hamilton had a lot to say about the judicial branch of government. In one of a series of essays known as the Federalist Papers, Hamilton wrote that the judiciary was the weakest of the three branches of government. "The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarlyÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 26, 2018
Its job of “advice and consent” on presidential nominees aims to limit to the power of any one person or branch of government. Some nominees face significant scrutiny from U.S. senators who customarily grill prospective government officials in open committee hearings. The committee then votes whetherÃâà...
Truth In Media (blog)
April 26, 2018
A popular way to begin the first day of class in constitutional law in many American law schools is to ask the students what sets the U.S. Constitution ... that the separation of powers is integral to the Constitution not to preserve the prerogatives of each branch of government but to divide governmental powersÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
April 3, 2018
US law gives the attorney general broad and substantial power to oversee and overrule these courts, as opposed to the civil and criminal US justice system, which is an independent branch of government. In the immigration courts, judges are employees of the Department of Justice. Sessions has beenÃâà...
Above the Law
April 3, 2018
Yes, that is the President of the United States boasting about his intention to violate Posse Comitatus, while speaking to leaders of former Soviet Republics. ... Instead of working with and dealing with the legislative branch of government, he wants to use his powers as commander-in-chief to make it happenÃâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
April 3, 2018
With oral arguments before a federal appeals court just two weeks away, defense lawyers for former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock continue to argue that corruption charges against their client are an unconstitutional attempt by the executive branch of government to determine how the legislative branch functions.
The Messenger
April 3, 2018
Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) tell it, his legacy as Senate Majority Leader is likely to be more about his impact on the judicial branch of government than on ... to the United States Court of Appeals and another 14 have been added to U.S. District Courts during President Donald Trump's 14 months in office.
Chicago Sun-Times
April 3, 2018
“Community groups and organizations struggled hard trying to rebuild, but they didn't really have the resources and could not get the help from any branch of government,” Davis says. “We've never had the level of social-economic will that it takes to rebuild a community like this one and others throughoutÃâà...
Lewiston Sun Journal
April 3, 2018
“As important as we think we are, we are not the legislative branch of government,” Carpenter said. “We are a slim majority of one half of a branch of government. I maybe missed something in law school but I think we need to have something more than we have here for us to be legitimately before the court.
The Hill
April 2, 2018
“Such continued frustration with the Bureau's lack of accountability to any representative branch of government should be a warning sign that a lapse in democratic structure and republican principles has occurred. This cycle will repeat ad infinitum unless Congress acts to make it accountable to theÃâà...
Danville Advocate
April 2, 2018
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie agreed to meet with Boyle County High School senior Amelia Fogle and her classmates in their AP Government class. It was a project from that class which prompted Fogle to ask the representative to make the visit. “I wanted to bring someone into our classroom. In oneÃâà...
Stowe Today
March 24, 2018
However, it appears that extreme partisanship is threatening Congress' willingness or ability to exercise its authority as a co-equal branch of government. ... in Congress are also falling victim to partisanship, and as a result the public has an incomplete picture of Russian interference in U.S. elections.
GeekWire
March 24, 2018
It also changes the way foreign governments request information from U.S. tech companies for similar investigations on their own citizens. The law calls for the executive branch of government to strike mutual legal-assistance treaties with foreign governments, who would then contact tech companiesÃâà...
WNYC
March 23, 2018
But as a United States Senator today, a member of the legislative branch of government, I have many obligations. And I believe that the first obligation of ... "We spend unimaginable amounts of money fighting our enemies abroad and terrorists who would attack us at home. Yet, on many levels, we fail ourÃâà...
The Denver Channel
March 23, 2018
"The fact that there are three of us here makes it harder for us to have a conversation about how we speak with one voice," councilwoman at-large Robin Kniech also said during the committee hearing. "This room should be ... "There is one branch of government that is in control here. One. And that branchÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 21, 2018
The replacement it came up with is widely expected to help Democrats as they seek to flip U.S. House seats now held by Republicans. ... The president of the state bar association, Sharon R. Lopez, says the judiciary needs to be independent without threat of impeachment by another branch of government.
Tri-City Herald (blog)
March 12, 2018
Since the Public Records Act (PRA) passed in 1972, the Legislature has maintained it is an independent branch of government, not an “agency,” and ... plaintiffs have offered to work collaboratively with legislators for better legislation — something that was not available to us when we voted on the bill.
FactCheck.org
March 12, 2018
In 2016, only about half of U.S. households owned stocks directly or indirectly, and “the richest 10 percent of households controlled 84 percent” of all .... lower sentences on average,” wrote the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a bipartisan, independent agency located in the judicial branch of government.
New York Times
March 12, 2018
He was an equal branch of government, with his own prerogatives, empowered, in Hamilton's words, to conduct his office with “decision, activity, ... as it was deliberately limited to the offense of subverting the Constitution itself or betraying the United States in foreign affairs: the famously grave and yet vagueÃâà...
The Hill
March 12, 2018
“With this latest action, you are ignoring the law and the prerogatives of a coequal branch of government and letting Russia know you will do nothing to stop additional interference in our ... The U.S. intelligence community has established that Russia attempted to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
The Daily Herald
March 10, 2018
Trump joked Fox “news” is the “fourth branch of government.” Later, praised China's Xi for becoming leader for life. Said he might try it. It was a joke, too. They were, right? Jokes? There are laws against appointing relatives to positions of power by federal government officials. Same with using one's positionÃâà...
Glens Falls Post-Star
March 10, 2018
If, as it is alleged, there is corruption at the top echelon of the U.S. Department of Justice including the FBI, we must set aside our political differences and get ... Until the DOJ is cleared of these charges, our third judicial branch of government is a “toothless tiger” and this is a very serious matter when dealingÃâà...
FITSNews
March 10, 2018
The state's chief executive is elected to run the executive branch of government, but the power of the governor's office is diluted through a network of ... term limits on legislators, more ethics disclosures and making the Governor and his office more accountable to the voters of South Carolina,” Warren told us.
New York Times
March 10, 2018
The legislature is a coequal branch of government and governors can't do anything without them. Generally speaking, the only people who know the names of California .... Tell us what you want to see: CAtoday@nytimes.com. California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles andÃâà...
News & Observer
March 10, 2018
John Cornyn (R-Tx.) argued on the Senate floor: “[Divided government] forces us to do something that maybe isn't our first instinct ... rather than to insist on ... Notoriously fearful of both the concentration of power in one branch of government and the danger of any one faction becoming too powerful, JamesÃâà...
NUVO
March 9, 2018
No, Rokita – the Republican congressman from northern Indiana and a hopeful for the GOP U.S. Senate – wouldn't understand a conversation I had not long ago with the man he hopes to replace ... The first is that his Republican Party controls every branch of government at both the federal and state levels.
Martins Ferry Times Leader
March 9, 2018
God is very big and he has given us a little bit of time to deal with,” Johnson said Thursday at Undo's in St. Clairsville. “I think ... Johnson also made a point to talk about the U.S. being heavily in debt. He said ... “(President) Ronald Reagan said it is the third branch of government that protects our liberties.”Ãâà...
The Detroit News
March 8, 2018
“He is a unique voice in the call for justice in special hearings regarding presidential nominees to the executive branch of government, a stalwart for fair and equitable treatment in the ... Elizabeth Warren, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Rep.
Deseret News
March 8, 2018
As I concerned citizen, I am writing this letter in hopes to stop the abuse of power in the executive branch of our government. The executive branch of government, or the president of the United States, will enact tariffs without the approval of Congress. Tariffs, and imposing duties on imports or exports, are aÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 7, 2018
Legislative leaders promised to address — in their view — this serious attack on their powers as an equal branch of government, something they are now in the ... And voters should not help the poor and suffering among us by expanding Medicaid unless it contains work requirements and spending caps.
Slate Magazine
March 6, 2018
United States, a constitutional challenge to federal sex offender regulations. If, like me ... Under this theory, Congress infringes upon the constitutional separation of powers when it delegates too much legislative authority to another branch of government. Here ... Gundy will give us a glimpse of the answer.
Front Page Africa
March 1, 2018
It is no doubt that Article 89 of the Constitution expressly empowers the legislative branch of Government to create autonomous agencies that it deemed necessary for the effective operation of ... In 1819 the United States Supreme Court gave us a guide to defining “necessary” in a constitutional context.
The Hill
February 28, 2018
Top GOP senator worried Congress no longer sees itself as co-equal branch of government ... “When I see headlines like this one in the WSJ, I am concerned Congress no longer regards itself as a co-equal branch of the US government and is unwilling to lead,” Cornyn tweeted, referencing a Wall StreetÃâà...
