This paper barrier is supposed to get its power in its protector, the judicial branch.
It seems like the judicial branch of government is doing the job of the legislature.
Jefferson had persuaded Madison it would help make the judicial branch the guardian of individual rights.
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The Supreme Court first met in 1790, as the ultimate part of the judicial branch of government.
It also respects the separation of powers between the judicial branch and the legislature, which raises taxes and spends money.
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Five justices compose the chamber and its president is also the president of the Supreme Court and the entire judicial branch.
It is a shame that too often it is the judicial branch of government that violates our own rule of law.
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Democratic control of the Senate also meant that Bush's appointments to the government's judicial branch had a much harder time at confirmation.
And it's the judicial branch who decide what the laws--whether the laws have been violated and how the laws should be interpreted.
But the judicial branch remains the least developed of Burma's political institutions.
The state courts are again being the pioneers in using new technology to improve transparency and access to the judicial branch of government.
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The judicial branch must expressly find in the enumerated powers granted in the Constitution that the government is allowed to take a certain action.
The court rejected Clinton's claims that lawsuits against presidents in office violate the separation of powers between the judicial branch and the executive branch.
The removal of one judge out of hundreds and hundreds of judges does not significantly affect the operation of the judicial branch of our Government.
The Obama administration has weighed in on the global-warming lawsuit that has advanced farthest in the courts and told the judicial branch to back off.
The rule of law in nearly all other democracies is based on some degree of separation of the judicial branch of government from the legislative and executive branches.
There's legislative branch, judicial branch, executive branch all sharing tables.
Some of Mr Clinton's allies thought this subpoena could be challenged on constitutional grounds, arguing that the judicial branch (unlike Congress) lacks the authority to compel evidence from the executive.
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That means that anyone who occupying any position within the executive, the legislative, the judicial branch is REQUIRED to keep that Oath or they no longer meet the requirements of the position.
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While Shellenberger says that the need to address climate change is immediate and that government is a key player, others are saying that the private sector and judicial branch are just as critical.
However, one of the most sweeping cost cutting actions comes from instructions directed by the judicial branch of government with a ruling from the Supreme Court on the overcrowding of prisons in California.
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The judge also said that the law "impermissibly attempts to circumscribe a court's ability to review the necessity of nondisclosure orders, " violating the principle that allows the judicial branch to review laws and executive actions.
Or will we have a judicial branch that views itself as the third political branch, making policy decisions resulting in specific outcomes that please the constituencies and political parties that put them on the bench?
While most judges are honest and do not engage in activities that present potential conflict of interest, some actions like taking free trips organized by special interests clouds the judicial branch, former chief judge at the D.
Will we have a judicial branch that enforces the limits on government power that appear in the text of our Constitution, while deferring to the people and their elected officials in cases where the Constitution permits such action?
And more broadly speaking, how does he respond to criticisms from liberal organizations that he hasn't put enough muscle behind getting his judicial and executive branch nominees confirmed?
Finally, the transnationalists urge that the power of the executive branch should be constrained by judicial review and the concept of international comity, while the nationalists tend to believe that federal courts should give extraordinarily broad deference to executive power in foreign affairs.
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Serious damage would be done to the balance inherent in our tripartite form of government, in which no single branch (executive, legislative or judicial) is supposed to exert a death grip, or even a choke-hold, on any other.
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' While rarely litigated, this provision may well apply to judicial usurpation of the unquestioned process of the executive branch.
"This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs' ongoing attempts to hold the Executive Branch responsible for intercepting telephone conversations without judicial authorization, " said the appeals court.
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