He's had the legal authority to do it for quite a while now, for some time.
The only body that has the legal authority to do this is the UN Security Council.
In practice they usually don't, because states lack the legal authority to compel out-of-state retailers to collect the tax.
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And Congress has the legal authority -- and only Congress has the legal authority to extend that borrowing authority.
First, the U.S. General Accounting Office is reviewing the legal authority underlying the establishment of ICANN by the Clinton administration.
But he said the FDA does not have the legal authority to force companies to study their drugs in specific types of patients.
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American officials refused to explain the legal authority under which Blackwater operates in Iraq or say whether the company was complying with the order.
That's the subject of renewed debate on Capitol Hill, where some feel the director of national intelligence may lack the legal authority he needs.
They have the legal authority to cut off funding for the Libya operation, and the defense bill is coming up in a couple weeks.
He told the court the attorney general may have overstretched his powers and may not have had the legal authority to order the new inquests.
As I mentioned in my remarks, the legal authority is derived from the Constitution as well as the authorization of force by the United States Congress.
The Treasury doesn't have the legal authority to suspend 2008 distributions on its own, notes David Levine, a partner at Groom Law Group, a benefits specialist.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the three airports, joined the lawsuit, claiming the FAA lacks the legal authority to conduct the slot auction.
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All the government bonds in those trust funds are just a statement of the legal authority that Social Security has to draw from general revenues to pay Social Security benefits.
For widely held companies in the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission now has the legal authority to require shareholder nominees to be included with management's nominees for election to the board.
In Washington, White House officials Thursday said they believe they have the legal authority to demand that BP subsidize the wages of U.S. workers idled because of the administration's moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf.
In particular, the Trust Fund finances ongoing Federal government activities in responding to the BP oil spill, and then provides the legal authority for the government to seek full reimbursement from the responsible party for these activities.
After 2007, FDA had the explicit legal authority to demand the restrictions.
One is the granting of legal authority and the other is actual funding for the war.
The task force is also the only federal health agency to have the explicit legal authority to consider cost as one criterion in recommending whether patients should use a medical test or treatment.
In most cases, the local police departments do not have the level of training or legal authority that the Coast Guard has to conduct the water-based security missions and interventions.
But if he doesn't, I think this is one matter where he continues to sit -- he doesn't have the moral or legal authority to continue to do that.
Besides the constitutional issue, the justices had specifically ordered both sides to argue a supplemental question: whether congressional Republicans -- operating officially as the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives -- have "standing" or legal authority to make the case.
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But that hasn't stopped the IRS from feeling the necessity to cite legal authority against voluntary taxes in a lengthy report on its Website entitled, "The Truth About Frivolous Tax Arguments".
Instead, the administration relies on its own notions of its legal authority (courtesy of the White House counsel and the attorney general) and invokes its responsibility for protecting American lives.
Mr. Kline and others said the waiver plan exceeded the administration's legal authority.
Officials are well aware of the gaps in their legal authority.
And the effort will be complicated by the serious legal questions and eventual lawsuits about the statutory authority of a federal exchange to dispense subsidies at all.
The California Supreme Court later ruled that Newsom had overstepped his authority, although the legal fight over the larger constitutional question has yet to be resolved.
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