Courts that are insufficiently deferential to elected legislators and executives may usurp that role and unduly constrain democratic self-governance.
Reid invoked the nuclear option for non-Supreme Court nominations when he viewed Republicans as unduly blocking Democratic nominees, but it remains in place for other votes, including for Gorsuch.
And the new president shows little readiness to come to terms with the rebellious Chechens, still reeling from Mr Putin's brutal war against them.More disturbing still are the signs that Mr Putin, a former KGB spy, holds civil rights in contempt, believing that an iron hand is required to bring order to the country and that it should not be unduly fettered by democratic constraints.
"The imperious actions of the Democratic leadership unduly influenced the chair and undermined the will of the American people". There is an adage that academic politics are the fiercest because the stakes are so low, but professors have nothing on internal fights in the House of Representatives.
To highlight their assertions that the president's tax-cut proposal unduly favors the wealthy, the Democratic leaders of Congress borrowed Mr. Bush's technique of appearing with families who benefit under his plan.
In July of 1995, China began an almost yearlong campaign of intimidation in an attempt to unduly influence Taiwan's first democratic election for its president, which featured a pro-independence candidate Lee Teng-hui.
But there's good news: over at ThinkProgress, Lee Fang has posted an interview with Roemer from a Tea Party rally in New Hampshire, and he's making some refreshingly honest points about the way our democratic process is unduly influenced by corporate cash.
At the news conference, he also called Cuba's new president "a tyrant," said he would urge his own successor to establish a close, personal relationship with the next Russian leader, and suggested that the two Democratic presidential hopefuls were unduly critical of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
But it does state that the unleashing of the N.S.A. went too far, concluding: some of the authorities that were expanded or created in the aftermath of September 11 unduly sacrifice fundamental interests in individual liberty, personal privacy, and democratic governance.
And it acknowledged the obvious: "some of the authorities that were expanded or created in the aftermath of September 11th unduly sacrifice fundamental interests in individual liberty, personal privacy, and democratic governance".
