Sentence examples for assert their constitutional rights from inspiring English sources

Timothy Lynch, director of Cato's project on criminal justice, said in an interview on Monday that "the ruling makes it extremely difficult now for ordinary people to assert their constitutional rights against the government".

Without access to a lawyer, people thrown in prison on terrorism charges cannot protest their innocence, assert their constitutional right to a speedy trial or otherwise challenge their confinement.

"Defendants' policies are designed to create a culture of fear and intimidation that chills crime victims and witnesses from asserting their constitutional rights," the lawsuit says.

This happened most recently with two senior executives of the bankrupt solar power company Solyndra, who were castigated by House committee members when they asserted their constitutional right to refuse to respond to questions.

And to suggest that antiwar demonstrators who asserted their Constitutional right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" in peaceful and legal ways led to the Weathermen's viciousness and then to the White House attempts to blackmail enemies and bribe friends is to say that Dr. Benjamin Spock created Anthony Ulasewicz.

Weiquan Lawyers, or "rights protection" lawyers, refer to a small but influential movement of lawyers, legal practitioners, scholars and activists who help Chinese citizens to assert their constitutional, civil rights and/or public interest through litigation and legal activism.

What some saw as an opportunity to assert their constitutional freedoms, others took as an affront.

It would reserve the ability of both Congress and the president to assert their constitutional war powers.

It is the nations of the region, and not the indigenous peoples who live on much of the land, who assert their constitutional ownership of subsoil natural resources.

Unions are the only group of people in the whole world who can demand a real, justice-based Kelso-designed ESOPoyee Stock Owhorship Plan (ESOP), who can demand the right to participate in the expansion of their employer by asserting their constitutional preferential rights to become capital owners, be productive, and succeed.

Supporters, meanwhile, assert they are spending within their constitutional rights and are complying with existing disclosure rules.