Sentence examples for binding on the executive from inspiring English sources

Under normal circumstances, the office's interpretation of the law is legally binding on the executive branch.

Such opinions are binding on the executive branch unless they are superseded by the Justice Department or the president.

The modern Supreme Court claims that its interpretations of the Constitution are binding on the executive and legislative branches.

When the Justice Department, usually acting through its Office of Legal Counsel, issues legal opinions binding on the executive branch, there is never justification for keeping them secret.

He said he would probably have an opportunity soon to demand a vote making a Congressional rejection of force binding on the executive branch.

He referred to the refusal by the Justice Department to release opinions on interrogation and domestic surveillance from the Office of Legal Counsel, whose interpretations are binding on the executive branch.

The opinions were initially drafted -- and later repudiated at least in part -- by the Justice Department's storied Office of Legal Counsel, which issues interpretations of laws and presidential authorities considered binding on the entire executive branch.

The head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the first years of the Bush administration, Jay Bybee, had little experience with national-security issues, and he delegated responsibility for that subject matter to Yoo, giving him the authority to draft opinions that were binding on the entire executive branch.

"None of this is binding," said Kenneth Roth, the executive director of the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.

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Can the executive branch make international commitments that are binding on the legislative branch and on successors?