Sentence examples for branch power from inspiring English sources

Congressional and executive branch power over immigration "is subject to important constitutional limitations," Justice Breyer said.

Executive branch power at the expense of Congress and the Constitution's checks and balances has mushroomed since World War II.

The trend of increasing executive branch power continued under each great president, Yoo contends, most notably Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

At the same time, constitutional lawyers have begun thinking through the problem of executive branch power, experimenting with proposals ranging from strengthening the Justice Department or the White House counsel's office to instituting a legal tribunal within the executive branch.

Both criticisms badly miss the mark because they place in the executive branch power it holds in limited degree – namely the ability to a) pass laws and b) affect events overseas.

"Judge Shwartz satisfactorily answered questions covering important legal topics such as current law on the rights of corporations under the First Amendment, constitutional limits on executive branch power and the application of heightened standards of review under the Constitution," Mr. Menendez said.

"She did not express substantive knowledge as to the scope of the rights of corporations under the Constitution or jurisprudence on the constitutional limits of executive branch powers".

The court, they said, needs to be restructured to make it a more effective check on executive-branch power.

Moreover, the dramatic growth of executive-branch power has made regulation decreasingly a matter of C-Span-able legislative-branch policymaking and increasingly a matter of bureaucratic fiat.

The escalating confrontation with Congress reflects the radically altered political landscape in Washington: a Democratic president asserting sweeping executive powers to deploy American forces overseas, while Republicans call for stricter oversight and voice fears about executive-branch power getting the United States bogged down in a foreign war.

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