In relegating the fates of convicted state prisoners to discretionary acts of gubernatorial grace, the Supreme Court has thrown the fundamental question of guilt or innocence straight into the lion's dean of partisan politics.
Indeed, creating rules that reduce the ability of healthcare staff to engage in discretionary caring acts (e.g. filling forms on caring) may aggravate the problem.
The Hansard Society says the monarch does not possess any reserve discretionary powers to act as a broker between party leaders in difficult situations: "It is essential for the future of the monarchy that its detachment from the political process is maintained".
The judge concluded that "Goldman's statement that an act was discretionary might have been enough to make it so; now, not so much".
"And I said, 'I'm off the committee if we're going to talk about further defense spending.' First we did discretionary spending in the budget act.
He said his decision not to act sooner was discretionary, based on continuing but still unsuccessful efforts by the department and the town to bring the plant into compliance.
The Pentagon has meanwhile accused SIGAR of releasing sensitive details to ProPublica in fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act request concerning discretionary spending in Afghanistan.
The future for WIC continues to look bleak with its removal from the 'protected' list of domestic discretionary programs via the Budget Control Act of 2011, which required a $840 billion cut in domestic programs.
But a lower court ruled earlier yesterday that Ms. Harris acted within her discretionary powers in excluding the results of the manual recounts, and the State Supreme Court has so far merely delayed any certification of totals excluding those results, but not, for far, permanently forbidden it.
Prosecutors' offices regularly fail to provide prosecutors with clear guidelines on the appropriate use of their broad discretionary powers, judges seldom report acts of misconduct, and when reports are made, sanctions are rarely, if ever, imposed.
They say that's because continued cuts to domestic discretionary spending, under the 2011 Budget Control Act that created sequestration, would continue to eat away at NIH's budget and, by extension, its ability to fund pediatric research.
