Sentence examples for executive discretion from inspiring English sources

A. Justice Ginsburg, I think that reflects the sound exercise of prosecutorial and executive discretion...

Hundreds of Guantanamo detainees have been released, but nearly all as a matter of executive discretion rather than court order.

Many conservatives regard Mr Obama's announcement as an abuse of executive discretion contrary to the rule of law.

Time and again the high court has limited executive discretion by reference to statutory principles of interpretation and the principle of legality.

And of course, the Conservative government has already made abundantly clear its intention to enact a single, comprehensive law – the so-called "snooper's charter" – which many fear would unleash a tidal wave of surveillance at political and executive discretion.

In 2014 in Plaintiff S4, the High Court decided unanimously that the executive discretion to detain was limited to two purposes- deportation or a decision whether to allow the Plaintiff to apply for a visa.

The rules that Chile is considering would pre-empt much of the chief executive's discretion.

The founding fathers, convinced that diplomacy could not be conducted by committee, gave the executive substantial discretion in conducting foreign affairs.

[Excerpts, Page A20.] Justice Anthony M. Kennedy objected in dissent that the court was unwisely substituting "judicial judgment for the executive's discretion and authority," in effect establishing a rule that after six months, "foreign relations go into judicially supervised receivership".

Congress gave the executive the discretion to create further reservations.

wrote in The New York times on Monday: Obama "has operated under longstanding provisions of law that give the executive branch discretion in enforcement.