Sentence examples for federal prerogative from inspiring English sources
Pacific Gas & Electric, the owner of a plant there, Diablo Canyon, sued, arguing that the Legislature's concern wasn't really about waste but about operational safety, a federal prerogative.
The industry, which hates quotas, went to court, arguing that the rule was merely a backdoor way of setting new fuel economy standards, a federal prerogative.
What the Chinese and Irish labourers were then, Mr Shurtleff implies, Mexicans are today.The irony in his proposal is that such a guest-worker programme would necessarily encroach upon a federal prerogative.
Known as SB1070, and controversial both because it could lead to discrimination against Latinos and because it usurps a federal prerogative, the law has not fully taken effect, and perhaps never will.
But for the better part of two centuries, its citizens have been suspicious of federal government power, including the power to run deficits, which is fundamentally a federal prerogative.
He kept warning audiences against "people who come to your state saying, 'Elect me, I'll build you more classrooms, elect me, I'll pay your teachers more money.' That's not a federal prerogative".
The 1995 speech was an ode to states' rights over federal prerogatives, and conservatism, with little talk of compassion.
For a 5-3 maJustice Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion invalidated three provisions of the law as invasions of federal prerogatives; it also upheld the most controversial part of the law, the so-called "show us your papers" section.
Verrilli insisted that the law still trod on federal prerogatives, leading at least one liberal justice to question the government's position.
Two of them come to mind in crises generated by tension between Federal government prerogatives and "states rights". One is, of course, the 19th century President from Illinois who fought to hold a Federal government together in the face of a secessionist challenge by 13 southern states.
That is well within a state's prerogative, federal officials say, as long as minimum numbers are maintained.
