Sentence examples for judiciary duties from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jacobson, the spokesman, countered that the company had a new board and that "it will act in accordance with its judiciary duties and will not be constrained by issues of management compensation".

To say that the judiciary is duty-bound to say "what the law is" and should not simply rubber-stamp the actions of the other branches is not to say that the other branches have a duty to obey its decisions.

Under the current draft, there will be a "higher council of the judiciary," with the duty to select judges, and a national court to resolve disputes between the central government and regional authorities.

As described by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 78, an independent judiciary with a duty to engage in judicial review is not an anomaly in our otherwise representative democracy.

As early as 1789, the Judiciary Act codified the duty of witnesses to appear before the court and testify.

Both the judiciary and Congress have a duty to prevent that from happening in the federal courts.

"Determining whether an act of the legislature is invalid under the people's constitution is solely the duty of the judiciary," the court wrote.

Ricardo Luis Lorenzetti, president of Argentina's supreme court, told the august gathering that it was the duty of the judiciary to stop the politicians reneging on their promises.

(Could the dream of expanded health care die at the hands of a Kennedy?) Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and the insufferable Samuel Alito were nurtured in the conservative Federalist Society, which asserts that "it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be".

Each has a duty to promote the judiciary's impartiality.

[She] has failed in her duty to defend our judiciary.