Sentence examples for legislative choice from inspiring English sources

But Justice Thomas said that reflected a legislative choice rather than a constitutional principle.

But such prohibitions are imposed by legislative choice rather than by the First Amendment.

Justice Scalia suggested that even secret ballots in ordinary elections were a matter of legislative choice rather than constitutional principle.

The Supreme Court called the Idaho law "the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause".

Instead of respecting that legislative choice, Judge O'Connor proceeded to find all the operative provisions of the A.C.A. "inseverable" from the hollowed-out individual mandate.

In an opinion for a unanimous Court in Reed v. Reed, Chief Justice Burger overturned the Idaho law as "the very kind of arbitrary legislative choice forbidden by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment".

That trigger mechanism, of course, is another fundamentally antidemocratic gimmick designed to take legislative choices out of the hands of elected legislators.

The statement warned of "the danger of political and legislative choices that contradict fundamental values".

The Bush argument is that this clause bars state courts from taking action that interferes with the legislative choices.

"You are responding as though there were no special burden to show some deference to legislative choices," Justice O'Connor said.

When candidates leave details unspecified, they're being vague on purpose, either to put off tough legislative choices, tough political choices or both.