District directors have a certain amount of discretion, although much less than they had before restrictive immigration laws were passed in 1996, and can offer some relief to illegal immigrants who have not committed crimes and are not otherwise ineligible for resident status.
That said, in some cases, we do conduct yearly performance reviews, but the process is much less formal and it happens at the discretion of the head of the department or division.
Though Benedict publicly condemned legal recognition of unmarried heterosexual couples, much less gay couples, there was often an expectation of some discretion in putting his positions into practice.
Yet the high level of force seldom translated into arrests, raising questions among black and Latino leaders about whether officers were using enough discretion before making the stops in the first place, much less before resorting to force.
Overall, the districts have discretion over less than a third of the public funds for health spent in the district; but the proportion over which discretion can be exercised is much higher in hospitals and much less in the district health office/health center.
Section 3 relief is a much less reliable mechanism than the now invalidated Section 4. It allows much greater discretion on the part of the federal courts, requires a much higher evidentiary standard, and permits laws to become effective while decisions are pending, rather than before elections take place.
In general, Republicans say, their alternatives would be much less prescriptive than the new federal law, would cost less and would give states more discretion.
Much, much, much, much less perfect.
Besides, these days judges have far less discretion.
