The nine-member Constitutional Court ruled 8 to 1 that the re-election amendment approved by Congress in December did not violate legislative or constitutional norms.
Rather than let things stand, Congress should consider quickly passing legislation to undo the Obama administration rule, which violates explicit legislative directives.
The appeals court's ruling was welcomed by advocates of stem cell research and condemned by those opposed, but it intensifies the uncertainty that has surrounded the research since Aug. 23, when Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the government's stem cell rules violated a legislative ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos.
In Peru, the president and his allies, increasingly convinced of the opposition's bad faith, felt justified in violating norms of legislative behavior in self-defense.
And Reince Priebus, the chairman of the National Republican Committee, said Mr. Obama's series of unilateral steps "amount to an executive power grab" that "disregard the Second Amendment and the legislative process," violating principles of representative government.
The senators who remained out of state said they would attend a federal court hearing in Laredo on Thursday in the lawsuit they filed accusing Republican legislative leaders of violating the Voting Rights Act and the Democrats' rights to political free speech.
Lawyers accused her and a bipartisan legislative coalition of violating the state's Constitution by passing the expansion without two-thirds approval from the state Legislature, the Arizona Republic reported.
In 2006, it upheld most of the deeply controversial mid-decade redistricting in Texas masterminded by former House Majority Leader Tom Delay in League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) v. Perry, inviting free-for-all legislative self-entrenchment violating even the most minimal conceptions of procedural democracy.
In response, the Labor Department declared recently that trustees of a pension fund risk violating their fiduciary duties when they try to "further legislative, regulatory or public policy issues through the proxy process".
Four years ago she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for violating election law rules in distributing $3,000 in donations to another legislative candidate.
