Sentence examples for waive the amendment from inspiring English sources

The Administration objects to the amendment and Congress is adding a provision which would allow the President to waive the amendment under certain conditions.

So why waive the Fourth Amendment and allow the government to eavesdrop and seize records without a warrant?

29, which was introduced by Senator Mark Udall (D-CO), will waive the reading of an amendment if the amendment has been submitted at least 72 hours before the motion and is available in print or electronic form.

The need to choose between waiving the Fifth Amendment privilege and asserting an incriminating interest in evidence sought to be suppressed, or invoking the privilege but thereby forsaking the claim for exclusion, creates what the Court characterized as an 'intolerable' need to surrender one constitutional right in order to assert another.

As Gina Scaramella, executive director of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, argued in an Op-ed for The Hill, the so-called "MacArthur-Meadows amendment" lets states waive the Obamacare ban on charging higher premiums for women who have been raped, for example — which is a thing that actually happened pre-Obamacare.

States could also waive the guarantee of coverage for these services under MacArthur's amendment.

An amendment added by the International Relations Committee gives the president authority to waive the ban if he feels it is in the national interest.

Indeed, her resort to her Fifth Amendment rights manifestly had substantial merit, for the majority does not say that the Amendment's protection against being required to give incriminating answers did not apply to the questions, but only that she waived the protection of the Amendment in the circumstances.

The Amendment waives the Government's sovereign immunity to permit the joinder of the United States in some state-court suits for the adjudication of water rights.

Under the letter agreement, the witness provides complete information to the government without waiving the protections of the Fifth Amendment.

As Justice Sotomayor points out, the original Miranda decision said the police cannot presume a suspect has waived the rights of the Fifth Amendment simply because he or she is silent.