The central government can void local regulations that conflict with national laws, and has done so over 300 times since 2001.
Yes, even if they directly conflict with our own laws at home.
Most have no fixed nationality and find it difficult to access education and healthcare, while their fishing practices can conflict with environmental conservation laws.
European banks for months had raised concerns that the U.S. law, as originally passed, might conflict with European privacy laws by requiring banks to enter into information-sharing agreements directly with the IRS. They initially reacted with favor to the new proposals.
But they will be asked to say when they think specific laws conflict with the European Convention, and they will be able to overturn government decisions and regulations, and those of most other public bodies, when they do conflict.
This new guidance should help clarify that aid workers who are partnering with the U.S. government to help save lives under difficult and dangerous conditions are not in conflict with U.S. laws and regulations.
Why did Team Obama cosponsor a UN resolution last Fall imposing "shariah blasphemy" laws that utterly conflict with the First Amendment's protection of free speech?
Not least of these is how cyber operations across national borders are dealt with by the laws of armed conflict and their reliance on principles such as proportionality, neutrality, distinction between combatants and non-combatants, and military necessity.
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According to a four count criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York yesterday and unsealed today, Dennis Lerner, 59, also violated federal conflict of interest laws by seeking a job with that bank while he was examining it, and then improperly seeking to influence his former colleagues at the IRS in their dealings with the bank.
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In 1949, in the aftermath of two devastating global wars, new Geneva Conventions were developed to codify the laws of armed conflict and to limit the activities of combatants with respect both to other combatants and to non-combatants.
Indeed, the Iraq war is the first conflict in modern history where the U.S. having complied with the laws of war by promptly prosecuting American troops believed to have violated those laws did not bring to justice a single one of the hundreds of captured enemy combatants who have killed Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and contractors.
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