If the mayor won supreme power, he too might find himself robbed of it.
Under Iran's theocratic system, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wields supreme power, making final decisions on nuclear and military questions.
He comes close to saying it was no accident one of Uncle Joe's favourite phrases that Stalin should assume supreme power after Lenin's death in 1924.
Their main gripe is that the constituent assembly that has been acting as Venezuela's supreme power since its election last July has packed the electoral tribunal with government supporters.
The USSR president is the head of the Union state exercising supreme executive power...
In fact, the American constitution nowhere explicitly gives the Supreme Court the power to rule laws invalid because of their unconstitutionality.
Under Colombia's constitution, the Supreme Court has the power to investigate wrongdoing by members of Congress.
Even the Supreme Court has no power to intervene, however severe the sentence.
The Soviet of Nationalities is composed of delegations of republics' supreme representative organs of power and of national-territorial formations' organs of power according to agreed norms....The representation of all peoples living in the USSR on the Soviet of Nationalities is guaranteed.
But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline?
Do you have any response to a federal appeals court judge in Texas, Judge Smith, who criticized the President yesterday for his remarks about the Supreme Court and its power to overturn legislation, and has asked for a letter from the Justice Department affirming the federal courts' ability to do that?
In a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in American Electric Power v.
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Under the Constitution, the power of the Supreme Court is quite limited.
Musharraf was placed under house arrest over the weekend in connection with a case involving his decision to fire senior judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, while in power.
The most disturbing of all is suggesting the Supreme Court somehow has the power to not only identify a market as unique, but cabin the power of Congress to pass future mandates in any other market.
It is hard to see how the opposition could possibly win this battle without the Supreme Leader being toppled from power, and that in itself would put grave doubts on the whole basis of the system.
Egypt may not be free, as the protestors in Tahrir Square are now chanting Vice President Omar Suleiman said he was transferring power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces but its people have taken the first step toward governing themselves.
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More importantly, it would become possible to counter the popular perception--the source of so much hostility against markets--that there is some body of super-elites, masters of the universe, who can sit in their plush offices on Wall Street and Silicon Valley and reign supreme through their sheer brain power.
Some of the more radical among them favour the direct election of the supreme leader, and would like to limit the power of the Assembly of Experts, the elected body of clerics which appoints the supreme leader and ensures that legislation conforms to Islamic principles.
It will be intersting to see after this call from the supreme leader, from whom all power in Iran flows.
By ruling on Obamacare the way it did, the Supreme Court has said that the power of the federal government is effectively unlimited.
That was unlawful, and he was arrested by order of the Supreme Court and later removed from power by Congress for violating the constitution.
But Visser said al-Maliki's victory has implications for national Iraqi politics because of the power that the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and the Kurdish Alliance have wielded in Iraq's parliament.
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But when the government tried to use it in the damages claim brought by former Guantanamo Bay detainees, the Supreme Court said it had no power to do so in civil claims for damages.
While Oprah still reigns supreme as the empress of celebrity power, we stay true to the precedent set in 2005 when we began our search of the women who most impacted the world over the past twelve months.
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It remains to be seen if the Mubarak-era supreme court will go along with this power grab.
The ayatollah had questioned the comprehensive power of Iran's supreme leader, suggesting he should be directly elected.
To win the presidency it negotiated with the strongest power in Egypt, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
And since Barak's presidency of the Supreme Court, justices have used this power to ensure ideological uniformity among their ranks.
While the current military junta and the Mubarak regime before them have long encouraged the United States to believe a power struggle exists between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces(SCAF) and the Brotherhood, the real fight for control of Egypt lies elsewhere.
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