If the mayor won supreme power, he too might find himself robbed of it.
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.
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.
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?
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.
By ruling on Obamacare the way it did, the Supreme Court has said that the power of the federal government is effectively unlimited.
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.
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And since Barak's presidency of the Supreme Court, justices have used this power to ensure ideological uniformity among their ranks.
General Musharraf's assumption of power was later validated by the supreme court of Pakistan for a period of three years.
That is why the Supreme Court has always ruled that the police power belongs to the states and not the federal government.
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The petitions before the Supreme Court alleging Musharraf committed treason while in power constitute just one of several legal challenges he is facing following his recent return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile.
Mr. Burton's treatise, like the man himself, rests between two ages one in which the authority of Scripture reigned supreme, and a newer era acknowledging the power of deductive reasoning to sort out life's great questions.
In spite of the fact that Zelaya had violated the Honduran Constitution by calling for an illegal referendum to perpetuate himself in power and though the Congress and Supreme Court acted to protect the constitution, the removal of Zelaya was viewed by many countries as an illegal act.
He had the legislature hire three constitutional experts, including Harvard's Charles Fried, to argue that the Florida Supreme Court unconstitutionally rewrote Florida law and usurped executive power.
Mr Kuchma does not have control over the Supreme Court either, though he does have the power to sack and appoint members of the Central Electoral Commission - which could be a useful lever of influence as the dispute over the falsified election develops.
Unlike most other supreme courts, the Law Lords will not have the power to rule laws invalid or unconstitutional.
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In a recent case that has been little noted in the business press, the Supreme Court appears to have given the IRS broad new power to write rules that overturn prior court decisions, give short shrift to expressed legislative history, and apply even in cases where taxpayers have relied in good faith on prior law and precedent.
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On the Supreme Court, Holmes advocated free speech and restraints on business power.
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This week, she fetched up in the Supreme Court in a battle over states' rights and the power of the federal government.
However, both Judge Sutton and Judge Graham agreed that the Supreme Court needed to address the limits of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.
Under Supreme Court precedent, a state doesn't have the power to block the enforcement of federal law inside its borders, said Joseph Thai, a constitutional law professor at the University of Oklahoma who served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White.
He also confronted other power centres - a mob of his supporters ransacked the Supreme Court and he tried to rein in Pakistan's powerful military.
Fifteen state supreme courts have ruled on the issue of this perverse exercise of the power of eminent domain.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has insisted that it will hand over power to an elected civilian government.
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