In fact, the American constitution nowhere explicitly gives the Supreme Court the power to rule laws invalid because of their unconstitutionality.
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?
Under the Constitution, the power of the Supreme Court is quite limited.
If the mayor won supreme power, he too might find himself robbed of it.
By ruling on Obamacare the way it did, the Supreme Court has said that the power of the federal government is effectively unlimited.
Under Colombia's constitution, the Supreme Court has the power to investigate wrongdoing by members of Congress.
In a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in American Electric Power v.
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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.
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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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.
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 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.
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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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And since Barak's presidency of the Supreme Court, justices have used this power to ensure ideological uniformity among their ranks.
The bill has been brought in to replace the previous government's Terrorist Asset Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Act, a piece of emergency legislation rushed through Parliament after the UK Supreme Court ruled that ministers had failed to legislate properly to give themselves the power to freeze the assets of suspected terrorists.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the mandate is constitutional under Congress' taxing power.
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.
As the very wealthy assume political power through the virtually unlimited campaign spending that the U.S. Supreme Court now allows, do they not also demand tax relief and legal protections?
Many of the less radical measures, like those strengthening the power of independent bodies such as the national electoral court and the Supreme Court, should be beneficial.
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.
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.
The country's Constitutional Council, the equivalent of America's Supreme Court, has just ruled against a key part of his plan to devolve legislative power to the perpetually troubled island of Corsica.
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.
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