The "Crown" is the supreme authority in this country -- not the people.
The ruling Shiite religious parties are demanding that provisions of the Koran, called Sharia, become the supreme authority on marriage, divorce, and inheritance issues.
Even so, restrictions on free speech remain: Several newspapers have been closed down, and the king remains unquestionable as Morocco's supreme religious authority as well as monarch.
Asked if the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in a property-rights case, she said the Court thought not.
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He said most people understood that the president was speaking narrowly about Commerce Clause cases and not broadly challenging the Supreme Court's authority.
The Supreme Council asserted legislative authority in June, after Egypt's Constitutional Court ruled that a third of lawmakers had been illegally elected and invalidated the election.
It's true that the Illinois Supreme Court is the final authority when it comes to interpreting the state constitution.
While the new court was still theoretically under the authority of the Supreme Court, the fact that it heard so many patent cases gave it an outsized influence on patent law.
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Once the Supreme Court gave the EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the aegis of the Clean Air Act, draconian rules to shut-down the coal sector could have been imposed unilaterally by the Obama administration.
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Instead, the court unanimously decided that if the Florida court's ruling were based entirely on its interpretation of state law, then it would have been acting within its authority and the Supreme Court would not get involved.
Therefore, I consider it right to announce right now, without waiting for the end of the election campaign, the composition of the supreme executive body of state authority, which will have to assume its part of the responsibility for the further development of our country.
The Supreme Court has given him the authority to amend the constitution.
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.
Ms. DONNA NEWMAN (Padilla's Lawyer): The reason I do not believe that it is moot is because the issue that is pending before the Supreme Court is one of presidential authority--unfettered presidential authority is our position.
House Republicans are expected to pass a measure this week that would prevent the NLRB from conducting business until the Senate confirms new members constituting a quorum or the U.S. Supreme Court decides the board has the authority to act.
He also named Mahmoud Mekki as his vice president, and he reversed a June constitutional decree by the Supreme Council that claimed to retain legislative authority until a new parliament could be sworn in near the end of the year, Ali said.
He worked closely with Ali Khamenei, then Iran's president and today supreme leader, and clashed with him over political authority and powers.
The California Supreme Court later ruled that Newsom had overstepped his authority, although the legal fight over the larger constitutional question has yet to be resolved.
If the Supreme Court finds that it does not have the authority to hear the case, Windsor probably would still get her refund because she won in the lower courts.
In April the Illinois Supreme Court blocked a landgrab by the Southwestern Illinois Development Authority, which offers condemnation services for a 6% to 10% commission.
However, a few months later, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the City did not have the authority to replace the existing Bureau of Revision of Taxes (BRT) for appeals.
Since the New Deal of the 1930s, the Supreme Court had only twice found Congress exceeded its commerce authority, and never for a program designed to expand the social safety net.
WOMEN'S groups were outraged: but when the Supreme Court this week sharply rebuked Congress for overstepping its authority and struck down a key provision of the six-year-old Violence Against Women Act, even congressmen were not surprised.
Conversely, a Supreme Court decision invalidating the mandate would not seriously undermine congressional authority.
Genachowski, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, seems reluctant to assert more authority in the face of this legal decision.
Mr Ashcroft said there was legal authority "under the laws of war and clear Supreme Court precedent, which establishes that the military may detain a United States citizen who has joined the enemy and has entered our country to carry out hostile acts".
However, the US Supreme Court justices decided 6-3 that he had overstepped his authority.
There are new institutions being proposed, too, such as a North American Tribunal which will have the authority to trump rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court.
"The majority has concluded that the Swedish public prosecutor was a 'judicial authority', " said Nicholas Phillips, U.K. Supreme Court president.
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