Word: interpretative
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...sole officer vested with the authority to interpret the constitution, Driskell ruled last Sunday that the resolution to remove Burton from office through a vote by the council alone was unconstitutional. At the behest of the resolution's proponents--which included three defeated presidential candidates--and with an amazing disregard for the explicit reading of the 1997 constitutional amendment, the council overruled Driskell...
...president, Driskell generally has the authority to interpret the council's constitution...
...were represented at trial by lawyers who've since been disbarred or suspended, and a third of those sentenced to death row in the state in the past 23 years had their sentences reversed later. "This is a ringing indictment of the Supreme Court's inability to properly interpret and oversee the Constitution's protection against cruel and unusual punishment," says TIME legal writer Alain Sanders. "While conservatives and liberals agree that those guilty of crimes need to be punished, the courts must hold to a higher scrutiny punishments that are irreversible, such as death...
...intently at what you're doing and watching every single subtle little change that you make from take to take, and gets in there and talks with you about it, you know-doesn't talk too much--gives you a lot of freedom, and a lot of leeway to interpret how you're going to get what he's asked you to get. But yeah, it is like theater that way. You know...a lot of times in movies... they'll break scenes up. "Oh, we're just going to do a pick-up from this line," "we're just...