Sentences with phrase «common cause argues»

In its complaints to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Common Cause argues that the alleged payment to Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, likely violated federal campaign - finance laws as an unreported, in - kind donation to Trump's campaign.

Common Cause argues that the payment violated campaign finance laws.

Common Cause argues that the payment amounted to an undeclared in - kind contribution to Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.

In its complaints to the Justice Department and the FEC last month, Common Cause argued that the alleged payment to Daniels likely violated federal campaign - finance laws as an unreported, in - kind donation to Trump's campaign.

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Watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission arguing that the settlement amounted to an unreported in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

That complaint, brought by Common Cause, alleges that Ms. Clifford was bought off because she posed a threat to Mr. Trump's presidential prospects, and argues that the $ 130,000 payment was effectively a contribution to Mr. Trump's campaign that should have been reported to the commission.

The complaints, filed by Common Cause and Free Speech for People, a group that seeks to limit corporate money in politics, argue that AMI paid to bury the story of Trump's infidelity and thereby influence the presidential election.

Cohen's hand was apparently forced by the watchdog group Common Cause, which last month announced it was filing a complaint arguing that Cohen's $ 130,000 payment could be construed as an illegal 2016 campaign contribution.

The watchdog group Common Cause has filed complaints with the commission and the Department of Justice, arguing that the payment violates election laws.

In a pair of federal complaints, Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group, argued that the settlement amounted to an unreported in - kind contribution to Trump's campaign.

The government watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the payment was made to influence the 2016 presidential election and therefore it was an illegal in - kind contribution to Mr Trump's campaign that was never publicly disclosed.

Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair with Trump may have been an illegal campaign contribution.

The campaign finance watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the hush money payment was made in service of Trump's presidential campaign because it bought silence on a controversy that could have hurt his prospects.

Of course, kids vary in their personalities, but there are some common reasons modern moms and dads face that cause their kids to respond defensively and / or to ignore them completely — and cause parents to resort to yelling, nagging and arguing.

As different as those experiences are, Solomon argues that these parents are united by their children's horizontal identities: bound together in common challenges, and bound together, too, in common cause.

Susan Lerner of Common Cause, the executive director of the only group which discloses its donors online, was the only advocate to argue for a full - throated retroactive disclosure period.

Common Cause New York Executive Director Susan Lerner said that because de Blasio relies on Rosen for political advice, he has no grounds to insist his correspondence be exempt from the Freedom of Information Law, as City Hall has argued.

• The two parties must build common cause; he says that's possible if they join forces to critique markets, agitate for greater sustainability, democratise public services and argue that taxes are too low, as is spending.»

The proponents of this fallacy usually argue that the breakdown of glycogen in the liver, a common occurrence in the body of a dieter, causes a release of water.

But now upstart teachers had joined in common cause with neighborhood activists, arguing that even popular charter firms were «outsiders.»

You can argue politics all day long but until we come together for one common cause subject matter will always turn into a fight about everything but the issue at hand... like it has here.

On the other hand, to assert that personality has a greater effect on achievement than does intelligence develops a cause and effect hypothesis that refutes - that is, argues against - a common assumption.

The Amgen defendants argued that divestment from the company stock would have caused a drop in stock price, but the court found it plausible the fiduciaries could have removed the Amgen Common Stock Fund as an investment option in the plan without causing harm to participants.

I doesn't matter how much temporizers argue that this is the effect of «noble cause» corruption, IT»S STILL CORRUPTION, undertaken deliberately and with malice aforethought, the effects including the diversion of research funds from legitimate purposes as well as support for public policies and private sector malinvestment, which do great material damage to particular parties and to the common weal.

'' As he sees it, there are three groups with a common cause in the debate over fossil fuels and they are wasting time arguing unnecessarily with one another.

Giaever continues ticking off the most common climate myths, going from arguing that it may not even be warming, to claiming the warming is insignificant, to asserting the warming is caused by water vapor, and ultimately that the warming is indeed caused by human influences:

They also argued that any delay in construction would harm the public, cause significant increases in construction costs, and harm the reputation of a certificated common - carrier by pipeline.

It is also common for private plaintiffs to argue common law causes of action together with statutory claims under the Competition Act.

As for the causes of action other than breach of fiduciary duty (battery, negligence and breaches of common law and international norms), the appellants argue that it is implicit in the motion judge's reasons that he decided the limitations issues in their favour.

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