Sentences with phrase «justice department does»

A spokesman for the committee chairman said the panel might use its subpoena power to gather information if the Justice Department doesn't meet the new deadline.

«If he interfered with these investigations, he's got a problem with Preet Bharara, assuming the deeply political Holder Justice Department doesn't put its thumb on the scales.»

, one of Trump's leading allies on the Hill, privately urged Republican colleagues Tuesday to consider holding Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department does not provide him with documents he has sought about the Russia probe in coming days.

The Justice Department does not refer to a specific type of writ in its court petition (it just cites the All Writs Act), but that doesn't really matter.

And the data, which follow each matter from referral to the prison steps, tell a story the Justice Department doesn't want you to know.

A person close to the government's side told Reuters that the Justice Department does not intend to press the argument that it could seize the company's code, and someone on Apple's side said the company isn't worried enough to counter the veiled threat in its brief due Tuesday.

I've never seen the Justice Department do this, other than with Hoffa,» he said, likening Holder to Robert F. Kennedy and suggesting that like the investigations of the infamous Teamsters boss, the bank may not be getting its due process.

The Justice Department did not comment on whether any Hyundai or Kia employees would be criminally charged.

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday about the complaint.

A spokesman for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions about a federal probe.

The Democratic members, led by Schiff, say the FBI and Justice Department did nothing wrong in investigating Page's ties to Russia.

• Although COINTELPRO came to light in 1971 — with its disregard of First Amendment freedoms and its massive violations of federal and state statutes against mail and wire fraud, incitement to violence, extortion, and sending obscene material through the mail — the Justice Department did not look into the program until 1974, and even then it uncovered no crimes.

The Justice Department did find that Officer Wilson's actions were justified under the circumstances.

«The Justice Department did not oppose vacating Bruno's conviction but they argued he should face a new trial on allegations he sold his political muscle as one of New York's most powerful lawmakers.»

Will the Justice Department do anything about it?

«You've got to think that the Justice Department did not want to make that concession [of allowing Mayfield to continue his challenge to the Patriot Act]» she said.

Not exact matches

But Comey said the intense public interest in the matter — and permission from the Justice Department — made it appropriate to do so.

In addition to asking McGahn to contact the Justice Department about convincing Comey to exonerate him, Trump also personally appealed to Comey to do the same, and to let go of the bureau's investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, on multiple occasions in early 2017.

«Again, I don't know what happened there with the interaction between the AP and the Justice Department.»

Should the Justice Department move to block the deal, it would come as something of a surprise, especially considering that the Justice Department's top antitrust regulator, Makan Delrahim, even said earlier this year that he did not think the deal presented a «major antitrust problem» due to the fact that neither of the two companies directly competes in the same spaces.

It seems Comcast refused to agree to a breakup fee in the event that Justice Department regulators didn't agree to the deal going ahead.

«I have taken the position — and I don't have to take this position and maybe I'll change — that I will not be involved with the Justice Department.

Trump's administration addressed one potential conflict when the Justice Department on Saturday said federal anti-nepotism laws do not prevent the president from appointing his son - in - law to his administration.

In trying to recover Snowden's unencrypted mail from the company, which did not keep Snowden's cryptographic key, the Justice Department got a court order forcing the company to turn over another key instead, one that would allow officials to impersonate the company's website and intercept all interactions with its users.

Mr. Najib's office did not comment on the Justice Department inquiry.

He said it would be hard for the Justice Department to argue that such a commitment did not address its concern that AT&T would raise the rates it charges for Time Warner content to rival pay - TV companies.

When asked by Jackson Lee whether the allegations against Moore would undergo a federal review by the Justice Department, Sessions responded, «We will do our duty.»

But company lawyer Jesse Binnall said the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower ruling, did so on procedural grounds, so that the Justice Department's win would not influence much elsewhere.

For example, the Justice Department would expect a bank to make sure any marijuana business with an account did not sell pot to minors, is not involved in illegal activities and that the cash flow of that business is what would be reasonably expected.

A spokeswoman for the FBI's Nevada office referred PCMag to the Department of Justice, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Comey said he kept memos on his conversations with Trump — a move he said he did not do with two prior presidents or other top Justice Department officials — because he «was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting.»

During a conversation with reporters at the Justice Department, according to Politico, Sessions reiterated his longtime views: «Most of you probably know I don't think America is going to be a better place when more people of all ages and particularly young people start smoking pot,» Sessions said.

While eight US states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalise recreational marijuana, the White House has hinted that the Department of Justice will do more to enforce federal laws prohibiting recreational marijuana, raising concerns over how Canada's approach will coexist with a potential crackdown south of the border.

For now a Department of Justice internal bulletin has instructed that, unless border officers have a search warrant, they need to take protective measures to limit intrusions, and make sure their searches do not access travelers» digital cloud data.

«Given some of his past statements and his staunch opposition to immigration reform, I am very concerned about what he would do with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and want to hear what he has to say,» incoming Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said in a statement.

On Tuesday, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations that would ban bump stocks, after pressure to do more to curtail access to deadly weapons following the Florida shooting.

Jon Klein, TAPP TV CEO and former CNN U.S. president, discusses the Department of Justice's demand that AT&T sell either Turner assets or DirecTV in order to get its deal for Time Warner done.

So, while he was vice president - elect, Pence insisted in an interview with CBS that Flynn and Kislyak «did not discuss anything having to do with the United States» decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia» — a statement that turned out to be untrue and that set off alarm bells at the Justice Department.

The Obama administration also considered charging WikiLeaks and Assange, but Justice Department officials at the time decided that doing so would be problematic, since WikiLeaks arguably did the same thing that journalistic organizations like the Washington Post do.

But while Justice Department documents sometimes publicly identify «secure government wallets,» many criminal cases do not, making it unclear where the Bitcoin went.

Sessions» recusal is a key point of frustration for Trump, who once reportedly asked why he couldn't order «my guys» at the «Trump Justice Department» to do what he wanted.

According to the Justice Department, he forged email addresses, invoices, and corporate stamps in order to impersonate a large Asian - based manufacturer with whom the tech firms regularly did business.

The scope of my recusal, however, does not and can not interfere with my ability to oversee the Department of Justice, including the FBI, which has an $ 8 billion budget and 35,000 employees.

Matt Miller, a Justice Department spokesman under President Barack Obama, said he realized after Trump fired Comey that «we all need to expand our imagination about what [Trump] might do to stop this investigation.»

I intend to work every day with our fine team and the superb professionals in the Department of Justice to advance the important work we have to do.

Trump did so again last month after the House Intelligence Committee released a controversial Republican memo purporting to show surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice in seeking to monitor an adviser to the Trump campaign.

Disney, which doesn't own cable distribution, may be a more palatable buyer for the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice.

The Justice Department's amicus brief states that the «sole question» is whether «Title VII reaches sexual orientation discrimination,» and concludes that «it does not, as has been settled for decades.»

In a 50 - page ruling that read like a Supreme Court brief, he rejected in no uncertain terms the Department of Justice's aggressive use of the broad powers of the 1789 All Writs Act to force Apple to do its bidding in San Bernardino.

But his decision to do so while facing increasing scrutiny — the deepening FBI probe regarding his administration's contact with Russia and damning new Senate testimony from former acting attorney general Sally Yates about Trump's now - fired national security adviser Michael Flynn — instantly recalls Richard Nixon's infamous «Saturday Night Massacre» in which the 37th president purged the Justice Department during the Watergate investigation.