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The task force included the FBI, the Treasury and Justice Departments, the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency (NSA).
As part of his investigation, Mueller is focusing on whether Trump obstructed justice when he removed his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and fired FBI Director James Comey, according to two U.S. officials.
Mueller's team of FBI agents and prosecutors has already interviewed people who could provide firsthand knowledge of possible obstruction of justice, including Comey, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers.
As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.
The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.
The White House review process also included input from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice.
Cecil Chaudhry Jr, Executive Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace in Pakistan told Premier religious discrimination is impacting many Christian students.
Mr. Weill is chair of the board of directors of the Alliance for Justice Action Council and is a member of the boards of OMB Watch and the National Center for Youth Law.
Debra Eschmeyer — Food and Society Policy Fellow and the Outreach Director of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice.
Gallagher worked for Grayling when he justice secretary, leaving in 2015 to become a director at National Citizen Service.
The party raised concerns over the inclusion of Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, who's a known member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and His Lordship Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a former Justice of the Supreme Court who had earlier publicly stated that there was no need for a new voters register to be compiled.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has on Tuesday arraigned a former Director - General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Emeka Mba alongside three others before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 15 - count charge of money laundering and procurement fraud to the tune of N2.8 billion.
[21] Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, expected the Justice Department to play an active role in redistricting this cycle.
The probe by a special counsel continues, and Comey said «sure» when asked if that investigation will include a look at whether the President committed obstruction of justice by allegedly asking for Comey's «loyalty» and asking the then - FBI director to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn, the former National Security Adviser.
Another national co-chair, Carmen Perez, is the co-founder of Justice League NYC and executive director of the Gathering for Justice, a nonprofit founded by singer - advocate Harry Belafonte.
Emeka Etiaba, SAN, counsel to the embattled former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 asked Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the arrest of Director General, Department of State Service, DSS, Lawal Daura, following the failure of the DSS to produce former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki in court to give evidence.
A statement by the Director of Information in the National Judicial Council (NJC) Mr. Soji Oye indicated that the new judges will be sworn - in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman, National Judicial Council, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, on Friday, July 14, 2017, by 3.00 pm at the Supreme Court.
Tewolde Gebremeskel, Director of Peace and Security Division - IGAD NDI Election Observation Mission — Dr. Aisha Abdullahi, former AU Commissioner for Political Affairs; Hon. Karen Bass, US Congresswoman; Professor Attahiru Jega, former Chair of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission; Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; and Hon. Christie Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey.
Mr. Dasuki, who was arraigned before Justice Sani Yusuf, alongside a former director of finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Group General Manager of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Aminu Kura, and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Reference Hospital, had on Monday filed for bail after pleading not guilty to the 19 - count charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
A national research center established at UCLA and focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college's first endowed professor as its director.
Prior to Pew, he was assistant director of communications at SEIU, where he focued on union's property services division — including the national Justice for Janitors and security officers» campaigns — as well as for campaigns with the public services and healthcare divisions and in support of Wall Street reform and immigration reform.
President Buhari had with him the Governors of Ogun and Plateau; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Industry, Trade and Investment; the Chairpersons of Senate and House of Representatives committees on international relations; the Director - General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA; the Chief of Defence Staff and Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States.
Dr. Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University, will moderate the panel, with Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York; Luna Ranjit, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Adhikaar; Joanne N. Smith Founder and Executive Director of Girls for Gender Equality; and Margarita Rosa, Executive Director of National Center for Law and Economic Justice participating in the discussion.
Last summer, a number of LGBT leaders ---- including Dr. Marjorie Hill, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis, Liz Margolies, executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network, Melissa Goodman, an LGBT and reproductive rights attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Amber Hollibaugh, the co-director of Queers for Economic Justice ---- told Gay City News they were strong backers of paid sick leave.
In a petition dated 18th December 2017 addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and copied President General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Chairman, Council for Legal Education, Director General, Nigeria Law School Bwari campus and National President, Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN), MSSN while reacting to refusal of the Nigerian Law School and Council of Legal Education to call a University of Ilorin law graduate, Firdaus Amasa to bar last week due to her refusal to remove her Hijab, insisted that anyone found guilty in the matter should be punished in order to forestall future occurrences.
The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.
«It allows you to solve crimes in ways you'd never have been able to solve them before,» says Sarah Hart, former director of the National Institute of Justice, the research and development branch of the Department of Justice.
It will be two years before Raytheon can demonstrate a product, according to David Boyd, director of science and technology for the National Institute of Justice, the justice department's researJustice, the justice department's researjustice department's research arm.
There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.
Actors such as Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, and Emma Watson further expressed their support for the victims of abuse by choosing to bring various gender and racial justice activists as their dates, including Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, and Ai - jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Washington — President Bush has nominated Robert W. Sweet Jr., who had a controversial tenure as acting director of the National Institute of Education in 1981, to head the Justice Department's office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevJustice Department's office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevjustice and delinquency prevention.
Many teachers now take their cue from the likes of National Education Association Executive Director John Stocks who, at the recent NEA convention, told his flock that teachers need to become «social justice warriors.»
Yesterday, the director of Journey for Justice Alliance, Jitu Brown — alongside other civil rights groups including the NAACP, the Advancement Project, American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — held a press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C..
Featuring: Jitu Brown (National Director, Journey for Justice Alliance), Yolie Flores (Senior Fellow, Campaign for Grade - Level Reading), Sue Swenson (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education).
She continues to focus her efforts on school transformation, social justice, and equity through her work as regional director with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.
Eric also served as the National Director of Educational Services for AMIkids, Inc., a nonprofit organization providing intervention services to youth in juvenile justice programs and nontraditional schools in nine states.
Kyle Serrette Director of Education Justice Campaigns Center for Popular Democracy Shital C. Shah Assistant Director, Education Issues American Federation of Teachers Bela Shah Spooner Program Manager, Afterschool Initiatives Institute for Youth, Education, and Families National League of Cities Joann Weeks Associate Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania Ira Harkavy Chair Emeritus Associate Vice President and Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania
The event is being moderated by Melissa Harris - Perry, who will be joined by Derrick Johnson, President of the NAACP, Judith Browne - Dianis, executive director of the Advancement Project, and Jitu Brown, national director of the Journey for Justice Alliance.
Jitu Brown, married and father of one child, is the national director for the Journey for Justice Alliance (J4J).
Association of Education Service Agencies Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty Center for Inquiry Clearinghouse on Women's Issues Council for Exceptional Children Council of the Great City Schools Disciples Justice Action Network Equal Partners in Faith Feminist Majority Hindu American Foundation Institute for Science and Human Values Interfaith Alliance International Reading Association Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law NAACP National Alliance of Black School Educators National Association of Elementary School Principals National Association of Federally Impacted Schools National Association of Secondary School Principals National Association of State Directors of Special Education National Black Justice Coalition National Center for Lesbian Rights National Council of Jewish Women National Education Association National Organization for Women National Parent Teacher Association National Rural Education Advocacy Coalition National Rural Education Association National School Boards Association People For the American Way Public Education Network School Social Work Association of America Secular Coalition for America Southern Poverty Law Center Union for Reform Judaism Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries Women of Reform Judaism
Allie has been a federal and state animal protection lobbyist and as the director of the National Center for Prosecution of Animal Abuse at the National District Attorneys Association, she teaches criminal justice professionals on animal protection and prosecution issues.
Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort.
Juliana Pino Policy Director, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization At LVEJO, Juliana analyzes, researches, and advocates for environmental justice in local, state, and national Justice Organization At LVEJO, Juliana analyzes, researches, and advocates for environmental justice in local, state, and national justice in local, state, and national policy.
In December 2013, Mackay awarded QCs to Simon Fothergill, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Legislation and House Planning, and Machinery of Government) and Counsel, Privy Council Office; Colonel P.K. Gleeson, Deputy Judge Advocate General Operations, Military Justice and Administrative Law, Department of National Defence; Claude Joyal, Senior General Counsel, (Quebec Regional Office), Department of Justice; Urszula Kaczmarczyk, Senior General Counsel, Ontario Regional Office, Department of Justice; Sandra Phillips, Associate Assistant Deputy Attorney General for Tax Assessments; Donald K. Piragoff, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Justice; Brian J. Saunders, Director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada.
David Udell, the National Center for Access to Justice's executive director, says that the biggest story in the 2016 Index is the progress courts have made to help individuals who do not have lawyers.
«Thanks to the significant tort reforms enacted during last session by the Wisconsin Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin's litigation climate has improved and the state is a better place to do business,» said Bill G. Smith, President of the Wisconsin Civil Justice Council (WCJC) and Wisconsin Director of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
In addition to the current search for the Executive Director of the World Justice Project (see Opportunities page), recent searches include the State Bar of Texas, the National Conference of Bar Examiners, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the New York State Bar Association, The Florida Bar, the Tennessee Bar Association, the National Judicial College, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the North Carolina Bar Association.
Panel Discussion Juan Carlos Botero Executive Director, World Justice Project Mondli Makhanya Editor at Large, City Press & Former Chairman, South African National Editors» Forum (SANEF) Marwan Muasher Vice President for Studies and Director of the Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Rachel Kleinfeld (Moderator) Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Livestream: The launch will be publicly livestreamed with opportunities for online viewers to participate.
Sarah Hart, who helped Congress draft the PLRA in her previous capacity as director of the National Institute of Justice, recently stated in a letter to lawmakers that prior to the law's enactment, inmate lawsuits cost more than $ 80 million each year to defend.