Sentences with phrase «justice questions on»

The extent of the retreat from Michael Howard's «prison works» policy was evident during Justice questions on Tuesday.

New justice minister tackles tough justice questions on day it is revealed that there is a # 130m black hole in the MoJ

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In an interview on the Time's podcast The Daily, reporter Michael Schmidt explains that about three - quarters of the 49 questions are intended to glean Trump's motivations behind decisions, statements and tweets about various topics — and indicate that investigators are looking at a potential obstruction of justice case.

The decision by Justice Jennifer Schecter of the New York state court in Manhattan in favor of California restaurateur Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC's «The Apprentice,» raises the prospect that Trump might have to answer embarrassing questions in court about his behavior toward women.

On pp. 19 - 21, Michael McCullough explores Warren Buffett's argument for why wealthy Americans like him should pay more taxes — which raises fundamental questions about distributive justice, freedom, and property rights.

Comey's testimony raises questions about whether Trump obstructed justice in his interactions with the former FBI director, beginning with a dinner on January 27, during which Comey said Trump asked him for his «loyalty.»

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions takes questions during a press conference at the Department of Justice on March 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Trump also disputed claims of collusion and obstruction of justice in tweets on Tuesday after more than 40 questions that special counsel Robert Mueller wa nts to ask him were revealed in a New York Times article.

The questions focused on conversations between the Russian government and his campaign, as well as actions Trump took related to possible obstruction of justice.

There has been some question about whether the ATF, which is part of the Justice Department, actually has the authority to ban bump stocks on its own.

In the end, Justice Macintosh concluded that while he had the jurisdiction to rule on the questions before him he would decline to do so on the grounds that it would be an abuse of process.

Many of the questions focus on potential obstruction of justice, including the president's firing of FBI chief James Comey and Trump's reaction to Attorney General Jeff Sessions» recusal from the Russia investigation, a decision Trump has angrily criticized.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

New Democrats pressed Justice Minister Suzanne Anton in Question Period, calling on her and the B.C. Liberal government to bring in a shuttle bus along the Highway of Tears.

How would you answer the question, «What effect will the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft have on the overall stock market?»

When the post-modernist argues that justice is a game we play; a set of rules two or more people agree upon as the frame within which to carry on their social intercourse (see, for instance, JG), the discussion shifts from a celebration of various uniqueness to the difficult question of how they interact.

Yeah, it makes me feel better denouncing baptist cause of my family's involvement with the KKK to become a catholic and the hate by socialism and such from conservative uncompassionant individuals on the moral question of social justice issues.

Zmirak points to a dark history of Church involvement in torture and uses it to question the Church's competency on social justice questions.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

My friends at the invaluable Mirror of Justice blog have noted and commented on New York Times editor Bill Keller's snarky questions for and about the religious beliefs of various Republican candidates, but I feel compelled to add my two cents» worth.

Of special interest are statements by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore on Catholic understandings of the American constitutional order, and several documents from the hand of Bishop («Dagger John») Hughes of New York on sundry questions, including an illuminating exchange with Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston on the justice of the Union cause in the Civil War.

In the final section of the book, Hays ventures some «provisional discernments» on the most persistent moral questions in American churches: violence in defense of justice, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, anti-Judaism and abortion.

Whether justice in this compound sense itself depends on a comprehensive purpose is another question.

It reminds us that our most pressing constitutional questions (on slavery and secession) were settled out of court; that it took more than a wiser judge to reverse our most villainous chief justice (Roger Taney); and that our Constitution's most consequential interpreter wasn't a robed philosopher - king but a self - taught lawyer from Kentucky by way of Illinois.

The Associated Press reports on a question posted to Justice Scalia at a lecture at Princeton University:

The role of Justice O'Connor on state - church questions bears careful watching.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.

Nonetheless, the Justices gravely declared that «the character of a nation of people who aspire to live according to the rule of law» is ultimately to be measured by the people's willingness to put aside their deeply held moral and religious views and accept the Court's pronouncements on this and other divisive questions.

A federal appeals court had ruled in favor of school officials in Plano, Texas, on the liability question, and the justices without comment let that decision stand.

Justice Clarence Thomas could not help but remark on the point that a majority of his colleagues had already, and gracelessly, signaled their «intended resolution of that question.»

Interestingly, in September the Clinton Justice Department made some noises about possibly appointing some federal judges who are not on «the right side» of the abortion question.

Yes, the ultimate question about forgiveness, grace, mercy on the one side, and justice on the other.

I suspect that the next stop on this train to utopia will be, as Chief Justice John Roberts suggested in his dissent, to question the tax status of those institutions — the Catholic Church, for example — which promulgate a contrary understanding of the word «marriage.»

In that case Justice Rehnquist wrote that Alabama has the right to enforce government - sponsored prayer in public schools, and even to establish a state - sponsored church if it wants to — which questions the premise (based on the Fourteenth Amendment) that constitutional prohibitions on infringement of rights extend to the states.

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

Imagine what would happen if all the evangelical institutions — youth organizations, publications, colleges and seminaries, congregations and denominational headquarters — would dare to undertake a comprehensive two - year examination of their total program and activity to answer this question: Is there the same balance and emphasis on justice for the poor and oppressed in our programs as there is in Scripture?

The torah is a reminder that God's will focuses on large human questions and that we also may focus on weighty matters of justice, mercy and righteousness.

Without taking a strong stand on the controversial question of whether inter-species relationships ought to be governed by justice — in other words, the question of whether we owe anything to animals as such — the author establishes all sorts of interesting parallels between evolutionary biology and traditional theology in this area, as well as challenges from one to the other.

The churches keep on raising questions, sometimes legitimate, about the style and structure of action groups and people's movements, without showing any readiness to face the challenge posed by the vision and strategy (justice and collective action) for the Church's ministry and mission.

I can't really do justice to how much I want him and the team to be able to answer those questions confidently and with positive results on the pitch, but our recent track record of lasting the distance when in the title race is abysmal.

Tuesday Questions - HM Treasury Ten minute rule motion - Food labelling (Halal and Kosher Meat) Motions: Relating to Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, EU directive on data protection in the areas of police and criminal justice Debate: General debate on the National Planning Policy framework Adjournment debate: Jobs at Group Lotus

The story of continuity also ties to perceptions of impunity — no one in Burundi has thus far been prosecuted for political murder -, to lack of progress on questions of justice and memory, lack of trust in the newly established Truth and Reconciliation Commission (which interestingly only appeared on the scene months before the election, in December 2014), and perceptions of corruption, abuse of office, the sense of being «used» by those in authority (people speak of being their «bridge» to other objectives).

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

However, the release only whetted their appetite (to continue the metaphor) and intensified the call for the release of the full, classified Justice Department documents that address the question of when the executive can order the killing of a citizen based on secret intelligence and without trial.

Dr Adam Swift focussed on questions of temporal and relationship distance in the practical application of notions of justice.

Congress Member Carolyn B. Maloney (D - NY), co-Chair of the House Census Caucus, and Elijah E. Cummings (D - MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led a letter of all Oversight Committee Democrats requesting that the Department of Justice produce documents to explain why and how the department requested that a citizenship question be added to the 2020 Census.

«I'm extremely grateful to Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and my colleagues in the Democratic Conference forcing today's vote and letting New Yorkers know where their senators stand on this basic question of access to justice.»

Non-ideal theorists often draw on Rawls's own work to distinguish between ideal questions and cases where we can not make idealising assumptions about the motives of those engaged in the search for principles of justice.

The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Bach): Ministers have received two letters and one Parliamentary Question from the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, answered by my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 29 September 2008 (Official Report, col. WA416) specifically about the presence of Law Lords in the House of Lords since the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.»