Sentences with phrase «justices concerned about»
With Congress in gridlock over proposed patent reform legislation and four Justices concerned about the potential threat of both patent trolls and business methods to innovation, you can expect many more petitions to the Supreme Court to address these issues.
https://www.eff.org/ Not exact matches
Similar concerns have been raised about how Sally Yates» and James Comey's dismissals will affect the credibility of the FBI's Russia investigation, which is overseen by the Department of Justice.
Turning from high politics to popular views, it's clear that Americans are concerned about these kinds of drone attacks - apparently unilateral, apparently violating the 350 - year - old norm of state sovereignty and conducted without a formal justice process.
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block the deal over concerns about the companies» pricing power in the media market.
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.»
Earlier this month, Saskatchewan's justice minister said his provincial government continues to have «grave» concerns about legalisation.
«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.
To quell Justice Department concerns about AB InBev's $ 20.1 billion acquisition of Grupo Modelo, Brito had to sell off the Piedras Negras brewery in Mexico, which produces 60 % of Modelo's U.S. volume, to Constellation Brands, along with all U.S. rights to Corona and Modelo beers, which Constellation will distribute through Crown Imports.
(2) Bringing this case into court for litigation may be unusual but is not surprising; and (3) The concern about political influence in making this decision is an unfortunate cost of candidate and President Trump's disregard for the institutions of justice.
Comey then asked a colleague to tell The New York Times about the memo documenting his February 14 meeting with Trump, out of concern that the president may have tried to obstruct justice by asking the FBI to drop its investigation into Flynn.
He expressed concern last year about legislation he feared could lead to the early release of felons, and moved quickly at the Justice Department to ensure privately operated prisons would be available for continued use.
That prompted Lauer to cite the timeline laid out by the Post; that the Justice Department last month raised concerns about Flynn's truthfulness, going as far as to say the general could be blackmailed by Russians.
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block U.S. telecommunications company AT&T Inc's $ 85 billion deal to buy media company Time Warner Inc over concerns about how the two companies would consolidate their sectors.
There are many ways to resolve concerns about the deal, a Justice official said on Wednesday, adding that no decision had been made and that conversations with AT&T were continuing.
The survey of 1,002 Canadians was commissioned by Trade Justice Network (TJN), a coalition of social, labour, environmental, student and other groups concerned about the secrecy and anti-democratic provisions of international trade negotiations.
The DNC may have concerns about exactly how much justice and / or transparency it is going to obtain under the criminal probe into the same matter by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and wants its own civil RICO action to move forward in case the former turns out to be a dud investigation.
Regarding the House Intelligence Committee memo and its implications for the U.S. Department of Justice, ABC News reported a memo from Attorney General Jeff Sessions stating: «Concerns have been raised about the Department's performance.
Concerns about confidentiality and immigration status were discovered months before the Department of Justice asked to add a question about citizenship.
One of the view intelligent responses to this story; I would agree; this is really about saving face, not justice; no differently than a CEO stepping down to «be with his family» or health concerns.
You said, «One of the view intelligent responses to this story; I would agree; this is really about saving face, not justice; no differently than a CEO stepping down to «be with his family» or health concerns.»
Yet I am not concerned about justice for anyone not even Hitler.
Lester Thurow is a leading liberal Democratic economist, and I have no doubt about his concern for people and for justice.
I mean, all you wanted to do was come in, offer several terribly unflattering insinuations about everyone who has been commenting negatively regarding Tony Jones (most especially Julie), disguise them as high - minded concern for truth and justice, and get out no worse for wear.
But placed in this larger context the concern about war would not tend to be abstracted in dangerous ways from the concern with justice.
The more serious we become about being salt and light in the world, the more devoted we will become to mission and justice, the more concerned for the least and the lost, the more stubborn about forgiving those who don't want our forgiveness, the more determined about exposing the works of darkness — and the more we will suffer.
The god of my understanding, is more concerned about living together amongst our differences, for the sake of preserving unity, cultivating dignity, and striving for justice.
Jens Soering's book The Convict Christ: What the Gospel Says About Criminal Justice (Orbis, 2006) won first prize in the «social concerns» category in the 2007 Catholic Press Association Awards.
In Kagan's account, Niebuhr's distinctive warnings about the temptations of human power are absent» as are his concerns about the perils of hubris and overreaching by those who are overly confident of the efficacy of power and justice in the world.
The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.
I get quite concerned when churches and church leaders preach and teach about our responsibility a to kill, bomb, and destroy other people in the name of freedom and justice — or worse yet, in the name of Jesus.
... Justice simply has to be a major target for Christians concerned about social action.»
By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who are in need, will be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response in faith to the action of God in this vivid moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.
Many young people in Latin America, who were motivated by the Gospel to love their neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not provide biblical instruction about Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges provided by new social situations.80
A number of justices raised concerns about a Massachusetts state law preventing activists from crossing a 35 - foot buffer zone around reproductive health clinics.
Obviously, to put the pursuit of personal gain ahead of moral concerns about justice and meeting the needs of the weak was completely unacceptable.
The advocates of justice for the poor accused the environmentalists of being elitists who were more concerned about national parks than about people.
Concerns about pluralism and justice supplied a moral rationale.
Nussbaum, who has frequently visited India to research how gender relations shape social justice, is particularly concerned about the situation of women in contemporary India.
These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.
It is possible for one to take account of the needs of another, and there is a rational and a humanly sensitive concern about justice.
Today these various concerns about culture, socio - economic justice, true equality for women, institutions, and the natural world are in some tension with one another.
Some people believe the health care situation in America would be scandalous to Jesus because he was a prophet concerned about social justice.
He admits that «any indication in my book that truly Christian conservatives are not just as concerned about justice as liberals are may be a failure on my part.»
We solemnly vote about whether we stand with Leviticus, wherein holiness has to do with sexual regulation, or with Deuteronomy, wherein holiness has to do with concern for justice for widows, orphans and immigrants.
It consists, they believe, in the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the promotion of good will and understanding among all people, and the development of a spirit of charity, a spirit of sympathy, a concern for justice; and that is about all there is to it.
Our unwillingness to charitably credit each other with being truly concerned about both «life» and «justice» issues» to see them as shared burdens differentiated only by their weight of emphasis and theoretical «solutions»» is tearing us apart.
«While we are glad to see and commend the local authorities under international pressure acted swiftly and fairly to resolve the church's land with this right decision, we are still deeply concerned about the justice for this family of martyr which is still not done,» stated Bob Fu, China Aid's president.
And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.»
CR raised concerns about how the move would cut choices, drive up costs and compromise quality, pressing the Justice Department to block them.
Conference is concerned about evidence from the research which shows that when members who are being bullied initiate Grievance Procedures against headteachers or other senior leaders, they may experience a lack of natural justice in the forms of honesty, fairness and impartiality because this same group are the most likely perpetrators of workplace bullying.