Sentences with phrase «action against the administration»
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman also raised the possibility of legal action against the administration, insisting that the president does not have the power to deny federal monies to localities because of their law enforcement policies.
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While she did not specifically mention a lawsuit in her remarks, a press release from Chin's office threatened, «legal action against the Administration» if the projects are approved in their current form.
Not exact matches
Her decision to leave the church comes the same week the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction barring the Obama administration from implementing a policy of deferring deportation actions against more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.
First, the Trump administration ramps up coercive action against North Korea, and this precipitates a crisis in US - China relations,» the firm wrote.
ACLU attorney Joshua Block said the main practical impact of the decision is that it would prevent the Obama administration from carrying out administrative enforcement actions against schools on transgender issues.
It would mark the toughest action that the Trump administration has taken against a major bank.
Litigation funder IMF Bentham has announced it will fund a shareholder class action against former directors of collapsed miner Kagara, which went into administration in 2012.
The Trump administration is now threatening trade actions against China, after broadly imposing steel and aluminum tariffs.
The Trump administration unveils new actions against Russian officials, oligarchs, businesses and agencies — freezing assets that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
In 2009, the Obama administration ordered federal prosecutors not to prioritize legal action against medical marijuana dispensaries that comply with state laws.
This lack of transparency could actually also be grounds for yet more legal action against Trump, in fact, since it looks very likely that it's a violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act to not hold these advisory meetings from business leaders open to the public, though the administration denies any of its actions have contravened this order.
Prominent Republicans warned President Donald Trump on Wednesday against taking further trade actions that could harm American workers, even as top administration officials meeting in Davos, Switzerland, rose to the defense of the president's «America...
US scrutinizes China's IP practices The Trump administration is considering taking trade action against China and is discussing launching a probe into Beijing's insistence that foreign companies transfer technology to local Chinese subsidiaries and partners.
The Trump administration took unusual action against what it said were unfair Chinese trade practices on Tuesday, dusting off a weapon last used in 1991 and announcing two investigations into the pricing of aluminum products imported into the U.S.
Amnesty, even in its weakest forms of non-enforcement of the law and deferred action, without corresponding action to tighten the border and control unlawful immigration, leads directly to the current human crisis as thousands of desperate children (and adults) attempt to enter the United States on the promise that the administration will take no action against them.
«It matters because it will bring pressure — mainly moral, but some legal — on a reluctant administration to take decisive action against ISIS.
The Bush administration has postponed taking action against Saudi Arabia, although the U.S. State Department determined religious freedom does not exist there.
On the other hand, there are also a number of actions against Russia from the US (some enacted by congress, not by Trump or his administration).
«Also obvious to Nigerians now is the use of the fight against corruption as means of settling scores with perceived enemies as is the case with key PDP leaders including its Spokesman, an action that is ostensibly aimed at silencing the opposition from looking in and exposing the incompetence, and the double standard of the administration.
Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.
Assemblywoman Fahy says whoever Schneiderman's successor is, they need to hit the ground running and take control of a number of important lawsuits that the former AG has filed, including over 100 court actions against President Trump and his administration.
He said the government is only making frantic efforts to cause public disaffection towards the previous NDC administration by smearing former state officials with allegations of corruption and initiating legal action against them for same.
Under Schneiderman, the Attorney General's office held national prominence with over 100 legal actions filed against President Trump and his administration.
Other prominent attorneys general are similarly taking action against Trump, including California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has devoted budget funding specifically to fight the Trump administration's actions and policies, according to the Times.
By deciding to sue the Federal Communications Commission to protect «net neutrality» rules established under Obama in 2015, his office took its 100th action against the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.
On law enforcement, she rapped his administration's increased focus on community policing as «stop - and - frisk by another name,» blasted the NYPD's decision to stop publicly disclosing disciplinary action against cops and criticized de Blasio's decision to appoint Bill Bratton's personal choice, James O'Neill, as police commissioner without conducting a national search.
Grasping at straws, apparently, or channeling the litigious county executive, the mayor said his administration is prepared to file legal action against the City of New York to repair the tunnel.
Full legal action will be brought against bank found culpable of fraudulent financial dealings with the outgoing administration.
While Schneiderman's resignation signals the probable end of a career that many had seen as gaining quick national prominence — he had emerged as something of a liberal darling, filing more than 100 legal or administrative actions against the Trump administration and congressional Republicans — the legal fallout is most likely only beginning.
@SJuan76 surely you are correct that the initial actions of the Trump administration were not reasons for organizing the march, but many of the marchers were aware of these actions by the time the march began, and their protests were in part directed against those actions.
«This is of particular importance when the civil liberties of minority groups are threatened, as they are now by the repressive actions being taken by the Trump administration against LGBT people, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.»
«Regardless of the federal government's dangerous actions to rescind Title IX protections, this state and this administration will continue to stand with and advocate for survivors, and we will not go backwards in the fight against sexual assault.»
Governor Nasiru Ahmed El - Rufai has assured that his administration will take legal action against individuals and institutions that announced false results in the just concluded local...
Now Thomas Stanton, the veteran investigator who until last week ran the state Tax Department's enforcement division, says the Paterson administration has deep - sixed just about any effective action against the traffickers.
The governor says underage drinking can have lifelong consequences and that his administration will take action against young people who seek to obtain alcohol as well as businesses willing to sell it to them.
«We are also consulting with the administration on possible sanctions actions against individual Russians and Ukrainians that range from visa bans and asset freezes, to the suspension of military cooperation and sales, as well as economic sanctions,» the New Jersey Democrat said.
«If the Buhari administration could take tough action against the extremist religious groups in the northern parts of the country to preserve national security, it is ridiculous to accuse the President of sending soldiers to the Southeast because he hates the Igbos.
He told reporters after the event that he wonders how the Trump administration is going to react to the peaceful protests that have sprung up across the country against his actions.
Enck, who worked for a time as former attorney general and Governor Eliot Spitzer's environmental advisor, says Spitzer formed the template for state attorneys general suing the federal EPA, bringing court action 15 times against the Bush administration.
Under Schneiderman, the attorney general's office held national prominence with more than 100 legal actions filed against President Donald Trump and his administration.
And she added the de Blasio administration claimed they could not take action against officers involved in killing Ramarley Graham in the Bronx in 2012, but his mother discovered «that was a lie.»
The D.C. - based firm has been sending out fund - raising requests for Schneiderman and other emails touting actions he's taken, including against the Trump administration.
«The criminal charges against MDEQ officials are one step towards justice for the families of Flint who were poisoned as a result of the actions of Governor (Rick) Snyder's administration,» U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, said in a statement.
No e-cigarette company has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve e-cigarettes for smoking cession, and the FDA has not taken any action against companies that claim e-cigarettes are effective for quitting smoking.
Although many marchers, like Wolf, are motivated by actions taken by the Trump White House, Rogers says organizers have tried to steer clear of having the march labeled as a protest against the current administration.
With regard to health specifically, the state's leaders publicly acknowledge the threats of climate change and have committed to taking action against them, even in a conservative state that helped elect a federal administration that sees little, if any, danger from human - caused climate change.
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The National Head Start Association responded by bringing suit against the administration in federal court for threatening local programs and trying to create a «chilling effect» on actions that parents and Head Start staff might take to save Head Start.
Every administration has a different philosophy that governs the work of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).28 Education Secretary DeVos» actions show a clear deprioritization of the office: Under her leadership, the Education Department announced that the OCR will not actively investigate patterns of discriminatory practices, 29 rolled back guidance to prevent discrimination against transgender students, 30 and refused to commit to continue the Civil Rights Data Collection.31
Her department has also taken action against various civil rights initiatives from the Obama administration such as guidance on the rights of transgender students, and her department announced it was scaling back civil rights investigations and would avoid looking into systemic issues.