Sentences with phrase «at justice issues»

«I'm arguing we need to keep the current Budget figures and then we can start reallocating (savings) to certain areas that we need: education, jobs, looking at the justice issues and so on.»

Not exact matches

Back in November 2016, John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that if Sessions became attorney general, he would have the power to rescind the Department of Justice memos issued under the Obama administration that have allowed marijuana companies to exist without fear of DEA raids.

«That's hardly the type of justice the American people deserve given the sheer magnitude of misconduct at issue, and I accordingly dissent in part.»

«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social - justice issues.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

The FBI's Monday raid of Cohen's offices indicates that the Justice Department is looking at issues beyond special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But Justice Minister Peter MacKay's statement Wednesday signalled the issue is still on the government's radar — at a time when the opposition parties are pushing decriminalization or full legalization.

Premiers concluded their meeting in Edmonton by looking at ways to advance shared objectives on critically important justice and social issues.

Yesterday my friend Rick Garnett, who teaches law at Notre Dame and blogs at Mirror of Justice, took issue with my article (and White's).

When the issue at hand is the promotion of some good, the first thing they say is, «This is good; it's a requirement of justice that the law acknowledge it; and here is why it's both good and just.»

At almost the same time that he wrote the opinion sustaining the «bubble law,» Justice Stevens issued another opinion for the Court, this one invalidating a high school policy that permitted student - led prayer before football games.

Subsequently, both the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican issued....

Amnesty International is up to no good, and they don't want you to know about it.My friend Richard Stith, professor of law at Valparaiso University, first drew my attention to the issue on the Mirror of Justice blog about a year ago.

They will require a concerted effort by theologians who take both ecology and justice seriously, and who are prompted by a sense of urgency that will allow them to struggle creatively and resolutely with the deeper issues — if not in perfect harmony, at least with a sense of solidarity.

Standing under the word in prayer while waiting for the clarification of the Spirit will satisfy neither those who argue for «justice now» nor those for whom the faith itself is at stake in this issue — and those people will necessarily continue their professions and protestations.

Process theology has failed to deal extensively with the issue of justice, at least under that rubric.

That's why we cover life issues and culture next to social justice and spiritual growth — to look at the things relevant to our lives and world, and give voice to what God is doing in and through our generation.

I give to you what I give to no one else, and that is my seed, my procreative power, which, united to your seed, can incarnate our love, take on flesh that will be the living fruit of our love, the proof also that we want our love to be a gift to God and to the future.1 I have expanded on this at length elsewhere.2 Holding to our present topic, let us look a bit more closely at those issues of justice involved in this divine plan of the union of man and woman in marriage.

At the heart of the issue was the fact that exclusivism just didn't feel right to me, it didn't fit with my very core sense of right and wrong, of justice and injustice, of good and evil.

But of course if you're only looking for issuing popular readable material without getting the bottom of the more important issues at hand which is truth, justice, honour, integrity and the like, never mind.

Those people who are obsessed with the so - called «social issues» seem to overlook the fact that both Jesus and the prophets hammered away primarily and consistently at Social Justice, again and again and again.

A Challenge for Process Theology,» George Pixley has put decisively before all process thinkers a host of issues arising from the struggle for justice and humanization which are at the heart of the conflict within the world today.

On purely moral issues, judges are no more competent or trustworthy, as Justice Scalia observed in Cruzan, the Missouri «right to die» case, than «nine people picked at random from the Kansas City telephone directory.»

This post looks at the two sides of the social justice debate, and then suggests a third middle way on social justice issues.

Some may balk at the taking of these liberties; but the issue is one both of accuracy and of justice, and «we must obey God rather than any human authority» (RSV: «men» — Acts 5:29)

Look at what happened to so - and - so, who tried seriously to bring justice issues into his church.

This month, First Presbyterian asked the Sooner State's top court to take a third look at the case, arguing that the justices mixed up two separate issues of law: the ecclesiastical extension / church autonomy doctrine and the ministerial exception.

On the other side of the social justice debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.

Sexual issues, often difficult to resolve in congregations and denominational systems, can find both healing and appropriate justice at many retreat centers, where anonymity and freedom offer space to seek both.

Every year healing retreats for women at Kirkridge focus on such issues as finding one's own voice, vocation and justice.

At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more with theoretical questions of belief and truth than with practical issues of action and justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.

I have already noted that Black theology deals at once with cultural and justice issues in a thoroughly unified way.

The keepers of those myths that you probably have the most issue with, somewhat successfully changed the meaning of the word myth to the word lie... to make their own myths (which they called parables and which were presented more in allegorical than historical form), to in their minds be perceived more as truth... and in God's own poetic justice, now have their cherished tales of perceived morality thrown into the same category by those who make the same efforts at understnding the meanings.

At the very least, as Amy Black points out in «For the Sake of the Children» (a 1995 contribution to the Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy), there are public - justice issues involved.

Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.

At the same time, others are strongly committed to the wider issues of peace, justice, and - the environment.

They were strongly committed to global issues of justice, to specific ministries with those at the margin of our own society, to peacemaking, and to environmental concerns.

Chapin says, «I've been thinking about food justice issues for as long as I can remember, but it was only when I became a mother (and a mother of an exhaustingly picky eater in my 2nd son Van, at that) that my ideas coalesced into a song.

She is also an award - winning blogger, an editor at A Deeper Story, a contributor for SheLoves Magazine, and a passionate advocate for global women's justice issues.

The boy was one of 73 children at the Bridgeview public pool from the Village of Justice Park District summer camp, which included 10 adult chaperones, according to a press release issued today.

Both the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the National Offender Management Service (Noms) have looked at the issue for some years and the idea has been quietly kicked in the long grass on «operational grounds» every time.

At issue is a wrinkle in the state's judicial pay commission, which increased pay for judges last year, with the base pay for a Supreme Court justice growing to $ 193,000 in 2016 and $ 203,000 in 2018.

This revelation comes barely a day after the Chief Justice's Committee instituted to investigate the scandal had publicly issued a hearing notice to the judge, who was captured on video allegedly receiving bribe at Zongo Junction in Accra.

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».

At the Alumni Weekend 2011, Dr Mark Philp, Professor Simon Caney and Dr Adam Swift discussed the issue of intergenerational justice and asked questions about how we should allocate resources inter-generationally across areas such as welfare, pensions, higher education and the environment.

At 5 p.m., Civic Hall and Citizen Action NY will host «The Revolution Will Be Localized,» a discussion on closing Rikers, bail reform, and other criminal justice issues, at Civic Hall's headquarters, 118 West 22nd St., 12th Fl., ManhattaAt 5 p.m., Civic Hall and Citizen Action NY will host «The Revolution Will Be Localized,» a discussion on closing Rikers, bail reform, and other criminal justice issues, at Civic Hall's headquarters, 118 West 22nd St., 12th Fl., Manhattaat Civic Hall's headquarters, 118 West 22nd St., 12th Fl., Manhattan.

Traditionally, the kind of progressive movement that's lining up behind Nixon has been critiqued for not giving black voters — a voting bloc vital to winning elections — a seat at the table, and for putting racial justice issues second to those of economic justice.

Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who was also honored in Buffalo at a separate event later in the day, asked the public to judge her and the governor on their progress over the next four years on social justice issues, including women's rights.

The continued need for major reform whether it's at the ballot box, on criminal justice issues, or reproductive health, reflects a failure of leadership at all levels.