Sentences with phrase «attorney general plans»

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The Trump offshore drilling plan would let oil suppliers drill in protected areas of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans — places where governors, attorneys general and lawmakers along the East and West Coasts oppose offshore drilling.

They are especially troubled by Trump's planned Attorney General nomination of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization.

President Donald Trump has been formulating a plan to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Vanity Fair reported on Wednesday.

The attorney generals of Washington state and Pennsylvania also said they planned...

Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a consumer protection lawsuit today against CLA Estate Services, Inc. and CLA USA, Inc. for operating a «trust mill» by misleading hundreds of Washington seniors about estate planning, and persuading them to purchase high - commission...

The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups on ongoing or potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the impact their business had on climate change.

Sources said Magnum now plans to withdraw the offering plan from the New York state Attorney General's office and return deposits to buyers who've gone into contract.

Developers transforming a former drug rehab center into 14 luxury condos hope for a sellout of $ 61 million, according to an offering plan filed with the New York state Attorney General's office last week.

New York Attorney General Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who announced the new lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, said the plans would have a «devastating...

The threat of a lawsuit from 10 conservative state attorneys general has led to reports that President Donald Trump plans on ending or at least modifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that protects children of undocumented immigrants who were brought into this country when they were too young to have a say.

Editor's Note: CNN Justice Producer Terry Frieden passes along this note on the meeting faith leaders had with Attorney General Eric Holder: A senior Justice Department official who was present at the meeting later clarified Holder's comment as follows: «Yes, the Attorney General did refer to the plan [to burn the Qurans] as «idiotic.»

«To quote the attorney general, he called the Gainesville planned burning of Qurans «idiotic and dangerous,»» said Farhana Khera, president of Muslim Advocates, soon after meeting with Holder.

Parks general attorney George Galland said the two have agreed, at his urging, to begin holding weekly meetings to discuss agency planning, «so people are working shoulder to shoulder instead of head to head.

The mayor said the city's lawyers are staying on top of the issue, and plan to follow the lead of the state Attorney General's office.

A CapTon viewer was struck by Andrew Cuomo's recitation last night of all the corruption - busting he's done as the state's chief law enforcement official and his plan to tell New Yorkers: «You know what I've done as attorney general, imagine what I'd do as governor.»

Nevertheless, the paper has decided to throw its considerable weight behind the man who, in its words, «appears to be an ambitious, articulate attorney general who has presented detailed plans for New York's future which reveal a realistic understanding of the state's problems and prospects and the seriousness of purpose needed to address them.»

In the agreed - to spending plan, that sum has grown to include $ 2.3 billion for the governor, $ 1.2 billion for the Senate, $ 989 million for the Assembly and $ 82 million for the attorney general.

The owners of the Malverne Cinema say a planned expansion by a nearby theater could put them out of business, and last week they took their concerns to the state attorney general's office.

The Working Families Party is scheduled to hold its convention on Saturday in Harlem, with plans to pick an attorney general candidate.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called the Republicans plan to repeal ObamaCare «unconstitutional,» and said he plans to file a lawsuit if the Senate passes the bill.

Though he attended the gala in 2010 when he was the state attorney general preparing to run for governor — an awkward moment that saw him sharing a table with Paterson, who looked to be on a political collision course with Cuomo until he decided not to follow through with his plans to seek a full four - year term — Cuomo generally avoids the public portions of caucus weekend in favor of private events at the mansion where he has more control — both over the guest list and media access.

As state legislators plan to start interviewing potential appointees to replace former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman next week, the State Democratic Party is also considering how to address the vacancy.

Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive who is the presumptive Republican nominee for governor this year, released a statement slamming Cuomo over his plans to interview certain attorney general candidates.

That is why we are joining forces to urge the Legislature to pass Attorney General Schneiderman's I - STOP plan to tackle this epidemic head on.

Their answer was that they were planning on enlisting natural allies such as City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who had had their own differences with Cuomo.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

Hudson Valley Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney and New York's Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood are among 16 people state legislators plan to interview to take over as New York's top law enforcement officer through the end of the year.

Rice is seriously considering running for attorney general and likely to run, according to a source with knowledge of her plans.

ALBANY — Amid New York's growing prescription drug epidemic, a bipartisan coalition of 23 mayors and town supervisors from across the state today endorsed Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's Internet System for Tracking Overprescribing (I - STOP) plan to create an online database to report and track certain controlled substances in real time.

DOWNTOWN — Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo and his successor as attorney general Eric Schneiderman are planning a comprehensive ethics reform agenda that will likely include an independent ethics watchdog and an independent prosecutor, Cuomo said after the pair's first official meeting Friday.

Sen. Darrel Aubertine has endorsed Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's proposed energy plan, saying it is the type of platform the legislature and the next governor must build on to address the state's energy needs and opportunities.

The Attorney General's plan includes:

The New York attorney general's office plans to operate a complaint hotline to address voter problems in Tuesday's congressional primaries.

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced plans for an open interview process for the legislature to appoint a new state Attorney General, now that Eric Schneiderman has resigned over domestic violence allegations.

The office still seems set on fighting Trump: Just this week, Acting Attorney General Barbara Underwood joined in an amicus brief in a case meant to block Trump's new rules for funding family - planning programs.

To address what he called «the stranglehold that political contributions have on our government,» the Attorney General's plan also includes fundamental changes to New York State's campaign finance system:

A hearing scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albany will be the first courtroom encounter between Paterson — represented by lawyers from the attorney general's office — and four state workers unions that brought suit against the governor's plan to force employees to take a one - day - a-week furlough until the state's budget plan is finalized.

A number of possible candidates for attorney general have emerged this week, including Long Island Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, who is a near - lock to run, according to a person with knowledge of her plans.

The Working Families Party on Monday announced it would begin a vetting of candidates for attorney general, with plans to make an endorsement at its state convention on Saturday in New York City.

If it goes ahead as planned the magistrates and crown courts will fall apart within the first few months of him becoming attorney general.

California plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so - called sanctuary cities, a spokesperson for the state's attorney general office said.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that he had no immediate plans to resign and would serve as long as is «appropriate,» despite Trump's expression of regret about appointing him.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has also subpoenaed Con Ed and LIPA for plans and performance records on restoring power, communicating with customers without power and other aspects of the utilities» responses to the storm.

Prominent Conservative backbenchers opposed to this ill - advised plan include Dominic Grieve, the former Attorney General, and former justice secretary Kenneth Clarke.

This year, in a speech that included applause for Cuomo's criminal justice reform efforts such as strengthening state oversight of jail and his plan to fight the federal government on the tax law, Cuomo sought to give shootouts to individual members of the Legislature and praise Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as well as DiNapoli.

The joint effort by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to root out public corruiption is «complimentary» to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to overhaul ethics in state government, DiNapoli said in an interview on The Capitol Pressroom today.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Democrats who control the Assembly are planning to interview applicants for attorney general after Eric Schneiderman abruptly resigned amid allegations he physically abused four women.

The long - time head of the Dominican Day Parade, Nelson Pena, will be ousted under a deal with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after a probe found financial improprieties, officials plan to announce today.

New York is one of several states that have aggregate limits on campaign spending, though a state - level court ruling tossed the cap and the state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office plans to appeal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an interview on NY1 Sunday said he plans to meet with several contenders for attorney general ahead of the state Democratic convention later this month in order to have «substantive conversations» with them about the office.