Sentences with phrase «back federal enforcement»

And it scales back federal enforcement of marijuana, giving patients the freedom to use it without fear of persecution, Gillibrand said.

Gillibrand is one of three senators introducing a bill that would scale back federal enforcement of marijuana laws in states that have legalized medicinal or recreational pot.

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CBP also searches people on behalf of other federal law enforcement agencies, sending its findings back to partners in the DEA, FBI, Treasury and the National Counterterrorism Center, among others.

And though the Justice Department's push to overhaul troubled police agencies was a staple effort of the last administration, Sessions announced his desire to «pull back» on federal scrutiny of local law enforcement, winning praise from some quarters.

NBC News reported earlier in the day that President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen had been wire tapped by federal law enforcement — and then walked the scoop back with a correction.

The event is part of the National Drug Take Back day initiated by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

Now Bharara is set to force Trump to go back on his pledge and will only leave if he's fired, federal law enforcement sources told CNN.

Ganim was back in federal court on Wednesday seeking to overturn a decision by the State Elections Enforcement Commission that his conviction makes him ineligible for the state's generous public campaign finance program.

Notably, the Department (through the website of its Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force) has indicated that FIRREA may also apply to conduct that is under investigation by the federal - state Residential Mortgage Backed Securities Task Force.

It is deeply disturbing that unnamed federal law enforcement officials pointed to the nonviolent «resolution» of the 2014 Cliven Bundy stand - off — in which the feds backed down from seizing his cattle illegally grazing for more than a decade on national park and desert range lands — as a «success» and a model for handling the current situation in eastern Oregon.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has just one day left to file its first response to a federal lawsuit brought by two North Dakota farmers who want to cultivate industrial hemp — and who want the DEA to back off and butt out — before the Aug. 24 deadline.

Each federal environmental law has enforcement provisions, backed by substantial penalties, which enable the government to bring administrative proceedings and civil and criminal enforcement actions.

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Lightbody, who had a minority stake in the Everett site, had convictions going back decades for assault, grand larceny and identify theft, and was said by federal law enforcement to be an associate of the New England family of La Cosa Nostra.