Sentences with phrase «before federal elections»

The vote was taken in the Bundestag in Berlin during the last session of the German parliament before federal elections in September.

Why would EY's client Kidman take Pengxin's second offer to the Foreign Investment Review Board just a fortnight before a federal election campaign begins?

Specifically, the MOVE Act requires ballots to be sent out 45 days before a Federal election (primary or general).

Earlier this year, before the federal election, the publicity generated by the number of citizens who had been charged after defending their homes or businesses prompted the federal government to introduce changes to the Criminal Code that would clarify self - defence laws.

Ezra has represented clients before the Federal Election Commission, before the Internal Revenue Service, and in federal court on campaign finance and non-profit tax issues.

Michael Plaxton, a law professor at the University of Saskatchewan, says the fact the decision will be announced not long before a federal election campaign must also be considered.

His clients have included individuals and corporations appearing before the Federal Election Commission (FEC) regarding campaign finance issues, as well as lawyers and law firms facing disqualification motions, malpractice actions, and other sensitive issues.

We haven't found an excuse to run the picture since then, but since this issue of REM was published a week before the federal election, it seemed like a good time.

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Comey's testimony Thursday before the Senate intelligence committee could expose new details regarding his discussions with Trump about the federal investigation into Russia's election meddling.

It requires states and local governments with a history of racial and ethnic discrimination, mainly in the South, to get advance approval either from the Justice Department or the federal court in Washington before making any changes that affect elections.

Among those expected to attend a hearing at the federal district court in Manhattan is Stormy Daniels, the adult - film star who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006 and took a $ 130,000 hush payment shortly before the 2016 election.

This post is in response to the following excellent comment from Stephen Moore, the man who will trounce Ralph Goodale in the next federal election (or at least do better than I did): April 2007 testimony before the parliamentary committee on International Trade saw Industry Canada, DFAIT reps and others stress the importance of the -LSB-...]

Before the election, the Federal Conservatives promised only to start collecting such information starting in 2016.

This year's budget bill, tabled just five months before the next federal election, is no different.

NDP's federal council met to review terms for leadership race, which will pick a new leader two years before next election

Even before news reports emerged in recent days about the potential misuse of Facebook data, federal regulators and Congress grappled with social media's growing influence on U.S. elections and the ways in which Russian operatives used the platforms to attempt to sow social unrest ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.

It is unclear if Mr. Hehr and fellow Liberal MLA Darshan Kang, who is running for the federal Liberals in Calgary - Skyview will resign their provincial positions before the next federal election.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

Before the Dominion Elections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recomElections Act (1920), voting in Canadian federal elections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recomelections was largely governed by the provinces, just as voting in US federal elections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recomelections is still, even today, governed by the «several States» (as they are wont to put it)-- except for the 1917 wartime election, labelled as the «largest gerrymander in Canadian history» (I've just finished a fascinating book about that election, fought over the issue of conscription; I highly recommend it).

Before joining the Liberals, he ran as an NDP candidate in Edmonton - Rutherford in the 2008 provincial election and in Edmonton - Mill Woods - Beaumont in the 2008 federal election.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate was 3.54 percent just before last November's election.

Before the election in October, the federal government turned away BC Ferries» applications for infrastructure money to support terminal upgrades and a new vessel.

The raids were part of a federal criminal investigation of Cohen in New York in part over a $ 130,000 payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels a month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump in 2006.

Now, the Common Cause watchdog group wants the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress to investigate a $ 130,000 payment that President Trump's lawyer is alleged to have arranged weeks before the 2016 election for a former porn actress in an attempt to cover up her purported affair witElection Commission and Congress to investigate a $ 130,000 payment that President Trump's lawyer is alleged to have arranged weeks before the 2016 election for a former porn actress in an attempt to cover up her purported affair witelection for a former porn actress in an attempt to cover up her purported affair with Trump.

For at least the past decade, in both Canadian and U.S. federal elections, network newscasters have «announced» a winner long before millions of voters in the western parts of each nation had an opportunity to vote.

An elder statesman, Aare Afe Babalola, has called on the Federal Government to restructure Nigeria before the next election.

The Governor of Lagos State, Akinwumi Ambode, who declared the joint working retreat of the federal lawmakers open, said there was need to fix the 1999 constitution before the 2019 election.

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».

In Ohio, Illinois and North Carolina, voters go to the polls on March 15, a month before the next Federal Election Commission fundraising report deadline.

While operatives say there is still plenty of time for candidates to jump into the race, the next Federal Election Commission reporting period runs from July 1 through Sept. 30, and Democratic candidates may want to declare soon to raise as much money as possible before the quarter ends as a measure of their viability and popularity heading into the electiElection Commission reporting period runs from July 1 through Sept. 30, and Democratic candidates may want to declare soon to raise as much money as possible before the quarter ends as a measure of their viability and popularity heading into the electionelection year.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

A federal judge ruled last year that New York's traditional date for the primary, the second Tuesday of September, occurs too late for military absentee ballots to be processed before the general election.

In addition to a federal investigation into whether Campaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and election laws.

Ms. Berney also presented the Court with copies of Milano's Federal Elections Commission filings, which reveal that Milano paid the Ragusa faction of the Queens County Republican Party and related entities $ 13,000 just before they cast the only vote to grant Democrat Milano the Wilson - Pakula certificate to run as a Republican.

* Given their current fundraising trajectory — they have outraised the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in each of the last four months and have raised more money than any of the federal campaign operations so far this year — there is a belief that the NRCC can collect $ 12 million more before the election.

Federal prosecutors want to start Republican New York Rep. Michael Grimm's tax evasion trial in October, a month before Election Day.

If Governor Cuomo had allowed the Moreland Commission to fulfill its mission without interfering in its operations, these charges might have been brought earlier, perhaps before the November 2014 elections, and without requiring federal authorities to step in.

Readers may like to know that the Australian Labor Party - a sister Party of British Labour with a very similar history and values to our own - has rules which insist on mandatory re-selection for all Federal MPs before each Federal Parliamentary election.

Before his election to Congress, Katko served for more than 15 years as a federal prosecutor in Syracuse for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of New York.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked an effort by the state's teachers unions to strip away restrictions on political spending weeks before primary elections.

The election tribunals and Court of Appeal ordered the re-runs, after voiding the returns for most of the Rivers legislative seats, federal and state; before the Supreme Court, in a bizarre verdict, endorsed the governorship poll, held the same day, and under the same bloody conditions, as the state legislative elections.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous eElections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous electionselections.

A federal law requires states to hold their party primaries 80 days before a general election in order to provide timely access to military and overseas ballots and the DOJ is suing New York to force the state to comply with the law.

«To be clear, should the waiver application be denied, the State does not dispute that, at least for federal elections, the 2012 primary must be held at least 80 days before the 2012 general election.

The federal government wants New York to hold its primary no later than Aug. 18 in order to comply with the MOVE Act, which requires the vote is held at least 45 days before the election.

Donald Trump won't release his tax returns before New York's April 19 primary election and next week's federal tax filing deadline for all Americans, saying he'll make them public after the completion of an IRS audit.

Stating that almost all his predictions for 2016 had come to pass, Fayose alleged that there were plans by the Federal Government to place Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State under house arrest on Thursday — two days before the legislative rerun elections in the state.

The new law rectifies the discrepancy between state and federal laws with respect to the timing of transmitting such ballots before a special election.

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So far, four national offices of the party filled by elections held during the December 9, 2017 national convention of the party are being challenged before the Federal High Court in Abuja.