Sentences with phrase «branch officials all»

Although ethicists criticized the arrangement as falling short of the blind trusts set up by recent former presidents, Trump said he was doing more than he had to and noted that an ethics law that applies to most executive branch officials exempts the president.

It is possible for publication of precedential materials to be achieved simply as a matter of discretion: the executive branch may release these opinions, 64 as may the authoring judge of any opinion.65 But the best option, because it limits the ability of judges and executive branch officials to make additional judgment calls about disclosure, is for Congress to demand publication of such opinions by amending FISA.

Transparency is a means of holding all judicial branch officials accountable.

This lack of accountability raises legitimacy concerns, the most prominent of which is the fear executive branch officials will delegate controversial policy decisions to intergovernmental bodies in order to escape democratic deliberation.

As we reflect on these realities, it is valuable to appreciate that executive branch officials make policy judgments at sentencing all the time.

I've mentioned here and here the difficulty Oklahoma has had in terms of increasing judicial salaries through their linking process; the salaries of the state's executive branch officials are equal to those of judicial officials.

The people elected executive and legislative branch officials at local and federal levels.

And in areas in which the federal government lacked either the license or capacity to shape local policy directly, executive branch officials used federally sponsored litigation as a tool to advance reform.

One, in our system of government, executive branch officials are not empowered to give marching orders to duly elected legislators.

This statute, signed into law in 1978 in reaction to the Watergate scandal, orders the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to handle investigations into high - ranking executive branch officials.

In a motion to dismiss his indictment in July, Menendez's attorneys argued his meetings and interactions with executive branch officials can't be considered official acts under the McDonnell ruling.

However, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, most recently in Bowsher v. Synar (1986), that executive branch officials serve at the pleasure of the president and may be unilaterally removed.

In the early morning hours of July 7, 2005, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed pay increases for state lawmakers, judges, and top executive - branch officials.

But, most executive branch officials have, at most, «qualified immunity».

Federal law does not prohibit the president's involvement in private business while in office, even though lawmakers and executive branch officials are subject to conflict - of - interest rules.

Among the new measures pushed by branch officials, according to the New York Times: a mandate that Air Force Office of Special Investigations personnel «confirm that reportable cases have been entered in the federal database by seeing either a printout or a screenshot from the database.»

Several people have asked me why the federal conflicts of interest law, which bars every lowly executive branch official from acting on matters that affect their personal financial interests, won't apply to President Donald Trump.

But the President is the head of the executive branch, so if he and an executive branch official disagree on need - to - know, the President wins (it's less «checks and balances» and more «the boss can tell his subordinates what to do»).

The Senate's leadership coalition, uneasy with the direction of the commission, fired a shot last week when Senator Andrew Lanza of Staten Island introduced a measure that would require increased disclosure for anyone contributing to an executive branch official if they were also bidding on state contracts.

The FBI Director is a position within the executive branch of the US Government, thus the President is able to dismiss him like any other executive branch official.

[4] Johnson joined the Union of Communication Workers, becoming a branch official.

[1] Even when subject to public election, a judge plays a role different from that of a legislator or executive branch official.

Not exact matches

The three, all working with one branch or another of a company called Cryptometrics, are accused of having joined with Karigar in a failed attempt to bribe officials at Air India in order to land a contract to provide security to the airline.

Senior officials in each branch of the military had in recent months voiced opposition to integrating transgender people into troops, Military Times previously reported.

This really got the ball rolling on having an official branch down there.»

«Important thing is, customers do not have to visit physical branches, then we can smoothly reduce branches,» said an MUFG official on condition of anonymity.

Abbate is a senior official at the FBI, currently responsible for the bureau's criminal and cyber branch.

Mabel Au, director of the Hong Kong branch of Amnesty International, told Radio Free Asia that China stopped publicizing its execution numbers in 2008 or 2009, and that the group put together its tally by scouring official media reports and adding up the figures.

In Singapore, officials have closed branches of two Swiss banks and jailed a number of private bankers in relation to the case.

In that capacity, he served both as a senior official within the department's terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, one of sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies coordinated under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Fast forward to a month later, it was the first official class for the Pure Barre Olive Branch studio.

She has worked extensively with the executive branch, as well as elected officials in both houses and across the aisles of Congress, State Government, and in the private sector.

(It is important that we are fair, and hope Prof that you also highlight Afriforum's decision to rpeort a middle management official Tshwane to the Human Rights Commission, the official utilised his work email to send his ANC branch correspondence.

Against the prudent, realistic, hard - boiled legalists in the Kennedy administration like Byron White and Burke Marshall, a federal official of conscience and egalitarian conviction like John Doar (an Eisenhower holdover) emerges from Branch's account as a lonely, embattled and courageous figure: a «man who talked like Gary Cooper» and acted like Gary Cooper in the streets of Jackson, Mississippi, where he calmed an angry mob following the murder of Medgar Evers.

>> > «An olive branch would have been holding religious services separate from the official graduation ceremony.»

«We need leadership in the legal branch,» Moore told CNN by phone after fielding congratulatory calls from local officials.

To be sure, he flatly refuses to grant to theology any self - designated role as traffic cop or official umpire of the claims of other disciplines: «Theology is one branch of knowledge,» he says, «and secular sciences are other branches.

Rowan sold jars at Homecoming and held the official public unveiling of the line on Oct. 24 when cast - iron - stomach competitors battled it out in «Wing Wars» at the Glassboro branch of Chickie's & Pete's, a popular restaurant in the Philadelphia region.

Arsenal Supporters Club Nigeria was set up in 2004 by four staunch Gunners fans and received its official recognition from Arsenal in 2005 and since then has grown to include branches from different states and regions within the country such as Arsenal Port Harcourt, Arsenal Jos, Arsenal Abuja, Arsenal Ado Ekiti, Arsenal Uyo etc.

Camel City Gooners were founded in 2013 and are the official Arsenal America branch of the Piedmont Triad.

Despite its future as parkland, district officials say a number of hazards — such as barbed wire, brush and low branches — remain on the land.

But recently, library officials have seen a dip in the circulation of children's materials at the 95th Street branch, and they have shifted staff at all the community's libraries to accommodate what seem to be the bigger populations today: teens and seniors.

In Chicago, Park District officials are working with area residents on a $ 105,000 plan to restore 1 1/2 acres of wetlands where the North Branch of the Chicago River wends its way through Gompers Park at the southwest corner of Foster Avenue and Pulaski Road.

If this already compromised Moreland Commission on Corruption is not willing to investigate the second highest elected official in the executive branch for what appears to be a clear violations of the ethics laws, they should pack up and go home.»

Leader of the protesters and treasurer of the Market Men and Women, Ojodu Retail Market Branch, Alhaja Fadeke Bello, said the traders were surprised, when some officials of the state government gave them only one day notice to move out.

The legislative pay panel is expected to make its decision on salary increases for lawmakers as well as officials in the executive branch after Election Day this year.

Specifically, these modern tribunes would be entitled to veto one piece of congressional legislation, one executive order and one Supreme Court decision; to call one national referendum, over any issue they wish (only two - thirds votes of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives may render the statute unconstitutional); and to initiate impeachment proceedings against one Federal official from each of the three branches of government during their term of office.

The senior officials, including the head of leader Paul Nuttall's branch, condemned comments from him and millionaire backer Arron Banks.

Some women serving in the Legislature have called for a new, uniform policy covering all elected officials and state employees, instead of the current patchwork of policies in the executive and legislative branches.

He also assured that a team of the Lagos State government officials and security personnel would be mandated to monitor transport operations within the affected branches.