Sentences with phrase «confirmed as attorney general»

«After a shameful, partisan delay forced on the American people by Senate Republicans, Loretta Lynch has finally been confirmed as Attorney General.

If Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General, he would have latitude to sue municipalities that that violate federal law.

US Attorney Loretta Lynch is still waiting to be confirmed as attorney general, and her allies — led by the Rev. Al Sharpton — are hoping a hunger strike will do the trick.

Sessions, who was confirmed as Attorney General and now heads the U.S. Department of Justice, has spoken out against marijuana legalization in the past.

If I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as Attorney General, I will certainly review and evaluate those policies, including the original justifications for the memorandum, as well as any relevant data and how circumstances may have changed or how they may change in the future.»

If I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as Attorney General, I will conduct such a review.

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In defending his record, Sessions is likely to point to his vote to confirm Eric Holder as the country's first black attorney general and to his co-sponsorship of the Fair Sentencing Act, which sought to reduce racial disparities in how black and white drug offenders are treated.

Trump replaced Yates with Dana Boente, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, saying that he would serve as attorney general until Congress acts to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama.

The former Attorney General under the Mills administration will require a simple parliamentary vote to be confirmed as the Special Prosecutor

The returns confirmed information already shared with journalists on Cuomo's finances when he filed for an income tax extension: He earned $ 144,026 as attorney general, $ 2,730 in interest (on an account at Chase bank) and $ 3,796 in dividends on an account he keeps with AMG National Trust Bank.

Pruitt was confirmed as the EPA's new head by the Senate in February, 52 - 46, after fierce resistance from Senate Democrats who opposed the former Oklahoma attorney general because of his close ties with the fossil fuel industry, among other things.

The full extent of a potential Tory rebellion is starting to become a little clearer, with figures such as Andrew Mitchell, former chief whip, Damian Green, former Home Office minister, and David Davies, former shadow home secretary, potentially joining confirmed rebels such as former attorney general Dominic Grieve and former justice secretary Ken Clarke.

Lady Chakrabarti, who was ennobled by Corbyn weeks after completing a controversial report on antisemitism within the party, was confirmed as shadow attorney general.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- A leading Senate Democrat predicts Eric Holder will be confirmed as the nation's next attorney general, despite tough questions expected from some Republicans about his Justice Department stint during the Clinton administration.

«What we have always suspected has now been confirmed publicly and by no less a person as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.

A spokesman for the attorney general, Matt Mittenthal, also confirmed the A.G.'s office has had a policy of deleting emails after 90 days dating back to 2007, when current governor Andrew Cuomo took office as the state's top prosecutor.

(Ms. Lynch was confirmed yesterday as the new U.S. attorney general, a post Mr. Bharara was reportedly interested in seeking.)

Thomas J. Perrelli is eligible for an estimated «withdrawal payment» of $ 768,200 from Chicago - based Jenner & Block if confirmed as associate attorney general.

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In our view, it is difficult to reconcile the Supreme Court of Canada's 1988 decision in BCGEU v. British Columbia (Attorney General), confirming that every Canadian citizen has the fundamental right to unimpeded access to the courts, with the notion of Canada's superior courts operating as a default user - pay system of justice, subject to an individual establishing an entitlement to an exemption from court fees.

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On this head, not a particle of Mr. Attorney - general's law, howsoever objected to (as we shall see) by the defendant's counsel, * is dissented from by the Chief - justice: on the contrary, from what immediately follows, let any man judge, whether, by implication at least — by necessary implication — it has not the whole of it, been confirmed.

Tonight, President Trump relieved Ms. Yates of her duties and subsequently named Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, where he is being wrongly held up by Democrat senators for strictly political reasons.

The Federal Trade Commission confirmed an inquiry as a group of attorneys general asked Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, for more information.

The Attorney - General's Department confirmed that, as at November 2003, no State or Territory has signed an Agreement with the Commonwealth for the provision of financial assistance for native title compensation and the costs associated with tribunals performing native title functions.