Sentences with phrase «general at the justice»

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After his stint at Verizon, Pai had gone to work in various roles at the Senate judiciary committee (advising Jeff Sessions and Sam Brownback) and at the justice department, before becoming FCC deputy general counsel in 2007.

«It's clearer than ever now that the attorney general can not, in good faith, oversee an investigation at the Department of Justice and the FBI of the Trump - Russia connection, and he must recuse himself immediately,» Franken said.

Back in November 2016, John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that if Sessions became attorney general, he would have the power to rescind the Department of Justice memos issued under the Obama administration that have allowed marijuana companies to exist without fear of DEA raids.

William Yeomans, a former deputy assistant attorney general who spent 26 years at the Justice Department, said Flynn's guilty plea «is likely big trouble for several members of the Trump administration.»

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions takes questions during a press conference at the Department of Justice on March 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

On Monday, at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, Mr. Stephenson and AT&T's general counsel, David McAtee, met with Makan Delrahim, the new assistant attorney general for the department's antitrust division, and other Justice Department officials.

One of the lead attorneys defending the payday lenders was Steven Engel, who is now assistant attorney general at the US Justice Department, and who was listed as an active attorney in the case until November 14, the day after he was sworn into office.

On May 2, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would increase prosecutors and immigration judges at the U.S. southern border to...

He previously was a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Department, and senior counsel at the Justice Department.John Roth joined the firm as chief compliance and ethics officer, with responsibility for ensuring that the company remains in compliance with the evolving legal landscape.

In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

West arrives at Uber after serving as the general counsel at PepsiCo, and before that, as an assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice under former President Barack Obama.

Yet our government would have us agree to sweeping economic agreements like CETA and the TPP without providing us any facts at all, just empty slogans about how wonderful things will be after we sign on,» says Larry Brown, national secretary - treasurer of the National Union of Public and General Employees and co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Meanwhile, Rachel Brand, the third - ranking official at the Department of Justice, also stepped down — for fear that she would have to manage the Russia probe if her superior, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, were to quit or be fired.

Page, meanwhile, had returned to her post at the FBI before the text messages were discovered by investigators working with the Justice Department's inspector general.

The Attorney General has nothing to do with what happens at the Justice Department, so can not be blamed and has put forward a «credible justification» in the AP case, according the New York Times.

Scholars experience the phenomenon time after time: you approach a new subject with a few large general impressions and inevitably discover, upon investiga tion, that the impressions don't do justice to the complexity of the data, or, at the very least, that they take on shades of ambiguity you had not previously imagined.

Democracy itself is not possible unless the constituted political process is in large or, at least, tolerable measure successful, so that governance fulfills its moral obligations by pursuing justice as general emancipation.

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.»

Not satisfied with his acquittal, the Attorney - General again filed a criminal appeal at the Court of Appeal against the judgement debt beneficiary, but still lost as the three - member panel of judges, namely, Justices Victor Ofoe (president), Lawrence Ladzagla Mensah and Francis Korbieh.

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General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has fired a sharp riposte at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for claiming Justice Yaw Apau was appointed to the Supreme Court because he did a «hatchet» job for the government on Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

The new Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice said the new cabinet would leave no stone unturned at ensuring unflinching support and cooperation with the present administration in the state.

The former Attorney General Betty Mould Iddrisu under the Mills administration has expressed delight at the choice of Justice Sophia Akuffo as the new Chief Justice.

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».

Ladoja who spoke through the Director - General of his campaign organization, Hon. Adeolu Adeleke, during a press conference in Ibadan, said the dismissal of his petition by the Justice Muhammed Mayaki - led election petitions tribunal, did not come as a surprise, but rather a confirmation of the boasts by Ajimobi at different fora, that he had already secured victory.

The interview process had been unusual, with eight candidates braving a media gauntlet at the Justice Department on a Saturday for interviews with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein.

Karla Sanchez, a partner at law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, was appointed executive deputy attorney general for economic justice.

«We thank Attorney General Schneiderman for his diligence in investigating and trying this case, and the jury for their service in bringing justice to New Yorkers,» she said at the time.

In announcing the decision to repeal the Obama - era DACA program, Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the change at the Justice Department, both used the aggrieved language of anti-immigrant activists, arguing that those in the country illegally are lawbreakers who hurt native - born Americans by usurping their jobs and pushing down wages.

Among those expected at the roundtable are: Professor Itse Sagay SAN Chairman Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption; Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN; Femi Falana SAN; and representatives of the Royal Netherlands Embassy; and the Ford Foundation.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was reportedly assured by the White House, receiving a personal call from new chief of staff John Kelly — that his gig at the Justice Department is safe — despite the barrage of attacks coming from the president.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said that Trump has not directed the Justice Department to investigate «particular people,» after the president said at a rally Thursday that prosecutors should look at Hillary Clinton's «33,000 deleted emails.»

What some failed to know is that Bagbin has always been bold and frank to fight for the common good at the expense of his personal interest.It will be recalled that in 1997, he criticizedPresident Jerry John Rawlings after he appointed then Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon. Dr. Obed Asamoahto hold an additional portfolio as Acting Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Justice Department was pursuing three times as many leak investigations as were open at the end of the previous administration — a significant devotion of law enforcement resources to hunt down the sources of unauthorized disclosures of information that have plagued the Trump administration.

Speaking on the summit, the Vice President said Lagos State had a general reputation for trailblazing reforms in the justice sector and in many other sectors in Nigeria and beyond, adding that the summit, which is aimed at further initiating reforms in conformity with modern trends, was another testament of the fact that the reputation of the State was being taken seriously by the current administration ably led by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

The others include Albany - based Appellate Justice Leslie Stein, a former City Court judge; Buffalo - based Appellate Justice Eugene Fahey; Daniel Alter, general counsel for the state Department of Financial Services; attorney Maria Vullo of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Manhattan; attorney Rowan Wilson of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in Manhattan; and Preeta Bansal, a Manhattan - based former state solicitor general who is a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and senior legal and policy advisor at the MIT Media Lab.

OPENING ADDRESS BY H.E. JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA, AT THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM [SENCHI - AKOSOMBO TUESDAY, MAY 13 ™, 2014] The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana Her Ladyship the Chief Justice H.E. former President Jerry John Rawlings Secretary General of the TUC Senior Citizen and renowned Economist Mr. Kwame Pianim Paramount Chief of Akwamu...

Inaugurating the court martial at the military media center in Maiduguri, the Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier Victor Ezugwu, advised the president of the court and its members against unnecessary adjournments, while ensuring that justice is seen to be done to all parties.

Mr. Dasuki, who was arraigned before Justice Sani Yusuf, alongside a former director of finance at the office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Group General Manager of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Aminu Kura, and two firms, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Reference Hospital, had on Monday filed for bail after pleading not guilty to the 19 - count charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet BhararaPreetinder (Preet) Singh BhararaPreet Bharara weighs in on report of Cohen wiretap Daily Beast to «hit pause» on Joy Reid columns; MSNBC host backs off speaking event Bharara: We owe Mueller «incalculable thanks» MORE said Friday that if a recent report in The New York Times that Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsChris Christie compares Mueller investigation to «Bridgegate» probe Oakland mayor fires back at Trump: «It's my duty to protect my residents» McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE sought negative press coverage of former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien ComeyTrump - Russia probe marks one - year anniversary: This is what it has accomplished Trump: McCabe should be under investigation for ties to Clinton The Memo: Trump team stokes fight over Mueller MORE is true, he must be ousted from the Justice Department.

The march concluded an all - day celebration of the slain activist hero's life at the National Action Network, where Cuomo accepted a «social - justice award» for his executive order requiring the attorney general to investigate civilian deaths at the hands of cops.

«In view of the above, the Honourable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice wishes to emphatically reiterate that he has profound confidence in the Chief Justice of Nigeria and wishes His Lordship the very best in the discharge or performance of his daunting duties to the nation at large.»

Anne Milgram: Former Attorney General, State of New Jersey; former federal prosecutor, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Senior Fellow, Center on Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law.

Schneiderman took the stage at the Democrats» party in Midtown about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday morning as New York's newest attorney general and said that his win proved that speaking up for justice meant you could win an election.

It was the Justice Department, CP; specifically, the Attorney General, the nation's chief lawyer, who arrived at the considered opinion that DOMA is unconstitutional and proceeded accordingly.

The extension of the date till November 23 by Justice Adeniyi Ademola was at the instance of the new Solicitor General of the Federation Mr. Taiwo Abidogun.

Speaking earlier at the inauguration, Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem said the past board was inaugurated on March 12, 2012, and was dissolved by Governor Ambode on June 15, 2015 in accordance with the provision of the law establishing the Commission as amended in 2012.

Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami made this known at the ongoing consultative meeting on assets recovery in Abuja.

Also present at the function were high profile personalities like Julius Debrah, the Chief of Staff, Samuel Justice Adjei, the Deputy Brong Ahafo Minister, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Hon Akwasi Oppong Ababio, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive among others.