Sentences with phrase «general than the justice»

Not exact matches

«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.

For more than two weeks, the Trump White House has engaged in an unprecedented assault on the president's own Justice Department, and in particular on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the FBI.

An Argentinian lawyer who made his fame prosecuting generals of Argentina's «Dirty Wars» of 1976 to 1983, he has, more than anyone, given the ICC a public profile of an organization assertively pursuing arch-war criminals and insisting upon justice.

It seems to me that the current general statements made by historians, literary historians, and sociologists about American civilization often do not do justice to the fact that a considerable part of the American ethos is still, though less than in earlier periods of American history, expressed in religious commitment and its sociological expression.

He says that the Episcopal Church's «revisionary teachings on sexual behavior is unique in our church's development,» and that appeals to «justice» and «love» over the particular and defined words and actions of scripture suggest that a general principle has become more important than the lordship of Christ.

Fresh reports from Kogi State said more than 10 policemen have again, invaded the Okene residence of Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) former Attorney - General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.

«However, it is pertinent to state that, there is no vested interest by the Inspector General of Police in the ongoing investigation into the several murders committed by this killer gang, other than ensuring that justice prevails in the matter.

The resolution is in response to the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

The issue started with the U.S. Department of Justice's request to a federal judge to order the state to move its congressional primary to no later than Aug. 18, in order to comply with a federal law requiring absentee ballots be sent to members of the military no less than 45 days prior to the Nov. 6, 2012 general election.

More than a year ago, the state Attorney General's office brought charges against Pigeon, alleging he exchanged a series of favors with a state Supreme Court justice.

Last week, the Justice Department's Inspector General released a report that found private prisons are less safe and less effective than government - run corrections facilities.

In an email, he cited her «more than 20 years of public service... including seven years as an assistant district attorney in Erie County, three years as an assistant attorney general, and two years as executive director of JCOPE — a unique blend of legal, policy and criminal justice experience that is unparalleled and will greatly serve the state and all New Yorkers.»

(a) Whenever there shall be a violation of this section an application may be made by the attorney general in the name of the people of the state of New York to a court or justice having jurisdiction by a special proceeding to issue an injunction, and upon notice to the defendant of not less than five days, to enjoin and restrain the continuance of such violation; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court or justice that the defendant has, in fact, violated this section, an injunction may be issued by the court or justice, enjoining and restraining any further violations, without requiring proof that any person has, in fact, been injured or damaged thereby.

William Bradford Reynolds, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said that the Justice Department's practice of seeking desegregation remedies other than the mandatory busing of students «is not evidence of any decision to countenance unlawful school segregation.

In general, states with greater current relative commitments to prekindergarten and other education programs, child welfare programs, criminal justice programs, and health care and those with higher tax burdens experience greater offsetting budget benefits than do other states.

According to the News Tribune, Chief Justice Barbara Madsen said there was no reason to overturn the 1909 precedent and that the charter schools could be financed from the general fund rather than the money intended for public schools.

According to Biography.com, «his rise to infamy cost the lives of three Colombian presidential candidates, an attorney general, a justice minister, more than 200 judges, dozens of journalists, and over 1,000 police officers».

1) press ignoring the Downing Street memo 2) media using retired generals, who have conflicts of interest with the Pentagon and defense contractors, as military analysts 3) holding fake FEMA press conferences with fake reporters 4) planting fake reporters at Whitehouse press conferences to ask friendly questions (Jeff Gannon) 5) Whitehouse secretly paying columnists outrageous sums to write favorable stories 6) Pentagon writing fake stories in Iraqi newspapers 7) political hacks rewriting the findings of scientific reports 8) putting journalists in jail for reporting wrongdoing 9) press basically ignoring the Justice Dept. Scandal even though it's worse than Watergate 10) the press basically ignoring voting irregularities 11) press ignoring Gov. Siegelman scandal 12) the Whitehouse using Newspeak when announcing legislation (ie.

I suspect you would now challenge the notion that Charter and quasi-constitutional principles are at the core of the administration of justice, given that your interpretation above would absurdly allow lawyers to treat quasi-constitutional principles differently than the general public.

In both Elite Taxi and Uber France and in accordance with the Advocate General's Opinion in that first case (discussed previously on this blog), the Court of Justice rejected this line of defence, confirming that Uber itself, through its UberPOP application, offers more than simple intermediation.

But his emphasis upon that argument — strongly seconded by Acting Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, arguing for the federal government as amicus — led Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and others to suggest that the remedy should be an «active inducement» claim, rather than a secondary copyright infringement claim.

The Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney General have been less than enthusiastic about the rise of private prosecutions.

Justice Dunphy noted that «it would have been impossible for any literate person to have signed this document - even if they did no more than scan the heading - and remain ignorant of its general purpose and intent.

Few litigants or lawyers would argue that this sort of bespoke justice is anything other than a highly desirable outcome, but the end result is the fraying of the tapestry of the common law with inconsistent and sometimes incoherent case law that becomes increasingly intricate as exception after exception is carved out of general, normative principles to meet the needs of individual families.

At the swearing - in of the two new Associate Chief Justices — less than a week after receipt of that «landmark letter» — Attorney General Charles Harnick stated: «The Provincial Division in Ontario is one of the best, if not the best, managed court in the country.»

He worked at the prestigious Washington law firm of Covington & Burling before becoming an assistant to the solicitor general in the Justice Department; in that role, he argued more than a dozen cases before the Supreme Court.

Is it suggested that Mr MacKay's behaviour toward the Chief Justice would have been more acceptable if he had occupied the office either of Minister of Justice or of Attorney General for Canada, rather than both?

The fusion of the two roles has often been defended as ensuring that the Attorney General has a voice at the cabinet table in discussions of public policy but that seems to support the cabinet status of the Attorney General rather than its combination with another ministerial portfolio such as Justice.

The case has drawn interest from more than a dozen interveners, including the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada, as well as a number of civil rights and media organizations, who have weighed in on how such an order would affect free speech rights, international comity, and access to justice.

New Mexico AG Latest to File Suit Against Volkswagen: Volkswagen already faces more than 500 lawsuits from individuals and car dealers, as well as suits brought by the U.S. Justice Department and attorneys general in Texas and West Virginia, over the alleged emissions scandal.

There is no better description of the education (or lack thereof) that justices of the peace received than the following passage in Professor Alan Mewett's 1981 report to the Attorney General concerning the then sorry state of Ontario's justices of the peace.

In the cases I reviewed here, every official in the justice system failed the test — a governing body of the legal profession that released documents to the police without a warrant, a judge who granted a wiretap authorization with a general warrant to search mobile devices without limitation other than a temporal one and a Crown attorney who released privileged information after presumptively reviewing it for disclosure purposes under the Stinchcombe regime.

On a slightly different note, the Governor - General brought up in his speech a variety of issues other than simply that of access to justice, issues which are not often so honestly addressed (see here for an article in the Vancouver Sun).

[Roberts, then at Hogan & Hartson, would become Chief Justice; Phillips is one of the most respected high - court advocates with 78 arguments to the Supreme Court and now chair of Sidley & Austin; and Kneedler, of the Solicitor General's office has done more than 100 Supreme Court arguments.]

In this regard, I agree with the general sentiment of the objectors to the Settlement that the Settlement Agreement brings the administration of justice and class actions into disrepute because: (a) the Settlement is more beneficial to Class Counsel than it is to the Class Members; and (b) in its practical effect, the Settlement expropriates the Class Members» property rights in exchange for a charitable donation from Thomson.

Law societies should have been sponsoring a similar transition to support services production, at least for the general practitioner — the practitioner whose greater contact with the public than that of other lawyers determines the reputation of the legal profession amongst that majority of taxpayers that pays for the justice system.

(2) The Chief Justice may grant the Chief Executive Officer leave of absence, other than recreation leave, on such terms and conditions as the Chief Justice, with the approval of the Attorney ‑ General, determines.

(2AF) A Judge (other than the Chief Justice or the Deputy Chief Justice) who is not assigned to the Appeal Division shall be deemed to be assigned to the General Division.

Psychiatric disorder prevalence has been shown demonstrably higher among justice - involved adolescents than youth in the general population.