Sentences with phrase «in my justice department»

«I am very disappointed in my Justice Department.

Yates, the former deputy attorney general who was fired by Trump in January after refusing to enforce his first immigration order, used her opening statement to outline her experience working in the Justice Department for 27 years «through five Democratic and Republican administrations.»

Using a barrage of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, TRAC has been able to gather data buried in the Justice Department's own computer files (minus the individual case numbers that might be used to identify defendants).

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

He faced a sixth deportation in 2015, and was in Justice Department (DOJ) custody that March after serving 46 months in prison for a felony re-entry into the US, but instead of transferring him into the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation, the department transferred him to the San Francisco County Jail for prosecution of a 1995 marijuana charge.

Russian nationals identified in a Justice Department indictment released Friday used cryptocurrency exchanges as part of an alleged scheme to mislead U.S. citizens leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

If it's true that Mueller has handed off the Cohen probe to others in the Justice Department, firing him wouldn't affect the Cohen probe at all.

While they worked closely together in the Justice Department under President George W. Bush and are known to respect each other, associates of both men say the two are not particularly close.

«So I'm very disappointed in my Justice Department,» Trump said.

«I'm very disappointed in my Justice Department.

The president has repeatedly said he intends to intervene in the Justice Department, and leaks and changes to his legal team telegraph a strategy of escalation.

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

The day before the October 23, 1967, March on the Pentagon, Mr. Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and eight other activists met with an official in the Justice Department and turned in the draft cards of young war resisters

The day before the October 23, 1967, March on the Pentagon, Mr. Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and eight other activists met with an official in the Justice Department and turned in the draft cards of young war resisters — an action that was to result in the indictment of five of the group on conspiracy charges.

One would like to think that there are also those in the Justice Department who have conscience qualms about imposing a litmus test on judicial candidates.

Of course the last scandals were bottled up in the Justice Department which was headed by probably the most slimy and political AG in our lifetime, Eric Holder.

They confirmed that lawyers, including those in the Justice Department, were consulted before Awlaki's name was added to the target list.

The Russian focus on the New York State governor's race is rooted in the Kremlin's desire to install GOP candidate and Kremlin asset Marc Molinaro in the governor's seat, so that Molinaro can pardon any members of the Trump organization who are indicted by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which would effectively take away Robert Mueller's backstop in the Justice Department investigation of the Trump Administration.

But other prosecutors in the Justice Department believe there is enough evidence to move forward with a case, the New York Times reported.

If Trump fires Rosenstein, then orders could move down the chain of command in the Justice Department - established via an executive order of Trump's.

Governments that don't work with ICE would lose access to $ 4 billion in Justice Department grants.

But one source in the Justice Department noted that, given the current political climate, there are not many open jobs for

he later served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department.

Wray served in the Justice Department under President George W. Bush and currently works on white - collar crime at an international law firm.

Mr Gove's right hand man in the Justice department Mr Raab said: «Boris did not come through and was cavalier with the assurances he made.»

The letter was signed by Catherine E. Lhamon, the Education Department's assistant secretary for civil rights, and Vanita Gupta, acting assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department.

Mr. Lynn makes the case that Amazon's dominance isn't just a story of an industry disrupted by online commerce and digital upheaval, it's about the abandoning of New Deal era protections of retailers in 1975 (promoted by backers as a means to fight inflation, says Mr. Lynn) and what he portrays as a shift in 1981 in the Justice Department's interpretation of antitrust law based on «Chicago School» theories of efficiency and consumer welfare.

The information was in the Justice Department documents for the case against Apple and the publishers.

In the months leading up to his lay - off, Levy had approached several firms to see if they had a place for him, and also sought a political appointment in the Justice Department, but all proved to be dead ends.

Yes, readers inside - the - beltway may be interested in goings on in the Justice Department, but so are readers in California and Florida.

As an attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during the administration of President George W. Bush, John Yoo helped write the so - called torture memos, justifying the use of «enhanced interrogation techniques» against «enemy combatants.»

The four lawyers President - elect Barack Obama named yesterday to senior posts in the Justice Department are described by the Washington Post as «pragmatic leaders who are likely to reverse some of the more divisive policies of the Bush administration.»

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.

Under Reagan's successor, President George H.W. Bush, he was deputy attorney general, the No. 2 official in the Justice Department, and briefly served as acting U.S. attorney general.

Before joining the firm in 2012, Terzaken spent nearly eight years in the Justice Department's competition division.

Tamm was a lawyer in the Justice Department working in a highly classified unit handling wiretaps of suspected terrorists and spies when he stumbled upon the existence of the National Security Agency eavesdropping program.

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Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates has signed on with King & Spalding — rejoining the law firm where she began her career before her 27 - year tenure in the Justice Department, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Mukasey Melodrama: Check out Legal Times» roundup of all the obstacles Michael Mukasey might face in the Justice Department if he is confirmed.

He previously served as Director of Patent and Antitrust Strategy for BlackBerry, and in a variety of senior government positions, including director of antitrust policy for the Federal Trade Commission; Acting General Counsel of the Commerce Department; Chief Counsel for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; and senior counsel in the Justice Department.

Before joining the court, he had spent the bulk of his career as a federal prosecutor, including in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

Staff in the justice department has dropped to 4,399 in 2014 from 4,812 in 2006.

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If a newspaper reports that the mayor of a big city is using his control of federal stimulus funds to reward political supporters, it helps to know whether this information comes from «a source within City Hall», «a former staff member», «a press conference by an opposing candidate», or «an official involved in the Justice Department investigation.»

Not exact matches

In late 1980, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) offered to settle a major antitrust case against AT&T if it agreed to spin off Western Electric, the equipment division of AT&T.

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.

After a downturn in violence in the early years after the turn of the century, deaths related to Mexican drug wars totaled 121,669 between 2006 and 2012, according to a recent report from the Justice in Mexico project at the University of California - San Diego's Department of Politic Science and International Relations.

A former Department of Justice spokesman, Matthew Miller, said a raid coming months into an investigation in which the subject's attorneys had been speaking with, and presumably cooperating with, the DOJ «suggests something serious.»

But Comey said the intense public interest in the matter — and permission from the Justice Department — made it appropriate to do so.

The Justice Department says the merger could lead to $ 463 million in extra fees being passed along to cable subscribers each year.