Sentences with phrase «justice bills in»

Environmental justice for all Elected to the California State Senate in 1994, Solis helped pass the nation's first environmental - justice bill in 1999.

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Herbalife spokesman Alan Hoffman said this was «just another stunt by Bill Ackman in his campaign, a campaign that is under criminal investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice, to drive down the stock price in an effort to enrich himself and his investors.»

Candidate Hillary now talks up the need for criminal justice reform to undo the 1994 crime bill her husband championed; decries the wages on American workers of NAFTA and subsequent free - trade deals he ushered in; and calls for cracking down on a financial sector he helped deregulate.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

Booker announced the new bill, called the Marijuana Justice Act, in a tweet on Tuesday morning before discussing the bill live on his Facebook page.

«If this acquisition is allowed to proceed, newspaper competition will be eliminated and readers and advertisers in Orange and Riverside Counties will suffer,» said Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.

Bill 7: Electoral Boundaries Commission Amendment Act introduced by Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley pushed forward the timelines to redraw the electoral boundaries before the provincial election in 2019, which could have an impact on the results of that election.

«There's one guy in charge of licenses,» Bill Gates told reporters after he signed a consent decree with the Department of Justice in 1994.

Dr Billings, who was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.

He's a former spiritual advisor to Bill Clinton, has spoken in favour of gay relationships and is passionate about social justice.

I can't confuse an unbothered and uninterrupted life with a peaceful life anymore — that luxury disappeared with three babies in four and a half years, with work and bills and longings for justice and the news cycle and neighbourhood kids ringing my doorbell, and public school.

Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage: 1791 with the Bill of Rights, 1868 with the 14th Amendment, or some other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex marriage requirements?

«When rulers have inverted their functions and enacted wickedness into a law which treads down the inalienable rights of man to such a degree as this,» abolitionist minister Theodore Parker of Boston declared after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850, «then I know no ruler but God, no law but natural Justice.»

The Open Door in Atlanta is billed as a sort of «Protestant Catholic Worker» house, where members staff a soup kitchen for the homeless and agitate for justice in the city.

Such a concern that social justice receive equal billing in the church's missionary task is motivated by two factors - the Biblical and the pragmatic.

JUSTICE AND PEACE FOR SOME Dear Father Editor The Daily Telegraph recently published a short letter of mine the gist of which was that I had recently «visited the website of every Roman Catholic diocese in England and Wales, to see what its Justice and Peace Commission was saying about the Embryology Bill and abJUSTICE AND PEACE FOR SOME Dear Father Editor The Daily Telegraph recently published a short letter of mine the gist of which was that I had recently «visited the website of every Roman Catholic diocese in England and Wales, to see what its Justice and Peace Commission was saying about the Embryology Bill and abJustice and Peace Commission was saying about the Embryology Bill and abortion.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

First came Lord Joffe's two attempts to pass an assisted suicide Bill in the early - to - mid Noughties, then an attempted amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill by former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton in 2009.

Bill McKibben, whose book The End of Nature was one of the first to protest against the effects of climate change, offers us, in Eaarth, one of the most important books on environmental justice in the 21st century.

This week, the Supreme Court justices heard arguments challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996.

I have some green garlic in the cupboard and have been trying to find a recipe that does it justice — this totally fits the bill.

See item in Australian Financial Review, Friday 5 February 2010 page 42 by James Eyers, discussing criticisms of the bill made by Justice Finkelstein (current Tribunal President).

The bill was approved 16 - 0 this month by the Florida House Criminal Justice Committee and was pending in the state senate.

Actor Corey Feldman, who says he was sexually abused as a child, is heading to the state Capitol on Wednesday to push state Senate Republicans to pass a bill that would make it easier for survivors in New York to seek justice as adults.

The New York City PBA has been at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio in recent months over police tactics and criminal justice reform measures sought after the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after a choke hold administered by a police officer.

There was one new offence for every day Tony Blair was in office and the passing of a criminal justice bill became a de facto annual event.

So I can announce this morning that Labour will be seeking to amend the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill so that courts have an explicit duty to consider making an order to participate in a restorative justice course.

Former NYC Comptroller and 2009 Democratic mayoral nominee Bill Thompson is throwing his support behind Sen. Eric Schneiderman's AG bid today, calling him «the one candidate in this field who will truly represent all New Yorkers in the fight for equal justice.»

Cuomo isn't giving up on a bill that would help child sex abuse victims obtain justice as adults — even though the measure was left out of the state budget, saying he'll continue to push for the Child Victims Act, along with other policy items not in the final deal, in the post-budget session.

The Democratic - led Assembly over the next two days will take up a package of a dozen bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice system in the state.

Advocates for a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek justice as adults — the Child Victims Act — are hoping to enlist Little Leagues and parent - teacher organizations in their cause.

The inclusion of social supply in the bill also has the potential to result in discriminatory impact on members of black and minority ethnic groups, given what is known about the over-representation of members of these groups at each stage of the criminal justice response to drug offences.»

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.»

The Assembly passed a «raise the age» bill on Tuesday as part of a 12 - bill criminal justice reform package, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo — as in previous years — has included a similar proposal in his executive budget.

«There's no limitation in the bill that says (the schools) have to pass this federal test,» said Kirsten Keefe, senior attorney at the Empire Justice Center.

«The Child Victims Act is a common sense piece of legislation that will help deliver justice for the innocent victims of child sex abuse and I was deeply troubled by Senator Amedore's refusal to support this bill,» Niccoli said in a statement.

If «justice» is a one way street that protects only the victims of crime, so they can have their day in court, then the entire Bill of Rights and it's protections against the government, should fall as well.

The principled arguments he set out then can and are being made now by many people in this party about the Justice and Security Bill.

If MPs don't support Lords amendments to the criminal justice and courts bill, it'll be the end of the third sector in public law litigation

But the strongest attack comes in the criminal justice and courts bill which has just completed its committee stage in the House of Commons.

One option is for it to feature in the criminal justice and courts bill, which is expected to continue its progress through parliament after the Queen's Speech next month.

There was also evidence of justice secretary Michael Gove cosying up to the SNP politician in the Commons chamber, just hours after his success in the Private Members» Bill ballot.

The amendments in the bill of rights are classed into three categories (The Liberty Amendments (1,2,3), The Justice Amendments (4,5,6,7,8), and the unenumerated rights Amendments (9, 10)-RRB-.

A state Supreme Court justice declined the state's request to dismiss a lawsuit that aims to keep the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center open in West Seneca, but didn't renew a restraining order that temporarily prevented Cuomo from vetoing a bill that bars the state from moving the children's unit.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would sue the federal government over the just - passed tax bill, proposed major changes to the state's criminal justice system and introduced a suite of policies to combat sexual harassment in his annual State of the State address on Wednesday.

The proposals in the criminal justice and courts bill show that, ironically for plans that have been sold as being about education, the government is failing to learn those lessons.

The plans for a huge child prison in the government's criminal justice and courts bill represent a failure to learn lessons about children's human rights.

The bills face an uncertain fate in the Assembly, where Democratic lawmakers have traditionally been skeptical of criminal justice measures that deal with sentencing.

The bill also promises to strengthen data protection laws in order to increase the public confidence in criminal law and the fairness of the justice system as a whole.

«We are all shocked that the governor vetoed a bill that would have reduced racial disparities in the criminal justice system, helped ensure equal access to justice for all New Yorkers, provided improved public defense programs for those who can not afford an attorney, and much - needed mandate relief for counties,» Gradess said.