Sentences with phrase «of recusing»

A judge who has a personal conflict of interest in the case may nonetheless stay on the case instead of recusing herself if all the parties and the judge understand the conflict, but agree the judge should stay on anyway.

While Pellegrino's the Democratic nominee, Schaffer has taken the unusual step of recusing himself from the race.

Not exact matches

The president said it was a «terrible mistake» for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

On June 6, she sent a letter to David Bernhardt, President Trump's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Interior, asking him to recuse himself from overseeing the Cadiz water extraction project.

Holder said Tuesday that he recused himself from the DOJ's investigation into the leak of classified information to the AP.

The US District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday.

«If reports are accurate that Attorney General Sessions — a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump — met with Ambassador Kislyak during the campaign, and failed to disclose this fact during his confirmation, it is essential that he recuse himself from any role in the investigation of Trump campaign ties to the Russians,» said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

«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.

Musk has recused himself from voting on the deal, but that doesn't stop him from doing media interviews, where he claims he expects a two - thirds majority in favor of the merger.

Many Democrats, including Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence panel, called for Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation after he met last week with an unidentified source at the White House complex, accusing him of colluding with the White House.

Sessions has been a target of Trump's ire since he recused himself last March from the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election, following reports that he was not forthcoming during his Senate confirmation hearing about his contacts with Russian officials during the campaign.

Trump ordered top White House attorney Donald F. McGahn II as well as several other members of his staff to convince Sessions not to recuse himself.

Importantly, I recused myself not because of any asserted wrongdoing on my part during the campaign, but because a Department of Justice regulation, 28 CFR 45.2, required it.

In response to questions about whether Sessions» involvement in requesting the OIG review violated the scope of his recusal, a DOJ representative said, «The AG is not recused from personnel and misconduct issues related to the management of the department.»

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

In a show of good faith, Musk, who is the chairman and biggest investor in both companies, recused himself from voting on the deal at the Tesla board meeting.

Both in private and in public (and on Twitter), Trump has mocked and harshly criticized Sessions since he recused himself from oversight of the Russia probe, in an apparent effort to pressure him into resigning.

The Justice Department told Bloomberg in a statement that Sessions will make decisions on recusing himself from certain parts of the Cohen probe on a «matter - by - matter» basis.

Late last month, Uber demoted Levandowski from head of self - driving technologies and said he would be recused from any work on lidar through the remainder of the Waymo litigation.

(In light of his role on Facebook's board, Andreessen recused himself after Oculus's founders began negotiations with Zuckerberg in earnest.)

In a tweet on Wednesday morning, he called the Russia investigation «Fake & Corrupt» and referred to Mueller as the «most conflicted of all,» except for Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the special counsel's work because Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions recused himself.

The president is mad at Sessions, of course, because of Sessions's decision to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Andreessen has said he recuses himself from both sides of acquisition discussions that involve his investments.

Levandowski announced that he was recusing himself from his role for the duration of the Alphabet litigation, and handing over the reins to then second - in - command at the self - driving department, Eric Meyhofer.

Rosenstein is, in fact, the man who is overseeing the Mueller investigation after his boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, recused himself from any investigation into Russian meddling because of his role in President Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

That's in spite of the fact that Levandowski — still an executive at Uber — has asserted his Fifth Amendment rights and has now recused himself from work on all lidar - related operations at Uber.

Many board members have already recused themselves from voting on the deal to avoid appearances of any conflict of interests.

The attorney general himself has also been the focus of blistering public attacks by the president for his decision to recuse from the Russia inquiry.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

If Hobby Lobby were allowed to recuse themselves from providing access to birth control because of beliefs, should secular organizations prohibit access to viagra?

Her appearance Thursday before Pakistan's Supreme Court was put off when one of the three judges in the case recused himself.

Do Catholic members of law enforcement «recuse» themselves from these cases?

This is why judges are supposed to recuse themselves when they know one of the parties involved in a case, or when they have an economic interest that might be affected by the outcome.

If they wish to follow Satan, then so be it, but they should recuse themselves from the legal aspect of our country and go back to their states and let transparency and righteousness of the upright persons run our country they way our forefathers meant it to be done.

Last Friday, three weeks after he dropped rape charges against the three players accused of assaulting an exotic dancer last March — and eight months after he was reelected — Nifong recused himself from the crumbling case and handed it over to the North Carolina attorney general.

We know that the committee will take efforts to avoid conflicts of interest; many of the committee members have current or former financial ties to schools or conference that will be involved in the discussion, and those committee members will have to recuse themselves from discussing those teams.

That may explain Woods getting ahead of himself and committing to the Safeway just three days before reality hit and he recused himself from the proceedings.

Two more McHenry County judges have recused themselves from hearing the case of a lawsuit to settle the ownership of the Crystal Lake lake bed.

Later that year, she also recused herself from negotiations about any «economic arrangements» about the park restaurant deal, but McErlean pointed out that by that point, many of those arrangements already were in place.

When Matthew O'Malley told her he was part of a group that was planning to bid, Laura O'Malley said she recused herself from being part of the selection committee charged with reviewing the proposals and recommending a winner.

For each interest disclosed to the President of the Board of Directors, the Chair will determine whether to: (a) take no action; (b) assure full disclosure to the Board of Directors and other individuals covered by this policy; (c) ask the person to recuse him / herself from participation in related discussions or decisions within the association; (d) ask the person to resign from his or her position in the association; (e) if resignation is refused, to initiate procedures for removal of that person from that position.

Some Republican lawmakers are also calling on Sessions to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian's alleged involvement in seeking to sway the outcome of the election.

To get the warrant, the approval of Rosenstein (deputy AG), the head of the DOJ criminal division, the US Attorney for SDNY (though he recused himself from this for some reason, so whoever substituted for him), and a federal magistrate judge or district judge are required.

Having concluded those meetings today, I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.

Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove recused his office from the investigation of a police shooting that left a Troy man with head and shoulder wounds.

During the course of the last several weeks, I have met with the relevant senior career Department officials to discuss whether I should recuse myself from any matters arising from the campaigns for President of the United States.

Can't he recuse himself and kick the issue to outside counsel, as has been done by past AGs when two branches of government duke it out in court?)

But now that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump for Obstruction of Justice, there are media reports that Rosenstein is considering recusing himself as well, since he was involved in the Comey firing which may be part of the investigation.

Okudzeto's mentor, John Dramani Mahama, who elevated him to Deputy Minister of Education amidst protest from the public, should simply have recused himself from the Commonwealth Observer Team as a mark of honour but he did not do so as proof that he has never had any honour — period!

At least three agency commissioners hosted campaign events for the mayor, including Mark Peters, the head of the Department of Investigation who recently recused himself from a federal pay - to - play probe of the mayor's fundraising practices.