Sentences with phrase «ordered justice department»

-- Trump issues gun - control order: President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to propose a ban on bump stocks and other devices that can turn a semiautomatic firearm into an automatic one.

PMO ordered Justice department to re-word Criminal Code to weaken Gladue principles for Aboriginal offenders

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

He has also ordered the Justice Department to come up with proposals to ban the sale of bump stocks.

This week, Mr. Trump ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

As reported in the New York Times and on CNN, he ordered the Justice Department to find a rationale to fire Comey.

President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

Meanwhile, President Trump — who was in favor of an assault weapons ban and longer waiting periods before his National Rifle Association - supported presidential campaign — ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning the bump stocks used to convert semi-automatic guns into automatic weapons.

But in a sign the pressure is beginning to tell in Washington, Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department to propose a rule to ban bump fire stocks, the device that allowed the gunman at the Las Vegas massacre in October to fire on concertgoers more rapidly, mimicking automatic weapons fire.

On Tuesday, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations that would ban bump stocks, after pressure to do more to curtail access to deadly weapons following the Florida shooting.

even if he didn't quite mean it: In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the....

The legislation also would order the Justice Department to study bump stocks, including how often they are used in a crime.

Not exact matches

In trying to recover Snowden's unencrypted mail from the company, which did not keep Snowden's cryptographic key, the Justice Department got a court order forcing the company to turn over another key instead, one that would allow officials to impersonate the company's website and intercept all interactions with its users.

The battle between Apple and the U.S Justice Department has been raging since the government in February obtained a court order demanding that Apple write new software to help law enforcement officials unlock an iPhone associated with one of the shooters in the December attack in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people.

Sources told Reuters earlier this month that the Justice Department had demanded significant asset sales in order to approve the deal and that it asked AT&T to sell either CNN - parent Turner or AT&T's DirecTV business.

His executive orders have targeted immigration, while his Justice Department started a review of affirmative action in colleges and joined a suit to halt the spread of gay rights in the workplace.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

The Justice Department urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.

The results of the poll were released late on Monday, in the middle of a legal battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department over a judge's order that Apple write new software to disable passcode protection on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California shooters.

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.»

The Justice Department said its new order «simply directs all US Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country.»

Jon Klein, TAPP TV CEO and former CNN U.S. president, discusses the Department of Justice's demand that AT&T sell either Turner assets or DirecTV in order to get its deal for Time Warner done.

Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina said on Friday it was «stunning» that the Justice Department had reportedly provided immunity to a computer technician who wiped Hillary Clinton's private email server despite orders from Congress to preserve its files.

Craig Moffett, MoffettNathanson founder, discusses a Financial Times report that says the Department of Justice is demanding AT&T sell CNN in order for the Time Warner acquisition to go through.

AT&T has «no intention» of selling CNN despite the Justice Department's demand the company sell it in order to approve the Time Warner acquisition, according to CEO and chairman Randall Stephenson.

The New York Times reported that White House counsel Donald McGahn refused to pass that order to the Justice Department and threatened to resign.

A major line of attack in efforts to discredit the Justice Department has been some variation on the claim that the Obama administration ordered politically motivated surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Sessions» recusal is a key point of frustration for Trump, who once reportedly asked why he couldn't order «my guys» at the «Trump Justice Department» to do what he wanted.

According to the Justice Department, he forged email addresses, invoices, and corporate stamps in order to impersonate a large Asian - based manufacturer with whom the tech firms regularly did business.

Department of Justice lawyer Elizabeth Chasson said Loblaw Financial Holdings took steps to have Barbados - based Glenhuron Bank Ltd. appear to be a foreign bank in order to avoid paying tax.

, while the Justice Department is seeking an order for Facebook to disclose who «liked» an anti-Trump page.

The order also calls on the FDA to pass on to the Justice Department any drug shortages that let market participants «stockpile the affected drugs or sell them at exorbitant prices.»

«The Justice Department will leave no stone unturned in order to eliminate threats to our citizens from terrorist organizations and to stem the tide of the devastating drug crisis,» Sessions said.

The Department of Justice notified the mega-carriers on June 30 that it is investigating them for possible collusion in the schedule reductions in order to boost profits.

U.S. President Donald Trump will replace his executive order suspending travel from seven Muslim - majority countries «in the near future,» according to a Justice Department court filing on Thursday.

About 40 per cent of the increase over the last three years has been in the law and order departments (Correctional Services Canada and related agencies, Justice and the Canada Border Services Agencies) and defense civilian staff.

The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded significant asset sales in order to approve the $ 85.4 billion deal, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, and asked AT&T to sell CNN - parent Turner Broadcasting or its DirecTV satellite TV operation in discussions on Monday.

The Financial Times first reported the Justice Department told AT&T and Time Warner to sell CNN, Time Warner's cable news network, as a condition in order for the acquisition to go through, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review Friday into how the Justice Department and FBI respond to indications of potential violence.

By the time the final version of the memorandum was released later Friday afternoon, however, there was no mention of a time frame or a directive for the DOL to work with the Justice Department to halt pending litigation over the rule, which was also included in the draft order.

Regardless of points of view, the Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department is already «pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones in about a dozen undisclosed cases around the country, in disputes similar to the current battle over a terrorist's locked phone...»

We are particularly concerned by reports that this order went into effect with little to no consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security... Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self - inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.

The U.S. Justice Department also filed a brief for the mosque, and in November a judge refused to issue an order to halt construction of the Islamic center.

February 22 — The next round of sentencing has begun in the US Department of Justice case against football's corrupt officials and marketing partners with Panama - based Mimo International Exports and Imports ordered to pay a fine and restitution totalling $ 1.4 million for bribing Costa Rica's former FA president Eduardo Li (pictured).

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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».

However, the release only whetted their appetite (to continue the metaphor) and intensified the call for the release of the full, classified Justice Department documents that address the question of when the executive can order the killing of a citizen based on secret intelligence and without trial.

US President Donald Trump has on Monday sacked the country» Acting Attorney General, Sally Yates for instructing the Justice Department no to defend the President's immigration order, which bans travelers from seven Muslim - majority nations, CNN reports.

The county's argument seemed to contradict the county's own assurances, provided in 2011 under then - County Executive Chris Collins, that it would ensure certain training requirements were met in order to settle the Justice Department lawsuit.