Sentences with phrase «role as a justice»

David Gauke started his new role as justice secretary this week, making him the 6th to take up the position in the last 8 years.

Meanwhile, Liz Truss was effectively demoted to Chief Secretary to the Treasury «attending Cabinet» from her previous role as Justice Secretary.

Denzel Washington gets strapped and steps into the old Edward Woodward role as a justice - obsessed former special - ops guy, now out on the street and on a mission to straighten the odds.

The porn film that becomes a major component of the mystery seems like a silly thing to rest the plot on and Kim Basinger is sadly wasted here as well in a thankless supporting role as a Justice Department official.

It remains to be seen whether he will understand the difference between his government role as Justice Secretary and his constitutional role as Lord Chancellor.

Not exact matches

According to reports from CNN and the Washington Post, the Justice Department is preparing to charge Assange for his role in the 2010 dump of diplomatic cables that were published by WikiLeaks, as well as a more recent release of the CIA's library of hacking tools.

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

While some have been criticized for not giving enough attention to the murder victims, the shows no doubt are contributing to the debate over the role that factors such as race, class, privilege, and (sometimes) plain bad luck can play in matters of criminal justice.

Trump's specific criticism of Sessions here makes no sense, but the bigger picture is that, as he's said repeatedly, he wants the Justice Department to do more to investigate his political enemies and is annoyed that Sessions won't take a greater personal role in doing so.

She worked as Minister across nine Canadian government departments, and her service included the role of Vice Chair of the Treasury Board and chair of the cabinet committee for public safety, justice and aboriginal issues.

As the Wall Street Journal noted last year, Cambridge Analytica's role in Trump's campaign drew the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller, the Department of Justice investigator looking into the alleged Russian plot to meddle in the 2016 elections.

(It's not that surprising that Johns would be playing a growing influential role in the DCEU, as he's already worked on such TV series as Justice League Unlimited, Smallville, Arrow, and The Flash.)

Prior to the felony counts there was a $ 13 billion settlement with the Justice Department and Federal and State regulators in 2013 for JPMorgan Chase's role in selling toxic mortgage investments to investors as worthwhile products when the bank had good reason to believe they would blow up.

The core argument of the book seeks to reassert the role of Christianity as making a necessary contribution to the construction of ethics that underpin our society and culture, and by extension, our law - making and justice system.

Unfortunately, these same words, actions and roles can promote injustice as well as justice.

Two days into his role there, he was marching in Sanford in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting as part of a crowd demanding justice — a surprising introduction to the new Bishop.

Next to the role of prophetic guide to justice in community, no role is so neglected by clergy as prophetic guide to education.

He is not tempted to speak as though Emergent is inventing the wheel, as many of his colleagues do, when it places women in leadership roles or advocates for social justice.

The Prophets, even when stressing God's sovereignty over all of humanity and his eventual establishment of universal justice, emphasize the role of the land as the place in which international disputes will be settled and the divine word sent forth to all of humanity (Isaiah 2; Micah 4).

In the eyes of some, this kind of justice work may not be as glamorous as overseas missions, or of fighting human trafficking or playing a role in the end of the orphan crisis.

Students can now play a similar role in the struggle for justice, provided as Gramcie said, they have an organic relation with the peoples» movements.

While leadership conference nuns viewed the evolving role of women to give them more of a social justice focus, Cummings says that «Vatican officials, and many Catholics, too, see those changes as startling and disturbing.

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The Supreme Court Justices have strongly encouraged instruction in the Bible as a literary and historical document, use of the Bible as a reference book, and study of the role religions have played in the development of civilization.

Just as candidate Trump pledged to say «Merry Christmas» in his White House, rather than President Obama's tepid «Happy Holidays,» and just as he promised to choose an anti-Roe justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Trump's «We want God» assured religious voters that he would not apologize for his faith nor deny that it would play a role in his decision - making.

This writer is open to Moltmann's identification of humanity's role as «justices of the peace» provided that we have the power of the sword (Rom 13:4).

Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.

Furthermore, the Vatican's role in helping Nazi war criminals flee justice via their «Ratlines» is well docu.mented, as is their funnelling of Nazi gold stolen from their victims.

One of her biggest roles as an activist, she says, is keeping the names alive of those who have been killed by hanging banners off freeway overpasses calling for justice in their name.

But as for our offensive being much worse because we have filled his role with someone that may be a step down is hardly doing justice to the rest of the squad.

They are the people gullible enough to believe the dreamy rhetoric about Britain's role as a power for freedom and justice.

An important caveat is that a new justice will generally recuse from any case in which that person previously played a role either as an attorney in a firm or office that was handling the case at the time the justice was working there, or as a lower court judge.

The special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election is interviewing senior intelligence officials as part of a widening probe that now includes an examination of whether President Trump attempted to obstruct justice, officials said.

U.S. courts should not play a role in reviewing or restraining targeted killings, argues the Justice Department lawyers, since it would effectively enable them to «supervise inherently predictive judgments» by the president and his national security advisers «as to when and how to use force against an enemy against which Congress has already authorized the use of force.»

The candidacy of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, both facing trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their alleged role in the 2007 - 08 violence, served as a grim reminder that justice has not been prioritised in Kenya's broader reform effort.

While many have said that the office would be a duplication of roles, because there are agencies such as the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice and the Economic and Organised Crime Office that are responsible for investigating corruption, others have praised its implementation and called on the president to make it truly independent of political interference.

De Piero, who was shadow minister for women and equalities in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet but quit as a shadow junior minister before the leadership challenge to Corbyn last summer, has a new role as shadow justice minister.

James will give a talk about her role in city government and how she uses the law as a vehicle for social justice and change.

In 2017, Hamilton played a key role in passage of legislation to raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction for 16 and 17 year olds, ensuring that they will not be treated as adults under the criminal justice system for misdemeanors and most felonies.

At the time, the Howard League for Penal Reform described it as a «damning indictment» of the role of private firms in justice.

They were also exposed to improving access to justice: the role of the media as a partner, press freedom and responsible journalism: Is the media a threat to judicial independence and the role of the public complaint unit in effective justice delivery.

And in her role as liaison to the Justice Court, she has an opportunity to further advance the town's plan to create a new courthouse and to help implement reforms in light of last year's bail fund scandal.

The Governor also unveiled the «Open Doors Campaign,» a new promotional effort highlighting New York's longstanding role as a national leader in the fight for LGBT rights, freedom and social justice.

We have strengthened the role of ISC through the Justice and Security Act 2013, to include oversight of the Agencies» operations as well as their policy, administration and finances.

The Governor also unveiled the «Open Doors Campaign,» a new promotional effort highlighting New York's role as a national leader in the fight for LGBT rights, freedom and social justice.

Cuomo made a merciful decision by commuting the 75 - year - to - life sentence of convicted terrorist Judith Clark for her role in the deadly 1981 Brinks heist, supporters said, as critics continued to blast the decision as a mockery of justice.

Campaigners hailed the decision as a sign the government recognises the role books can play in rehabilitation, but the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) shows no signs as yet of relenting on its ban on prisoners being sent books from family and friends.

Lord Falconer, a surprise appointment to this shadow cabinet having been a key member of the Blair government and a former flatmate of the ex-Prime Minister, quit as Shadow Justice Secretary to take the number of vacant roles in Mr Corbyn's team to 10.

«The federal Defense of Marriage Act clearly violates the principle of equal justice under law as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and improperly intrudes on the traditional role of states in defining marriage,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

Mr. Stringer has pursued that campaign, as a self - described social justice advocate, within the confines of a staid role: serving as the city's accountant and the steward of its nearly $ 160 billion pension fund.