Sentences with phrase «senior justice official»

On the contrary, after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Guerin and held that the fiduciary obligation of the Crown to a First Nation was a real and justiciable obligation and not, as the Crown would have had it, «a mere political trust, a senior Justice official was heard to say of the Court's decision, «They have their view of the law and we have our view of the law.»

While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other «enhanced» interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding.

The words of Chief Justice Strathy, themselves echoes of other senior justice officials, are beginning to resonate.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump asked the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to call the Department of Justice last year and ask a senior official to persuade then - FBI director James Comey to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Washington Post reported.

The Justice Department's planned lawsuit against California will target three state laws, senior Justice Department officials said on Tuesday in a press briefing.

EXCLUSIVE: A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump «dossier,» the department confirmed to Fox News.

Editor's Note: CNN Justice Producer Terry Frieden passes along this note on the meeting faith leaders had with Attorney General Eric Holder: A senior Justice Department official who was present at the meeting later clarified Holder's comment as follows: «Yes, the Attorney General did refer to the plan [to burn the Qurans] as «idiotic.»

Mr. de Becker is the designer of the MOSAIC threat assessment systems used to screen threats to Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, members of Congress, and senior officials of the CIA.

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.

Former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara took a shot at Trump's Justice Department, questioning its judicial independence in light of efforts by former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani to persuade «senior officials» to help him free a jailed businessman being prosecuted by Bharara's old office.

Kazeem, who addressed the media alongside senior officials of the Ministry, said Governor Ambode had been at the vanguard of the war against domestic, sexual and violent crimes, and that the centre was geared towards vigorous justice sector reforms.

A state investigation of Brian Gestring, a senior official with the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, found that he had created an environment «rife with incidents of sexual harassment, ageism, racism, and threats of retaliation and physical violence.»

Dan Weiner, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program at New York University, said that many of the allegations against Silver will still constitute official acts if the case again goes to trial.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen will serve as a member, and four other state officials will serve as ex-oficio members: Florida Department of Education Commissioner Pam Stewart; Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Mike Carroll; Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Christina Daly; and Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Justin Senior.

Two powerful House Republicans are asking the Justice Department to make senior FBI officials available to testify before Congress as early as this week, the latest salvo in an expanding confrontation between the GOP and the bureau.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are on the verge of defying the Department of Justice and voting to release a classified memo they say will reveal misconduct by senior FBI officials involved in investigating Trump's 2016 campaign.

The three - and - a-half-page memo, written by Republican congressional aides, criticized information used by law enforcement officials in their application for a warrant to wiretap the former campaign adviser, Carter Page, and named the senior F.B.I. and Justice Department officials who approved the highly classified application.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, a former U.S. EPA official during the Obama administration who is now the senior vice president of climate, environmental justice and community revitalization for the Hip Hop Caucus, argued that a special committee should be created regardless of which party controls Congress.

His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government and the Justice Department, medical doctors, high - level executives of prominent corporations and other clients from all walks of life.

The group Brown created to sue the state and challenge the unions, the Partnership for Educational Justice, raised $ 3 million in 2014 and secured the pro bono legal assistance of Jay Lefkowitz, a senior partner at Kirkland & Ellis and a former official in George W. Bush's administration.

The US team includes former senior officials of the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission, the SEC and two former General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporatio

Sir Ian has been hearing from senior officials in the LSC, as well as senior officials in the Ministry of Justice.

Mr. Sessions views the death penalty as a «valuable tool in the tool belt,» according to a senior Justice Department official.

A former federal prosecutor and senior official at the Department of Justice who has been in private practice since 1990, Mr. Martin is best known for representing high - profile clients in a wide range of matters.

«Trump lawyer John Dowd said the information was passed to Trump by White House counsel Donald McGahn, who had been warned about Flynn's statement to the vice president by a senior Justice Department official.»

He held: «Principles of transparent and open justice require a court sitting in public itself first to determine by a hearing in open court the extent of the criminal conduct on which the offender has entered the plea and then, on the basis of its determination as to the conduct, the appropriate sentence... those who commit such serious crimes as corruption of senior government officials must not be viewed or treated in any different way to other criminals.»

In March 2010 Lord Justice Thomas, the second most senior criminal judge, was due to sentence Innospec Ltd for its bribery of officials in the Indonesian oil ministry.

«If the ultimate objective is to continue to try to undermine the credibility of Mueller and his prosecutors, it could have some value,» said Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame law professor who was a senior Justice Department official in the administration of the first President George Bush.

According to a source in know of the matter, Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday held a meeting with senior IT ministry officials to analyse the steps need to be taken for prevention of commercial misuse of user data.