Letter to Jeff Sessions, Attorney General of the United States, RE: Department of Justice Actions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton W. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
The United States ◽  
Department Of Justice

Dunn v. The Queen Revisited

1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth Nettheim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
The United States ◽  
Justice Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Full Support ◽  
Judiciary Committee ◽  
Special Prosecutor

By mid-1973 the Watergate scandal was reaching towards the highest levels of the United States' Administration. Elliot Richardson was nominated as Attorney General with a particular mandate to sort out the affair. The Senate Judiciary Committee, in its hearings on Richardson's nomination, was vitally concerned to ensure that the Office of Watergate Special Prosecutor should have maximum effectiveness and independence. The formula eventually agreed upon was promulgated by the Attorney General as a regulation under powers vested in him by Statute to prescribe regulations for the Justice Department. On the question of independence, it provided:… The Special Prosecutor will carry out these responsibilities with the full support of the Department of Justice, until such time as, in his judgment, he has completed them or until a date mutually agreed upon between the Attorney General and himself. … The Special Prosecutor will not be removed from his duties except for extraordinary improprieties on his part.

scholarly journals U.S. Department of Justice Indicts Venezuelan Leader Nicolás Maduro on Narcotrafficking Charges

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-518
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Southern District ◽  
Heads Of State

On March 26, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, along with fourteen current and former regime officials, on charges mostly related to drug trafficking. Specifically, an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of New York charges Maduro with leading the Venezuelan narcotrafficking group Cártel de Los Soles and conspiring with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC) guerilla group to “‘flood’ the United States with cocaine” and “us[e] cocaine as a weapon against America.” Although the United States, consistent with international law, normally treats sitting heads of state as immune from prosecution, U.S. Attorney General Barr indicated that Maduro did not qualify for head-of-state immunity because the United States does not recognize him as the president of Venezuela. Instead, the United States and fifty-seven other countries recognize Interim President Juan Guaidó. The indictment may mark a shift in the broader U.S. policy toward Venezuela, which had largely relied on targeted sanctions against key Maduro allies to encourage defection.

Pay Equity in Review

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil E. Reichenberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
State Legislative

This article provides an overview of pay equity as well as an update of recent developments concerning this issue. The article summarizes the arguments advanced by pay equity advocates and opponents. There is a discussion of the leading court decisions which is organized as cases brought before and after the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision in the case of County of Washington v. Gunther, 452 U.S. 161 (1981). The position of the Reagan Administration, as set forth by the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also is summarized. The article includes a description of the legislation pending before the 99th United States Congress along with state legislative developments. The final section of the article is a pay equity bibliography.

Events Are Developing at Such a Rapid Pace

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-181
Author(s):  
Alan McPherson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Chilean Government

This chapter begins when the Department of Justice and FBI, led by Eugene Propper, identify Michael Townley and Armando Fernández as having been in the United States during the assassination. This knowledge prompts US investigators to pressure the Chilean government into handing over Townley, an American citizen, for questioning. The Chileans expel him to the United States, where he reveals the conspiracy to kill Letelier. In return for his testimony, Townley is given a light sentence and placed into the Witness Protection Program. Two of the Cubans go into hiding, while three are found guilty but then later acquitted on technicalities. Three Chileans are named in the indictment.

scholarly journals Global and Local Challenges to Refugee Protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Silas W. Allard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Continuous Presence ◽  
Global And Local

On October 12, 2017, the United States Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, took a short trip from Pennsylvania Avenue across the Potomac to Falls Church, Virginia. The Attorney General went to Falls Church to address personnel of the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), the agency that administers the United States’ immigration courts. The Attorney General's chosen topic for the day was “the fraud and abuse in our asylum system.” “Over the years,” the Attorney General argued, “Congress has rationally passed legislation designed to create an efficient and fair procedure to properly admit persons andexpedite the removalof aliens who enter the United States illegally.” The Attorney General is referring here to the “expedited removal” procedures that Congress created in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Expedited removal gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to deport, without a hearing, any person who was not admitted to the United States and who cannot prove continuous presence for the prior two years. The Department of Homeland Security currently exercises a narrower expedited removal authority pursuant to the Department's prosecutorial discretion. Only individuals apprehended within two weeks of entry and within 100 miles of a land border are subject to expedited removal, per Department regulations.

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