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Alabama has never determined which felonies are disqualifying — even though it requires citizens seeking to register to vote to declare under pain of perjury that they have not committed a disqualifying offense.
Neither of those factors is disqualifying in and of themselves.
A federal judge ruled the payments improper, disqualifying SWEPCO's bid.
Such rhetoric would be immediately disqualifying for a Democrat today.
The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying.
She's covering something up, and it's that freakish, disqualifying digit.
But were Mr. Vought's comments disqualifying, as Senator Sanders argued?
That amount, he said, sounds more disqualifying than it is.
But do I think that that should be disqualifying forever?
Bishop is a totally credible nominee with no disqualifying issues.
But today, few feminists would find her shifting story disqualifying.
Of course, Kavanaugh's attendance at Beach Week is not disqualifying.
To me, the charges against Moore are disturbing and disqualifying.
His presidency-disqualifying sin came in the hours after the debate.
Lyft policies say it doesn't hire drivers with disqualifying drug convictions.
However, a felony conviction or illegal immigration status are disqualifying factors.
Romney said he saw Trump's comments as "nutty" but not disqualifying.
References to guns and violence, for example, could be disqualifying, too.
How was being a pro-Putin lobbyist not disqualifying for Trump?
Certain kinds of past transgression are now straightforwardly disqualifying among Democrats.
None of it, however, is close to disqualifying at this point.
Editorial boards have called his comment about Democratic-voting veterans disqualifying.
"His comments were abhorrent, un-American, and disqualifying," Turning Point said.
"This is disgusting, vile and disqualifying," she said in a statement.
Every terrible, disqualifying thing he said was something he's said before.
In the past their youth alone would have been considered disqualifying.
"The idea that such opinions are disqualifying is absurd," he said.
And, Rosenstein has already said these donations are not disqualifying. 6.
In this country, it must be electorally disqualifying to equivocate on racism.
"The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying," said Sen.
Democrats have called the charges women have made against Mr. Trump disqualifying.
Why wasn't it disqualifying, if you want to be commander in chief?
Unless the Democrats come up with something disqualifying, he should be confirmed.
Do you think that his conduct in 1991 or since is disqualifying?
Typically, such activism is viewed as an asset, not a disqualifying characteristic.
Why wasn't it disqualifying, if you want to be commander-in-chief?
As well as disqualifying elected legislators, other candidates have been barred from running.
Susan Sarandon is supporting Sanders, saying that Clinton's Iraq War vote was disqualifying.
Wade, opposition to covering pre-existing conditions and repeated lies is not disqualifying.
And there was no disqualifying information that showed up on Kelley's background check.
His lack of civic virtue is no less disqualifying than the scandal itself.
Back when it was disqualifying for an American politician to flirt with treason.
Of course, the electorate always decides what is and what is not disqualifying.
Mitt Romney called it "disqualifying" that Trump hasn't yet released his tax returns.
Let's be crystal clear about this: Trump's behavior is sick, disgusting and disqualifying.
Satire or not, the criticisms will no doubt be disqualifying to some readers.
Do you think Dr. Blasey's accusations against Judge Kavanaugh are disqualifying or not?
His downright misrepresentations are disturbing and, taken in context at this point, disqualifying.
After all, there are many organizations in which philosophical differences are legitimately disqualifying.
Worried that you may have ended up in a disqualifying loan repayment plan?
But absent any major disqualifying revelations, Mr. Trump's choices are likely to prevail.
The new rule specifies that receiving certain benefits will be a disqualifying factor.
For most banks, this would have been disqualifying, but ­Deutsche Bank was undeterred.
Beyond that, there's a minor possible error and a very big, disqualifying one.
In a normal world, that would be almost immediately disqualifying for a president.
Are credible allegations disqualifying for the most significant legal body in the country?
And where's the line between a "slip-up" and something that really is disqualifying?
One once-disqualifying reason that no longer seems to apply: Thiel is openly gay.
But many others, including most other Republicans, have found it disturbing or even disqualifying.
Any and all these faults are disqualifying, and Trump did nothing to hide them.
Failure is not disqualifying The deeper party crisis boils down to two related problems.
He claimed that Trump had not, in fact, made a host of disqualifying remarks.
However, the op-ed argues Nixon's inexperience is a disqualifying factor in the race.
A protest was filed, and track officials restored the United States, while disqualifying Brazil.
Clinton's vulnerabilities appear so disqualifying that her supporters should never consider voting for her.
"She was just in the loop on it, and I don't think that's disqualifying."
I don't think anything that has emerged so far about his behavior is disqualifying.
I believe that the senator's continued refusal to answer that simple question is disqualifying.
According to a White House news release, the budget office's score is not disqualifying.
LK: I didn't; I think you know a disqualifying answer when you hear one.
"Her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying," Mr. McCain said in a statement.
A background check didn't yield any disqualifying information, a law enforcement official told CNN.
"I believe the memo is disqualifying," said Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee's top Democrat.
The logic of this was simple: The key to winning was disqualifying the other side.
He was with the Bush administration and, therefore, that somehow is disqualifying for Supreme Court.
The naming of Robert Mueller was tainted with disqualifying conflicts of interest from the beginning.
But that unfitness isn't limited to the obvious, headline-making antics that should've been disqualifying.
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, called his KKK response "disgusting" and "disqualifying".
" Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Clinton's actions as secretary of state were "disqualifying.
Many Republicans feel Trump's emotive language toward groups including Mexicans, women and Muslims is disqualifying.
Rosenstein is a fact witness, and Mueller is a friend of Comey, disqualifying them both.
I'm not saying that business success is inherently disqualifying when it comes to policy making.
There was no disqualifying information in his background check, a law enforcement official told CNN.
"The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying," McCain said in a statement.
"If race were a disqualifying factor, nobody could preside over these cases," Ms. Rhode said.
Few would argue that Kavanaugh's bar fight alone is disqualifying for a Supreme Court nominee.
Why is primary familial and congenital polycythemia a genetic gift and hyperandrogenism a disqualifying curse?
Voters will decide the extent to which they view the earlier claims to be disqualifying.
What about people who find her unethical behavior disqualifying no matter who her opponent is?
Presidential elections have consequences, and I don't know that lack of empathy should be disqualifying.
The government has already determined 91 parents of kids over 5 have disqualifying criminal history.
"I don't think it's disqualifying," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview with Politico Playbook.
His critics found those actions disqualifying in a biography; his champions found "Dutch" formally innovative.
For some senators, Kavanaugh's own freshman roommate saying he was "belligerent" when drunk was disqualifying.
But the greater tragedy is how long it took for such behavior to become disqualifying.
Is former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's dubious record on race and policing disqualifying?
"Any nominee who lies to the committee, that is disqualifying," the Arizona Republican told reporters.
He also liked the part that prevents insurers from disqualifying people for pre-existing conditions.
He argued that evidence of plagiarism should have been disqualifying for a senior government official.
"I don't think it's disqualifying," Pelosi said Tuesday morning at a Politico event in Washington.
The opinion that Garland wrote is in no way disqualifying; it's not even brought up.
Joe Biden's answer on how to address the legacy of slavery was appalling -- and disqualifying.
If the accusations are found to be true, lying is disqualifying for the Supreme Court.
"It's a disqualifying act," Glenn Carle, another former CIA officer, tells my colleague Sean Illing.
His racism, once "white noise," could then become disqualifying to even the most "squeamish" of conservatives.
There were many minefields that I'm certain I skipped over without realizing that they are disqualifying.
The conservative Guardian Council had restricted both races by disqualifying most reformist and many moderate candidates.
Late Monday night, the Trump campaign said what the video showed was "disqualifying" for Clinton's candidacy.
Rules disqualifying more than half of American women because of lifestyle choices are still in effect.
Disqualifying her challengers robs her of the modicum of legitimacy the election could have given her.
In a less polarized time, Trump's tweets may have been disqualifying and an outrageous political twist.
Sessions has vehemently denied the claims, but Democrats are already pointing to the accusations as disqualifying.
Bobby Kennedy were each  assassinated by gunmen --also chastised Trump and said his comments were disqualifying.
No disqualifying information showed up in the background check when it was completed, the official said.
How the president's moral flaws weren't disqualifying to all Americans still amazes me to this day.
Thirty-one percent of adults under the age of 2202 said Biden's past behavior was disqualifying.
"This in itself is a disqualifying act of deception," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said.
President Trump late Friday issued an order disqualifying most transgender people from serving in the military.
We are now in a society in which serial insults to basic decency aren't automatically disqualifying.
If Kavanaugh lied about the sexual assault allegations, "that would be disqualifying," Collins told reporters Monday.
His department issued a written warning, disqualifying the fish from record consideration, but no criminal citation.
Trump seems to understand that political victory in these times comes primarily from disqualifying your opponents.
Trump has routinely said things that would, in previous elections, have been considered scandalous and disqualifying.
If what Roy Moore is alleged to have done is in fact true, is it disqualifying?
Just the litany of lies that you would have thought would be disqualifying for anybody else.
Such "disqualifying issues" included drug use, criminal conduct and, in Mr. Kushner's case, possible foreign influence.
Past criticism of Trump has reportedly played a role in disqualifying some prospective members of his administration.
"Being profane and not reading the New Yorker are not disqualifying characteristics to many Americans," Carson wrote.
" Asked whether questions raised about Kavanaugh's credibility during the hearings should be disqualifying, Stevens said, "Not necessarily.
Diamond says, in an email to The Verge, that Ellison's investment in Tesla isn't a disqualifying factor.
In his interview with Wagner, Sanders says that the Podesta emails don't reveal anything disqualifying about Clinton.
Trump himself was "inspiring" to many Americans who voted for him despite all his obviously disqualifying traits.
" Asked whether questions raised about Kavanaugh's credibility during the hearings should be disqualifying, Stevens said, "Not necessarily.
If you get it wrong, the money is taken away—you can even go into disqualifying debt.
That's all aimed at disqualifying Mueller's findings if they offer something short of full exoneration for Trump.
"She's too strong for him," says Varys, by means of disqualifying Daenerys as queen to Jon's king.
Thankfully for Kimmel, Trump is obsessed with the Oscars, which is maybe his most underrated disqualifying characteristic.
He reiterated that call on Wednesday, saying it would be "disqualifying" if Trump didn't release his returns.
If voters choose her for the presidency, their decision that the allegations are not disqualifying deserves respect.
Humala has not endorsed any candidate and criticized the electoral board for disqualifying two of Fujimori's rivals.
Keith Ellison's bid to run the Democratic Party, citing "deeply disturbing and disqualifying" past statements about Israel.
Yet, rather than disqualifying me, sex work prepared me for my life as a wife and mom.
Those rules require a much more imminent prospect of witness testimony or other conflict before disqualifying Rosenstein.
To some of his critics, lying to a Senate committee in sworn testimony would itself be disqualifying.
It seems clear to a lot of Democrats today that Clinton's personal behavior should have been disqualifying.
Any one of these things would in the past have been considered disqualifying in a presidential candidate.
In the Obama administration that involved a 63-question survey designed to root out potentially disqualifying surprises.
The gaping age gap, on its own, is not disqualifying, and you haven't raised any other objections.
But it is rare for a White House to be so open about what it considers disqualifying.
Booker went even further on Saturday, telling VICE News that the allegations against Moore should be disqualifying.
People can recognize something they participate in or contribute to as racist but decide it's not disqualifying.
" Earlier in the day, though, he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that "gay tendencies" aren't disqualifying "per se.
We've had these first steps in disqualifying prominent reformist figures in the country from running for election.
Before the debate, 38 percent of likely voters said the tape was disqualifying, and 42 percent disagreed.
I'm not only asking whom someone voted for, but also disqualifying that individual based on his answer.
"Opposition Research on Bernie is Very Damaging, Perhaps Even Disqualifying," he titled a blast email last week.
In most elections, a candidate running on a pledge to serve just one term could be disqualifying.
"A disqualifying and disgusting response by @realDonaldTrump to the KKK," tweeted Romney, the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee.
EBU rules allow for disqualifying contestants who do not abide by requirements for a "non-political event".
"The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying," John McCain said in a statement Thursday.
He added an addendum on Thursday afternoon via tweet, arguing that Trump's newfound extremism would have been disqualifying.
" In a call with reporters Tuesday, Tampa, Florida, Mayor Bob Buckhorn said Trump's comments were "shameful" and "disqualifying.
Disqualifying offenses may include violent crimes, drug dealing, DUI, prostitution, fraud, resisting arrest, reckless driving, arson and theft.
" On whether Biden's alleged behavior was disqualifying, Sanders said: "That's a decision for the vice president to make.
It stands for the proposition that only concrete facts tending to show bias will justify disqualifying a judge.
" It is unsurprising to me that Republicans would think having fun should be disqualifying or illegal," she said.
Democrats have quickly pounced on Mnuchin's vast fortune and ties to wealthy Wall Street firms as disqualifying. Sens.
But they're not disqualifying or career-ending by any means, and certainly not by the standards of Trump.
One makes convictions for stalking and sexual assault among the criminal offenses disqualifying a person from gun ownership.
Around 400 ideas were submitted, at least 100 of which were deemed disqualifying for any number of reasons.
When will the 13 Angry Democrats (& those who worked for President O), reveal their disqualifying Conflicts of Interest?
It's rather disquieting Biden didn't know that before; it would be disqualifying if he doesn't learn that now.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ascent to Congress, argue Biden's policy positions during his time in Congress should be disqualifying.
But if Trump supporters keep supporting him, given his disqualifying first 100 days, should you go after them?
Should the fact that a 17-year-old, presumably very drunk kid, did this, should this be disqualifying?
During his presidential run in 2008, some of his colleagues whispered concerns that his temper was potentially disqualifying.
" But he added that it was up to others to "determine whether that is indeed disqualifying or not.
He gave several answers that should be disqualifying for him in must-win states for Democrats in November.
That such views are held by the person who could be the Attorney General is frightening and disqualifying.
Regardless of the sexual assault accusation, Kavanaugh's testimony should have been disqualifying for a potential Supreme Court justice.
Elizabeth, however, after much soul-searching, decides that her uncle's history of sympathy for Nazi Germany is disqualifying.
Mr. Maloney, New York's first openly gay congressman, called Ms. James' remarks "weird" and "disqualifying" in an interview.
Should the fact that a 253-year-old, presumably very drunk kid, did this, should this be disqualifying?
" But McCain wasn't convinced: After the hearing, he tweeted that "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality" was "disqualifying.
Late into overtime, a flagrant 2 disqualifying foul was called on Thompson for contesting a shot by Shaun Livingston.
While conflicts are often a disqualifying factor in awarding a potential advisory role, doctors can be given a waiver.
There's 13 adjudicative guidelines, A through M, that set forth the disqualifying conditions that would justify denial or revocation.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this was "disqualifying" for Mulvaney to serve as the White House budget director.
REUTERS: Do you think the partisanship Kavanaugh displayed at Thursday's hearing would have been considered disqualifying in previous eras?
He derided Trump's remarks as reflective of an unpresidential attitude, declaring again that the Republican nominee's temperament was disqualifying.
"The rides listed were found to meet underwriting guidelines for insurability with no disqualifying conditions noted," the letter said.
Parties now regularly file legal petitions aimed at disqualifying their rivals, instead of leaving voters to adjudicate their disputes.
Let's be CLEAR: Trump saying "he'll look at the result"'of the election, may not accept it is DISQUALIFYING.
But Bennet and those around him don't see Hickenlooper's candidacy — or any of the others — as a disqualifying factor.
"His vicious attacks on LGBT people should have been disqualifying from the very beginning," she said in a statement.
All of those things, and he wasn't hiding it from us, and 63 million people didn't find that disqualifying.
"Donald Trump says stuff every day that used to be considered as disqualifying for being president," Mr. Obama said.
I don't know why being a serial liar is irrelevant and why ignorance of constitutional basics is not disqualifying.
Trump's tweet came shortly after Mitt Romney called Trump's refusal to release his taxes "disqualifying" for the White House.
Her lack of transparency might well be disqualifying if her opponent were the political equivalent of freshly Windexed glass.
"​If these allegations concerning Lieutenant Governor Fairfax are accurate, then they are clearly disqualifying and he must resign," Sen.
Yet they insist that at the end of the long, arduous day, none of those traits would be disqualifying.
However, her role in overseeing the use of torture is disturbing & her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying.
But rather than disqualifying him, his record there propelled him to the very job he had deemed beyond reach.
" After the fifth accuser came forward, Mr. Cornyn unendorsed Mr. Moore, calling the allegations "disturbing and, if true, disqualifying.
The problem for Clinton was that on Election Day, not enough voters found Trump's bad qualities to be disqualifying.
Elysa Braunstein said the implication from her father was that Mr. Trump did not have a disqualifying foot ailment.
For others, Ms. Gillibrand's shifting promises — whether on guns or on her plans to run for president — were disqualifying.
S. attorneys are presidential appointees and so meeting with the president prior to being nominated is certainly not disqualifying.
Insurers are also stepping up home inspections, she said, sometimes disqualifying houses with risks they hadn't cared about before.
"Skating questions only," he said, disqualifying with a single sentence about half of the questions on the reporters' minds.
Hillary calling tens of millions of American men & women "deplorable" is inexcusable and disqualifying #MAGA View the discussion thread.
Democrats say the emails to be released on Tuesday could reveal more, and possibly disqualifying, information about those relationships.
Activists say the city government's efforts in disqualifying democratically elected lawmakers is a direct assault on the city's freedoms.
During Thursday night's CNN town hall, Warren said Bloomberg's refusal to release former employees from nondisclosure agreements is disqualifying.
If it is aimed solely at disqualifying Mr. Sharif, then there will be no rupture from our checkered past.
Letters are typically between 150 and 175 words, so submitting a letter of Op-Ed length is often disqualifying.
Many congressional Democrats have called the behavior alleged by Trump's accusers disqualifying for a president of the United States.
On the contrary, the disqualifying conditions have been adjusted and modified over time, based on scrupulously maintained medical data.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia, told CNN that he has so far seen nothing disqualifying in the nominee's testimony.
But Bennet, and those around him, don't see Hickenlooper's candidacy — or any of the others — as a disqualifying factor.
Narcissism is very common in political leaders, celebrities, doctors, lawyers, and professors, but it's not a disqualifying criteria for governing.
The reason none of this was disqualifying is that Ibaka was also integral to a truly top-flight NBA defense.
Trump has paved the way for politicians to withstand criticism and controversies that may have been disqualifying in the past.
Lamar Alexander, chairman of the HELP committee, said since Puzder "voluntarily corrected" his mistake, he doesn't find the revelation disqualifying.
The ACLU has argued that not all criminal histories should be disqualifying, but Sabraw has so far rejected those challenges.
" In comments on Monday afternoon, she noted, "If Judge Kavanaugh has lied about what has happened, that would be disqualifying.
His brazen disrespect for longstanding precedent and the rule of law should be disqualifying for a position that requires both.
He is the circus ringmaster who creates all sorts of spectacles to divert attention away from his own disqualifying inadequacies.
If difference is the disqualifying factor for Yoshi's Island, then other games in the series deserve just as much scrutiny.
The electoral tribunal has undermined the legitimacy of the eventual winner by disqualifying one of the strongest candidates (see chart).
The zero-sum, binary nature of our two-party elections rewards negative campaigning, where winning comes from disqualifying the opponent.
These controversies aren't necessarily disqualifying for a potential clemency recipient, but in Trump's case they seem to have been qualifications.
Among the steps it took was disqualifying five candidates who were seen as supporting independence from running for the Council.
But by refusing to subject himself to the most basic level of financial scrutiny he is disqualifying himself as candidate.
Neither occurred, and Mr. Trump remained 1-Y until 1972, when his status changed to 4-F, permanently disqualifying him.
Stories about intimidating male bosses are typically not presented as disqualifying, but as evidence of these men as formidable leaders.
If the F.B.I. becomes aware that someone has lied on the form or omitted responsive information, it can be disqualifying.
When reporters and users asked if disqualifying people with symptoms was done in error, Verily said it wasn't a mistake.
The religious views of a man sometimes described as the world's most famous atheist were not disqualifying, Dr. Hall said.
After the original court ruling disqualifying him from holding a seat in Parliament, Mr. Sharif went to Lahore, his hometown.
There is nothing shameful --nor should there be anything disqualifying--about needing the help of your society and your community.
"If we had allegations by a former spouse of domestic abuse, that would have been immediately disqualifying," the official said.
"It is unsurprising to me that Republicans would think having fun should be disqualifying or illegal," she told The Hill.
The condition ended his military career, disqualifying him from all graded positions and Truehl had to leave the Air Force.
In fact, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showed 38 percent of voters find his statements disqualifying for the presidency.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said the reports concerned him but wouldn't say definitely that it would be a disqualifying factor if Ratcliffe inflated his biography.
Joe Biden declared he couldn't support Jeff Sessions as a federal judge, determining the US attorney's alleged racist remarks were disqualifying.
Withdrawing Mr Kavanaugh would mean admitting that historical accusations of sexual assault can be disqualifying, which leads back to the president.
The company provided a "result" that said there was a "disqualifying record," but not enough to deduce what the problem was.
Some designers and visionaries will tell you fashion is made to be used, to function, thus disqualifying it from being art.
In none of these instances was that judgment necessarily "disqualifying," though it very much should have been a subject of debate.
Whitehouse contributed to disqualifying President Donald Trump's first nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White.
From a man who would be the highest level American envoy to a foreign nation, this record of behavior is disqualifying.
Obama said Trump's lewd remarks about women are the latest in a series of comments disqualifying him from becoming his successor.
But for the most part it's been a non-issue, particularly in the context of using it as a disqualifying factor.
One would think Trump's bizarro bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his alleged financial dealings with Russia, would be disqualifying.
There was no disqualifying information in the background check conducted as required for the purchase, a law enforcement official told CNN.
" Democratic strategist Basil Smikle also added that, "None of his policy positions at this moment are disqualifying in a crowded primary.
"When you're in a five-way race, having 40 percent negatives is not disqualifying ... [as] Donald Trump will attest," he said.
It would also prevent VA clinics from disqualifying veterans from receiving prescription drugs and other services for testing positive for marijuana.
" When Burnett said, "I just want to get a clear answer here, so you're saying yes, you would think it's disqualifying?
The company says it also employs continuous criminal monitoring that provides the company with immediate notification of any disqualifying criminal convictions.
An April 2010 Department of Defense (DoD) Instruction regarding "Medical Standards" listed a "change of sex" as a disqualifying physical condition.
Secretary Detzner's interpretation suppresses student voters by disqualifying these sites simply because of their location on a college or university campus.
If a buyer's name is listed among those with disqualifying mental health records, the dealer is supposed to refuse the sale.
HILL: I don't think that I am — Uh. I'm biased [inaudible] entirely to say whether everyone should think it is disqualifying.
He's done too many things, said too many things, tweeted too many things that would typically be disqualifying in American politics.
Asylum also may be denied on the basis of disqualifying conduct, such as having been convicted of a particularly serious crime.
"Barrett's repeated failure to commit to ending unnecessary/unlawful Air Force spending at Trump's properties should be disqualifying," Blumenthal tweeted Tuesday.
It has ratcheted up pressure on opponents by disqualifying a prominent leader from running for office and by detaining other critics.
By the time he was killed, she was already in Denmark, disqualifying her from applying for family reunification from abroad. Mrs.
It speaks to the inevitable normalizing of Trump, the acceptance of words (and actions) that would be disqualifying for past presidents.
If the accusations leveled against Kavanaugh by Ford and Ramirez are true, they should be disqualifying for a Supreme Court Justice.
It was a season of escalating "disqualifying" stories that were processed predictably by receptive audiences and ignored or rationalized by others.
That performance earned condemnation from 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who described the remarks as "disqualifying & disgusting" in a Monday tweet.
A rule disqualifying mushers if one of their dogs dies during the race has been reinstated after a 25-year absence.
None of this would be disqualifying, but it does not stand up well to the feminist sensibilities of the #MeToo era.
A rule disqualifying anyone who said mean things about Trump during the campaign bars far too many people from staffing the administration.
"A history of cross-sex hormone therapy or a history of sex reassignment or genital reconstruction surgery is disqualifying," the directive said.
With many strong teams waiting in the wings to snag one of the top seeds, West Virginia's five losses could be disqualifying.
Terms like: disqualifying, vacuous, lies, deeply offensive, harmful, toxic, corrosive, incendiary, grotesque, morally reprehensible, contrary, farfetched, unrealistic and counter to the Constitution.
The commission and the constitutional court have also helped by disqualifying opposition MPs and, in one case, banning an entire opposition party.
But insiders said disqualifying a sitting president might be very costly for the establishment, especially given a hostile U.S. administration in Washington.
There's a set of values that make it so you wouldn't say that, or you wouldn't do that—it would be disqualifying.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, has called it "disqualifying" for a party's White House nominee not to make tax returns public.
Or as Trump put so eloquently in the debate, "…one nasty woman," referring to Hillary Clinton, in yet another wholly disqualifying statement.
While we truly want to practice responsible investing, I can imagine how the search to uncover possibly disqualifying behavior can become paralyzing.
"Today 'billionaire' has become a dirty word and a disqualifying status for many in the left of the Democratic Party," Friedman continued.
Disqualifying an athlete is not done lightly, Ironman officials said, and they said they had given Miller ample opportunity to defend herself.
The 2012 GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, has stated that Trump's refusal to disclose his tax returns should be "disqualifying" for the presidency.
Publicly, Biden has been thrust into the center of a debate over whether any allegation of misconduct should be disqualifying for Democrats.
The survey, conducted on Thursday and Friday, found that 56 percent of respondents said Biden's conduct should not be viewed as disqualifying.
"I was really concerned that having a specific attraction to trans femininity meant essentially disqualifying trans women from total womanhood," Allie said.
"Anyone who watched the Judiciary Committee hearing … should have serious, if not disqualifying doubts about Judge Kavanaugh's credibility and independence," Schumer said.
Like many in his age group, Chambers did not think youth was disqualifying but said advanced age made a candidate less attractive.
If you are poorer or paid by the hour, donating a kidney could be a huge financial hardship and could be disqualifying.
Not regulated by the federal or state governments in most areas, the guidelines for disqualifying a body vary from program to program.
Here's my first question: Would you regard bad sexual behavior as disqualifying if the candidate was otherwise totally fit to be president?
Obviously, I'm not a Democrat, but I find it borderline disqualifying to commit to a gender or racial test for any appointment.
I went in expecting the horror stories of hellish voting places with long lines, endless red tape, and disqualifying rules and regulations.
Bezos said there were "certain issues that are extreme enough that they would be disqualifying," but he did not provide any examples.
That policy agenda alone should be disqualifying for someone seeking to lead an agency whose raison d'être is to make people healthier.
NSSF is working with Congress to identify measures to incentivize states to fully participate in submitting all disqualifying records to the FBI.
Heidi Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat, told CNN Wednesday afternoon when asked if anything she's heard so far would be considered disqualifying.
The company would not say whether the absence of anti-discrimination laws on the books would be disqualifying for a city's chances.
The words were not disqualifying for them because they don't see, or refuse to see, what the message of hate will reap.
He could lose all three if his bishop finds his sexuality disqualifying, even if he is faithful to his vows of celibacy.
One in every five people looking at signing up had tattoos requiring review or that could be considered disqualifying, the Air Force said.
The Democratic National Committee required candidates to meet a minimum-donor threshold for earlier debates, effectively disqualifying Bloomberg, who does not accept contributions.
Kavanaugh's debt — or the general state of his finances — isn't automatically disqualifying when it comes to his potential confirmation to the Supreme Court.
There is not, and can never be, a fixed rule for deciding what, in an artist's biography, counts as disqualifying for his art.
And 1996 Republican presidential nominee Senator Bob Dole also ran in the 1980 primaries, disqualifying him as well from this Cruz litmus test.
One-fifth of consumers today still have very low credit scores, often disqualifying them from obtaining a mortgage in today's tight lending market.
That isn't disqualifying, but it complicates the (false) narrative of O'Rourke as a true progressive hero in the face of more moderate women.
Do you feel that that is in any way disqualifying for someone to sit on the Supreme Court?" asked Berman on "New Day.
"Even if it's not you in the photo, admitting that you did wear blackface at a different event is also disqualifying," he said.
In 2016, Clinton and the principal super PAC supporting her, Priorities USA, bet most of their chips on disqualifying Trump personally for voters.
"If this isn't disqualifying I don't know what is," Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement on Friday evening.
In any case, one video intended to share her family history and shut up our bully of a President should hardly be disqualifying.
He indicated he didn't have a disqualifying criminal history when he filled out the background check paperwork at the store, the official said.
When Kelley filled out the background check, he did not check the box indicating he had a disqualifying criminal history, the official said.
This week, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney said it would be "disqualifying" for a White House bid to refuse to release the forms.
Disqualifying. We complain that, even though she is one of the most scrutinized women in the world, we don't know the real Hillary.
"If you didn't have the window shade down, people would peek in, and for a lot of people that's disqualifying," Mr. Chen said.
Such behavior, having taken place at the age of 17, while totally inappropriate, is hardly disqualifying to his nomination to the Supreme Court.
Sarah Huckabee, a senior adviser to Trump, tweeted on Saturday that Clinton's "deplorables" comment was "disqualifying" and worse than the "47 percent" comment.
AK: Since I was asking about foreign policy, I found the thinness of the responses nearly disqualifying for every candidate besides Joe Biden.
Mr. Springsteen opted not to contend for competitive awards, disqualifying his show from consideration by declining to invite Tony voters to see it.
It's just that the ceiling-breakers have different opinions than I have about what kinds of things are bad enough to be disqualifying.
If voters believe his groping incident -- or any other element of his past or present -- is disqualifying, they get to have their say.
Asked if he thought, like Flores, that the allegation was disqualifying for Biden, Sanders said it was a decision for Biden to make.
NSSF launched the FixNICS campaign in 2202 to gain full participation from all states to enter disqualifying records into the FBI's NICS database.
The complaint asks the directors of those agencies to forbid state-contracted, taxpayer-funded agencies from disqualifying prospective families based on religious beliefs.
But most attacks on Stein's ideas that haven't been completely wrong should, if applied consistently, be more "disqualifying" of Clinton than of Stein.
Saying that you speak Spanish on your résumé, when all you know are a few phrases (poorly pronounced), would often be a disqualifying lie.
Donald Trump has also spent weeks on the campaign trail going after "Clinton's emails," calling her handling of classified information "disqualifying" for the presidency.
In this instance, Hong Kong's own judiciary had just begun hearing a case brought by the territory's government aimed at disqualifying the two members.
Barbara Comstock, R-Virginia, said Trump's comments were "disgusting, vile and disqualifying" and called for Pence "or another appropriate nominee" to replace him. Rep.
Jannati has chaired the 12-man council since 1988, and has played an active role in disqualifying reformist and liberal contenders in the past.
"She wants to achieve a solution and I would hope that's not a disqualifying thing for someone who would like to be president," Sen.
Both Eshoo and Speier rejected the notion that Klobuchar's reported temperament could be disqualifying for her as she seeks the Democratic nomination for president.
He also suggests requiring independent audits of party accounts, and making payment for news coverage a disqualifying offence, on a par with vote-rigging.
Clinton's critics, who say a recent cough is a sign of disqualifying illness or believe she experienced a seizure during a recent news conference.
When he filled out background check paperwork to get the gun, he checked a box to indicate he didn't have any disqualifying criminal history.
There was no disqualifying information in the background check conducted as required for the purchase, a law enforcement official told CNN at the time.
"If you're running for president, isn't it disqualifying if you talk disrespectfully about women?" asked Genesis Luna, a 16-year-old from the Bronx.
Prior to stepping into the position in May 2017, critics pointed to the physician's long history with the pharmaceutical industry as a disqualifying factor.
"People thought it was almost disqualifying to be against the death penalty in Virginia," said Bob Holsworth, a longtime political analyst in the state.
"It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters," Mitt Romney recently said on Facebook.
Will our new president, who is prone to insulting and disqualifying his critics, accept limits or put his own limits on his personal power?
A gay man, Pete Buttigieg, is widely considered a viable presidential candidate, his sexual orientation seemingly no longer disqualifying (and possibly even an asset).
Beijing then intervened to reinterpret Hong Kong's Basic Law, retroactively disqualifying six popularly elected politicians over the way in which they took their oaths.
The proposed "public charge" regulation does not list tax credits for buying health insurance through the Affordable Care Act as a disqualifying public benefit.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE, described Trump's words as "a disqualifying statement" on NBC News.
Gowdy also sent a letter Wednesday to Kelly, asking him when the White House knew of any "potential derogatory or disqualifying information" about Porter.
NSSF got to work with the states to ensure all disqualifying records were submitted to the FBI, including criminal and adjudicated mental health records.
The Army also granted more waivers for past marijuana use—usually a disqualifying offense—and accepted more recruits who scored poorly on aptitude tests.
" A person close to the White House went on to tell the Post that "it's not disqualifying or anything serious, but he doesn't like drinkers.
At the same time, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has continued to increase scrutiny for asylum-seekers, disqualifying those who claim domestic abuse or gang violence.
About a third of the people surveyed (24.9%) said the businessman's comments rendered him unfit for president, while 56% considered them inappropriate but not disqualifying.
"If such knowledge were disqualifying, no former government prosecutor could ever represent a private client in a suit against a public entity," the company asserted.
He said that process resulted in 4,800 gun sales in 2017 to individuals with criminal records, a history of mental illness and other disqualifying circumstances.
At the same time, he has one critically disqualifying attribute — he interviewed for the job with Trump, and Trump decided he wanted to appoint him.
Half of what he said and did tonight at the debate—to say nothing of the press conference that came before it—was absolutely disqualifying.
"It wasn't a disqualifying prohibition for him to own, possess or purchase a weapon as far as we were concerned," Mangan said in an interview.
"Speaking to a group like this is disqualifying for a federal official entrusted with acting in the best interests of the general public," he added.
Yet, Republicans subsequently decided to halt a Senate floor vote until the FBI conducts a final investigation into these salacious and if true, disqualifying, allegations.
Colorado's Public Utilities Commission is seeking to fine Uber more than $4 million for approving dozens of drivers with disqualifying records based on state law.
"Kelly Ayotte's months of support for Donald Trump to control America's nuclear arsenal represents an egregious failure of judgment that is utterly disqualifying," he added.
"It was disqualifying," Lisa Cenneno, a 48-year old independent who voted for MacArthur two years ago, said of the Republican's vote on health care.
He spent time in juvenile detention as a teenager and did two stints in jail in his twenties, disqualifying him from much full-time work.
Protesters also criticized the country's electoral board for clearing Fujimori of allegations that she broke a law against vote-buying while disqualifying two leading rivals.
Such cabinet-level vets complement but are more thorough than a typical pre-existing security clearance, and can uncover conflicts, misdeeds or other disqualifying information.
They argued Russia had grown more anti-democratic since it was ejected in 2014 for its incursion into Ukraine, disqualifying it from rejoining the G7.
Thirty-six percent of likely voters asked after the debate said the tape was disqualifying and Trump should withdraw from the race; 22019 percent disagreed.
SHARING SCOOPS: UNCONFIRMED Near the end of the series, Marissa discovers that one of Dobson's primary opponents has a exceedingly strange (and possibly disqualifying) habit.
"Obviously if Judge Kavanaugh has lied about what happened that would be disqualifying," Collins said during a brief gaggle with the press outside her office.
I never once sat down with my White House colleagues and knew that there were "disqualifying issues" that could mean that they were counterintelligence risks.
Those issues, however, aren't necessarily disqualifying for all Senate Republicans; multiple lawmakers mentioned that they were familiar with Moore and spoke positively of his consideration.
Tracking down Baby Yoshi introduces several new "meta right" presses, and while, again, they're not disqualifying, Stefan is trying to eliminate as many as possible.
But while he said his business relationships were not disqualifying, Mudd, a former CIA analyst, said Flynn's temperament would not serve him well in the role.
A Russian court has found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty in the retrial of his 2013 fraud case, disqualifying him to run for president next year.
Mick Mulvaney did not pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes for a household employee was "disqualifying" for him to serve as White House budget director.
Trump had once been a Democrat, a supporter of abortion rights, an advocate of tax increases — all positions believed disqualifying for hard-right GOP primary voters.
Mike Lee criticized the focus on Rao and other nominees' early writings, saying he didn't see anything "disqualifying" in what Rao had written two decades ago.
At least "a dozen" times Cosby's attorneys claimed Camille did not have to answer questions due to a rule disqualifying spouses from testifying against each other.
And, in truth, there is not, and can never be, a fixed rule for deciding what, in an artist's biography, counts as disqualifying for his art.
The central bank plans tighter criteria for accredited investors, including disqualifying those whose wealth is concentrated in their home and who have few liquid assets otherwise.
But 66% of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. have been here for 10 years or more — disqualifying them from expedited removal, according to Pew Research Center.
"One of the things we speculated is that people who have been alive longer have more opportunity to engage in activity that is disqualifying," he says.
Donald Trump, it has been observed, presents his opponents with many targets, making it difficult for them to focus public imagination on any specific, disqualifying outrage.
Instead of passing cleanly through the 66 gates, his skis passed either side of one of them, instantly disqualifying him and undoing four years of training.
Huawei's Czech and Slovak country director Radoslaw Kedzia told the Pravo newspaper that NUKIB's job description did not include disqualifying certain market participants for political reasons.
But that's just what happened when it aggressively grazed the pole during a qualifying vault and knocked the bar off of its stand, disqualifying the athlete.
Krystal Ball: Billionaires panicking over Sanders candidacy MORE is considering a 28500 presidential campaign, saying that "billionaire" should not be a "disqualifying status" for liberal Democrats.
Although Trump signed a clean farm bill in December, his administration plans to impose work requirements on SNAP recipients through executive order — potentially disqualifying 755,000 beneficiaries.
The commission has rejected about 2500,20143 rideshare driver applications with disqualifying criminal records since December 22014, even though those drivers passed the rideshare companies' background checks.
As part of its investigation, the commission did not find any disqualifying records that warranted a fine against Lyft, according to the commission's director, Doug Dean.
Last year, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission fined Uber $8.9 million for allowing drivers with "disqualifying" criminal or motor vehicle offenses to drive for the company.
"The fact that Mr. Whitaker is a political operative isn't itself disqualifying," said Sarah Turberville, director of the Constitution Project at the Project on Government Oversight.
And since Palacios only became a US citizen last June, she has only been a "citizen" of Georgia for one year, ultimately disqualifying her from running.
The CCP has no problem disqualifying pro-freedom lawmakers, cracking down on protests, and even kidnapping people and shipping them off to the mainland for trial.
This color preference was controversial among the followers of pink and yellow, almost disqualifying because of poop, which only gave Andrew more enthusiasm for the shade.
When Kelley filled out the background check paperwork at the store, he checked the box to indicate he didn't have disqualifying criminal history, the official said.
When Kelley filled out background-check paperwork at the store, he checked a box to indicate he didn't have any disqualifying criminal history, the official said.
" She also said she believes the alleged incident is "disqualifying" for a presidential run but added that "it's up to everybody else to make that decision.
Normally, all of this would be disqualifying on its face, but it hasn't yet proven to be an albatross for the blue team's general election chances.
It seems like that behavior would be the sort of disqualifying behavior she's thinking about in those "lost all faith" teams, but that's not made explicit.
The realities of elections should not be the basis for disqualifying a public servant absent an actual conflict of interest in a real — not hypothetical — case.
We had not invested together and it did come up quite a bit and was a disqualifying thing for people who care a lot about that.
"A lot of officials in Washington behave badly, so that, sadly enough, was unlikely to be disqualifying," said Antony J. Blinken, the committee's Democratic staff director.
Indeed, his general lack of probity is probably disqualifying on its own and certainly provides ample reason for senators to prefer a different, ideologically identical nominee.
At least 25 people got security clearances from Trump officials after career civil servants denied them for "disqualifying issues," a White House whistle-blower told Congress.
But some people — including some hiring managers and recruiters — disagree, and see anything less than a full accounting of your past work as dishonest and disqualifying.
But Democrats see it very differently: Any chance that Kavanaugh did do what Ford says he did should be disqualifying for a potential Supreme Court justice.
Still, the service issued about 2000,26 waivers for recruits who had never served before but who, on paper, had a disqualifying medical condition or conduct issue.
The department said it notified him that his application was delayed because of a "possibly disqualifying issue," and asked him for more information regarding his application.
"This action would be deeply troubling under any circumstances, but considering Russia's effort to tip the election toward President Trump, the General's actions are disqualifying," Rep.
The number of white evangelicals who believe personal moral failings are not disqualifying for a public official rose 42 points, to 72 percent, in 85033 years.
One man who spoke to BuzzFeed News after hearing Buttigieg at the Sharpton event said unprompted that the candidate's sexuality was a disqualifying issue to him.
Why is the fact that my son would vote like me disqualifying, but it's fine that I vote Democratic like my parents and like my wife?
By the end of 2016, the number of disqualifying adjudicated mental health records in the database has increased over 170 percent to nearly 4.5 million records.
Equally troubling is the fact that the FBI appears to have been aware that the Department of Defense was not fully submitting disqualifying records to NICS.
He said courts couldn't step in despite what the cities viewed as the Pentagon's widespread and systemic failure to provide disqualifying conviction records for former personnel.
The federal bankruptcy code bars the professionals who work on bankruptcies from hiding their stakes, although possessing an interest in a company is not automatically disqualifying.
Cohen's portrayal of the fraud in the White House, and the details of a Trump Organization run like a criminal enterprise, are not disqualifying to Republicans.
"If this meeting took place it shows a lack of judgment that (Gillibrand) believes her colleagues should view as disqualifying as a nominee," the statement said.
JARRETT: One of the most striking moments occurred today when he was asked about Mueller&aposs, not one but two clearing conflicts of interest that are disqualifying.
"If Democrats start disqualifying candidates for giving eulogies for old friends whom they disagree with politically, we're asking for four more years of Donald Trump," Jones said.
When Sterling screened McCoy, he had a recent, previous conviction for theft, BuzzFeed News found, a criminal charge that Lyft lists as a disqualifying offense for drivers.
Will Kasich put his foot down and go after one, or both, of his opponents for the direction they've taken the race and tell voters it's disqualifying?
For now, the idea of disqualifying Mr. Trump is the remotest of hypotheticals, since it would first require the Senate to vote to impeach and remove him.
"This alone should be disqualifying for anyone seeking the presidency, a job that is supposed to begin each morning with a top secret intelligence briefing," he added.
Anything short of an unqualified rebuke of Trump's sexism is a tacit acceptance that abhorrent, victim shaming and potentially criminal behavior toward women is no longer disqualifying.
By my read, Endo's brief is more compelling than Cleveland's, not least because of policy implications of disqualifying ex-prosecutors from cases without clear evidence of overlap.
Even if Clinton doesn't find that disqualifying, Warren's independent profile suggests she might try to maintain an individual identity and avoid hewing too closely to Clinton's message.
"Certainly, one allegation is not disqualifying but it should be taken seriously," Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, Senate minority whip, told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
If later on the background check reveals criminal records, mental health issues or any other disqualifying problems, the FBI will ask the ATF to retrieve the guns.
"The way she treats staff is disqualifying," a former aide, who is a woman, told Yahoo News in an article published the day after Klobuchar's campaign announcement.
The CBP also took issue with some of the figures in the report, namely the 2,300 applicants who were administered tests despite having admitted to disqualifying behavior.
His performance has been disqualifying: His opening statement and answers to questions have been overtly partisan in a way that no other judicial nominee has ever been.
His trial ended in mistrial, but under the standards now being erected by his own party colleagues, the accusations alone should be sufficiently disqualifying for his seat.
He displayed an unwillingness to immerse himself in the pain of his constituents, and that moment alone was a disqualifying fall from which he may never recover.
Is there a list of disqualifying factors that are deemed morally incompatible with government work, or is this entirely about making sure people aren't susceptible to blackmail?
A felony that is later reduced to a misdemeanor will remain a felony in the eyes of most boards and will be found, usually, to be disqualifying.
In the past, Mr. Maduro's government has quashed challenges to his rule by jailing opposition leaders, forcing them to flee the country or disqualifying them from elections.
This context-dependent approach arguably leads to the conclusion that the existence of credible allegations against Judge Kavanaugh should be disqualifying, especially if further corroborating evidence emerges.
Against that stands Mr. Moore, whose past official ethics violations might look disqualifying outside Alabama, but at home were viewed by some as a badge of honor.
Critic's Notebook Two productions at the Under the Radar Festival ask if the theater is ready to embrace the artistry of autism and other once disqualifying conditions.
The issue was discovered by another employee in March 2017, by which time more than 268,000 permits were issued without the proper vetting for noncriminal disqualifying reasons.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle should be able to agree that sexual misconduct of this kind would be disqualifying behavior for a Supreme Court nominee.
Biding his time until his candidacy was approved, Dzu then released an otherwise disqualifying peace agenda, calling for an unconditional cease-fire and immediate negotiations with Hanoi.
To the voters in the heartland, that campaign style was a feature, not a bug, but to the Washington elite, it was and continues to be disqualifying.
"Given Mr. Miller's role in shaping immigration policy for your administration, his documented dedication to extremist, anti-immigrant ideology and conspiracy-mongering is disqualifying," the lawmakers wrote.
Amy Frontz, assistant inspector general for audit services, said that for the employees that they were able to eventually get background information, no disqualifying factors were found.
Once the probe is concluded, Japan Post Insurance has said it will consider imposing punishments such as disqualifying insurance agents who violated the law or internal rules.
"There is information in his FBI background investigation that concerns me greatly and that I believe members may find problematic, potentially disqualifying for Senate confirmation," Menendez said.
But for those people experiencing gender dysphoria, the policy returns to the previous, pre-2016 entrance standards, disqualifying them from both entry and retention in the military.
Mr Khamenei's men thwarted an earlier reformist president, Muhammad Khatami, and his promises of a fully-fledged democracy by disqualifying thousands of parliamentary candidates and shutting down newspapers.
Rosenstein is a fact witness, and Mueller is a friend of Comey, disqualifying them both," Penn wrote, adding later that Sessions "needs to take back his Justice Department.
Another reason, Dr. Maron says, that he opposes EKG screening is that there is a high likelihood of disqualifying athletes whose risk is small or difficult to quantify.
In yet another head-spinning reality in 2016, the very assets that permitted her ascendancy have now been cast as fatal flaws and for some even disqualifying weaknesses.
Kelley, however, did undergo a background check, which a law enforcement official told CNN didn't reveal any disqualifying information, though Kelly had once been convicted for domestic violence.
The big picture: Nearly 400 students at the all-male, historically black college will be relieved of their debt, disqualifying them from the financial hardship many graduates experience.
This was the cry from the heart of liberals despairing at media coverage that erroneously equated Trump's disqualifying, morally heinous flaws with Clinton's run-of-the-mill ones.
Our best guess is that Kanye, inspired by Trump's victory and considering his own Presidential run, has decided that sensical behavior is disqualifying for our nation's highest office.
It was yet another disqualifying attribute of Trump's campaign—another example of Trump's deep-seated misogyny—but it was also widely treated as Trump's ace in the hole.
Gorsuch has been on Trump's list of potential nominees since September 2016; surely by now Democrats would have released opposition research that included any disqualifying information on him.
Of course, Sanders has said many times that he wants to be president, but most in the media assumed he was just saying that to avoid disqualifying himself.
And for those who believe Donald Trump will make America great again, Bill Clinton is a case in point that these sexual assault allegations haven't always been disqualifying.
His aforementioned handsiness may not be ultimately disqualifying, but his failure to honestly understand why it would be upsetting (he's joked about it in public) certainly should be.
It is tempting to make this assessment based on particular issues, like Russia or refugees, or statements deemed disqualifying for their bigotry, or lack of truth and transparency.
Contrary to Mr. Trump's repeated assertions — including in a Thursday morning tweet — Mr. Rosenstein said he was "not aware of any disqualifying conflict of interest" involving Mr. Mueller.
But the government stripped her of the post after only a few days, disqualifying her for reading her oath of office very slowly in an act of protest.
As in the video above, Cuban taekwondo player Angel Matos kicked a referee in the face for disqualifying him, before attacking match officials and spitting on the mat.
They nominated and elected a sexist, bigoted, white-supremacist sympathizer because, to them, those traits were, on the one hand, not disqualifying, and on the other hand, commendable.
The dealer did contact the FBI's background check system, and a NICS representative ran a search for information about whether Roof had any disqualifying convictions or drug history.
"To use prosecutorial discretion to attempt to criminalize voter assistance is wrong and should be disqualifying for any aspirant to the nation's highest law enforcement post," he wrote.
"There is information in his FBI background investigation that concerns me greatly and that I believe members may find problematic and potentially disqualifying for Senate confirmation," Menendez said.
Go: Two productions at the Under the Radar Festival in New York ask if theater is ready to embrace the artistry of autism and other once-disqualifying conditions.
Federal air marshals are subject to initial and periodic background investigations, and "misconduct or other disqualifying information identified" may impact an employee's security clearance, according to the TSA.
"The hearings will reveal if it's disqualifying or not, but certainly he has a history that should be critically examined, as do all of the nominees," said Harris.
At the end of 2628, disqualifying records totaled 28500 million and 6900 states had made fewer than 2628 records available with 28503 having submitted fewer than 22019 records.
Warren, who rose to power as a fierce consumer financial advocate, hammered Bloomberg at a campaign event in Virginia on Thursday night, saying those remarks should be disqualifying.
It also decided to consider, on a case-by-case basis, recruits with conditions like eczema, asthma, and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD; which were previously disqualifying.
"Should the fact that a 17-year-old, presumably very drunk kid, did this, should this be disqualifying?" asked New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss on MSNBC.
"In a totally disqualifying act that is a violent threat to our democracy, Hillary Clinton directly involved herself in inciting violence directed at Trump supporters," said spokesman Jason Miller.
Personally, I felt as though I'd been sent a loud and clear message: Sexual assault is not disqualifying, even when one is seeking the highest office in the land.
And perhaps worst of all, given the SEC's mission, its efforts to hold individuals and corporations accountable for wrongdoing, including disqualifying bad actors going forward, has had few teeth.
"I believe that civilian control and civilian involvement in the Defense Department is an important principle, but I also don't think a military background should be disqualifying," he said.
If nothing else, Murphy is proof that a Goldman Sachs background need not be disqualifying, if indeed it results in genuine progress for the party and for liberal policymaking.
But some have expressed skepticism that their support for Kavanaugh's qualifications will change in the absence of clear, corroborating evidence of sexual misconduct or a pattern of disqualifying behavior.
" Under the same DoD Instruction, one of the disqualifying "Learning, Psychiatric, and Behavioral" conditions was: "Current or history of psychosexual conditions including but not limited to transsexualism … (and) transvestism.
Jost: Even if you look past Dr. Ford's testimony, which many people seem to have no trouble doing, Kavanaugh did a bunch of disqualifying stuff, just this past week.
Mr. Conyers, in an interview Wednesday, tried to head off a possibly disqualifying scandal just a day after his father resigned from Congress amid multiplying allegations of sexual harassment.
H.I.V. was added to the list of disqualifying conditions in 1985 as the military scrambled to control the spread of the disease during the peak of the AIDS crisis.
"If there had been real collusion between Trump and the Russians to get an advantage over his opponent, that would have been disqualifying," Graham said of the 2016 election.
Murray's most substantive argument: The ACLU, according to Murray, "failed to disclose its indisputable and disqualifying bias," an alleged economic motive to back John Oliver and his co-defendants.
Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska and another key swing vote, responded with a firm "no" when asked if she has seen anything in Kavanaugh's record she considers disqualifying.
He had spent hundreds of hours observing Trump firsthand, and felt that he had an unusually deep understanding of what he regarded as Trump's beguiling strengths and disqualifying weaknesses.
The rules also block clinics from providing abortions or being financially connected to an abortion clinic, disqualifying Planned Parenthood, which serves more than 85033 percent of Title X patients.
And at the same time I would say when you look at candidates, and who you&aposre funding, there are certain issues that are extreme enough that they would be disqualifying and you would say, &aposNo, I&aposm not going to support somebody who has that issue because that&aposs so, in my view, so disqualifying that even though they agree with me on this issue, I&aposm still not going to support them.
Ronnie Dunn, a professor at Cleveland State University and co-author of "Boycotts, Busing, & Beyond," said Biden's old views opposing busing should not be disqualifying, but warrant a broader explanation.
He apparently doesn&apost read newspapers because dozens and dozens of law professors and lawyers have written a myriad of columns explaining the disqualifying conflicts of interest of Robert Mueller.
Clinton, who remains ahead in public polls, argued on Friday that most voters may have already decided whether or not Clinton's mishandling of classified information in her emails is disqualifying.
"This does not seem to me to be a clear disqualifying factor," said Richard W. Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer for two years under President George W. Bush.
Republicans believe Trump can survive majority disapproval of his performance by disqualifying the eventual Democratic nominee to the point that some voters who disapprove of Trump vote for him anyway.
Greenville, North Carolina (CNN)Donald Trump argued Tuesday that Hillary Clinton's email use and her handling of classified information is "disqualifying" as he sharpened his attacks on the Democratic nominee.
There are no Israeli or Palestinian artists involved in the project, because, by Brenner's own admission, no Palestinian artist would agree to participate—perhaps because "anger" was a disqualifying factor.
Clinton ended with an important message, saying, "Be part of the changing culture so it's not viewed as disqualifying if you're standing up for yourself and speaking up for yourself."
Yes we want him to help steel workers but his tax giveaways to the rich, attacks on ACA, his divisiveness, his attacks on democracy & his caging of children are disqualifying.
The Anti-Defamation League went so far as to say that Ellison's "disturbing and disqualifying" comments had "raised the specter" of the pernicious myth that Jews control the American government.
But even outside of those remarks, some American Jews have found Ellison's vocal criticisms of the Israeli government's policies — coupled with his youthful affiliations with anti-Semites — to be disqualifying.
With Trump advisers having all but concluded that there is nothing disqualifying in Mr. Pence's record, the most important remaining hurdle for Mr. Pence may have been the event here.
ObamaCare prohibits all individual and small group health plans — for people who don't have coverage through an employer — from disqualifying people with pre-existing conditions, or charging them more money.
"Stewart's neo-Confederate sympathies and his support for white supremacists, including those behind the 'Unite the Right' rally, apparently aren't disqualifying," Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse said in an email.
In the current election, a court decision disqualifying Mr. Sharif's replacement as prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, was reversed at the last minute, leaving him barely a month to campaign.
"You always have to be careful of fraud, but having some economic motives for requesting asylum shouldn't necessarily be disqualifying," said Jaya Ramji-Nogales, a law professor at Temple University.
They will thereby box him in, forcing him to agree and join the flock that made Biden inevitable; or they will box him out, disqualifying him from further serious consideration.
"Every day, this is a candidate who has said things that just four years ago, just eight years ago, twelve, we would have considered completely disqualifying," he told the audience.
But, in 2018, I was still astonished that someone who appeared to be a solid candidate for the Republican gubernatorial ticket would be told that lacking a penis was disqualifying.
"This does not seem to me to be a clear disqualifying factor," said Richard W. Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer for two years under President George W. Bush.
EVEN SCARBOROUGH ISN'T HAVING IT: "That's disqualifying right there," MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said after showing a clip of Trump refusing to disavow David Duke and the KKK.
Other members of Congress and plenty of pundits (male and female) have expressed it: We don't know if it happened, but, even if it did, should it really be disqualifying?
Until Mr. Moore (and Mr. Trump) came along, it was difficult to find many candidates so unfit that credible charges of child molestation could seem only the latest disqualifying feature.
" Senator Mark Warner, also a former governor, described the day's disclosures as "devastating" and said that if the allegations were accurate "then they are clearly disqualifying and he must resign.
KERNEN: It's gonna be a tough -- people that see things in black and white, Marco Rubio, whomever, that look at things like this, this should be disqualifying for any relationship whatsoever.
But in a race where the contest is expected to hinge on black voter turnout, "the oddity lies in the implication that Abrams's actions betray a disqualifying aspect of her character."
Because Biden's behavior is so well known, and falls somewhere on a bell curve between "disqualifying" and "perfect," this one actually comes back around to what you, the individual reader, think.
" Others have encouraged us to assume that even if Ford's account is true, "Should the fact that a 17-year-old, presumably very drunk kid, did this, should this be disqualifying?
It's no wonder Americans are reacting unfavorably to the idea of deciding whether Donald Trump's complete lack of experience, decorum and honesty are more disqualifying than Hillary Clinton's sleaziness and corruption.
The deferment of their decision came on the same day that Thailand's Constitutional Court is to consider disqualifying another opposition party from the election, the first since a 2014 military coup.
Republican Representative Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said he was investigating when the White House learned of "potential derogatory or disqualifying information" about former Staff Secretary Rob Porter.
Indeed, it's often appeared that the administration was learning about potentially disqualifying issues with their candidates the same way the rest of us are: by reading about it in the press.
In a race that was controversially restarted twice without disqualifying any riders, Kenny ultimately had too much pace down the final stretch, recovering from a slow start to finish just clear.
The contract comes months after rail operator Stagecoach said it was suing the Department for Transport for disqualifying it from bidding for the rail franchise along with partners SNCF and Virgin.
"This need for that dopamine, that need for instant gratification, I think it raises enormous questions — disqualifying questions — about both of them as potential leaders or actual leaders," Mr. Bruni says.
The Court-endorsed Reagan regulations never took effect, and worse, Clinton issued regulations requiring providers to refer for abortion, disqualifying pro-life and faith-based groups from participating in the program.
Politico reported that Obria applied for 323 Title X funding but was rejected, because its refusal to provide condoms, FDA-approved birth control, and abortion referrals are disqualifying under current regulations.
The lifetime ban is vulnerable to being overturned by the court, which has previously prevented the I.O.C. from automatically disqualifying an athlete convicted of a doping offense from a future Olympics.
"She is in a credibility bind that in most White Houses would be disqualifying, but probably not in this one," said David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama.
That could result in Spotify paying tens of millions, although if Eight Mile Style is successful in disqualifying Spotify from protection under the MMA, it could face more severe financial penalties.
These statements should be disqualifying for Bloomberg on their face: We definitely don't need another president who uses racist scare tactics and outlandishly false claims to justify his bad policy goals.
" The letter portrays Trump and Cruz as deeply flawed candidates, describing the Texas senator as an "ideologue" and claiming the billionaire businessman "suffers from the irreparable, disqualifying defect of being Trump.
Given the ethical obligation of judges to act at all times in ways that promote public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary, his outbursts should have been disqualifying.
The funds should have benefited some 885,000 subscribers through the Lifeline program, the FCC said, but those consumers were not actively using Sprint's service, thus disqualifying them from receiving the subsidy.
In fact, sports regulators and investigators who conducted the multiple investigations into Russia's doping are headquartered in Canada, and the Olympic leadership in charge of disqualifying athletes is based in Switzerland.
These are called "meta right" pushes, meaning they are technically a press to the right, but as the game afforded no other options, so they are counted but precluded from disqualifying.
"He obviously said very troubling, outright disqualifying things, particularly during the busing days, given where the party and the country is at today," said Phillips, who is supporting Cory Booker in 2020.
Will it be disqualifying if a candidate makes fun of the disability of a reporter or the ethnicity of a judge, or will such rhetorical strategies be rewarded on the campaign trail?
And a misdemeanor harassment charge does not count as a "disqualifying crime" under the state's law, according to Lindsay Nichols, federal policy director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
While none of these statements may be independently disqualifying, the purported pattern of lying that Kavanaugh has exhibited could put his qualifications for the role of Supreme Court justice heavily into question.
Colorado has ordered Uber to pay a fine of $8.9 million for allowing individuals with disqualifying criminal or motor vehicle offenses, or without valid licenses, to drive for the company, Reuters reports.
Of particular concern were the abduction by mainland agents of some city booksellers who specialized in critical material and Beijing's efforts in disqualifying two pro-independence lawmakers elected to the city legislature.
"I would not be up here if that was disqualifying," he noted, recounting that he admitted during his polygraph exam in the 1980s that he once voted for a Communist Party candidate.
Flores' story has unleashed a wave of questions about Biden's habit of touching women in public, and whether that habit may end up disqualifying him as a viable 2020 candidate for president.
Comey recommended that Hillary Clinton not be indicted over her email scandal, but his press conference was nevertheless a brutal one for the presumptive Democratic nominee, a catalog of potentially disqualifying mistakes.
They're going to do whatever they can to retain power, including disqualifying candidates they think might jeopardize the religious nature of the Islamic republic and open the door to greater U.S. influence.
The Assembly of Experts, a council of elected clerics charged with electing, supervising and even disqualifying the Supreme Leader, has turned into a "ceremonial council that only praises the Leader", Karroubi added.
Roughly 27 percent of Americans 17 to 24 years old are too overweight to serve, the report adds, with obesity being the second most frequent disqualifying medical condition between 2010 and 2014.
"Because a minority of psychiatric hospitalizations are involuntary, only a small fraction of these respondents could have had a potentially gun-disqualifying involuntary commitment," Swanson and his colleagues said in their report.
The contract award comes months after rail operator Stagecoach said it was suing the Department for Transport for disqualifying it from bidding for the rail franchise along with partners SNCF and Virgin.
The military dictatorship kept Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for 15 years and ensured that she could not serve as president by including the constitutional prohibition effectively disqualifying her.
But in the end, those concerns were not disqualifying for enough people: Nearly one-fifth of the voters who expressed such negative opinions about Trump personally still supported him over Hillary Clinton.
Russian athletes who have a history of passing doping tests are still invited to attend under a neutral flag, according to the announcement, but any record of failure will be immediately disqualifying.
A whistleblower told committee staff in early April that Trump administration officials overruled career officials in 25 instances in order to grant security clearances to employees despite "disqualifying issues" in their backgrounds.
Some liberal Democrats view Biden's shoulder grabs and kisses as disqualifying, arguing that the party can't waver in its commitment to protecting women if it's going to maintain the moral high ground.
It's only disqualifying for the judiciary, not the Senate where monstrous political behavior and antics are so culturally embedded that it would be unfair to levy standards of uprightness and statesmanship now?
Cummings's panel subpoenaed Kline to testify after a whistleblower, Tricia Newbold, claimed Kline overruled her to issue clearances to White House officials despite career officials flagging disqualifying issues in the applicants' backgrounds.
" Like Montana, Missouri's Constitution also bars aid to religious institutions, so the state "had a policy of categorically disqualifying churches and other religious organizations from receiving grants under its playground resurfacing program.
The Guardian Council, a hardline body that vets candidates, has all but ensured the parliamentary vote will usher in a majority of Khamenei loyalists by disqualifying moderates and leading conservatives from standing.
"This court has serious concerns that implementing the standards and employing the disqualifying criteria espoused by the U.S. Trustee … would for all practical purposes render a pre-negotiated plan impossible," he said.
Last month, the Constitutional Court found Thanathorn guilty of holding shares in a media company on the date his candidacy was registered for the election, disqualifying him as a member of parliament.
ISP's website lists disqualifying factors for owning a gun, including a felony conviction or a conviction in the past five years for violent crimes including aggravated assault or battery, among other criteria.
I think that they know that homosexuality is not related to child abuse, that it is neither a choice nor a perversion, and that it should not be disqualifying for the priesthood.
These documents state that self-mutilation, depression, bipolar disorder, and drug and alcohol abuse are no longer "nonwaiverable," that is, automatically disqualifying, and waivers will be considered for recruits with these conditions.
Questions about his ability to carry out strong debate performances have plagued his campaign for months, but voters might decide his gaffes are baked into his persona and not a disqualifying factor.
She had written in 2014 that she would "sooner have her teeth pulled" than relocate to the Dallas suburb where her grandparents live — a past statement the DCCC sees as potentially disqualifying.
Criminal background checks were done on all applications, officials told BuzzFeed News, but the national database would have assured the applicant had no criminal record or other disqualifying red flags in other states.
Yet the Marist poll results suggest that, for many white evangelicals, another factor is at play in their support for Kavanaugh: They don't think what he did is bad enough to be disqualifying.
" Trump has said he doesn't want to give details on his specific plan to defeat ISIS because he doesn't want to broadcast it to America's enemies, a strategy Clinton called "dangerous" and "disqualifying.
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"Mark Green's dangerous views and hateful comments are disqualifying for any public servant, let alone someone wishing to serve as secretary of the Army," Chad Griffin, the group's president, said in a statement.
While this foundation position does not present a legally disqualifying conflict, it appears the Senate was not given the truthful information it needs to perform its advise and consent function under the Constitution.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's election board has approved far-right Jewish candidates accused by rivals of racism for next month's election while disqualifying an Arab party that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said supported terrorism.
Wheeler may also continue Pruitt's work of disqualifying air pollution science from being used at the agency; ignoring environmental justice; weakening oversight of toxic chemicals; and declining to prosecute polluters for environmental crimes.
Under arcane parliamentary rules, normally referred to as "taking the Chiltern Hundreds," the purely symbolic appointment provides a legal escape hatch from the House of Commons by disqualifying lawmakers from holding their seats.
Trump's team does not appear to believe that Petraeus's crime should bar him from the State Department, despite the real estate mogul's campaign trail attacks on Clinton's "disqualifying conduct" when she led State.
"According to Ms. Newbold, these individuals had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct," the memo states.
In their view, business should be banned or severely restricted in these meetings, because of what they regard as inherently disqualifying — the fact that business seeks to make a profit and deliver value.
To those portions of the electorate fed up with politics as usual, Mr. Trump's willingness to say just about anything and to improvise as he goes seems more refreshing and trustworthy than disqualifying.
Even if he hadn't shown himself to be extraordinarily misogynistic and have an ugly personal history, his track record on economics — always wrong, never admitting error or learning from it — is utterly disqualifying.
Despite Mr. Moore's strenuous appeals to evangelical Christians, Mr. Moffett said that he found the candidate's attacks on his female accusers, and his past suggestion that homosexuality should be criminalized, to be disqualifying.
"Some of the security flaws found in VSAP are staggering and should be disqualifying," said Susan Greenhalgh, vice president for programs and policy at National Election Defense Coalition, an election integrity advocacy group.
In Georgia, the organization sued Brian Kemp, the secretary of state and a candidate for governor in another undecided race, for disqualifying nearly 600 absentee ballots as a result of alleged signature mismatches.
"We received no indication of anything disqualifying in our permit application until the media began reporting on the story," said Robert Haferd, a lawyer who sought the permit on behalf of the group.
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By automatically disqualifying a contractor, even when a project is delayed or goes over budget for reasons beyond the contractor's control, the policy could make some companies reluctant to work with the authority.
What's more, if Trump was aware of the meeting, and the Russians know he was aware, he is vulnerable to blackmail from a foreign power — a disqualifying trait for a commander-in-chief.
That&aposs being led by an international squad of legal experts, which has revealed plans to recruit patent lawyers from around the world in an attempt to upend "outdated" rules disqualifying AI inventors.
" He said the United States would be destabilizing the region, discouraging supporters of a peaceful solution and "disqualifying itself to play any role in any initiative towards achieving a just and lasting peace.
Sharif, whose PML-N party won elections in 2013, said he was shocked by Friday's Supreme Court ruling disqualifying him from office over unreported income from a company owned by his son in Dubai.
"We will investigate and verify any potentially disqualifying information from public records, such as a new and pending charge for a DUI, to ensure the driver is still eligible to use Uber," Khosrowshahi wrote.
But it does underscore that Sessions has become so compromised on so many disqualifying matters of vital public interest, including the Trump-Russia case, that he can no longer serve in an able capacity.
After a morning show gaffe that many are calling a disqualifying moment for the Libertarian presidential nominee, on Thursday afternoon Jake Tapper offered a brief refresher course on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria.
The opposition has accused the government of locking up most of its leaders who could challenge Yameen's bid for a second five-year term, thus disqualifying them from contesting, but the government denies this.
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Rothenberg said a background check run on Bello before his September 2016 hire by the city did not reveal his 2004 arrest because the charge he pleaded guilty to was not a disqualifying one.
It is an answer to the question, posed by Vox's David Roberts, of "whether dismissing climate change as a 'mass hysteria phenomenon' is, or ought to be, disqualifying," and many liberals would say yes.
Adunis has been near the top of the pack for years and I'm disqualifying him because it's hard to see why he would win this year, and not any of the last few years.
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Improve the national background check system For the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to be effective, all disqualifying information needs to be entered into the system through a timely and accurate process.
Championed by a former tobacco lobbyist, the rule prohibits the EPA from using research that includes confidential data about human subjects—effectively disqualifying much of the research showing how air pollution damages public health.
Uber has succeeded in disqualifying the law firm from representing limousine companies that allege in a class action that the ride-hailing company enjoys an unfair business advantage because it classifies drivers as contractors.
That said, expertise on a subject has never been a disqualifying factor for The Donald, nor has it prevented him from assessing, and in most cases denigrating, nearly every demographic imaginable during this election.
Disqualifying a woman from decisions regarding her own body and life reduces the woman to a means, a slave, a machine, a thing that produces babies for the benefit of others and not herself.
WENDY MISSAN, MILLBURN, N.J. To the Editor: It may be hard to believe, but there was actually a time when the Republican leadership thought that credible sexual misconduct allegations against their own were disqualifying.
In the case of the second senior White House official, Ms. Newbold told the committee that a specialist reviewing the clearance application wrote a 14-page memo detailing disqualifying concerns, including possible foreign influence.
Thad Cochran last year — does not seem to have anything as obviously disqualifying in her past as Moore, the Republican who lost in Alabama after he faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct involving minors.
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But his political spending on behalf of Republicans is also coming under attack from Democrats who say that his overlapping political goals with Republicans in Washington, and in particular with Mr. McConnell, are disqualifying.
Jeffress, the Dallas pastor, goes so far as to suggest that Moore's refusal to support Trump might be disqualifying, because the result of the election will likely decide the balance of the Supreme Court.
And under the 1870 statute, the service members argue, the appointment of these judges to this second office should have required them to forfeit their military status -- thereby disqualifying them from hearing their appeals.
Menendez said background information he and committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) had requested from the White House hasn't yet been provided and said the committee should have access to any potentially disqualifying information.
With regard to Mr. Issa, as you know, there is information in his FBI background investigation that concerns me greatly, and that I believe members may find problematic, and potentially disqualifying for Senate confirmation.
Whistleblower Tricia Newbold said senior officials granted clearances to another 25 people who were initially denied over a range of disqualifying reasons, although it's unclear how many of those cases Trump personally intervened in.
And if they're true, I think they're disqualifying," Flake told reporters on Monday, adding that he "made clear that if we didn't give her a chance to be heard, then I would vote no.
This kind of open contempt for both the substantive and procedural aspects of the American constitutional order ought to be completely disqualifying for office, even if Moore were otherwise running on smart policy ideas.
A few of his choices, including Steven Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross and Ben Carson, have been viewed skeptically by critics, who cite — among other things — a lack of government experience as disqualifying them for the job.
But Kellyanne Conway, president of Keep the Promise I, the pro-Cruz super PAC, said in a statement that supporting partial-birth abortion should be disqualifying even if a candidate changes his or her position.
"In the 2020 Democratic primary, support for legalization is mandatory and propping up the failed status quo of prohibition is outright disqualifying," Erik Altieri, executive director of the pro-legalization lobby NORML, told BuzzFeed News.
In America things have slipped so badly that a material conflict of interest is not considered a disqualifying condition, or even a relevant consideration, for someone to pronounce on antitrust policy and be taken seriously.
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It was downhill from there though, as Trump proceeded to engage in several bizarre and disqualifying statements that taken together, underscore just how fundamentally unfit he is to assume the role of Commander of Chief.
If that person then comes in and tries to get a license, the police chief could use that discretion to deny the application, even if expressing violent thoughts is not explicitly disqualifying under the law.
Failure to be candid before the body responsible for providing advice and consent on her nomination should itself be disqualifying for someone hoping to enjoy the privilege of a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary.
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Sen Marco Rubio, Florida: "Today's report in The Washington Post raises allegations against Mr. Moore that are deeply disturbing and, if true, disqualifying," he said in a statement Thursday, according to the Miami Herald. Sen.
Roberts had all the necessary qualifications: He was only 50 years old at the time, an excellent legal writer who hadn't drafted any disqualifying opinions, and a familiar face at Federalist Society debates and lectures.
Bob Menendez said Wednesday that a fellow Democrat who is running for Congress after admitting to abusing his ex-wife decades ago "probably should be" seen as having disqualifying behavior in the eyes of voters.
Russia's former antidoping lab director, Grigory Rodchenkov, who ran the Sochi lab, told The Times that he had surreptitiously substituted Mr. Zubkov's urine samples during the Olympics, to keep his steroid use from disqualifying him.
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More than 1,700 law professors felt compelled to tell senators that they should not confirm Judge Kavanaugh because he "displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying" for elevation to the Supreme Court.
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Critics of his nomination have hammered Sessions over accusations of racial bias, pointing to his failed nomination for a federal judgeship more than three decades ago as disqualifying for the nation's top law enforcement officer.
The 25 people in question initially saw their applications blocked for "a wide range of serious disqualifying issues," House Democrats wrote in a memo released Monday, including: Want the best from VICE News in your inbox?
"It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service," Romney said.
The left-wing Workers' Party (PT) alleges, groundlessly, that the TSE showed bias by disqualifying its first presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former president (because he is serving a jail sentence for corruption).
At least one constitutional expert said that given the nature of the allegations against Mr. Trump — that he abused his power to enlist foreign help in next year's election — disqualifying him would be an illogical penalty.
In accordance with the International Canoe Federation's anti-doping rules, Vincent Lapointe has been provisionally suspended pending the final outcome of her case disqualifying her from the world championships which begin on Wednesday in Szeged, Hungary.
When he landed, however, he came out of his kayak, the equivalent of a yellow card in the kayaking world — not necessarily disqualifying to his claim of a first descent, but also not perfect in execution.
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general found in a report released in August that millions of dollars were wasted by CBP polygraphing applicants who admitted to disqualifying crimes before even reaching the polygraph interview stage.
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In a series of columns, Brian Beutler has argued that her less-than-impregnable position can at least be partly attributed to the media, which has equated her comparatively banal controversies with Trump's numerous disqualifying flaws.
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When Pruitt implements this policy, he'll be disqualifying "the main body of science that EPA has historically used" to justify limiting air pollutants, said David Baron, the managing attorney for Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law organization.
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More Americans believe the woman who first publicly accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault than believe the judge's denials, and a majority say the claim would be disqualifying if true, according to a poll released Wednesday.
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Even in breaking with Trump this weekend, most congressional Republicans chose not to see his actions as disqualifying, and aimed instead to pressure him into making a better statement, so they could put Charlottesville behind them.
"According to Ms. Newbold, these individuals had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct," the memo outlining Newbold's allegations states.
What is significant is that Omar's defenders don't consider her prejudices about Jews as particularly disqualifying, morally or politically, at least not when weighed against the things they like about her (and hate about her enemies).
That photo — the unconscious woman, the leering grin — is a weight Democrats shouldn't have to carry, given that they've lately been insisting that it's disqualifying for a candidate to grab a woman sexually against her will.
He tried to offer a history lesson Monday to argue that legal immigrants from poor parts of the world aren't being targeted by the new rules disqualifying them from green cards if they seek public assistance.
The Republican lurch away from economic issues amounts to a bet on the politics of Trump-style cultural division as a means of driving up conservative turnout and disqualifying some Democratic candidates among more moderate voters.
In either case, for a 77-year-old Democratic frontrunner for president to blithely suggest that he might put a Republican a heartbeat away from the Oval Office is disheartening at best -- and disqualifying at worst.
"Under these codes, members committed to disqualifying themselves from involvement in matters which may directly pose a financial conflict of interest or from matters in which they engaged in regulated lobbying activities," the GAO report says.
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Both groups faced harsh criticism from the left for holding back while Republican groups pounded Mr. Quist early in the race, driving up his personal unpopularity and effectively disqualifying him in the eyes of many voters.
Hunter Biden earning $50,000 per month while his father was vice-president is certainly unseemly, but if it is disqualifying for a politician's children to trade on his name, Mr Trump should look closer to home.
McConnell faces pressure to bring Senate back for gun legislation Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE (R-Tenn.) said Monday that because Puzder "voluntarily corrected" his mistake, the revelation is not disqualifying.
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But her foray into politics looked to be short-lived after the public opposition from King Vajiralongkorn, which is likely to lead to the Election Commission disqualifying her or the princess dropping out of the race.
Prior to that change, it may have been possible for a driver whose record was clean when signing up for the platform to have been charged with a disqualifying crime without Uber's knowledge and remain a driver.
In a saner country -- a saner political environment -- answers like the one DeVos gave in refusing to say that schools may be an appropriate place to draw the line on the "guns everywhere" position would be disqualifying.
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When the firings of Creamer and Foval rolled in, the narrative was changed to the tapes "being edited," implying somehow editing isn't a standard practice in newsrooms across the country and therefore is disqualifying as real journalism.
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There were anxious moments at the conclusion of a typically wild and woolly relay as officials reviewed a race filled with crashes and near wipeouts before disqualifying Canada and China to elevate Italy to the silver medal.
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Survey the landscape, and you'll find a robust bloc of youngish jazz musicians conversant in precisely the brand of fusion that Mr. Hancock helped establish, and secure in the knowledge that it isn't in any way disqualifying.
"While we were in harm's way, she was protesting our troops in a pink tutu," McSally, an Air Force veteran, said, calling Sinema's opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "disqualifying" factors for her Senate candidacy.
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At the same time, this constant stream of new information means that drivers whose background checks had blocked them from driving from Uber can become eligible to reapply if their charges or other disqualifying information gets resolved.
The recording that surfaced 13 days ago, and the parade of accusers, have damaged Mr. Trump with voters like no other episode in his 16-month campaign, which has been full of seemingly disqualifying gaffes and statements.
But such poor self-control and contempt for the Senate should be disqualifying for service on the federal appeals court where Judge Kavanaugh now sits, let alone a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.
The temporary expansion aimed to include more borrowers and offer some who had been denied loan forgiveness simply because they had been repaying their debt in a disqualifying plan a second chance at having their debt canceled.
The remedy requested in the suit is a reversal of the decision disqualifying Maximum Security and reinstatement of the original order of finish confirming that Maximum Security is the official winner of the Derby and remains undefeated.
She also told the committee that she had compiled a list of at least 25 individuals, including contractors and senior advisers, who had a "wide range" of disqualifying information, including drug use, financial problems and criminal conduct.
He had been buttonholing Republican colleagues, trying to persuade them that racially charged college writings by Ryan W. Bounds, a federal appeals court nominee from Mr. Wyden's home state, were disqualifying and that he should be rejected.
He voted for Trump's first Supreme Court selection, Neil Gorsuch, and has signaled he's open to supporting Brett Kavanaugh, saying Wednesday he has not seen anything disqualifying from the nominee during this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings.
Wade, that allegations of sexual misconduct from multiple women were disqualifying and that he lacked the judicial temperament to sit on the Supreme Court after he called those allegations part of an "orchestrated political hit" by Democrats.
The only thing decided by Kavanaugh's confirmation vote was that 50 senators believed the allegations of sexual assault leveled by Christine Blasey Ford against Kavanaugh were not disqualifying for him to be on the nation's highest court.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest ranking female politician in the country, said the allegations against Biden aren't "disqualifying" but added the former vice president needs to be more aware of how his actions make others feel.
The President, as he has sometimes remarked, seems to be able to get away with almost any conduct, that traditionally would have been seen as a disqualifying outrage, thanks to the impervious support of loyal political base.
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President Trump issued a proclamation Friday morning suspending "for a limited period" any immigrant who crosses the U.S. southern border illegally — disqualifying them from asylum due to the new rule established by Homeland Security and the Justice Department.
The saga of Markelle's hideous and profoundly ineffective shooting motion, not a problem when he was a prospect but fundamentally disqualifying when he took court as an NBA player, has been one of the strangest NBA stories imaginable.
"It should be disqualifying for any potential Democratic vice presidential candidate to be part of a lobbyist-driven effort to help banks dodge consumer protection standards and regulations designed to prevent banks from destroying our economy," Chamberlain said.
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The list of disqualifying events includes any felony conviction within the past 43 years, certain specified felony or misdemeanor convictions, violations of various securities law, and injunctions entered to enjoin a person from performing a securities-related function.
The list of disqualifying events includes any felony conviction within the past 10 years, certain specified felony or misdemeanor convictions, violations of various securities law, and injunctions entered to enjoin a person from performing a securities-related function.
As one of my partners said about corporate behavior that would be a disqualifying factor in owning a stock, "We know it when we see it," paraphrasing Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in his 1964 description of obscenity.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said on the floor.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) in the Senate race.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), echoing Sullivan's road metaphor.
Romney, who secured the GOP nomination for Utah's open Senate seat in a June primary, wrote in a post Friday on his campaign website that Americans must state unequivocally that racism is a disqualifying factor for public office.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) told him in response.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), only Kaine, Shaheen, Sen.
"They do have guidelines on what is disqualifying and what is qualifying and, in some cases, what can be waived and what cannot be waived," said Jim Dower, who formerly worked in both Selective Service and the military.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said during the hearing.
In repeated ads from the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC closely aligned with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Republicans have mentioned Mr. Delgado's rap career as a disqualifying factor in his run for Congress, citing inappropriate lyrics.
The demonstrations began in July after election officials barred opposition candidates from running for the Moscow city council, disqualifying their ballots because of what officials claimed were irregularities in the 5,000 signatures each had to gather to run.
Absent some major disqualifying revelation in the hearings, Republicans seem intent on quickly putting Judge Kavanaugh, who is currently a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, on the Supreme Court.
Palmieri wrote for Politico magazine how the qualities that are celebrated in male politicians are liabilities for women: Stories about intimidating male bosses are typically not presented as disqualifying, but as evidence of these men as formidable leaders.
"As soon as we learned that one employee failed to review applicants' noncriminal disqualifying information, we immediately terminated the employee, thoroughly reviewed every application potentially impacted, and implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again," Aaron Keller said.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) wrote in a Jan.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) for Senate in 2018.
Known as the Fair Chance Act, the measure is a top priority for criminal justice advocates, who say it will prevent federal agencies and contractors from automatically disqualifying ex-offenders from employment before they can even be interviewed.
VITTEL, France — The British rider Mark Cavendish has commended the "courage" of Tour de France jurors for disqualifying Peter Sagan, the world champion, for a horrific crash that took both of them out of the race on Tuesday.
After those sports officials disqualify anyone with a drug violation, a panel of at least five people — most of whom have yet to be named — will review each athlete's drug-testing history as well as potential disqualifying evidence.
She told Mr. Cummings's committee in March that Mr. Kline ignored "disqualifying issues" flagged by career employees in his office and granted security clearances to at least 25 people against the advisement of security officials in his office.
In an interview, Ilyse Hogue, president of the abortion rights organization Naral Pro-Choice America, said Mr. Biden's stance would be disqualifying for an endorsement during the primary, but she expressed hope that he would change his position.
As a result, his confirmation hearing has forced people on both sides of the aisle to grapple with racism: how it's defined, how it's measured, and how much — if any amount — is disqualifying for a person in power.
In a letter to Trump on Thursday, 28 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said Scalia for the last two decades has worked to undermine employees' legal protections, disqualifying him from heading the agency tasked with enforcing them.
These steps, though some are small-scale, all come from the populist handbook of disqualifying and intimidating opponents, building a political clientele and what Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt of Harvard University have called "capturing the referees" of democracy.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Vt.), was also signed by Sens.
It said that sex reassignment or genital reconstruction would be disqualifying factors unless a medical provider certified that a period of 18 months had passed since the most recent surgery, no complications persisted and additional surgeries are not required.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), Coast Guard Vice Commandant Adm.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) is also a co-sponsor.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said during the April hearing.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) siding with Republicans to support her.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) told The Hill this week.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Vt.), an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), another member of the committee.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) and ex-officio member Sen.
The lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services argues that state-contracted, taxpayer-funded child placement agencies unconstitutionally discriminate by categorically disqualifying same-sex couples from consideration for the programs based on the organizations' religious beliefs.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), supported him for the post.
Before then, Goodell stressed that the workings of the new helmet rule will be made clear to the players, and there will be further discussions on the standards to go from disqualifying a player to fines and possibly suspensions.
That's never been disqualifying data for the series, which began its 25th season on Wednesday night at City Center with this unusual entry, a revue made up of scenes and songs from shows that opened between 1957 and 1974.
"Given the current climate of safety oversight at the Federal Aviation Administration, I find this omission deeply concerning and potentially disqualifying," Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, said in written questions to Mr. Dickson that were made public last week.
NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts has said it plans to keep the information it receives confidential and emphasized that saying "yes" might not be disqualifying, although operatives have expressed their skepticism about the likelihood of keeping such details under wraps.
Roof had been arrested on a drug charge, which wouldn't be disqualifying alone absent a conviction, but the NICS representative also had to check if the arrest records included proof that Roof had used or possessed a controlled substance.
They also argue that adding a list of disqualifying factors for immigrants, such as having poor credit scores, being over the age of 61, or having debt of any kind, would restrict their potential workforce both directly and indirectly.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), supported Pompeo to lead the CIA.
The only thing at issue was whether a very small group of senators believed that the allegations of sexual assault and inappropriate sexual conduct were disqualifying (or not) for someone seeking a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court.
One key passage in the articles of impeachment drafted by House Democrats and released on Tuesday, however, mentions disqualifying Trump from holding future office — a move that would require a second simple-majority vote in the Senate after impeachment.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) will be on the show.
"It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters," Romney said in a Facebook post about Trump, who became the likely Republican nominee when his rivals dropped out last week.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) voted against the single-payer amendment.
Following allegations against Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, Democratic U.S. Representative John Conyers and Democratic U.S. Senator Al Franken, campaign operatives from both parties warned that past behavior that might once have been excused may now be disqualifying.
If she can do all this — and previous speakers succeed in disqualifying Trump — polls are likely to bounce back in her favor once Democrats pack up in Philadelphia and head back home for the three-month stretch run to the election.
In a few cases, the parent has a criminal record that the government thinks is disqualifying; in some others, the Office of Refugee Resettlement has already released the child to a different sponsor (sponsors are usually relatives living in the US).
" In written follow-up questions sent to Dickson after his confirmation hearing in May, the Connecticut Democrat said, "Given the current climate of safety oversight at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), I find this omission deeply concerning and potentially disqualifying.
Some say all the media coverage of her managerial style is a sexist double standard — many men in Washington are tougher bosses and we never hear about it — while others believe that, gender issues aside, her angry outbursts are disqualifying.
The real problem — and a much more severe one — is that if credible accusations of sexual assault are disqualifying, then the fact that more than a dozen women have leveled credible accusations against Donald Trump disqualify him from the presidency.
In disqualifying Nawaz Sharif, the former leader of the PML-N, as prime minister for failing to live up to the injunction in Article 62 of the constitution that politicians be "honest" and "righteous", it set a potentially sweeping precedent.
Trump really will say anything — that you're a bastard imposter, secretly Canadian, guilty of disqualifying crimes, low-energy, little, lying, crooked; that he's 12-feet tall, the smartest human ever tested, worth a zillion dollars, doesn't need sleep — whatever it takes.
International consensus guidelines say that active tobacco smoking or smoking within the previous six months should be a disqualifying factor for a patient who needs a heart or lung transplant, and strongly recommend quitting before a kidney or liver transplant.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), voted with all present Republicans to back Perry.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), when asked about the White House's comment.
Another reason is that the prevalence of using pirated versions of previous editions of Windows (thereby disqualifying oneself from Microsoft's free security upgrades) is much less in the United States than it is in China, Russia, and so many other countries.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) voted to move forward with Tillerson's nomination.
He specifically cited Trump's false claim that he opposed going to war in Iraq, in what seems to be a subtweet of NBC's Matt Lauer: Donald Trump says stuff every day that used to be considered as disqualifying for being president.
D.) and Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) on the Senate floor.
But, even if true, they should not be disqualifying and should not be compared to the horrific crimes during World War II. First, the easy and frequent comparison of the CIA's actions with that of Hitler and the Nazis is inappropriate.
Talking to the audience about her first-hand encounters with gender bias, Clinton advised the young leaders to "be part of the changing culture, so it's not viewed as disqualifying if you're standing up for yourself and speaking up for yourself."
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said if the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel it will be "disqualifying itself to pay any role in any initiative towards achieving a just and lasting peace" between Israelis and Palestinians.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) joined all Republicans in backing Trump's nominee. Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) working with Murray on the Democratic side.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, has not endorsed Clinton.
The DCCC also said that Moser, a journalist and activist backed by major progressive groups, is disqualifying as a general election candidate based on concerns about her residency and allegations that her husband's company is unfairly benefiting from her campaign.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who introduced the bill with Sens.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) run as Democrats in the future.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), in the Senate basement after Thursday's vote.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who is on the Senate Intelligence panel.
Any such lawsuit — which in all likelihood would be shot down by the courts on First Amendment grounds — is likely to help further unravel the candidacy of a man who is, among other disqualifying flaws, an enemy of a free press.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said in an interview with NPR.
Like many here, he was galvanized by the massacre at Mother Emanuel and has made a legislative crusade of closing the " Charleston Loophole" that allowed Dylann Roof to buy a gun legally despite a criminal conviction that should have been disqualifying.
Yes, these answers are bad, but they come across to me as those of someone who didn't bother to study before the big test — concerning, but not disqualifying — rather than someone who lacks the necessary intelligence or curiosity to ever learn.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) has yet to endorse anyone, as well.
Hallam is one of a handful of candidates around the country who are running for local office despite having criminal records or a history of drug use—features that might have been disqualifying as recently as a few years ago.
With less than 25 percent of eligible young people able to enlist due to obesity, drug use, criminal histories, or other disqualifying factors — and even fewer interested in serving — we must start looking at family satisfaction as a national security concern.
In Chicago, where police data shows African-Americans are stopped by the police far more often than whites, disqualifying applicants for minor or youthful offenses can exclude minority candidates at a time when the department is desperate to attract them.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE SUGGESTS MAYBE COMEY COULD LEAD SENATE INVESTIGATION: Sen.
Gowdy, in his letters, specifically asked for "the date on which any White House employee became aware of potential derogatory or disqualifying information on Porter from the date of his appointment to February 12, 2018, and which individual was notified."
"My age shouldn't be my qualifying or disqualifying factor, that I really got the skill set and the ambition to take on this and I hope to do good for this community," Simons, a lifelong resident of the city, told KEZI.
In a statement on Wednesday night, Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said that "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying," and he urged his colleagues to vote against her.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) supported Pompeo to be CIA director. Sens.
Yet for some reason, cheerleading this absolute human catastrophe is barely challenged by the media while one meeting that Tulsi had with Assad is apparently disqualifying and something she must answer for in literally every, single media appearance and every debate.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) joining Republicans in voting for him.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), calling on Republicans to work across the aisle.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, won her seat.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), meanwhile, pointed to the First Amendment.
A Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson said the recent uptick in people losing DACA protection was not caused by any Trump edict but rather was the result of the agency receiving "more timely and detailed narratives of where and when disqualifying infractions" occurred.
Elsewhere, recent successful efforts have been made to transplant organs from people with once-disqualifying medical conditions like hepatitis C (now often curable with proper medication), as well as to transplant organs from one HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient.[NEJM]
"It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service," said Romney, long a vociferous critic of Trump's.
In 2015, a report published by the inspector general stated: TSA [Transportation Security Administration] lacked effective controls to ensure that aviation workers did not have disqualifying criminal histories and that they possessed lawful status and the authorization to work in the United States.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) said "reluctantly" that impeachment could be on the table.
The agency said that removing an applicant for a failed polygraph exam is oftentimes done more quickly than removing them for admitting to disqualifying activity because in the latter case the applicant is first allowed due process, which can extend for weeks.
Those who seek to govern, prepare to govern and hold public office must operate openly and honestly, and an unwillingness or some genetic inability to do so should sound alarms to the electorate in the future, making such lapses disqualifying in an election.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, said Tuesday on NPR.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) — who went on record as voting no. Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) — King caucuses with Democrats in the Senate. Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) said he'd "regretted it ever since" joining calls for resignation.
"It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service," the 2012 Republican presidential nominee wrote on Facebook.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), supported Pompeo to be CIA director last year.
This experience, in and of itself, is not disqualifying, but it is telling that in important cases that concern hotly contested policy and political issues, Judge Kavanaugh consistently favors extreme conservative positions that reflect his political background and project a partisan agenda.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) if Trump's statement at that news conference was accurate.
"I have not seen anything that is disqualifying, but I have seen a number of issues that raise questions that I need to explore with him and that's what I'll do tomorrow," Collins added regarding her review of Kavanaugh's extensive paper trail.
So the idea that in this particular instance they would not ask those questions makes it that much more unusual and obviously in the normal part of the process, somebody's alcohol abuse could be a disqualifying aspect of the derogatory information dug up.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) asked Mattis during a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — which enforces federal laws against employment discrimination — issued national guidance in 2012 warning employers they could be liable for discrimination lawsuits if they're disqualifying disparately large numbers of minority candidates for employment based on criminal background checks.
There are a dozen or more details from Thursday and beforehand that show his willingness to massage the facts however necessary to get this court seat that he wants too badly and that he would assume and inhabit with a vengefulness that's disqualifying.
The emerging timeline illustrates the degree to which Mr. Porter, a clean-cut and ambitious former Rhodes scholar and Harvard Law School-educated lawyer, concealed troublesome episodes from his past that would normally be considered disqualifying for a senior White House aide.
But the court would almost certainly be asked to intervene, forcing its unelected judges to choose between disqualifying an elected leader from taking power or allowing a leader who is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust to form a new government.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said on CNN in response to the strike.
"It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service," the 2012 Republican presidential nominee wrote on Facebook.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats, shared in on Instagram.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) on why Florida was exempt and Maine was not.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) joining all but one Republican to support the nominee. Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) — all up for reelection in 2018 — didn't sign the letter.
James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) wrote to Trump.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said during a press conference ahead of the vote.
Experience told them that Mr. Trump's misstatements, flaws and gaffes would prove disqualifying, which at times led them to present their journalism with a knowingness that only served to convince a large subset of voters that reporters, at best, didn't get them.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) that exposed our vulnerabilities with regard to cyberattacks.
It is too early to tell whether the drama represents a true emerging threat to Biden's potential campaign in the post #MeToo era or will end up as a non-disqualifying detail in the record of a colorful and sometimes controversial political figure.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) also expressed concern over a calendar-based drawdown.
Just as states that failed to lower the threshold for drunk driving risked losing federal highway funds, states that fail to reform their laws to facilitate the submission of disqualifying records to NICS should be ineligible for Department of Justice grant funds.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), joined all but one Republican to support the confirmation.
Yet another lingering mystery is this: while Kelley was able to purchase guns through NICS without a hitch, he was denied a permit to carry a firearm in Texas, raising questions about why the state had disqualifying information the federal government did not.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE a 'yes' on vote to reopen government 12:09 p.m. Sen.
Yet the puzzle remains of how Sanders is running so strongly for a major-party nomination in the United States when he has willingly associated himself with a word—"socialist"—that not long ago was considered disqualifying, the stuff of loyalty hearings.
"We are going to get that information, and make it available so people can see whether — I don't know this to be the case, but whether there is information there that would have been publicly disqualifying for the appointment, or not," he said.
The bill also would authorize an immigration judge to grant relief to an ineligible alien if ineligibility is due to a disqualifying criminal conviction and relief is warranted for humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, or is otherwise in the public interest.
"Convictions for such misdemeanor offenses should be disqualifying because these offenses inherently undermine public safety or government integrity," according to a draft of the rule signed by Attorney General William P. Barr and the acting secretary of homeland security, Chad F. Wolf.
If Kavanaugh's statement had shown that he had reformed, or that he had taught his children to be better, or, at the very least, that he now understands the severity of these alleged actions, perhaps the accusations wouldn't be so clearly disqualifying.
There is nothing legally disqualifying her from running in a district in which she does not live—the Constitution requires only that candidates live in the same state—but the voters argue an incorrect filing with false information should see her taken off the ballot.
The government has said it will conduct the reunifications at six to eight ICE locations, with officials vetting parents using its own summaries to look for disqualifying criminal history and HHS records for anything that raises questions about parentage, parental fitness, or child safety.
On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez even got in on the meme herself, deciding to boogie into her new office in the Capitol Building to Edwin Starr's "War": "It is unsurprising to me that Republicans would think having fun should be disqualifying or illegal," she told Beavers.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I), has drawn speculation about a potential 2018 gubernatorial run for years.
Va.) and Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) were the only non-Republicans to approve his nomination.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), were the only senators to break rank and vote with Republicans.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) and all of the Republicans in voting for Zinke: Sens.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) King is an Independent who caucuses and usually votes with Democrats.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) when asked about the White House's comments on the investigation.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I) of the Senate Intelligence Committee will appear on Fox News and NBC.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), a member of the Armed Services Committee, told The Hill.
This assault on public protections has also included stacking EPA's expert advisory boards with industry representatives and a companion rule that would rig EPA's use of science by arbitrarily disqualifying important scientific studies that have found evidence of harms from common pollutants and chemicals.
We see that same dynamic at work here: In this distorted calculation, even the most high-achieving women in Congress haven't adequately proven that they're good enough for the job, or they've made minor missteps that are magnified and twisted into looking like disqualifying errors.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) registered to begin fostering kittens in the next few weeks.
Sen. Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) announced Friday that he has begun treatment for prostate cancer.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) says in a New York Times story that also quotes Sen.
A chorus of prominent Republicans has said the same thing, including the former presidential candidate Mitt Romney — "It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters" — and Fred Goldberg, a former Internal Revenue Service commissioner.
The government has struggled to keep pace with the influx of Afghan and Iraqi applications for special visas and changes to the eligibility rules made by lawmakers, mistakenly disqualifying some applicants and trapping others in a holding pattern that lasts months or even years.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, said during the Senate's all-night session.
It resolves claims that Target, which has performed background checks for employment in U.S. stores since 2001, "imported the racial and ethnic disparities" in U.S. criminal justice system into its hiring, in part by disqualifying job applicants for convictions unrelated to the work they sought.
A prospective gun buyer's name is run through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to make sure they don't have something disqualifying in their history, like a previous felony conviction, a documented history of drug use, or involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital.
She is spurred by her conviction that she lost because her opponent, Brian Kemp, who oversaw elections as secretary of state, took actions that are now being challenged in lawsuits: purging voting rolls, disqualifying voters whose names varied across state databases, and closing polling places.
Federal law requires licensed firearm dealers to run a prospective buyer's name through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to make sure they don't have something disqualifying in their history, such as a previous felony conviction or a record of illegal drug use.
Senator Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (UVa law school, class of 9003) is BY FAR the best litigator.
For the Journal, the Electoral College offers a modicum of protection, allowing electors to go against the results of a general election but suggesting that they do so only under "extraordinary circumstances," such as the post-election discovery of something disqualifying about a president-elect.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who supported Pompeo's nomination last year to be CIA director.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine) applauded when Trump touted Gorsuch during his address to Congress last week.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), voted against a recent single-payer amendment offered by GOP Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I) after initially ruling out entering the race, CNN reported on Thursday.
Sen. Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) is lobbying for a new emoji to represent lobsters.
The right thing to do within reason, again, outside of those disqualifying issues is to acknowledge that in the way it works in the world and life and in democracies is that we don&apost agree with everybody on everything and that&aposs okay.
But Whitaker isn't coming into the job an impartial observer — in fact, he has a number of potentially disqualifying statements that had some political analysts writing him off as a viable option to oversee the Mueller probe, back when Sessions' ouster was still a hypothetical.
For the two current senior White House officials, the disqualifying factors that came up in the background checks included potential foreign influence, outside activities (defined as "employment outside or businesses external" to their job in the White House), and — in the case of one official — personal conduct.
Pelosi said unequivocally she doesn't believe the country should go through an impeachment process in a new interview with the Washington Post Magazine's Joe Heim, saying Trump is "just not worth it" except in the case of bombshell revelations that both parties can agree are disqualifying.
If it receives a notification about a new violation by a driver, Uber says it will investigate and verify any potentially disqualifying information from public records, such as a new and pending charge for a DUI, to ensure the driver is still eligible to use Uber.
"There are many problems (for Trump) ... the minorities, then you look at women and you look at millennials, all those are disqualifying for winning the presidency," Hart told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
By contrast, the extensive Republican bench combined with Donald Trump's apparent total lack of concern about normally disqualifying candidate baggage means there is a huge number of nationally notable candidates he could pick: Newt Gingrich, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, or even Marco Rubio.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who proposed many of these steps to the President ahead of the White House announcement, also sent letters to all 50 state governors asking for cooperation in updating background check databases with the most recent criminal histories and disqualifying mental health information.
"Clinton knows the actions she has taken are disqualifying for someone wishing to become Commander-in-Chief, and that is why today's painful, pretzel-like response to a simple question about her illegal server was obvious to everyone watching," said Trump spokesman Jason Miller in a statement.
During a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on Tuesday, President Obama sharply criticized the media's recent coverage of Donald Trump, saying journalists were creating false equivalence between Trump and Clinton while failing to hold Trump to task for various "disqualifying" statements he has made.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, has yet to publicly state their positions.
So the thoroughly unlikable Texan, who has proved he will do or say nearly anything to win, has been raising weak ballot challenges aimed at disqualifying Mr. Kasich from various state contests, and fanning rumors that Mr. Kasich is angling to be a Trump vice president.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) told CNN's Anderson Cooper that the meeting was scheduled for next week.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), announced last week that he would run as a Democratic Socialist. Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, also came out as a "yes" vote on Wednesday.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), arguing that money that comes from the land should stay with the land.
M.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) voted in favor of his confirmation.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), joined with Republicans to vote against a single-payer amendment from GOP Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE's (I-Maine) proposal to boost cybersecurity by using fewer computerized components in the energy grid.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats, who voted to confirm Pompeo as CIA director.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) agreed that the cuts were based on assumptions that no longer hold true.
But in the case of the efforts by Louisiana and Kansas to "defund" Planned Parenthood — shorthand for disqualifying a health care provider from reimbursement eligibility under a state-administered Medicaid program for low-income individuals — the court's three most conservative justices did us a great favor.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) to support the president's nominee to succeed Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonState Dept.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), told The Hill they're interested in whatever the FBI is able to offer.
House Republicans on both the Intelligence and Judiciary committees devoted almost all of their energy to discrediting the charges against Trump and disqualifying the witnesses who testified against him, rather than seeking to elicit information from those witnesses about how the pressure campaign against Ukraine folded.
His legal team has applied for cancellation of removal, which is available to individuals who have been in the United States for more than 10 years, have American citizen family members who rely on them, are of good moral character and have no disqualifying criminal convictions.
A debate over whether Joe Biden is a throwback in an acceptable way — or a disqualifying one — has erupted on the internet after two women said they were bothered by how he touched them at political events, a well-documented habit of the former vice president.
"Obviously, if Judge Kavanaugh has lied about what happened, that would be disqualifying," Republican Senator Susan Collins told reporters before Grassley's announcement, adding she would like the chance to observe Ford, the California university professor who made the allegation, to decide the credibility of her account.
READ: Republicans say Kavanaugh backlash is actually helping them, but the facts are more complicated A day earlier, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a lifelong Republican, took the unprecedented step of revoking his backing for Kavanaugh, saying his heated performance at the hearing was disqualifying.
"Today's bombshell from ABC News about big Clinton Foundation donors profiting off the suffering of Haitian earthquake victims thanks to Hillary Clinton's State Department is disgusting, disturbing and completely disqualifying," Jason Miller, the senior communications advisor for the Republican presidential nominee's campaign, said in the statement.
Not everyone involved is driven by tribal resentment, not every Trump voter indulges in misogyny or racism, but every member of the current conservative coalition has decided that those things are acceptable, or at the very least, not disqualifying — less important than lower taxes or immigration crackdowns.
Greek riot police officers forcibly removed groups of Afghan protesters from train tracks at a migrant camp in Idomeni, Greece, a crossing point to Macedonia and a gateway toward Northern Europe, after Macedonia abruptly announced that Afghans would be classified as economic migrants, disqualifying them from political asylum.
"This will surely be litigated as an exercise of administrative discretion plainly at odds with the intention of Congress in providing a broad basis for asylum seekers, and disqualifying only those who are actual threats," Pratheepan Gulasekaram, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, told BuzzFeed News.
This is despite her taking over controversial issues from Leung government, aside from disqualifying opposition legislators, others include the high-speed rail connecting Hong Kong and Mainland China, the boiling discussion of legislating the national security law Article 23 and strong calls from democracy advocates for universal suffrage.
Though I don't ascribe all positions of a politician to his or her supporters, I do not understand how one continues to support someone who brags about sexual assault, calls for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the US, or any number or other disqualifying statements.
By the same token, some of his supporters surely aren't racists, but don't view his racism as disqualifying, or have decided to accept it reluctantly, because existing political and economic arrangements haven't worked out well for them, and they believe (wrongly, I'd argue) that he might improve things.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) that would establish a pilot program to identify security vulnerabilities in the energy sector.
Washington (CNN)Customs and Border Protection spent millions of taxpayer dollars in recent years on polygraph exams for job applicants who admitted to disqualifying criminal acts or drug use on their applications or pre-polygraph interviews, according to a review by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) sent a letter asking the federal agencies to make sure the regulation treats farmers properly.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) pressed Hicks on whether there should always be a paper backup to determine accurate counts.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) pressed Hicks on whether there should always be a paper backup to determine accurate counts.
The bill also would have corrected licensing abuses which hit the neediest segments of society: it prohibited boards from denying a license to someone merely because they have unpaid taxes or student loans, and it prohibited boards from automatically disqualifying someone from licensure based only on their criminal record.
Hickenlooper expected to end presidential bid on Thursday MORE (D-Colo.) and Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), the report said.
Yet, if they are true, they are not only disqualifying for Judge Kavanaugh to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court, but they should result in criminal prosecutions of anyone and everyone who allegedly drugged young girls and subjected them to systematic gang rape on multiple occasions.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) to warn that such criticism from the president could have consequences for intelligence briefings.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, said he finds it "hard to believe" there's no list.
"Any one of Trump's less than sterling qualities — his erratic temperament, his dodgy business practices, his racism, his Putin-like strongman inclinations and faux-populist demagoguery, his contempt for the rule of law, his ignorance — is enough to be disqualifying," the editorial board of The Houston Chronicle wrote.
In May of 2000, President Donald Trump announced that his administration would institute a new rule disqualifying US family planning clinics from receiving federal funding under Title X if they provide abortion services or referrals to other abortion providers — even though no federal funding directly subsidizes abortion care itself.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said he supports examining the agency's methods, but warned that it performs a necessary function.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE, was arrested at a facility in McAllen, Texas, after being told he was not allowed inside.
James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said they had not seen the material that Rep.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) during his confirmation hearing last month, when Bernhardt said the administration listens to state's concerns.
Sen. Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) is raising warnings that the GOP's ObamaCare repeal bill will hammer his home state.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, voted for Pompeo, while six Democrats voted for Haspel.
Xi's speech was his strongest yet to the city amid concerns over what some perceive as increased meddling by Beijing, illustrated in recent years by the abduction by mainland agents of some Hong Kong booksellers and Beijing's efforts in disqualifying two pro-independence lawmakers elected to the city legislature.
The right thing to do within reason, again, outside of those disqualifying issues, is to acknowledge that in the way it works in the world and life and in democracies is that we don&apost agree with everybody on everything and that&aposs OK. It has to be.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) about a deal to authorize the cost-sharing subsidies in exchange for insurance market reforms.
Per the school's 2018 employment application, those who wish to teach at the school must affirm that they "will maintain a lifestyle based on biblical standards of moral conduct," and it includes LGBT sexual activity in the same category as child sexual abuse in its definition of disqualifying moral behavior.
"Disqualifying DACA recipients would be a burden on the overall health and well being of the US housing market," said Daisy Lopez-Cid 2018 NAHREP's president in a statement to BuzzFeed News, adding that Latinos have been responsible for 59% of homeownership growth in the US over the past five years.
In the final days of this campaign, we have returned to where we began, with an odd fixation on whether this man who aspires to the presidency can avoid saying anything ignorant, bigoted, inscrutable, or otherwise disqualifying for an hour or so at a time, once or twice a day.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) if he would urge President Trump to raise the debt ceiling if confirmed as OMB Director.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) commented on how McCain, a frequent critic of acquisition programs run amuck, would have handled the nominees.
But he noted that pundits once thought it unimaginable for a Republican to get elected on a promise to build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it; Medicare for All and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement perhaps should not be viewed as disqualifying for Democrats, either.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE, an independent from Maine who is opposed to Kavanaugh, said Trump's comments likely would drag on Kavanaugh's nomination.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said Bernhardt made it clear his and other senators' opposition to offshore drilling would be considered.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) in 2018 if then-candidate Donald Trump did not tap him to serve in his administration.
"A frontline of warfare in the 21st century is computer code," Senator Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said in a statement.
Va.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) voted with Republicans against the measure. Sen.
Many use BMI as a guideline for a donor's size, disqualifying anyone with a body mass index of 35 or higher (the NIH determines a BMI of 30 or higher to be obese, 40 or higher to be a sign of extreme obesity), while others spell out specific heights and weights.
Aggressive sexual behavior toward women, far from disqualifying a candidate for the highest offices in the land, demonstrates the kind of manhood that is felt to be a qualification for such positions (though no one with public power can say this out loud anymore — only "the base" can speak clearly).
In case you weren't around during the 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton coughed a lot during the late summer, and then passed out while trying to get into a van when she was trying to hide her pneumonia, and Trump fans like Mike Cernovich fixated on her health as a disqualifying issue.
WASHINGTON — A whistle-blower working inside the White House has told a House committee that senior Trump administration officials granted security clearances to at least 25 individuals whose applications had been denied by career employees for "disqualifying issues" that could put national security at risk, the committee's Democratic staff said Monday.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), voted for Pompeo -- who was expected to get bipartisan support despite concerns by privacy-minded Democrats. Sen.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) said Sunday on CNN that he believed it was appropriate for Congress to investigate the new information.
Earlier Monday, CNN reported that a White House staff member had told House investigators that senior officials have overruled concerns raised about 25 individuals whose security clearances were initially denied over a range of disqualifying issues, and warned of the grave implications to national security, according to a senior Democratic lawmaker.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine) mocked the Republican push to pass a tax-reform bill, saying it was worse than a circus.
In the absence of a single disqualifying revelation to focus on — the emails contained an enormous amount of material of interest, but in retrospect, less of obvious importance — the conversation around the emails became a battle over what they really were and the significance of how they came to be.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, said he supported closing the detention facility, but needed to review Obama's plan.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE's (I-Maine) proposal to boost cybersecurity by using fewer computerized components in the energy grid at 6900:2628 p.m.
"The blame here rests primarily with the referee and those that permitted him to continue in that role despite clear evidence of what should be a disqualifying race-related transgression," Speziali asserted, apparently referring to an incident two years ago in which Maloney, the referee, was accused of using a racial slur.
What I want to do here is take Schultz's account of our political problems seriously, and show that if Schultz believes his own diagnosis, he's flirting with a strategy that's likely to make everything he's worried about worse, and demonstrating a disqualifying level of confusion about how the American political system works.
What to watch: Even without a coup, the armed forces could try to prevent an anti-junta coalition from wielding power by using the judiciary, widely seen as allied with the army and the crown, to start disqualifying politicians on dubious charges, a tactic used in Thailand many times in the past.
The key rule (found in Title 28 of the U.S. Code) on disqualifying federal prosecutors bars them from participating in a criminal investigation if they have "a personal or political relationship" with someone involved in the conduct under investigation or with someone who will be directly affected by the outcome of the inquiry.
Angus KingAngus Stanley KingNew intel chief inherits host of challenges Senators ask for committee vote on 'red flag' bills after shootings Top Democrat: 'Disqualifying' if Trump intel pick padded his résumé MORE (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, has not said how he will vote on the filibuster or final confirmation.

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