It has turned many parts of the country into black holes, granting immunity to corrupt officials.
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"I think that the federal law granting immunity to gunmakers has become a hot button political issue," Winkler, the law professor, told me.
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Granting immunity to a witness requires a two-thirds vote of a congressional committee and is subject to a delay by the Justice Department.
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The norm granting immunity to ArcelorMittal has been contested by a magistrate in Taranto, and is currently awaiting a final ruling by the Constitutional Court.
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Some Republicans have argued that appointing a special prosecutor would complicate those ongoing investigations, especially when it comes to issuing subpoenas or granting immunity to witnesses.
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It contained a provision granting immunity to "any potential co-conspirators"; and it was made without informing Epstein's accusers, a violation of the Crime Victims' Rights Act.
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SCHWEIZER: If this reporting is accurate, and I have no reason to believe is not, it&aposs a little bit like granting immunity to Bonnie to get at Clyde.
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"Today's ruling is tantamount to granting immunity to those with power and authority in an organization to use it for sexual abuse," Ms. Bae told reporters outside the courthouse.
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Last week the Michigan Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 275, which seeks to amend the state's 1931 law granting immunity to undercover officers who have sex with sex workers.
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The S.E.C. has started to mimic the approach taken by the Justice Department by allowing deferred-prosecution agreements for cooperating companies and granting immunity to witnesses who can provide valuable information.
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At least one right-wing party expected to join his new governing coalition has been open about its goal of passing a law granting immunity to Israeli Parliament members, including prime ministers.
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Cornyn, the Senate's No. 6900 Republican, pressed Lynch on the Justice Department's role in granting immunity to Bryan Pagliano, a former Clinton aide who is believed to have set up her "homebrew" email server.
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In the DMCA, Congress offered a revolutionary solution to these problems – granting immunity to new, emerging platforms in exchange for reasonable enforcement efforts, including quickly taking down copyrighted materials they learned about and dealing with repeat offenders.
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The Goliaths possess a voting majority, but they don't know that the Davids have three separate advantages: A vote stealer, an idol (granting immunity to its wearer), and an "Idol Nullifier" that makes an opponent's idol useless.
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If, for example, the special counsel was deterred from indicting him only by the Justice Department's policy of granting immunity to a sitting president, Mr Mueller might be expected to inform Mr Barr of the charges he would otherwise have brought.
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The Obama administration issued guidelines designed to reassure banks that they would not be punished for serving legitimate marijuana businesses back in 2014, but the policies fell short of granting immunity to prosecution or civil penalties and the drug remains federally illegal.
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He also took the outrageous step of granting immunity to the police officer who should have been the object of the investigation — a clear indication that he had no interest in a thorough investigation and intended to exonerate the officer from the outset.
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But Mr. Dreeben also suggested that as long as the regulation continues to protect Mr. Mueller, the acting attorney general could not overrule the special counsel's decisions on routine actions within the Justice Department's discretion, like granting immunity to a witness, making a plea agreement or issuing an indictment.
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There are three requirements to showing such misconduct: that the government was discriminatory in granting immunity to favorable witnesses while denying it to those who will help the defendant to gain a tactical advantage, the testimony the witness would have given was helpful and important, and the information was not available from other sources.
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Must the Congress sit still in the face of the news swirling around the White House and forgo its right and duty to get to the bottom of what may be lurking, simply because granting immunity to someone who may have committed a crime but can point to higher ups (or the higher up) might enable that person to "walk" free after taking that immunity bath?
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The cabinet approved a law granting immunity to President Saleh. The action forwarded the law to the legislature for its approval.
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Gomez & Travaglio, Se li conosci li eviti, p. ? Similar provisions were included in the lodo Alfano Act (2008), granting immunity to the top four representatives of the State, including Berlusconi and the same Schifani as Speaker of the Senate. After being granted immunity Schifani has sued his critics Travaglio and Tabucchi for slander, allegedly claiming 1.3 million from Tabucchi as the author declared in the transmission Annozero on 5 February 2009. The lodo Alfano was declared anti-constitutional in October 2009 as well.
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Schifani and Antonio Maccanico, senator of the centre left L’Ulivo (Olive Tree) political coalition, gave their name to a bill aimed at granting immunity to the top five representatives of the State, including Silvio Berlusconi (although the other four were not facing trial). After extensive revisions of the text of the law by the Senate, Maccanico withdraw his name from the project. The lodo Schifani decree was then approved in June 2003 by the Italian parliament guaranteeing immunity to Silvio Berlusconi. The law was subsequently declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court on 13 January 2004.
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According to Livy, Valerius brought forward a proposal granting immunity to all who had taken part in the secession during an assembly of the people at the Peteline Grove. A Lex Sacrata ("sacred law") that no one should be struck from the military list against his will was also passed, and furthermore a law that no one who had been military tribune could afterwards be centurion, this law was made due to one Publius Salonius,Otherwise unknown, Oakley(1998), p. 385 who had every year been either military tribune or first centurion, and that the cavalry should have their pay reduced for having acted against the mutineers.Livy, vii.
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The National Transitional Council adopted laws in early May 2012 granting immunity to former rebel fighters for acts committed during the civil war, confiscating all former regime assets, criminalising "praising or glorifying" Muammar Gaddafi or his regime, and barring criticism of the revolution or the authority of the Libyan government. It also decreed that detained fighters must be charged and tried by 12 July 2012 or else released. It was not immediately clear whether the laws would govern the transitional period only or would else be permanent. Law 37, which prohibits criticism of the revolution and publication of "propaganda", including vocal support for Gaddafi's family or the ideas of the Green Book, is reportedly based on provisions of the Gaddafi-era penal code banning criticism of the 1969 coup that brought Gaddafi to power.
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Such misdeeds have not tarnished the record of Free India and I have a diamond-bright, diamond-hard hope that such things will never come to pass." The Commission of Enquiry led by Justice J C Shah later documented how the 'diamond-bright, diamond-hard hope' was belied by setting out a plethora of facts on the arbitrary killings, atrocities and other executive excesses committed under the cover of emergency. H.M. Seervai, said: "The press was muzzled, and so were the legislatures, for the Acts granting immunity to fair reports of legislative proceedings were repealed, and those proceedings could not be reported. Judicial proceedings could not be reported; public meetings could not be held without the permission of the police which was given to "the cringing and the craven" and refused to sober and responsible men; a servile radio and television worked under government orders.
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United Nations Security Council resolution 1423, adopted unanimously on 12 July 2002, after recalling resolutions 1031 (1995), 1035 (1995), 1088 (1996), 1103 (1997), 1107 (1997), 1144 (1997), 1168 (1998), 1174 (1998), 1184 (1998), 1247 (1999), 1305 (2000), 1357 (2001) and 1396 (2002), the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) for a period until on 31 December 2002 and authorised states participating in the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) to continue to do so for a further twelve months. The adoption of the resolution was delayed due to a veto from the United States concerning immunity for its peacekeepers from the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose Statute entered into force on 1 July 2002. The current resolution was approved following the adoption of Resolution 1422 (2002) granting immunity to nationals of countries who were not party to the ICC Statute.
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In 1899, a group of Chinese nationals known as Boxers, rebelled against the Qing Empire in an attempt to expel all foreign influences in China. The uprising, later came to known as the Boxer Rebellion, began as an anti-foreign, anti- colonial, peasant-based movement in northern China, in response to foreign westerners seizing land from locals, concession grabbing, and granting immunity to criminals who converted to Catholicism. The insurgents attacked foreigners, who were building railroads and violating Feng shui, and Christians, who were held responsible for the foreign domination of China. In the summer of 1900, a coalition called the Eight-Nation Alliance comprising Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the United States sent troops to quell the rebellion and forced the Qing government to sign the Boxer Protocol, which required the Qing government to pay 450 million taels of fine silver as indemnity over a course of 39 years to the eight nations involved.
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In the third film, Leo Barnes is now the chief of security for lawyer-turned-senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) in Washington D.C., who runs for the presidency with aims to end the Purge after her family was killed (during the events of the first film). Barnes is first seen during a presidential debate where Roan gains a standing ovation after rebutting her rival, NFFA candidate Minister Edwidge Owens, by stating how the Purge only serves to eliminate the poor and benefit the rich and powerful. On the day before the annual Purge, after the NFFA revokes the rule granting immunity to ranking 10 government officials, Leo urges Roan not to stay in her unsecured home instead of moving to a secure bunker, but Roan refuses. Leo revamps security and has the house re-secured with new barricades (James Sandin's security system) and surrounded by secret service agents and SWAT snipers standing watch outside; his partners, Chief Couper and Eric Busmalis; as well as three more secret service agents partly supervising the event from indoors.
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