I am by not any means indicting a whole race.
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Go deeper: Israeli police recommend indicting Netanyahu in bribery case
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Republicans likewise despise him for not indicting Clinton for anything.
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Mueller said publicly late last month that indicting Trump while in office was "not an option we could consider," citing an opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel against indicting a sitting president.
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He will not be indicting Donald Trump Jr. or Jared Kushner.
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But there's really not a good argument against indicting a president.
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He was still looking at me, indicting me with his gaze.
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The Justice Department has a policy against indicting a sitting president.
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There is no international tribunal indicting anyone for war crimes in Syria.
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By indicting these low-hanging fruits, he shows that he is trying.
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Roger Stone is an example; Mueller never interviewed Stone before indicting him.
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U.S. prosecutors have challenged this by indicting VW's former CEO Martin Winterkorn.
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Police have recommended indicting Netanyahu on corruption charges in two other cases.
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Sharif said there was no precedent for indicting someone in his absence.
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That team says it will be indicting the Samsung Group chief before then.
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Police have already recommended indicting Netanyahu on corruption charges in two other cases.
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Obviously, they&aposre indicting these 173 Russians for meddling in the 2016 election.
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Police have also recommended indicting Netanyahu on corruption charges in two other cases.
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U.S. prosecutors have challenged this by indicting VW's former chief executive Martin Winterkorn.
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Police have previously recommended indicting Netanyahu on corruption charges in two other cases.
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Yet, throughout the book, Prince is never in a fury, indicting white people.
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The DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president is just that: a policy.
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Republicans tried to put Ford on trial, but they ended up indicting themselves.
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His position could be secured if parliament legislated against indicting a sitting prime minister.
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Mueller said that he didn't consider indicting Trump on obstruction because of Justice guidelines.
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This could include indicting Chinese hackers to declaring our ongoing commitment to defending Taiwan.
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The Justice Department could put pressure on other Volkswagen employees simply by indicting them.
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He winds up defeated, but not before indicting the town in its own tragedy.
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So I thought to myself, describe the feeling of pregnancy without actually indicting yourself.
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Trump has criticized the Justice Department for indicting Republican politicians during an election year.
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The offer never materialized, and Israel&aposs current attorney general recommended last fall indicting Mrs.
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Yes, he did conclude that existing department policy prevented him from indicting a sitting president.
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Yesterday, we did learn that the special counsel is no longer considering indicting the president.
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Regenvanu stood at a lectern wearing a green tie and glasses, indicting the global community.
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In 1997, the police recommended indicting Mr. Netanyahu on charges of trading votes for appointments.
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Indicting the chief executive would effectively eliminate a president's capability to faithfully execute the law.
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Let's put aside Trump, because Department of Justice policy counsels against indicting a sitting president.
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If police recommend indicting Netanyahu, then the attorney general must decide on whether to file charges.
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One audience member adroitly questioned this presumption, indicting art's special non-commodity status in the process.
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Especially if you have a grand jury in D.C. Indicting a Republican is not that hard.
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The government ended up indicting 14 officials and convicting 11 for their role in Iran-Contra.
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Abroad, the Sonderweg theory took on a punitive edge, indicting all of German history and culture.
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Some also argue that indicting the president would critically impair his ability to lead the country.
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But "Skintight" stops well short of exploring, let alone indicting, its characters' vapidity and historical amnesia.
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They are: the news conference in July at which he announced he was not indicting Mrs.
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During Netanyahu's first term in the late 1990s, police recommended indicting him in two separate cases.
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Trump SCOTUS team has looked at Kavanaugh's past comments on indicting a sitting president, we've confirmed.
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On that question, Mueller made clear that not indicting the president was based on the fact that his office was guided by the Justice Department's injunction against indicting a sitting president, a necessary clarification for a report that only 3 percent of Americans claim to have read.
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Frank, Washington: Can the Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting president be changed by Congress?
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" He warned that indicting a sitting president and putting him on trial would "cripple the federal government.
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That said, current Justice Department policy counsels against indicting a sitting President, likely rendering this option toothless.
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Despite his calls for changes in the health-care system, Dean wasn't indicting the entire pharma industry.
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Mr Trump can take comfort in the Justice Department policy, which warns against indicting a sitting president.
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Israeli authorities treated her actions as a criminal offense, indicting her on charges of assault and incitement.
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This standout from their polarizing fifth LP is no different, indicting media saturation and our pepertual insatiability.
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"They would be indicting every pharmacist in Beverly Hills if this were strictly enforced," Garofalo said Monday.
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Police have previously recommended indicting Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three different cases.
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The allegations have led to scrutiny about the Justice Department guidelines around indicting a sitting president. Sen.
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It would seem that the government is having trouble indicting public figures and making the charges stick.
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It seems quite possible that Mueller could end up indicting some of those in Trump's inner circle.
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There is simply no precedent for indicting a former secretary of State for carelessness, even extreme carelessness.
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Indicting a Russian troll farm or a dozen Russian intelligence officers for hacking won't do it, either.
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" He adds, "They can do a lot short of that, though — investigating the president, indicting underlings, etc.
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By hastily indicting groups of "others" as othering, you perpetuate the very phenomenon that you seek to condemn.
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We&aposre indicting people for financial fraud and other things that have nothing to do with the president.
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And, isn't that the same thing that Mueller's group ended up indicting a Russian IT outfit for doing?
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A grand jury ended up indicting Mr. Daleiden and Ms. Merritt, and taking no action against Planned Parenthood.
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Your report references the policy of the Justice Department office of legal counsel against indicting a sitting president.
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According to media reports, the White House has looked at the judge's views on indicting a sitting president.
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But a standing Justice Department policy forbids indicting the president, a rule Mueller cited explicitly in his report.
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He grew disillusioned with his work as a hype man and decided to write a self-indicting exposé.
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Justice Department policy advises against indicting a sitting president, and Mueller is the ultimate by-the-book guy.
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But ultimately -- given the current DOJ policy against indicting a sitting President -- Trump's fate will turn on politics.
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While DOJ policy counsels against indicting a sitting president, a president can be indicted once out of office.
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But the full, un-cropped still is even more indicting, showing seven additional officers who stood by watching.
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These courts laid new groundwork for prosecuting crimes against humanity, indicting hundreds of people and convicting more than 100.
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Mueller indicting Trump would have gone against standing DOJ policy that a president cannot be indicted while in office.
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By refusing to directly indict either Hill or Thomas, the film winds up indicting everything and everyone around them.
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It would not be easy for them to point to harm from the BAT without indicting their own practices.
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Ken Starr's office considered the possibility of indicting Bill Clinton in the late '90s, but ultimately decided against it.
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It's possible that he thought that indicting the president for an attempted crime wouldn't be tenable on its own.
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Smith was present at the creation, so to speak, of the Justice Department's policy on indicting a sitting president.
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Indicting Stone on collusion-related charges, on the other hand, would mark a sea change for the inquiry itself.
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Support for indicting a sitting president can be found in the Supreme Court's 1997 unanimous decision in Clinton v.
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A prosecutor might also test the limits of the pardon power by indicting Mr. Trump notwithstanding such an announcement.
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It became a way of indicting society even if you were powerless, a way of showing your untrammeled dignity.
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The US Attorney's office operates under the guidelines of the Justice Department, which advises against indicting a sitting president.
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And that conclusion was reached without regard to the Department's generally recognized policy of not indicting a sitting president.
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Per NBC News's Ken Dilanian, House Democrats suspect it was due to DOJ's policy against indicting a sitting president.
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The impeachment document will then be voted on and almost certainly approved by the House, essentially indicting the President.
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But since Justice Department policy bars indicting a sitting president, it is unclear whether the term "target" would apply.
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And she's been that way for most of her long, indicting career, which is now in its fourth decade.
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Yet even if the president has lied under oath, the Department of Justice's guidelines caution against indicting a sitting president.
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Mueller declined to indict President Trump for obstruction of justice because Department of Justice policy prohibits indicting a sitting president.
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And instead of simply becoming alienated from her mother, the protagonist gets tricked into indicting her as a terrorist figurehead.
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Although Department policy barred you from indicting the President for this conduct, you made clear that he is not exonerated.
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But the response of elected Republicans is in some ways more pernicious and self-indicting — they claim to know better.
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Mueller and the New York Southern District prosecutors are bound by a Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.
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It is absurd to suggest that a policy against indicting a president means you cannot report evidence of a crime.
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Otherwise, it looks less like Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski going after Attorney General John Mitchell but indicting Martha Mitchell.
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Ghost In The Shell extrapolated cyberpunk to the absolute limit, indicting our traditional ideas about the body and the self.
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First, he said he was prohibited by Justice Department policy and by the Constitution itself from indicting a sitting president.
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Ms. Gardner has been criticized for indicting Mr. Greitens without first obtaining the photo at the heart of the case.
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" Sarah Clancy, a poet, read "Cherish," one of her fierce poems, indicting "the ring kissers/who made it all possible.
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So as long as the country remains so politically polarized, I think we should not think of indicting a president.
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A Justice department policy dating back to the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s advises against indicting a sitting president.
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But the calculus may be different when those in charge of indicting the sandwich are the same ones making it.
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Joe, Massachusetts: What is the rationale for the Department of Justice counseling against indicting a sitting president for a crime?
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In April, Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly he would look at indicting Clinton if he took office in November.
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It never wavers from indicting assholes who misuse their power, even if their burning city is beautiful—it's still falling apart.
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But as Mueller states in the report, Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president put him in an awkward position.
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A grand jury indicting Manafort along with a long time associate on conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice charges.
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In all, it is exceedingly unlikely that legislation can or will change the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting President.
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With the investigations now over, there are two clocks ticking ... When will the attorney general make his decision on indicting Netanyahu?
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Perhaps Mr Mueller felt the decision was above his paygrade, given the Justice Department's policy of not indicting a sitting president.
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Obama himself brushed off the incident in a press conference last week, indicting that Trump's move in itself wasn't necessarily harmful.
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Earlier this month, agents raided businesses in Montana and Nebraska, indicting 17 business owners and mangers for fraud and money laundering.
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But the biggest constraint on indicting corporate criminals lies in the minds of the men and women of the Justice Department.
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In emphasizing that fact, Dubelier accused the government of indicting a "proverbial ham sandwich" in connection with the alleged interference plot.
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Mueller's caution ultimately led him to demur at indicting the president himself and, instead, the report kicked the can to Congress.
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Prosecutors took the rare step last year of indicting the entire family running Lotte on embezzlement, tax evasion and other charges.
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Expect zero-sum politics to reach new levels as the attorney general considers indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges.
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Prosecutors further undermined Ms. Park on Sunday by identifying her as a criminal accomplice while indicting Ms. Choi on extortion charges.
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"This is how we will drive international norms: by indicting people, not solely by negotiating treaties and adopting conventions," she said.
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The fact that Robert Mueller is convening a grand jury does not mean he is on the verge of indicting anyone.
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While Department of Justice policy counsels against indicting a sitting president, it is possible to indict a president after he leaves office.
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If you are indicting Russian nationals on Russian soil and Russian companies registered in Russia, that&aposs not going to lead anywhere.
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Second, she pledged to appoint an attorney general and assistant AG who would change current Justice Department policy around indicting sitting presidents.
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In one sense, it is a theoretical question whether to indict Trump because longstanding DOJ policy counsels against indicting a sitting President.
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Trump's lawyers argued that long-standing Justice Department guidelines against indicting a sitting president mean he's immune from federal and state investigations.
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He explained that because the department works for the president, indicting Donald Trump was "unconstitutional" and "not an option we could consider".
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I am not at all shy about indicting food industry elements for crimes against human health when I feel that is warranted.
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First said it is possible that the alleged co-conspirator testified against McClendon before the grand jury that ended up indicting him.
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Any finding that could arise against the President would have another hurdle -- a longstanding Justice Department stance against indicting a sitting president.
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The Justice Department's inhibitions against indicting a sitting president are very powerful, but extreme situations would surely be enough to overcome them.
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Civil libertarians have long expressed concern about indicting someone for the purpose of getting the individual to cooperate against the real target.
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He is not interested in exonerating them, but rather in indicting the world that makes love so difficult for them to attain.
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You were not limited in any way from indicting Donald Trump Jr. or the other individuals in that Trump Tower meeting, correct?
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Indicting dirty war by itself does not reach the core of our spiral — indeed, doing so may help it continue to spin.
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Prosecution isn't a game of horseshoes or hand grenades where prosecutors get to score points or inflict damage without indicting the target.
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The Obama administration countered the threat by indicting the Chinese military hackers leading the charge in 2014 and threatening sanctions in 2015.
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The known facts are too weak to support any federal prosecution, not to mention one as momentous as indicting a sitting president.
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The special counsel has brought more than 100 charges so far in the wide-reaching investigation, indicting 19 people and three companies.
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Mr. Mueller is likely to follow that guidance and submit a report to Congress instead of indicting the president for obstructing justice.
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The same goes for the United States Department of Justice indicting Russian military personnel for cyber intrusions that affected sports-doping watchdogs.
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These are his memories, and I'll bet he can't recall the sound of her voice, only the sting of her indicting gaze.
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A pair of opinions by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 1973 and 2000 concluded against indicting a sitting President.
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Kicking off what was billed as a "thank you" tour, Mr. Trump was incendiary and prideful, hopeful and indicting, vengeful and determined.
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Putin generously offered to help Robert Mueller investigate Russian meddling in the election, despite the fact that Mueller's investigation keeps indicting Russians.
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If he wins, the logic goes, indicting him and forcing him out would be a way of overturning the people's just-expressed will.
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Ted Lieu asked whether the Department of Justice's policy against indicting a sitting president was the reason Mueller decided not to indict Trump.
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Ted Lieu asked Mueller if the Office of Legal Counsel guidance against indicting a sitting president was the reason he didn't indict Trump.
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Mueller made no determination on whether Trump committed the crime of obstruction in light of a Justice Department ban against indicting sitting presidents.
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On May 5th the supreme court suspended Eduardo Cunha, the PMDB Speaker of the lower house, from Congress after indicting him for corruption.
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"It's abundantly clear, at least in my judgement, that they don't plan on indicting the president because they're seeking this interview," she added.
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Police have recommended indicting Mr Netanyahu before, in unrelated cases, only for previous attorneys-general to let him off with a public reprimand.
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And if so would he, Mr. Mueller, have sought to indict him except for the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president?
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The play bops from one shockaroo to the next, indicting religion, politics and the patriarchy, when it's not busy with the blood packs.
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At the time, Mr. Morgenthau had made a name for himself as a United States attorney by indicting more than 100 Mafia figures.
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All of which is to say there's a lot riding on whether the Israeli attorney general decides to go through with indicting Netanyahu.
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In the report, Mueller directly explained how those internal Justice Department rules against indicting a president had a major impact on his internal deliberations.
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By indicting Mesri, prosecutors have sent a message that even anonymous cybercriminals in countries as distant as Iran can be tracked down and unmasked.
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But the Russia report notes that the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC, has set a precedent against indicting a sitting president.
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Specifically, he asked if Trump could potentially be indicted after he leaves office, when OLC ruling on indicting sitting presidents no longer protects him.
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However, both are vocal Trump critics and have published writings outlining a case for impeaching or indicting the president for obstructing justice, CNN reports.
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Ted Lieu had asked Mueller if the Office of Legal Counsel guidance against indicting a sitting president was the reason he didn't indict Trump.
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Neither entirely vindicating nor wholly indicting, Comey's testimony instead just led to more questions for a President who has prepared himself for prolonged battle.
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Of course not; he has done a thorough, commendable job of identifying and indicting Russian agents behind the effort to interfere with our election.
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In the obstruction case, Mueller declined to make a "traditional prosecutorial judgment," citing Justice Department guidelines that bar prosecutors from indicting a sitting president.
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In his testimony Mueller, while noting that Justice Department regulations preclude indicting a sitting president, said a president can be indicted after leaving office.
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The second comment was a reference to Trump's recent tweet blaming the Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for indicting two Republicans, Reps.
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Legal scholars have opined on both sides of the issue, and Department of Justice attorneys have drafted memorandums arguing against indicting a sitting president.
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To hide behind departmental guidelines about indicting presidents based on a prior, entirely challengeable, opinion is a convenient way to avoid confronting a problem.
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Before indicting a state-owned Turkish bank, the Justice Department sought to negotiate a deal following calls by Turkey's president to the White House.
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So, as Americans wait to see if a shoe is about to drop in McCabe's case, the adage about indicting a sandwich is true.
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One answer can found in Philadelphia, where a newly-elected district attorney, Larry Krasner, is making sweeping reforms and exposing and indicting rogue cops.
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As Trump's Republican-primary opponents discovered, debating him successfully on security issues requires sidestepping his wild insults while indicting him with his own aggression.
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Ms. Boone made a point of defending its inspiration, Ms. Wintour, while indicting its author, Lauren Weisberger, a former Vogue employee, for being tacky.
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On a federal level, the dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency by President Trump and current EPA administrator Scott Pruitt couldn't be more indicting.
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Now prosecutors are moving forward with the case ... indicting the former middleweight champ on felony aggravated assault, felony terroristic threats and misdemeanor domestic battery.
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INGRAHAM: Why do you think Comey didn&apost tell Loretta Lynch about this July, very unusual, to say the least, press conference about not indicting?
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It's good to see [the Justice Department] push back on Putin's shadow war by publicly indicting his shadow warriors and bring his war to light.
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Mueller's position is that he didn't consider indicting Trump solely because of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) ruling saying sitting presidents can't be indicted.
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Justice Department practice cautions against indicting a sitting president, so the Russia affair poses little legal risk to Mr Trump while he is in office.
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Democrats grilled Kavanaugh on topics including the constitutionality of abortion, the possibility of indicting a sitting president and the limits of a president's pardon power.
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Yes. Mueller based his decision not to come to a prosecutorial conclusion on obstruction largely on the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.
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Congress will press Mueller about whether he would have charged Trump with obstruction if not for the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.
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Just before his confirmation as deputy attorney general, Rosenstein's Maryland office was involved in prosecuting and indicting seven Baltimore police officers on federal racketeering charges.
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The other structural problem that some find with the idea of indicting a sitting president is the Constitution's procedure for dealing with presidential crimes: impeachment.
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Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, told reporters earlier this year that Mueller's team had ruled out the possibility of indicting Trump while in office.
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This is because, he explained, as an employee of the Justice Department, he was required to follow the Department's policies against indicting a sitting president.
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Mueller said he could not indict Trump because of guidance from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that prohibits indicting a sitting president.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided businesses in Montana and Nebraska on Wednesday, indicting 85033 business owners and mangers for fraud and money laundering.
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Trump's legal team has argued that the Constitution prohibits a district attorney from criminally investigating, prosecuting or indicting the President while he is in office.
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This sad reality has been used to paint Mr. Sanders as a utopian instead of indicting the partisan paralysis that maintains the political status quo.
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In indicting Mr. Assange for obtaining, accepting and disseminating classified materials, the Department of Justice opened a new front in its campaign against illegal leaks.
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Rather, it's believed that special counsel Robert Mueller is indicting Manafort to put more pressure on him to spill information about others in the investigation.
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In August, Israeli police recommended indicting Israel's deputy health minister on suspicion he tried to pressure court-appointed psychiatrists to support Leifer's mental illness claims.
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First, given existing Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting president, there is only one entity capable of taking action against presidential misconduct -- Congress.
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His mandate now over, Mr. Park said he was leaving the task of indicting Ms. Park once she is out of office to state prosecutors.
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The Justice Department's established policy against indicting a sitting president was not part of the decision not to charge him, according to Barr and Mueller.
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Even by his standards, President Trump has been on a Twitter rampage since special counsel Robert Mueller started indicting Russians for election interference last Friday.
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Mueller's public statement earlier Wednesday, however, presented a stark contrast to the attorney general regarding the significance of the Justice Department guidelines against indicting a president.
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In March, after indicting 34 people, executing 500 searches and issuing 2,800 subpoenas, his office submitted a 448-page report summarising its findings and then closed.
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If progressives are really committed to combating sexism, they have to be indiscriminate about calling it out — even if it means indicting one of their own.
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Mueller says he did not make a decision on whether the indict Trump because of Justice Department guidance that bars prosecutors from indicting a sitting president.
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Relations between Turkey and Germany were strained last year after Turkish authorities held German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel in jail, after indicting him for security offences.
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" The Justice Department warns against indicting a president because "the...impeachment process ensures that the immunity [from indictment] would not place the President 'above the law'.
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Indicting a President Last month and again on Thursday, Barr downplayed the role that Justice Department guidelines played when Mueller considered whether Trump violated the law.
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All of this happened at least 25 years ago, and it looks as though Cruz is indicting Trump for being a high roller in the '80s.
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In a press conference, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins announced her office was indicting You for involuntary manslaughter for her alleged role in Urtula's suicide.
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Even former NOPD Chief Serpas believes that the preventative effect of calling in dozens of at-risk individuals — and indicting dozens of them — began to diminish.
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This would involve the special counsel's office indicting a group of conspirators, making clear the President was part of the conspiracy without bringing charges against him.
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Indicting perpetrators in Russia, China, Iran or North Korea — people who will never appear in the U.S. for prosecution — won't begin to deter these malicious actions.
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Before the United Brands scandal, prosecutors tended to go after white-collar crimes by indicting the executives who committed them; now they charged the firms themselves.
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Thus, if the delay was the result of the "bureaucratic tomfoolery at its finest," as the columns says, it is Trump's own appointees they are indicting.
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The bank became a community hub, but in 2012, the Manhattan district attorney's office charged it with mortgage fraud, also indicting 19 of its former employees.
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In Pakistan, where elected institutions are often assumed to be corrupt, it can mean, in the eyes of voters, indicting the system as just as guilty.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller set his sights beyond the U.S. Friday, indicting 13 Russian nationals accused of running an operation to influence the 2016 presidential elections.
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The report also indicates that Mueller did not reach an obstruction conclusion due to concerns arising from the Justice Department's policy against indicting a sitting president.
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" Even though Jemison says she's "not happy" about Jones' indictment, she said the grand jury wasn't wrong for indicting her because Jones "put her child in danger.
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Trump faulted both the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation for not indicting Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
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Mueller's team did not charge Trump with obstruction of justice because the special counsel chose to abide by Justice Department policy that bars indicting a sitting president.
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He emphasized that he was blocked from charging Trump with a crime by a standing DOJ policy, dating back to 1973, that forbids indicting a sitting president.
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By indicting Manafort and Gates on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, he is sending a signal he is willing to target wrongdoing in diverse forms.
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Of course, prosecutors will deny indicting someone just to "send a message," but even an entirely legitimate indictment based on strong evidence can have this collateral effect.
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Here, he seems to be indicting the fossil fuel industry and denialists in the Republican Party, which makes one wonder why he didn't write that story, instead.
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Federal prosecutors made a big show of indicting Shkreli about four months after he jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug by more than 5,000 percent.
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On the other side of the argument, Assistant Attorney General Randolph D. Moss wrote a memorandum opinion in 2000 analyzing the constitutionality of indicting a sitting president.
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Mueller's investigators have spent months building an increasingly sweeping case about Russian meddling in the 22010 elections, implicating and indicting several of Trump's closest associates to date.
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Longstanding federal Justice Department policy counsels against indicting a sitting president, though the policy memo itself acknowledges that no court has ever ruled on the precise issue.
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On Friday, Israel's attorney general said he was considering indicting her on suspicion of using state funds for personal dining and catering services amounting to some $100,000.
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She told The Los Angeles Times that the decision to omit the diaper was a way of distancing the film from unfairly indicting the real-life Nowak.
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But her biggest decision, which also helped launch her into national prominence, was indicting six Baltimore police officers for their roles in the death of Freddie Gray.
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This is a scenario that will be repeated over again, in spite in indicting 13 Russian nationals who will never see the inside of an American courtroom.
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If the Constitution says formally indicting a president isn't in the national interest, then why allow a prosecutor to create essentially the same debilitating criminal by indirection?
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" Pressed for details, Mr. Cuomo said the meeting was "in preparation for Joe's case, in preparation for the case that they were indicting against the nine defendants.
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One exception is if a prosecutor hits a "wall" and believes that indicting an individual or individuals will lead to their cooperation and ultimately to additional evidence.
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But at times, the movie feels most interested in indicting America for choosing Bush and Cheney in the first place — which means it's preaching to the choir.
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In his brief remarks, however, Mueller appeared to endorse not just the DOJ policy, but also the OLC's interpretation of the Constitutionality of indicting a sitting president.
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And as the Washington Post points out in a footnote of that 2009 piece, Kavanaugh even begins to touch on the constitutionality of indicting a sitting president.
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This is an important question that all candidates for president in 2020 should answer: If elected, will you change the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president?
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In a speech Wednesday, Powell said rates are "just below" neutral, perhaps indicting that concerns about a more aggressive path higher for rates may no longer be warranted.
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By bringing Rosenstein into it, it also ends up indicting the man currently in charge of the Russia investigation — suggesting he's at best incompetent and at worst corrupt.
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But five years after raiding his business and indicting him, federal authorities quietly cut a deal with Roh earlier this year and agreed to drop the charges. Why?
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Lindsey Graham (R-SC), an outspoken Trump critic turned ally: Then there's Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, indicting Clinton for lying, but downplaying today's scandal: And Kansas Sen.
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The police have also recommended indicting Mr Netanyahu in Case 2000, in which he is accused of negotiating illicit deals with a newspaper publisher for more favourable coverage.
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For Republicans, it's as a too-timid law man -- unwilling to upset the apple cart either by indicting Clinton or dismissing the Russian collusion story out of hand.
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"He was very much a man of the moment — by which I mean the late 1970s — indicting industrial 'chemicals' as causing cancer," Professor Proctor said in an email.
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Israel police officially recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu on bribery and fraud charges Tuesday, following a months-long investigation into two separate cases of alleged corruption.
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All of which is to say, if Robert Mueller concludes that Mike Pence did something illegal, there is nothing stopping him from indicting and prosecuting Pence for it.
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In the aftermath of Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russian nationals for intervening in the 2016 election, Trump has hit on a new defense: Actually, it's all Obama's fault.
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The establishment feels more comfortable with Warren's mission of reforming and "unrigging" existing economic and political systems, compared to Sanders's approach of indicting and supplanting these systems altogether.
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Internal DOJ policy guidance from 2000 counsels against indicting a sitting president, but legal scholars differ and there is no statute or prior court decision on the point.
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He is heading to Asia after Mueller filed his first charges in the Russia probe, indicting two Trump campaign officials and securing a guilty plea from a third.
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It's an honest portrayal of the circumstances that lead these particular women to do it, ultimately indicting the society that forces us to treat one another like transactions.
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Whether indicting a sitting president would facilitate or inhibit the pursuit of justice is a question calling not just for logic but for wisdom and judgment as well.
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The closest it came was indicting two lobbyists for a pro-Israel group in 2005 who received classified information about American policy toward Iran and passed it on.
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U.S. authorities earlier this month issued an arrest warrant against Volkswagen's former chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, after indicting him on four felony charges in the diesel emissions scandal.
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While policy change is merely an attorney general's pen stroke away in theory, do not expect the policy against indicting the sitting president to be changed anytime soon.
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Indicting one or two officers — as happened in the turnpike case — does not get at customs and habits poured into the concrete of our laws and law enforcement.
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On Friday, Israel's attorney-general said he was considering indicting Sara Netanyahu on suspicion of using state funds for personal dining and catering services amounting to some $100,000.
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Berke co-authorized think tank treatises in 2017 and 2018 outlining what they see as a case for impeaching or indicting Trump on charges of obstruction of justice.
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The attorney general has recommended a series of criminal charges against the prime minister, but will only make a decision on indicting him after a legally mandated hearing.
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The key question is whether New York prosecutors could find ways of indicting Cohen for crimes different from the ones he was charged for on the federal level.
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But is The Girl on the Train trying to be ironic, indicting the characters (and us) for thinking we ought not take abuse, emotional and otherwise, from men?
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Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's public statement Wednesday presented a stark contrast to the attorney general regarding the significance of the Justice Department guidelines against indicting a president.
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Indicting Trump while he was in office was "not an option we could consider," Mueller said, explicitly citing the official guidance from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
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First, he made clear that the longstanding Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting president effectively handcuffed him, contrary to the impression created by Attorney General William Barr.
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Even with plenty of evidence, Mueller explained why his team did not charge Trump for obstructing justice, saying longstanding Justice Department policy prevented him from indicting a sitting president.
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MEDIA MEDDLING Police have also recommended indicting Netanyahu for supposedly offering a newspaper publisher legislation that would weaken his paper&aposs main rival in return for more favorable coverage.
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The lawyers pointed to a Monday tweet in which the president criticized the "Jeff Sessions Justice Department" for indicting two Republican congressmen "just ahead" of the upcoming congressional elections.
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Mueller refused to indict Trump, despite finding evidence he obstructed justice, because of a Department of Justice policy — not a law, just an internal rule — against indicting sitting presidents.
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On Monday, a Texas grand jury investigation into Planned Parenthood cleared the group, instead indicting two members of the Center for Medical Progress who secretly recorded Planned Parenthood members.
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In creating the SDF, Infinite Warfare bypasses these concerns, and means the developer can make a game about mass conflict without indicting a real-world country as a villain.
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Not so fast, argued Slate's Jeremy Stahl: Mueller may just think he's bound by Justice Department precedents on indicting a sitting president, and a public report is still significant.
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Indeed, the Clinton administration's Justice Department, while concluding that "considerations of constitutional structure" suggest not indicting a sitting president, acknowledged that the Constitution does not squarely answer the question.
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In the case against JPMorgan, which was accused of failing to thwart Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Mr. Devlin-Brown and his colleagues stopped short of indicting the bank.
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The Democrats' hope that Mueller would rescue them from that decision—either by indicting Trump himself or by explicitly demanding that lawmakers do what he can't—died on Wednesday.
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In a 2009 Minnesota Law Review article, Kavanaugh detailed his concerns about indicting a sitting president, saying his views had changed over the issue since the 1980s and 1990s.
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Indicting Republican congressional candidates for their association with Mr. Trump, a new ad from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee appeals to an interesting subgroup: parents of middle school students.
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It would seem that Robert Mueller is facing a dilemma: Should he indict Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner separately, before indicting Trump, or indict them all at once?
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Special counsel Robert Mueller last week delivered his first charges in his probe into the matter, indicting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and one of his former associates.
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The second claim is that Mueller was barred from finding obstruction because of the long standing, and in my view fundamentally flawed, Justice Department policy against indicting sitting presidents.
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In June, the U.S. Department of Justice said it was also indicting Fields on 30 federal hate crimes charges, for which he could face the death penalty if convicted.
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Still, Moore's central point -- that "The road to Trump was paved for decades" -- winds up indicting multiple parties, actually leaving Trump on the sidelines for much of the film.
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In March of 2017, the Justice Department took the landmark step of indicting two Russian spies for hacking into tech giant Yahoo and stealing data on 500 million users.
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Clinton on Tuesday narrowly dodged a potentially campaign-ending judgment from FBI Director James Comey, who passed on indicting her but still gave plenty of fodder to her opponents.
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Ultimately, the members of Mr. Mueller's team concluded that because Justice Department policy prohibits indicting a sitting president, they could not determine whether Mr. Trump's actions had been criminal.
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A criminal case was opened, as in almost 75 other cases of priestly abuse, but the judges indicated that the statute of limitations barred them from indicting Father Karadima.
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The Mueller report provides a road map for prosecuting Trump for obstruction of justice but stops short of this finding because of legal doubts about indicting a sitting president.
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Some analysts have said Netanyahu could put pressure on the attorney-general to think twice before indicting him by calling a snap election to seek a stronger popular mandate.
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Trump has also complained that Sessions wasn't sufficiently loyal because, since then, he has failed to prevent Mueller from indicting a growing number of Trump confidantes and targeting others.
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A Brazilian judge on Thursday decided to hold off on indicting American journalist Glenn Greenwald on charges that he committed cyber crimes related to his reporting on top Brazilian officials.
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In two significant exchanges, Mueller appeared to pin his decision for not indicting Trump on the OLC opinion, which says that a sitting president can't be indicted while in office.
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A starting point might be to track how alleged-rape cases progress through a local justice system by making available statistics on milestones like identifying, indicting and convicting a perpetrator.
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That is doubtful: absent a smoking gun tying a specific gift to a specific official act, prosecutors may now have a more difficult time indicting, much less convicting, crooked politicians.
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Prosecutors are seeking a 30-year sentence and a 118.5 billion won ($112 million) fine for Park, after indicting her on charges that included bribery, abuse of power and coercion.
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" Mr. Vance, in a statement, called the plan a "phantom production," and said that indicting Mr. Scahill was part of an effort to "safeguard the integrity of this vital industry.
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However, it's the questions raised by the Clinton episode about subpoenaing and indicting a sitting president that are more relevant to today's investigation of Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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He said he agreed with Mr. Barr's conclusion that regardless of whether department policy allows indicting a sitting president, the evidence against Mr. Trump was insufficient to warrant criminal prosecution.
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With grifters like Anna Delvey, the pleasure is in indicting the system that allowed her to flourish, rather than celebrating her as somebody who's actually done something interesting or heroic.
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Although there is no explicit prohibition in the Constitution against indicting a president, the Justice Department has long taken the position that sitting presidents are not subject to criminal prosecution.
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And although draft resisters expected to be arrested and prosecuted, Attorney General Ramsey Clark surprised them by indicting only a handful of ringleaders, including the famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock.
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In a series of memorandums, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel concluded that indicting a sitting president would violate the Constitution by undermining his ability to do his job.
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Eisen, Berke and lawyer Noah Bookbinder published think tank treatises in 2017 and 2018 outlining what they see as a case for impeaching or indicting Trump for obstruction of justice.
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The DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president is not binding on state-level prosecutors (typically called attorneys general at the statewide level and district attorneys at the county level).
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Prosecutors identified Ms. Park as an accomplice and a "criminal suspect" on Sunday while indicting her friend, Choi Soon-sil, on criminal charges including extortion and abuse of official power.
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The Department of Justice has a longstanding policy against indicting a sitting president, and the absence of an indictment does not mean no evidence of conspiracy or obstruction was found.
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On whether a sitting president can be indicted or the subject of a criminal investigation: I've never taken a position on the constitutionality of indicting or investigating a sitting president.
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Silberman's book also covers more than a century of autism history, indicting some of the reputed giants of the autism world — not just Lovaas but also Leo Kanner and Bernie Rimland.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller said indicting President Donald Trump was "not an option" this week, citing a longstanding Justice Department policy that shields a sitting president from criminal indictments and prosecution.
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In his investigation, Mueller spotlighted Russian interference, indicting 12 Russian military intelligence officers last year and indicating newly discovered ways that Russia meddled in the 2016 election in his final report.
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While Trump is unlikely to be charged by Mueller due to Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president, a report from Mueller expected sometime in 2019 could prove damaging politically.
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Rather, they complement each other by directing a federal prosecutor investigating the President to determine if the conduct at issue was a federal crime but refrain from indicting a sitting President.
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What's next ... The joint list has one big advantage on their side: Next week, Israel's attorney general is expected to announce that he is indicting Netanyahu in 3 different corruption cases.
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Meryl Streep is gave a fiery speech indicting — though not explicitly naming — President-Elect Donald Trump while she accepted the 2017 Cecil B. DeMille Award for her celebrated body of work.
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Cooler heads in Russia, however, worry that Putin's victory was too obvious, particularly as investigators in the US are busy indicting Russian military intelligence officers for interference in the 2016 election.
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"Mozambique AGO is indicting 18 defendants, (ranging) from public workers and other citizens, on charges of abuse of power, abuse of trust, swindling and money laundering," it said in a statement.
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Indicting the colonial system that created so much of Europe's wealth and so many of its troubles, the production implicitly condemned the cultural edifices that system made possible: opera, not least.
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Last September Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said he was considering indicting Sara Netanyahu for fraud over suspected use of state funds for personal dining and catering services amounting to some $100,000.
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Even with plenty of evidence, Mueller explained why his team did not charge Trump for obstructing justice, saying long-standing Department of Justice policy prevented him from indicting a sitting president.
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Remarkably, Mr. Mueller showed more deference to a White House Office of Legal Counsel memo (on not indicting a sitting president) than to Congress and the F.E.C. (on campaign finance law).
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But the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel — under the Nixon administration, and again under the Clinton administration — has opined that "structural principles" in the Constitution implicitly bar indicting a president.
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The contempt citation also references the Justice Department's long-standing policy against indicting a sitting president, noting that Mueller accepted those guidelines in declining to charge Trump with obstruction of justice.
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The Constitution lays out the consequences of impeachment as far as unseating and indicting an official, but impeachment itself does not prevent the official from running for office in the future.
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A year later, as Trump was preparing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland, the Justice Department announced it was indicting 12 Russian nationals on charges of hacking Democrats' emails.
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The topic of indicting a president was a significant question during the Mueller investigation -- since the special counsel investigated whether the President obstructed justice by attempting to thwart the Russia investigation.
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While DOJ policy prevents indicting a sitting president, the officials who helped Trump deal with Ukraine could be on the hook for those offenses, too, either directly or as co-conspirators.
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Assad's guilt as a war criminal is clear and is a telling measure of the irresolution of international political and judicial organizations that are not even considering measures towards indicting him.
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"Land of the Dead" (on Sunday) revived the series for the Bush era in 226, and was perhaps slightly ahead of the curve in indicting society's widening wealth and power gaps.
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And according to Mueller's court filing indicting Cohen with lying to Congress about it, Cohen apparently "briefed family members of Individual 20093 [Donald Trump] within the Company about the project" in Moscow.
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Mr. Mueller also declined to say whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice, citing Justice Department policy against indicting sitting presidents, but laid out evidence of attempts by the president to impede the inquiry.
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The Trump administration also has taken action to hit the Chinese semiconductor industry, indicting two companies accused of stealing trade secrets and banning U.S. software and equipment exports to one of them.
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Under the indicting circumstances, some of the photos actually look like mug shots (especially Alejandro G. Iñárritu — and he's "innocent"!) I stared in fascination for a long time, and then I laughed.
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Mueller reiterated that he did not reach a "traditional prosecutorial judgment" as to whether Trump obstructed justice because the Justice Department's Office of Legal Opinion bars him from indicting a sitting president.
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"I think the Obama administration acted wisely in not indicting Mr. Assange, with respect to this very conduct of which he is now accused," First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told VICE News.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) pressed Barr if he would approve indicting a sitting president, Barr said he is not going to answer that sort of question off the top of his head.
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Indeed, this is precisely how we wound up stuck with DOJ's misguided constitutional stance against indicting a sitting president — Nixon's DOJ whipped up that policy when his presidency was in hot water.
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If the law required proof of only an intent to obstruct justice, all that would stand between Trump and a conviction would be the Justice Department's policy against indicting a sitting president.
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Despite outlining 11 possible instances of obstruction of justice against Trump in the report, Mueller declined to charge Trump with a crime, citing longstanding Justice Department guidelines against indicting a sitting president.
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Though Russian hackers would likely be beyond the jurisdiction of the United States and protected by the Putin government, the "name and shame" approach of indicting foreign agents would not be unprecedented.
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On Tuesday, after Comey managed to make both Democrats and Republicans angry by indicting Clinton politically but not legally, Barry and Hillary flew to Charlotte, N.C., for their first joint campaign appearance.
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I still remember Malcolm X beginning with a cross-cut visual of officers beating up Rodney King adjacent to a burning flag—my man X indicting America through words all the while.
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If Mr. Mueller ultimately determined that indicting the president's associates for this conduct was not appropriate, that does not mean that there should not be consequences for this outrageous breach of trust.
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Such files could include documents and records of interviews with witnesses, as well as any internal memos the Mueller team wrote analyzing negative information about people whom it ultimately decided against indicting.
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Even if the Department of Justice didn't have a policy of not indicting a president, perjury in a case like this would be really hard to prove in a court of law.
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The New York Police Department has banned the use of chokeholds on suspects for more than two decades, but decided against indicting Daniel Pantaleo, the white officer who sought to subdue Garner.
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Mueller said Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office at a July House Judiciary Committee hearing, while repeatedly referring to the DOJ's stance against indicting sitting presidents.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police on Tuesday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, opening the way for what could be the biggest challenge yet to the right-wing leader's political survival.
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Role of Justice Department guidelines Barr has leaned heavily on the idea that Mueller did not feel Justice Department guidelines against indicting a president are what prevented him from charging Trump with obstruction.
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The ceremony remained stubbornly, purposefully vague, because getting any more specific would mean indicting not just the man Kesha says abused her, but the entire system that keeps men like him in power.
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Police have recommended indicting him for fraud and breach of trust for accepting expensive gifts from business folk he claims are "close friends", but the decision to prosecute rests with the attorney-general.
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Protesters fear that Ms Benesova will now slow down or even prevent the prosecutor from indicting Mr Babis (along with his wife and other members of his family, also implicated by the police).
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But we learned that words can kill ... and indicting those who sit at home and write 'Death to the Arabs', or 'Death to the Jews, or 'Slaughter the Jews', is effective and deterring.
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He did not volunteer any responsibility for it — though Mr. Clinton, who in 2006 accused Mr. Starr of "indicting innocent people because they wouldn't lie," might well lay considerable blame at his feet.
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Less than 24 hours after Blue and White party head Benny Gantz failed to form a governing coalition, Israel's attorney general announced he was indicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges.
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After the game, Coach Kurt Rambis said the Knicks had relied too much on him and ran the same play too many times — which, to some fans, read as a self-indicting statement.
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A few days prior, a Cleveland jury had decided against indicting the policeman who killed Tamir Rice, a 24-year-old African-American boy playing with a pellet gun outside a rec center.
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It may be a sign Mueller does not intend to end his investigation merely by indicting people on the charges lying under oath, as some previous independent prosecutors of government wrongdoing have done.
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In January, Mr. Mueller continued his pursuit of those around Mr. Trump, indicting the president's longtime adviser, Roger Stone, on charges of lying to Congress about his contacts with WikiLeaks during the campaign.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller refused to state declaratively that Trump committed a crime because of Department of Justice guidelines issued by the Office of Legal Counsel that are against indicting a sitting president.
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Robert Mueller, following Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president, refrains from reaching a prosecutorial judgment on obstruction of justice, but carefully presents the full evidence he uncovered for use by others.
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Meanwhile, in indicting Trump's response, Biden focused squarely on Trump's serial lying and downplaying of coronavirus's seriousness in defiance of his own experts, and his systematic degradation of science and empirically grounded government.
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They said the evidence should have given prosecutors a strong basis for bringing an obstruction case against Trump, but Mueller demurred because a longstanding Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting president.
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Three months after declining White's case, the Justice Department announced it was indicting Louis Ackal on charges of deprivation of rights and conspiracy against rights — in about a dozen incidents unrelated to White's.
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Friday's hearing will be the first since the U.S. Department of Justice announced expanded charges against the former hacker, indicting Assange under the Espionage Act for unlawfully obtaining and disclosing national defense information.
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Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges, adding to a growing collection of legal troubles that have clouded the longtime leader's prospects for pursuing re-election next year.
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As over 1,000 former federal prosecutors (including me) have concluded, the report contains more than enough evidence to indict Trump on obstruction, if not for the Justice Department policy against indicting the sitting president.
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In his first term as Prime Minister in the late '90s, police recommended indicting Netanyahu on fraud and breach of trust, but the attorney general declined to file charges, saying there wasn't enough evidence.
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"It is hard to imagine any other rationale for dropping this case other than the OLC opinion against indicting and prosecuting a sitting President," said Joseph Moreno, a former prosecutor based in New York.
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But human rights groups have criticized the Saudi justice system for denying the accused access to legal counsel during interrogation and indicting suspects on vague charges like adopting extremist ideology or undermining state stability.
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A Harris County grand jury that was investigating allegations of medical misconduct against Planned Parenthood in Texas has cleared the organization of any wrongdoing, instead indicting an anti-abortion group that made undercover videos.
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If Clinton is cruising to the nomination, winning the primaries and running well against her likely Republican opponent, they will likely decide that indicting her would be an undue interference with the political process.
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Mueller declined to clear the president of obstruction of justice, outlining 10 "episodes" of possibly obstructive behavior, but saying existing Department of Justice guidelines against indicting a sitting president prevented him from bringing charges.
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Yet there is building support from legal scholars, including Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe, condemning the Department of Justice policy and contending that the Constitution does not prohibit indicting Trump even while in office.
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And yet before she even says it onscreen, the tenor of Ms. Grunwald's comment reverberates through the series, indicting all of us and suggesting we may have learned all the wrong lessons from 2016.
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But if the most liberals can say for their political tactics is that they aren't as bad as Trump's, they are indicting themselves twice — for imitating the wrong model, and for doing it worse.
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The strategy of indicting executives highlights the seriousness of the allegations against Volkswagen, as well as the fact that executives at high levels of the company carried out the alleged fraud over a decade.
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"If Bannon urged Trump to hamper Mueller in order to prevent him from indicting misconduct by those involved in the Trump campaign (including Trump himself), that would present a possible obstruction issue," they write.
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His case underscores the Justice Department's commitment to indicting and prosecuting participants in the company's efforts to rig pollution tests on hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles imported for sale in the American market.
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They need to ask Mr. Mueller what authority he has to drag a president in front of a federal grand jury or subpoena him, what authority does he has to even contemplate indicting a president.
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The case took a turn when authorities alleged he'd staged the whole thing and paid the men in question, indicting him in March with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false report.
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Mueller refused to explain what's in the space between "not exonerated" and not indicted, although he did make clear the option of indicting Trump was never open to him, according to Department of Justice guidelines.
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Used as propaganda and often denigrated as such, it can be interpreted more subtly, its crude bombast sardonically indicting Stalinist as well as Nazi totalitarianism, its pathos expressing private emotions forbidden by the Soviet state.
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But, bottom line: A biological weapons attack is not the stuff of science fiction, and part of addressing this threat is constructing a framework for indicting and prosecuting those who use bioweapons to hurt Americans.
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The report makes clear that the president's obstruction of the F.B.I. and special counsel investigations crossed constitutional boundaries that could have merited criminal prosecution, if not for the Justice Department's policy against indicting sitting presidents.
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The suit alleges that Mueller exceeded the scope of his authority in indicting Manafort for crimes unrelated to his mandate and that Rosenstein failed to appropriately limit Mueller's jurisdiction under the DOJ special counsel regulations.
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Mueller in recent weeks has gone on a charging spree, indicting 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for extensive efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign through social media and other elaborate means.
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Earlier this month, the special counsel unveiled the first charges in his investigation, indicting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an associate of his over alleged money laundering and tax evasion, among other charges.
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I have faith that a show this postmodern — which is both luring viewers with its exciting old-timey violence and nudity while also indicting them for that very interest — has something progressive to say about consent.
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Here&aposs a look at the current cases facing the longtime Israeli leader: LAVISH GIFTS Police have recommended indicting Netanyahu over accepting nearly $300,000 in gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer.
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South Korea has taken a tough line on Volkswagen, slapping it with a record fine, suspending sales and on Wednesday indicting seven current and former executives and employees in the wake of the emissions-test cheating.
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They intend to hammer home the evidence of obstruction of justice in Mueller's 448-page report, and point out how the policy appears to be all that's standing in the way of indicting Trump for obstruction.
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But while this kind of data might help police bring about justice for some of the grisliest crimes, it could also impinge upon sex workers' privacy, coercing them into handing over information that could be indicting.
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Mascotto, who opened his investigation in 2013, said he was indicting the three suspects in Geneva, where some of the alleged $10 million in bribes had transited, for alleged corruption of Guinean public officials and forgery.
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Israel deported Ebru Ozkan on July 15, a week after indicting her for smuggling money and goods to the Palestinian Islamist militant group while visiting as a tourist - charges her lawyer denied and which angered Turkey.
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Mueller made it explicitly clear that the report did not exonerate Trump, and that his office had no ability to charge Trump with a crime given existing DOJ policy prohibiting prosecutors from indicting a sitting president.
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In February last year, a Turkish court freed German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel pending trial after indicting him for alleged security offences - a move that helped ease tensions between the two NATO allies for a period.
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Washington (CNN)Robert Mueller said explicitly on Wednesday that the special counsel's office did not even consider charging Donald Trump with a crime because of a Justice Department opinion that guides against indicting a sitting president.
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Prosecutors had to jump through a hurdle at the Massachusetts's highest court, where defense attorneys unsuccessfully argued that indicting Carter based solely on what she wrote and said over the phone violated her First Amendment Rights.
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"I feel that if the baby had to be counted as a person, I don't feel [the grand jury] is wrong for indicting her because you initially put your child in danger," Jemison told BuzzFeed News.
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That my officers feel the burden of a media culture's fixation with indicting law enforcement on their front pages at the behest of a far-left movement designed to foment anarchy and not truth, infuriates me.
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All of this has raised the speculation, yet again: Will President Obama stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from indicting her if the eight-person DOJ team working with over 100 FBI agents recommends criminal charges?
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The evidence prosecutors gathered at the time had never emerged because top Justice Department officials in the George W. Bush administration refused to back indicting the executives, who have continued to insist they did nothing wrong.
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WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller said that charging President Trump with obstruction of justice was "not an option" he'd ever been able to consider due to a Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting president.
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In fact, Mueller said he was forbidden from indicting Trump by Justice Department policy, and reasoned it would therefore be unfair to accuse Trump of criminal activity without the chance to clear his name in court.
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The most likely scenario is that Mueller -- given Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting President -- intended to defer to Congress, the only entity able to take remedial action against the President for abuse of power.
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Cummings' letter comes one week before special counsel Robert Mueller, who said he followed DOJ guidelines for not indicting a sitting president as part of his obstruction investigation, testifies publicly before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.
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Ted Lieu of California Wednesday morning that the special counsel's investigation did not charge Trump because of Justice Department guidelines against indicting a sitting President, he then clarified the remark at the start of the afternoon session.
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"The Attorney General, Avihai Mandelblit, has informed the Prime Minister, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, through his attorney, that he is considering indicting him on several criminal charges," according to a statement by Ministry of Justice spokesman Adi Livni.
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On Friday, the US attorney's office in San Francisco wrapped up a two-and-a-half-year investigation of Theranos by indicting Holmes and her ex-boyfriend Sunny Balwani, Theranos's former president and CEO, for alleged fraud.
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That should not, however, preclude a grand jury from indicting a president when the facts and the law warrant, even if the trial itself has to be postponed until he or she is no longer in office.
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A former assistant US attorney, Toobin said he would have been suspended or fired if he had suggested to his superior not indicting or investigating a member of the president's party because of the person's political affiliation.
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But diGenova's position on indicting a sitting president could put him at odds with other members of Trump's legal team and could even force diGenova to argue against his own position at some point in the future.
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"This is a huge success in that there are significant challenges to indicting Russian cybercriminals," said Levi Gundert, a former Secret Service agent who now works as vice president of intelligence at Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm.
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In fact, Mueller&aposs outlined more than 10 instances that fit the criteria for obstruction, but they declined to make a "traditional prosecutorial judgment" because of Justice Department guidelines that bar prosecutors from indicting a sitting president.
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Tyrnauer wants to indict Cohn and the politicians and media elites who follow his example, and he has all the material he needs to succeed, but he stops short of fully indicting the environment that produced Cohn.
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Mr. Nadler said he was fearful that the Justice Department would try to contort its policies against indicting a sitting president and sharing information about uncharged individuals to justify withholding key evidence against Mr. Trump from Congress.
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In February, Israeli police recommended indicting Netanyahu in a pair of corruption cases; if Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit accepts their recommendations, Netanyahu would be formally charged with bribery, fraud, and abusing the powers of his office.
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In the fall of 2017, just as the Mueller investigation began indicting people connected to the Trump campaign, House Republicans (and Trump) began agitating for then-Attorney General Sessions to appoint a special counsel to investigate Clinton.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Police recommended on Tuesday indicting Israel's deputy health minister on suspicion he tried to bolster the case of a former Australian school principal pleading mental illness as an argument against extradition to face sexual assault charges.
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And that, of course, is Black Mirror doing its typical dark work — indicting me for how easily I've fallen into making grim moral choices on Stefan's behalf, purely to keep the game going, to keep my entertainment flowing.
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There are uglier numbers in the 216-year history of the Minnesota Timberwolves franchise, but maybe none more indicative or indicting than the fact that the team has finished in the top 234 in defensive efficiency exactly twice.
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Thus, because departmental policy prohibits Mueller from indicting a sitting President, release of his report (or at least parts of the report) would appear to contravene departmental policy regarding public comment on investigations not resulting in criminal charges.
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A Turkish court last month freed a German-Turkish journalist pending trial after indicting him for alleged security offences, a move that had been seen as potentially leading to an easing of tensions between the two NATO allies.
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As Mueller escalated on Monday, indicting Trump's former campaign boss and one of his deputies, while also revealing he'd made a "proactive cooperator" out of a foreign policy adviser to the campaign, Democrats mostly kept their heads down.
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However, in this case it is the president who is allegedly doing the witness intimidation and an OLC opinion (see Indicting a President Is Not Foreclosed: The Complex History - Lawfare) states that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
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"While they went to great pains to say they are not indicting any Americans today, if I was an American and I did cooperate with Russians I would be extremely frightened today," said former federal prosecutor Patrick Cotter.
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A grand jury in Chicago revived the criminal case against the actor Jussie Smollett, indicting him Tuesday on charges that he lied to the police in connection with the alleged hate crime attack against him a year ago.
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Jussie Smollett indictment: A grand jury revived the criminal case against the former "Empire" actor, indicting him on charges that he lied to the police in his claim a year ago to have suffered a hate crime attack.
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The nominee will be asked whether they agree with tweets like this, and whether they agree with the president's conception of the A.G. role — that it's his personal lawyer, who ought to be indicting political enemies and protecting friends.
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Mr Netanyahu is not regarded as a suspect in Case 3000 ("the Submarines Case"), which involves alleged bribery in military procurement, though police have recommended indicting a number of his aides, including his lawyer (who is also his cousin).
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Former International Olympic Committee Vice President Gosper served last year on FIFA's reform committee, which was formed as part of the governing body's response to U.S. authorities indicting a raft of senior soccer officials and marketing executives for corruption.
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While Mueller did not recommend Trump's indictment — which nobody could really expect, given Justice Department policy about not indicting a sitting president — his investigation still uncovered more than enough wrongdoing by Trump associates to merit its extraordinary media coverage.
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Why charging Russians is important Mueller does not expect to ever get the GRU officials he charged into a courtroom, considering that Putin will never voluntary extradite them to the US. Nevertheless, he achieves several goals by indicting them.
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In his report, Mueller appeared to punt the issue of obstruction to lawmakers, writing that his office did not seek to make a "traditional prosecutorial decision" on obstruction because of longstanding Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.
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But legal heavyweights have rallied in her defense, arguing that the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Andrew E. Lelling, has crossed a line by indicting a state judge, inviting the use of federal power to intimidate state officials into compliance.
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On Monday, Mueller unveiled the first set of charges in his investigation, indicting former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, another former campaign adviser and an associate of Manafort, on charges including money laundering and tax fraud.
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"I don't think indicting people or doing criminal investigation is a bad thing, I just don't think it's sufficient to change outcomes," says Oren Falkowitz the CEO of Area 1 Security and a former NSA and US Cyber Command analyst.
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In a dozen states including Texas, where the grand jury in Houston examined Planned Parenthood at the request of Republican officials but ended up indicting the opponents, various investigations have concluded without finding any wrongdoing by affiliates of the group.
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Speaking outside the courthouse after the hearing, US Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger declined to comment on the substance of the grand jury proceedings when asked why the government wanted to question Manning before the grand jury after already indicting Assange.
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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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Mueller himself declined to label any of Trump's behavior criminal, however, arguing that since DOJ policy blocked him from indicting a sitting president, it would be unfair to accuse Trump of a crime without the opportunity to clear himself in court.
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Ted Lieu, Mueller said, unequivocally, that the reason that he did not even consider indicting the President on obstruction charges was because of guidance from the Office of Legal Counsel (within the Justice Department) that a sitting President cannot be indicted.
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To prove that they aren't fucking about and that this video is a hard hitting examination of everything bad about people who go clubbing, the lads start strong, by essentially indicting all men who have ever been to a club.
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Conflicting leaks about what was in the emails and how close to indicting Clinton the FBI was cropped up in different outlets, muddying the waters and making a mockery of the bureau's general rules about not commenting on active investigations.
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Arguing the law Faced with bad facts, many have argued the law, claiming that Barr's narrow view of obstruction dictated Mueller's results, or the Justice Department policy of not indicting a sitting president was the reason no obstruction was found.
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His intent was always to hold journalists to higher standards, which his show often did by digging up embarrassing, self-indicting clips of figures in the news that real journalists could have and should have been able to do themselves.
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This is why Whose Streets is better positioned to provoke a productive conversation about race in the country: It's interested in indicting the country for what's been done to the black community for generations, not just a handful of officers.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean prosecutors are indicting at least 7463 people over their alleged links to a human trafficking ring that smuggled hundreds of Chinese migrants into Chile after charging them $5,000 apiece for tourist visas, local media reported on Saturday.
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" Ron Fournier, writer for The Atlantic _______ "In keeping her cool and indicting Trump's bad behavior and finally provoking him to threaten to put her in jail, she made certain no one not already in Trump's corner would sign on with him.
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Democrats also fear that the Justice Department could combine its policies against indicting a sitting president and against disclosing negative information on an investigative target who was not indicted to justify keeping secret all the information collected about Mr. Trump.
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If Mueller is moving toward indicting either of them, it's possible to imagine Trump's familial loyalty—one of his defining characteristics—kicking in, leading him to preemptively can the special counsel or issue preemptive pardons to people in legal jeopardy.
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Mueller said this week that he could not indict Trump because of a Justice Department policy that prohibits indicting a sitting president, and was not even willing to conclude if a crime was committed out of fairness to the president.
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But I also wondered whether, under the video's indicting circumstances, paying to watch Donald Glover presumably delight us as Lando Calrissian in a new "Star Wars" movie coming later this month sets a grim trap for him and for us.
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Echoing Stevens about Ainge, and unwittingly indicting Jackson, Hornacek said, "Danny's put together a bunch of guys that are hard-nosed," naming Marcus Smart, Jae Crowder and Al Horford, players Ainge has drafted, traded for or signed as free agents.
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Recent messagey best-picture winners include "Spotlight" (detailing revelations that the Roman Catholic Church protected pedophilic priests), "12 Years a Slave" (indicting the roots and legacy of slavery) and "The Hurt Locker" (about a good soldier in a bad war).
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Mueller did not formally conclude that Trump obstructed justice — a determination he said was largely a result of the DOJ restrictions against indicting a sitting president — but Barr has since used Mueller's evidence to absolve Trump of the potential crime.
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The FBI, along with Canadian and Australian police, busted Phantom Secure last year, with prosecutors indicting Ramos in the Southern District of California on charges including racketeering conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, and aiding and abetting.
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And Mr. Trump's conveniently timed call was a not-so-subtle reminder to Israel's attorney general that indicting Mr. Netanyahu — a step that would precipitate his resignation as a prime minister — could harm Israel's national security at a dangerous time.
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The special counsel regulation requires Mr. Barr to tell Congress about any instance in which he overruled a step Mr. Mueller proposed, so if Mr. Mueller were to suggest indicting Mr. Trump, the attorney general report would have to discuss that.
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With Robert Mueller, the special counsel, reportedly close to indicting more people, the markets wobbling and a raft of stories over the weekend detailing his musings about stealing Iraq's oil, one suspects Mr Trump needs the rally more than Miss Hyde-Smith does.
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LEVIN: I am saying whether it&aposs the Appointments Clause or the pardon power or the issue of indicting the president of United States, he is right on his tweets and he is making the people who are criticizing him look like fools.
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Speaking on Wednesday at The Economic Club of New York, Powell appeared to have walked back those earlier remarks, saying rates are "just below" neutral, perhaps indicting that concerns about a more aggressive path higher for rates may no longer be warranted.
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Mueller gave his first and only public statement about his investigation last month, in which he said that the special counsel's investigation could not come to a conclusion on obstruction of justice because of a Justice Department opinion on indicting a sitting president.
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Lena Dunham, Beth Behrs and Mindy Kaling are also among the ever-growing list of celebs who can't stop fangirling over Knoll's deliciously smart, nuanced novels that are every bit as thrilling as they are indicting of how our culture depicts ambitious women.
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The party is presently under the media glare over party boss and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's attempt to let taxpayers foot his lawyer's bill in a defamation case and the Shunglu Committee report indicting his government of nepotism and irregularities in appointments.
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You may not realize that our Kenyan-born Muslim president was plotting to serve a third term as our illegitimate president, by allowing Hillary Clinton to win and then indicting her; Pope Francis' endorsement of Donald Trump helped avert the election-rigging.
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Same is true for high housing costs, offshoring, child care, breaking up Big Tech, curbing congressional corruption, indicting presidents, strengthening reproductive rights, forgiving student loans, providing debt relief to Puerto Rico, and fixing the love lives of some of her Twitter followers. Seriously.
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Same is true for high housing costs, offshoring, child care, breaking up big tech, curbing congressional corruption, indicting presidents, strengthening reproductive rights, forgiving student loans, providing debt relief to Puerto Rico, and fixing the love lives of some of her Twitter followers. Seriously.
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Past seasons of The Americans haven't exactly been shy about showing us the brutality of the Soviet regime, but it feels like season five is getting a little bolder in indicting the Soviet Union as a whole for a pervasive and arbitrary cruelty.
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The Department of Justice had already conducted an investigation into the actions of Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II. Federal prosecutors announced in June of 28503 that there simply wasn't enough evidence to support indicting the officers on civil rights charges.
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Ione, sitting at a table in front of the performers, her back to the audience, and speaking, is both narrator and, in the second act, prosecutor, first providing humanizing facts about Kitchener and then indicting him for the consequences of his life's work.
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In November 2017, speaking before the House Financial Services committee, he was even harsher, indicting the World Bank and other multinational financial organizations for their policy advice, which is increasingly the main product offered by the World Bank, rather than direct loans.
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And kind of on the eve of this summit with the Russian leader, Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General here comes out with big news that he is indicting a bunch of Russians for hacking the DNC and Hillary and all of this stuff.
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Although the lawsuit originally asked the court to set "all actions taken against Mr. Manafort pursuant to the Appointment Order," Manafort's lawyers later walked that back, saying they were only seeing a forward-looking order from the court blocking Mueller's office from indicting him again.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan spoke on Saturday and agreed to continue to work toward stronger ties and regional security, Erdogan's office said, a day after he lashed out at U.S. authorities for indicting one of his ex-ministers.
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It's therefore no surprise that on May 6 more than 900 former federal prosecutors signed a letter saying they would have charged "any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President" with obstruction on this evidence.
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This same president is now clearly trying push out his attorney general so that he can end an investigation that could end up indicting him or members of his team or his family, a nearly unprecedented abuse of power and breach of public trust.
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Darrell IssaDarrell Edward IssaThe Hill's Morning Report — US strikes approved against Iran pulled back Darrell Issa eyes return to Congress Trump's 2020 campaign strategy is to be above the law MORE (R-Calif.) accused U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman of "political misconduct" Tuesday for indicting Rep.
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" He was referring to the manner by which the special counsel was using his power to "tighten the screws" on Manafort by indicting him for an alleged crime that the judge believes has nothing to do "with what the special counsel is authorized to investigate.
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"A message needs to come from our president, not only decrying anti-Semitism but specifically indicting white supremacists and in particular those who support his candidacy," Weiner said, also referring to the bomb threats, vandalism against Jewish cemeteries and aggression against Muslims, Sikhs and immigrants.
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Ford had moved to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, accusing him of embracing a "hippie-yippie-style revolution," indicting him for a decadent life style, and alleging financial improprieties, charges that appeared, to Ford's critics, to fall well short of impeachable offenses.
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Looming in the background is Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York whose tenure included multiple investigations of state officials for corruption, indicting a top aide to Mr. Cuomo and the top two legislative leaders in Albany.
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The former special counsel outlined 10 "episodes" of potentially obstructive behavior involving Trump and the investigation into contacts between his campaign and Russian officials, but declined to bring any charges against the president, citing a long-standing Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president.
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" Police had arrested Tatour early on the morning of October 11, 2015, without a search or arrest warrant, according to PEN America, with a court indicting her in November — after a month of imprisonment — with "Incitement to Violence" and "Support for a Terrorist Organization.
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Instead, they traded an opportunity to advance a broad and defining narrative—encompassing and indicting the Trump presidency in full on a historic stage—for a safe and narrow impeachment aimed at fulfilling their constitutional obligations and satisfying the public's demand for action as quickly as possible.
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"Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is being invited to report to the police to answer allegations indicting him from confessions of five gang leaders arrested for active participation in Offa bank robbery and killings of 33 innocent persons," said Nigeria police spokesman Jimoh Moshood in a statement.
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When China's expansive hacking operations began to come into the public eye, according to the report, the U.S. was able to muster the political support to confront China directly on its cyber espionage tactics — indicting five Chinese military officers in 2014 and striking the anti-hacking pledge.
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The much-respected former special counsel, who after almost two years, issued a 85033-page report replete with explosive revelations about Trump but stopped short of charging collaboration with the Russians during the 2016 campaign — and observed that current Justice Department regulations preclude indicting a sitting president.
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The film's street-level observations told via camera-phone recordings and documentary video footage offers a more convincing and telling portrait of the intersections of police brutality, state-sanctioned law and order, and activism — and maintains its subjects' humanity while indicting a system that routinely dehumanizes them.
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Given all this, and Justice Department guidelines against indicting a sitting president, we are left with a situation in which Democrats seeking adjudication of their allegations would have to pursue impeachment in the House and, if they were successful there, a subsequent trial in the Senate.
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Israeli police have recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a pair of corruption cases, escalating a legal and political showdown that threatens to end the career of one of the longest-serving leaders in Israel's history — and potentially send President Trump's closest Mideast ally to prison.
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When China's expansive hacking operations began to come into the public eye, according to the report, the U.S. was able to muster the political support to confront China directly on its cyber espionage tactics -- indicting five Chinese military officers in 2014 and striking the anti-hacking pledge.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller indicting 12 Russian intelligence officers, accusing them of hacking the DNC and the Clinton campaign in order to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, this as President Trump is gearing up to meet face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow in Helsinki.
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In 2014, the same month his office brought its case against Hadden to a grand jury, Vance orchestrated what he deemed the largest gang sweep in city history, indicting 103 mostly black and Latino people, around a third of them teenagers, living in two housing projects in Harlem.
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"What I find very interesting ... is in light of the information that is now coming out with respect to Russian attempts to influence both the national election and 21 different states, what I expect to see is serious consideration of indicting one or more foreign nationals," Starr said.
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At the time, Mueller made it explicitly clear that the report did not exonerate Trump, and that his office had no ability to charge Trump with a crime because of existing Department of Justice policy prohibiting prosecutors from indicting a sitting president — leaving the next steps up to Congress.
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"What I find very interesting … is in light of the information that is now coming out with respect to Russian attempts to influence both the national election and 21 different states, what I expect to see is serious consideration of indicting one or more foreign nationals," he said.
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Now that the facts are in and the incident has been discovered to be a hoax, it will be interesting to see if he calls a follow up news conference, gathers all cadets and makes them record his apology for having rushed to judgment in indicting them as racist.
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If what Clapper says is true that it was an innocuous investigation to find out what involvement Russia had, then why would they have bent over backwards, as Andy McCarthy says, to avoid investigating Hillary and indicting her and bend over forward to indict and implicate and deject President Trump?
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"Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice," they write.
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Read more: Mueller says he's resigning from the Justice Department and officially closing the Russia investigationMueller made it explicitly clear that the report did not exonerate Trump, and that his office had no ability to charge Trump with a crime given existing DOJ policy prohibiting prosecutors from indicting a sitting president.
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Special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's team systematically targeted the people around the president, squeezing them like lemons, indicting them on mostly process crimes created by the investigation itself.
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While the administration has called out the People's Liberation Army of China for stealing intellectual property — even indicting officers of its now-inactive Unit 61398 — it never publicly accused the Chinese intelligence services of stealing the security-clearance files on more than 21 million Americans who held or applied for clearances.
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At the news conference announcing the settlement, the DOJ also said it was indicting six current and former senior VW managers, including Oliver Schmidt who was arrested in Florida and ordered to be held without bail last week pending trial and faces a total of up to 169 years in prison.
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His coalition is down to the minimum number of seats in the Knesset necessary to hold on to power, his ministers at war with one another and with him, and remarkably, the police have recommended indicting him on serious corruption charges three separate times, the most recent on Dec. 2.
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"Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting president, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice," they wrote.
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Mr. Bharara was not a registered voter during his roughly eight years as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, a period in which he aggressively prosecuted political corruption, indicting the top two lawmakers in Albany, one Democrat and one Republican, and a top aide to Mr. Cuomo.
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Because Mueller did not explicitly find that Trump committed criminal obstruction of justice -- given the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president -- Congress, reined in by Pelosi, has chosen not to make use of the political side of impeachment except for its minimal, superficial progress on a glacial impeachment inquiry.
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" The department's policy also considers the possibility of indicting the president while in office and delaying trial until his term ends, but concludes that "an indictment hanging over the President while he remains in office would damage the institution of the Presidency virtually to the same extent as an actual conviction.
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She previously dismissed a civil lawsuit that Manafort filed raising similar arguments in the hopes of stopping the special counsel's office from indicting him again in the future; Tuesday's ruling means that the criminal charges already filed against him in the US District Court for the District of Columbia will go forward.
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Then if Mueller and Rosenstein conclude there is a case, they would have to decide whether to take the legally dubious and controversial route of indicting a sitting president (which the Justice Department has long said cannot be done), or whether to report their findings to Congress with an eye toward potential impeachment.
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If the Justice Department will not indict a sitting president, we must ask what is worse: the potential distraction of states indicting presidents, or the crisis for the rule of law of presidential immunity, especially during a re-election when those crimes may recur with the goal of four more years of impunity.
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Save for early parries with Joe Biden on school segregation (that she later chose to partially renege on), her talking points largely coalesced around indicting the sitting president, and even provided openings for more marginal candidates such as Tulsi Gabbard to capitalize on the dissonance that undermined any attempt at progressing her campaign.
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Still, the university holds enormous sway over Sunni theology, issuing religious edicts and convening conferences like the peace gathering Pope Francis is scheduled to address on Friday The Pope will have a delicate task in that address: Christians will expect him to clearly condemn Islamic extremism; Muslims will expect him to avoid indicting Islam itself.
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Washington (CNN)The House Oversight Committee is asking federal prosecutors in New York whether the Justice Department's policy against indicting a sitting President played any role in the decision not to indict President Donald Trump for his role in directing Michael Cohen to arrange hush-money payments to women alleging affairs during the 2016 campaign.
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" According to Joel Rozen's review in The New York Times, Bernstein's midcentury modern musical and Puts's more recent commemoration of the World War I Christmas Truce are festival highlights, sharing an engagement with "memorializing cross-cultural encounters in history through the diverse idioms of music, while indicting the violence that often springs from such encounters.
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Indicting the whole Trump Organization as a "corrupt enterprise" could also help prosecutors address the thorny question of whether the president can be indicted in office; they could lay out a whole pattern of criminal activity, indict numerous players — including perhaps Trump family members — and leave the president himself as a named, unindicted co-conspirator.
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Despite their obvious differences — there wouldn't seem to be much common DNA between Bernstein's boisterous boricuas and Mr. Puts's Scottish squaddies — Glimmerglass's two productions share, to varying degrees of success, a similar aim: memorializing cross-cultural encounters in history through the diverse idioms of music, while indicting the violence that often springs from such encounters.
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Meanwhile, as the Queen was waiting for Trump to show up, reporters across the pond were also waiting in a room in Washington, where Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the Department of Justice was indicting 12 Russian intelligence officers who tried to hack into Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE (D-Calif.) said Friday that she is in favor of changing the executive guideline that prevents the Justice Department from indicting a sitting president.
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Attorney General Barr: Congress needs to subpoena him to explain how he misled Congress by trying to make it seem like Mueller told him that the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel's prohibition against indicting a sitting President played no role in Mueller's decision in choosing not to reach a prosecution decision about charging Trump.
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Manafort is challenging the indictments returned by federal grand juries in Washington and Virginia — Jackson heard arguments on Manafort's motion to dismiss the DC indictment on Thursday — and he's pursuing a separate, civil lawsuit challenging the validity of Mueller's appointment in the hopes of blocking the special counsel's office from indicting him again in the future.
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But Mueller's prosecutors have been returning to their day jobs and the special counsel has not opened a new case since indicting Roger StoneRoger Jason Stone3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Judge rejects Stone's request to dismiss charges Judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia over election interference MORE in late January.
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If you thought that the confluence of the US indicting Russian agents just before Trump's alone time with Russian President Vladimir Putin and subsequent cowed press conference was awkward, your head is going to spin in a few months, when special counsel Robert Mueller prosecutes former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and then voters head to polls.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh recommended against indicting former President Clinton, according to a 1998 memo.
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She made the comments in an interview with the "Today" show on NBC, when the host, Savannah Guthrie, asked if she agreed that the Justice Department guidelines against indicting a sitting president should be honored by the special counsel, who is investigating whether President Trump's campaign colluded with Russians seeking to put him in the White House.
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But law and order proved to be a more popularly enduring theme for politicians, pundits and the vast majority of American voters than a report condemning white racism, indicting longstanding democratic institutions and admitting that the civil rights revolution had merely scratched the surface of the kind of radical change required to promote racial and economic justice.
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One of several bizarre interludes during the press conference was this back-and-forth between Trump and Acosta, which Vox's Aaron Rupar described at the time: "That's enough," Trump repeatedly told CNN reporter Jim Acosta as he tried to ask him a question about whether he's concerned about special counsel Robert Mueller indicting more members of his inner circle.
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"Mueller lays out a devastating case against the president, but explicitly says in the introduction to the obstruction section that given the Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president, it would be unfair to draw the conclusion that seems obvious from the facts that follow, because Trump wouldn't be able to defend himself in a court of law," Podesta wrote.
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A top Democrat on Sunday said the Department of Justice (DOJ) should "definitely" reconsider laws against indicting sitting presidents, amid multiple ongoing investigations circling around President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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The New York district attorney's office—which had been unable (or unwilling) to bring any of the "too big to fail" banks to heel for their behavior—digs in on Abacus, indicting the bank and 19 of its staffers and humiliating many of them with a chain-gang parade that looks like it could have been from O, Brother, Where Art Thou?.
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As Mr. Mueller has accelerated his pace — indicting Mr. Trump's former campaign chairman and a deputy, interviewing White House aides and inducing two people connected to his campaign to plead guilty and cooperate — Mr. Trump's allies in recent weeks have increasingly sought to shift the focus away from Russian election interference and instead portray the actions of investigators as the real scandal.
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" Indeed, a letter posted online and signed by at least 800 former federal prosecutors states: "Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.
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Another answer to Congressman King is that by disqualifying any nominee credibly accused of sexual harassment or assault, or firing them, such as in the case of now-former CBS CEO Les Moonves, or indicting them, as with Harvey Weinstein (both men deny the allegations), a new generation of boys and young men will know that their actions have consequences.
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Real estate is a popular way to shield money, but a series of suspicious home equity loans totaling about $2750 million, plus a few million spent on antique rugs and clothes and other items, were more red flags for investigators, on their way to indicting him Monday for laundering $229 million over the course of nine years, among other charges.
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Real estate is a popular way to shield money, but a series of suspicious home equity loans totaling about $217 million, plus a few million spent on antique rugs and clothes and other items, were more red flags for investigators, on their way to indicting him Monday for laundering $275 million over the course of nine years, among other charges.
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GOODLATTE: In one instance doing everything possible to avoid indicting Hillary Clinton, including allowing her chief aides to be in the room with her when she was interviewed by the FBI, creating a memo exonerating her before most of the witnesses, including Secretary Clinton, had been interviewed, not putting this before a grand jury, even though they had impaneled a grand jury in that investigation.
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I've always said that I didn't expect any decisions about charges to be made until 2018, and that's because typically prosecutors wait until the end of their investigations to make those decisions and the only reason they would not is if they reached a wall in terms of their progress and they felt that indicting someone might move forward the prospect of flipping that person.
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Schiff on Wednesday also said Mueller issued a "direct rebuke" of Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation Barr removes prisons chief after Epstein death MORE by stating that he was unable to consider whether to charge Trump with criminal obstruction because Justice Department policy prohibits prosecutors from indicting a sitting president.
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Congressional Republican leaders have mostly been silent about President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's tweet that his own Justice Department should have weighed the political consequences before indicting his two earliest GOP supporters on Capitol Hill.
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Based only on the thin slice of publicly available facts, it's possible the Department of Justice has amassed sufficient evidence to charge Trump with additional crimes relating to: Staunch MAGA followers might assume, at a minimum, that were it not for the internal DOJ guidance frowning upon the prospect of indicting a sitting president, prosecutors would charge Trump with "trumped-up" crimes if they could.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE ripped the Department of Justice for not indicting Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE on Wednesday said that as president he would examine indicting Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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With our Chinese counterparts, we've opted to engage in a long‑term ongoing dialogue about what our concerns are to try to identify the behaviors we find objectionable and to try to highlight through specific legal means, in this case, highlighting and indicting five specific individuals, here are concrete examples that we believe meet a legal threshold that would highlight the sorts of activity that we believe are unacceptable.
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The power of so many of Albee's plays, from the underproduced "Tiny Alice" (1964)—a mysterious three-act comedic drama about a corrupting rich widow and the Church—to "Three Tall Women" and " The Play About the Baby " (2001), lies in his attempt to record, without indicting, the horrible sound of his mother's lullabies: songs about his queerness, his ineptitude, and his failures, supercilious and electric with self-importance and malice.
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The police recommended indicting two others from Mr. Netanyahu's inner circle: Avriel Bar-Yosef, a reserve brigadier general and former deputy head of the National Security Council, who was Mr. Netanyahu's nominee to be his national security adviser until the scandal broke; and Eliezer (Modi) Zandberg, who was Mr. Netanyahu's appointee as chairman of Keren Hayesod, an organization that leads fund-raising efforts for Israel in dozens of countries.
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"While there is a debate over whether the president of the United States can be indicted while he's in office, there is obviously no issue of potentially indicting Jared KushnerJared Corey KushnerPresident tweets 'few work harder' than Ivanka, Jared PETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Top immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign MORE or Don Jr. or Ivanka for that matter," Waxman said.
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The truth of what happened in that prison yard 45 years ago has been suppressed by flagrant lies (including Rockefeller's claim that the prisoners, not his own troopers, had killed the hostages), unwarranted secrecy (the state still refuses to release thousands of boxes of crucial records), and cover-ups (when a prosecutor got close to indicting some of the state troopers for their role in the killings, his superiors stopped him from going forward).
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"But insofar as the Justice Department refuses to indict a president, no matter what the evidence is of whatever crimes, because they think he can't be indicted, we should certainly hold the statute of limitations, so that if he does something before he's president or while he's president that should be indicted, and the Department of Justice will not consider indicting him, whatever the facts, while he's president, he can be indicted afterward," Nadler said.
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If the Department of Justice guidance against indicting a sitting president holds, then congressional oversight — and possible impeachment — are the primary mechanisms available for ascertaining whether President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE committed serious wrongdoing, criminal or otherwise, that would warrant his removal from office.
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At a hearing, federal prosecutors defended special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, arguing that Mueller did not exceed his authority by indicting Manafort on charges related to his pre-campaign work.
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Mueller recently dealt Trump another blow by indicting the president's onetime adviser Roger StoneRoger Jason Stone28503 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 22019 Judge rejects Stone's request to dismiss charges Judge dismisses DNC lawsuit against Trump campaign, Russia over election interference MORE, and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is set to testify to Congress on Friday behind closed doors — two developments that could put the president in legal jeopardy.
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That public release, when it comes, will thankfully end the current liminal period where Barr's own summary of the report—which he subsequently denied was a summary—has stood as the only public statement on the final findings of a 22-month probe that led to charges against dozens of individuals—including Russian intelligence officers—and yielded around $50 million in forfeitures and fines, yet evidently stopped short of indicting the president or his family themselves.
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His litany of lies and exaggerations metaphorically indicting Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE and inducing a pitch-fork worthy Salem-witch-trial-like chant of "lock her up," highlighted that the Trump campaign has nothing new to offer the country than debunked lies, and cannot compete with Secretary Clinton on the battlefield of ideas.
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Now it&aposs just an odd timing but I don&apost care personally because I think it actually strengthens Trump&aposs hand to walk in say to Putin, "You tell me your guys didn&apost do that, we just indicted 403 of your people" But the second question I&aposd raise which is a very interesting question, if we&aposre going to start going after people, if we engage in hacking in the United States, there are going to be so many Chinese that we should be indicting.
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" In an answer that began by indicting the FBI's investigation for not seizing the Democratic National Committee's server, then wandered through Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's emails, some mysterious Pakistani IT specialist, and FBI official Peter Strzok before ending with the words "total witch hunt," the president of the United States offered this judgment while standing a few feet away from the president of the Russian Federation: "My people came to me.
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