Expunge drug convictions and support real jobs in inner cities.
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They can later petition the court to expunge their record.
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We actually want to go back and expunge these records.
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GELLER: What is the Muslim world doing to expunge the Quran?
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Expunge the records of the victims of the war on drugs.
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The organizations help people expunge non-violent marijuana convictions from their records.
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The jihadists fight to expunge any shred of freedom and secular government.
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Of course, as part of your confession, you must expunge such thoughts.
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They taught him how to block some 600 posters and expunge comments.
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It also calls on the judicial system to expunge EVERYBODY'S weed convictions.
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It would have also established a process to expunge convictions involving marijuana.
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Twitter isn't going to be able to expunge the right wing, obviously.
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In their eyes, it becomes a challenge — something to repress or expunge.
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The guiltier the conscience the better, since there is more sin to expunge.
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"Could a new identity not only redeem but expunge its predecessor?" she asks.
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Illinois is reportedly set to expunge nearly 22019,000 marijuana convictions from criminal records.
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They rush to judgment, dehumanize and seek to expunge us from national life.
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We regularly watch movies that will make us cry, just to expunge those emotions.
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It would decriminalize the use of cannabis and expunge all prior cannabis use convictions.
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Afterward, the Nazis and their collaborators sought to expunge evidence of what was done.
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The government's approach is to try to expunge any outward sign of the problem.
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" He added, "if you're in prison for that, you're out and we expunge those records.
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I always assumed he just needed to engage in a recreation to expunge his trauma.
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The rot of the Zuma years is proving stubbornly hard for Mr Ramaphosa to expunge.
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"If you're in prison for that, you're out and we expunge those records," he said.
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They also resent much earlier waves of Muslim conquest and seek to expunge their legacy.
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It is proof that we are able to expunge terrorism from all over the country.
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And official expungement doesn't necessarily expunge the records held by companies that do background checks.
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Under the bill, states would be allowed to seal or expunge individual marijuana possession records.
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Cuomo already has passed legislation to expunge the marijuana convictions of thousands of New Yorkers.
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But Ænima became a way for the band to expunge that masculinity, by using masculine means.
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It would also expunge the convictions of those who have already served time for their offenses.
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The Marijuana Justice Act would also expunge federal marijuana use and possession offenses from criminal records.
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Separately, the Sanders administration would push state and federal authorities to expunge past convictions for marijuana.
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Booker's legislation would also be retroactive and require federal courts to expunge previous marijuana-related convictions.
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Mr. Nisman believed it was designed to expunge the Interpol red notices against the plot's perpetrators.
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"The people of Königsberg shall never expunge these nights of terror from their memory," Wieck said.
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A federal appeals court has refused to expunge the criminal record of former Maricopa County, Ariz.
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If Woods completes the program, he can ask a judge to expunge the reckless driving conviction.
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If he completes the program, he can ask a judge to expunge the reckless driving conviction.
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The real mystery nowadays is why the media seeks to expunge the falsehoods of prior presidents.
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According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, the judge approved Kanye's request to expunge the case.
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He was slapped with an administrative reprimand that his command is now working to expunge, officials said.
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The state of Queensland is also looking at a move to expunge historic convictions for homosexual sex.
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All I can do is attempt to create a platform to expunge some of these bad vibes.
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Just 6.5% of those eligible (after a spell of staying clean) expunge their record within five years.
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This funding was previously used to expunge criminal records and help the victims assimilate back into society.
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I think there's good reason we expunge juvenile records, and would raise the expungement age to 21.
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Then, check out our current loan forgiveness programs, which expunge certain borrowers' balances after just 10 years.
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Meaher planned to expunge this guilty evidence by giving the schooner a new name and refitting it.
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Some states, like Michigan and Hawaii, automatically expunge names from databases if cases are dismissed in court.
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After Harvey Weinstein, the industry seems willing to expunge any and all accused predators from its ranks.
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That is why this bill requires federal courts to conduct resentencing hearings and expunge nonviolent marijuana-related convictions.
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At such intervals, wildfires expunge disease, remove leaf litter and thin the understorey, creating space for new growth.
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He also calls, on his website, to expunge federal convictions of all marijuana-related use or possession offenses.
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The bill has been praised for including rules that will expunge nearly 800,000 marijuana convictions from criminal records.
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North Dakota's amendment would also automatically expunge the record of someone who had a conviction related to weed.
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It would also expunge criminal records and release incarcerated people serving sentences for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
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The government also pledged to expunge the records of some 50,000 people jailed because of their sexual orientation.
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You've become obsessed with images of her vulnerability, and an understandable desire to expunge them from the internet.
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For tens of thousands of marijuana smokers, he promised to expunge their criminal convictions for using the drug.
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A lack of funding and technology has plagued efforts to automatically expunge cannabis convictions at the state level.
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Cannabis sales tax revenue will generate funding for programs to help individuals expunge these records, the state said.
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Cory Booker, which would expunge criminal records for marijuana and penalize states that keep prohibition laws on the books.
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Beto O'Rourke: wants to end the federal prohibition on marijuana and expunge criminal records of people convicted for possession.
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Instead Mr Erdogan has squandered the opportunity, preferring to expunge his enemies, real or imagined, and extend his power.
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They can either grant pardons, which expunge the conviction entirely, or commutations, which lessen the length of the sentence.
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Early in his career, he told the jurors, he once paid off Colombian officials to expunge his prison record.
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They did pass legislation to expunge past cannabis convictions, but how that will be implemented remains to be seen.
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CrowdStrike was hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate and expunge the hackers responsible for the 2016 breach.
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Sanders would direct federal and state authorities to expunge all cannabis convictions and provide resources to automate the process.
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For Trump, the mark of being a successful president is the degree to which he can expunge Obama's presidency.
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Their accomplishments should not be used to conveniently expunge traumatic racist history or clean the reputation of this city.
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Bentel is now raising the money to slowly buy the entire print, which he will then immediately expunge with ads.
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Booker also would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge the records of people convicted of cannabis-related crimes.
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I suspect Steinem is absolutely right (and one gaffe certainly shouldn't expunge a lifetime of support for young women's rights).
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"I can't pay to expunge the record, and I can't get a job to get the money," she said. Opinion
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San Francisco's decision follows similar moves made by states including Colorado and Oregon and others to expunge criminal marijuana convictions.
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I can't rewind and expunge my past actions, but perhaps I change who I am in my act of remorse.
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Despite maintaining his innocence, Taha accepted one year of rehabilitation in order to expunge his record, according to the criminal complaint.
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Even with bulked-up teams of moderators and new artificial intelligence, it is difficult for firms to expunge offensive material instantly.
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In an op-ed for the Washington Times that year, Bevin touted legislation that lets some former inmates expunge their records.
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If prosecuted and convicted, we must have a system in place to vacate, or expunge, the criminal records of trafficking victims.
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Kate Brown [in Oregon] signed a bill into law that works to expunge previous convictions that people have on their record.
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On criminal-justice reform:O'Rourke wants to end the prohibition on marijuana at the federal level and expunge past convictions for marijuana.
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"In the new law that will be written, let's automatically expunge past convictions for low-level marijuana crimes," the mayor said.
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In addition to federal decriminalization, the bill would require federal courts to expunge prior convictions and allow offenders to request expungement.
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" He concluded, "For Trump, the mark of being a successful president is the degree to which he can expunge Obama's presidency.
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That could mean, he said, editing on his part that would expunge scenes that could be deemed immodest - even a kiss.
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The Chinese government is "trying to expunge ethnonational characteristics from the people," James Millward, a professor at Georgetown University, told me.
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Lacey's office said it worked with Clear My Record, a service that helps people expunge nonviolent marijuana convictions, to evaluate records.
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It's necessary in "Basterds" to kill Hitler twice because you can't actually bring him to justice or expunge him from history.
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These laws, in other words, are simply cruel and stupid, and it is past time to expunge them from the books.
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Code For America is hoping this pilot program will be picked up by other cities and counties to expunge eligible convictions.
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A top prosecutor in Illinois is kicking off an effort to expunge thousands of low-level marijuana convictions in her county.
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The government also introduced legislation to expunge "unjust convictions" from the judicial records of people charged under laws that criminalized homosexuality.
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States move to expunge millions of cannabis convictions Over the past months, more than a dozen states — including California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington — have each enacted legislation to explicitly expunge or seal the records of those convicted of low-level marijuana crimes.
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The suspensions come as Beijing ramps up efforts to expunge educational history content that is not approved by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Yet when the government announced plans to phase jeepneys out, opponents accused it of trying to expunge the soul of the nation.
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It's also the structure that promises to yield the big security and privacy advantages of reworking Internet architecture to expunge the server.
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But, while campaigning, he pledged to expunge the records of men and women dishonorably discharged for serving in the military as homosexuals.
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (D) is ordering a "citywide" effort to vacate and expunge low-level marijuana convictions from residents' criminal records.
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The policy would require federal courts to expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession.
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Also, nearly a dozen states, including Illinois, Oregon, Nevada and Washington, have passed legislation in recent weeks to expunge past marijuana convictions.
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Senator Cory Booker's Marijuana Justice Act would remove pot from the list of controlled substances and expunge all marijuana-related federal convictions.
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It surfaces much more easily than the other feelings that theatre helps us to clarify and, if we will it, to expunge.
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Marijuana in New York: State lawmakers have agreed to further decriminalize possession of the drug and automatically expunge many low-level convictions.
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Some have pressured colleges to reconsider punishment or expunge disciplinary notations from transcripts, so that other colleges and employers cannot see them.
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Lawyers for the woman say they would press ahead with an appeal anyway because a pardon would not expunge her criminal record.
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The move would require federal courts to expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession.
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CrowdStrike is the American company hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate and expunge the hackers responsible for the 2016 breach.
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It would also automatically expunge the record of an individuals who has a drug conviction for a controlled substance that has been legalized.
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Buttigieg promises he would eliminate incarceration for drug possession, legalize marijuana and expunge past weed convictions, and reduce sentences for other drug offenses.
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In response to questions from BuzzFeed News, Columbia would not say whether it did, in fact, expunge Roma's record as the panel recommended.
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Saudi Arabia plans to expunge foreigners from human resources and telecoms (and appears to be expunging a fair few businesses in the process).
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The measure allows for unlimited possession and growth of marijuana and opens the door for the state to expunge marijuana-related criminal records.
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San Francisco prosecutors said Monday they have moved to expunge more than 9,300 marijuana-related convictions from people's records dating back to 1975.
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The move would also require federal courts to expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession.
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The panel, in the decision last month, also ordered the bank to retract his termination and expunge his regulatory record of defamatory comments.
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Last week, the NDP tabled a bill calling for the government to expunge the criminal records of Canadians with simple pot possession convictions.
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Their hope is to expunge the left's scariest attributes — especially Sanders's "socialist" label — and then seek to redefine anything less left as moderate.
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The district will also expunge Ms. Bailey's suspension from her record and provide her with a letter of recommendation for potential future employers.
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Trump's effort to expunge the leadership at DHS could destabilize the portion of the government most responsible for safety within the country's borders.
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That could mean partnering with nonprofits to expunge nonviolent criminal records, which disproportionately impact black lives, or simply walking out his home each day.
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This makes sense, as governments around the world have stepped up efforts in recent years to identify and expunge extremist content from the web.
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If North Koreans are more easily able to trade information within their country, attempts to expunge information from elsewhere have never been so fierce.
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Macy was terrified and homeless when she found her way to FAIR Girls, which worked tirelessly with Amara Legal Center to expunge her record.
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She said she's spent seven or eight years tracing his story and convincing the US Army to expunge the desertion charge from his record.
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In hindsight, it's obvious Obama posed a threat, considering columnists and authors felt the need to expunge hundreds of pages on Obama's dire chances.
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He wants to de-schedule the drug as a controlled substance, expunge criminal records, and work to prevent the emerging industry from becoming monopolized.
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He has said he wants to decriminalize possession of marijuana and expunge the records of anyone who has served jail time for its use.
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Finance wizards with bonuses to expunge can certainly do that, but it's great to see lots of bottles under $100 on almost every page.
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Unable to fully expunge the discussions, Beijing has turned to state media to transform Dr. Li into a loyal soldier aligned with the government's cause.
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Each of these sexual assault stories is tough to expunge; they don't blend together so much as affix themselves to a timeline in your heart.
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The next wave of needed reform is to set aside, or expunge, years-past convictions of people who have demonstrated their desistance from criminal behavior.
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He created the anti-graft commission tied to the president's office instead of reversing his predecessor's decision to expunge the U.N. body, known as CICIG.
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Ancient Egyptian medicine was grounded in religious or mythological stories and pharmaceutical remedies were aimed to expunge spirits or demons from the body, she says.
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Her plan would also legalize marijuana, expunge records containing marijuana convictions, and nix federal bans that prevent previously incarcerated individuals from accessing public assistance programs.
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Sen. Cory Booker is reintroducing legislation that would legalize marijuana, expunge possession convictions, and invest in communities hit hardest by the United States' war on drugs.
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The pardon would not expunge a felon's record nor would it restore other rights stripped from them, such as the right to serve on a jury.
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The Muslim and academic voices argue that both of these approaches are at best simplistic and at worst fomenting the very extremism they hope to expunge.
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For example, before last year, the only convictions Maryland residents could expunge were those for nine misdemeanors related to homelessness, such as panhandling and public urination.
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It would also expunge previous marijuana-related federal convictions and establish a fund to invest in communities affected by mass incarceration due to marijuana-related arrests.
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Now at the point of calling the shots, Okada chose Omega as his challenger once again, looking to expunge the only mark on his historic reign.
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Nearly every candidate has offered support for the federal legalization of recreational marijuana and many have called to expunge federal charges for those prosecuted for pot use.
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But if it was about the Hosts awakening to their hellish existence and deciding to expunge the Earth of their masters, then it had started too early.
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Kamala Harris introduced a bill with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Tuesday to decriminalize marijuana at a federal level and expunge low-level marijuana possession convictions.
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I installed a series of browser extensions that promised to leave the content intact but expunge those boldface, sexy, ubiquitous numbers that cluttered and dominated my feeds.
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The Education Department said this week it will review when borrowers can discharge student loans, an indication it could become easier to expunge those loans in bankruptcy.
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And if the states take more than two years to expunge the records, Sanders' plan would provide an administrative remedy to those seeking relief from state authorities.
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Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes of Buffalo called the bill "an opportunity to expunge the records of thousands of New Yorkers" in a tweet responding to the legislation's failure.
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In a couple weeks, you'll also be able to say "Alexa, delete what I just said" and it will expunge the voice recording of your most recent request.
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City of New York, the police will use "reasonable and diligent efforts" to expunge certain information pertaining to Muslim communities in New Jersey that the Intelligence Division gathered.
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The governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) at the time, Raghuram Rajan, saw the law as a way to expunge incorrigible deadbeats from the financial system.
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Track's attorney, Kevin Fitzgerald, also told the Alaska Dispatch News that the plea deal required that Palin complete an "alcohol-related" treatment program to expunge the weapon charge.
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But Prop 64 also created a path for nonviolent offenders—ex-cons, parolees, and current inmates—to petition state courts to modify or fully expunge their criminal records.
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Track's attorney, Kevin Fitzgerald also told the Alaska Dispatch News that the plea deal requires that Palin complete an "alcohol-related" treatment program to expunge the weapon charge.
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Gun control On Thursday, the Republican-led House voted to expunge an Obama-era rule that would have limited the access to firearms for some mentally ill people.
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This month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced important new federal legislation, The Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2016, to expunge the records of survivors of sex trafficking like Macy.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Only an oafish fool with malign political proclivities would try to expunge Islam from the story of the betterment of humankind.
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"We applaud Facebook's decision to expunge accounts, orchestrated from abroad, that foment division and violence inside the United States," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
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"We applaud Facebook's decision to expunge accounts, orchestrated from abroad, that foment division and violence inside the United States," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
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After disappearing from their lives to become a fierce public relations diva, she didn't shed them so much as expunge them, telling everyone they'd died in a fire.
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We need it to expunge and guard against the injustice that Bovy mentioned, and we need it because it's indeed a portal to broader knowledge and greater enlightenment.
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In fact, it happens so often that an increasing number of states have begun to pass vacatur statutes, to expunge convictions after the criminalized victims are correctly identified.
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JARRETT: Oh, yes, because the volume -- in fact, Comey wrote the sheer volume indicates that she was grossly negligent, but then he had Strzok and Page expunge that statement.
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New Jersey Senator and 2020 Democratic hopeful Corey Booker in February reintroduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would legalize weed and automatically expunge marijuana convictions from people's criminal records.
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When teams compete in LAN events in person, under the glare of lights and cameras all around them, such mouse tricks would be relatively easy to spot and expunge.
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A couple of months earlier, also in Deadline, journalist Allison Hope Weiner wrote a defense of Gibson claiming a decade in acting purgatory was enough to expunge his sins.
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She told me she had reached out to Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Norah O'Donnell and other female journalists she thought might help her expunge the word from their broadcasts.
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The Associated Press reported that Code for America, the group that helped San Francisco expunge nearly 10,000 marijuana convictions, will help the county — which contains Chicago — through the process.
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Federal law eventually banned the practice, but changes to laws in every state and laborious legwork -- searching through millions of documents -- would be required to expunge the exclusionary language.
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Several election commission members said they were determined to expunge fraudulent votes, even if it shows an extraordinarily low voter turnout that creates the perception of an illegitimate election.
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As quaint as the specters it works to expunge, "Another Evil" is an ultra-low-budget ghost story with an off-kilter sensibility that initially intrigues but ultimately fizzles.
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Decades later, Arce would go to prison for murder — absorbed, perhaps, by the violence that Childress described in her books and that Arroyo fought to expunge from El Barrio.
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It provides funding and inducements to states to enact policies that expunge these criminal convictions from citizens' records so that they can more successfully move on with their lives.
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Harris would also legalize marijuana at the federal level, as well as expunge those convictions, and would end federal bans preventing formerly incarcerated individuals from accessing public assistance programs.
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It asks that the district expunge any disciplinary action related to the promposal from her record and clarify in writing that it will not tolerate mistreatment of LGBT students.
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Sure enough, the demon residing inside the body of Hannah Grace (Kirby Johnson) proves impossible to expunge, and Hannah is killed as a final attempt to subdue its hold.
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For instance, Michelangelo wrote a considerable body of love poetry addressed to men, a fact that the artist's grandnephew attempted to expunge from the record by switching the pronouns.
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In 2016, Code for America introduced an app called Clear My Record, which makes it much easier for people to expunge criminal convictions, which can be a lifelong burden.
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He recently introduced legislation to remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances and to expunge past convictions, noting the disparate arrest rates of black and white users.
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"He could not have been more gracious and quickly got to his point: he was granting me a full pardon that would 'Expunge the bad rap you got,'" Black wrote.
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Columbia added that under current practice, the university does not expunge records, and that it had not done so in the memory of administrators working on sexual harassment cases today.
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Among other provisions, it was slated to expunge the records of as many as 800,000 people who have been convicted for purchasing or possessing up to 83 grams of cannabis.
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The California state Senate voted this week to pass legislation that will help to expunge or reduce past marijuana-related convictions handed down before pot was legalized in the state.
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In March of that year, the Delhi High Court ruled in favor of Ms. Pillai's petition against the ministry, ordering the government to expunge the "offload" notation in her passport.
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In a competitive world where it's hard enough to get a job and you've got that permanent record, the ability to expunge that, to clear it, is a big deal.
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Under the settlement, Mr. Gupta has agreed to waive any future claims against Goldman or the insurer, suggesting that he is personally funding his recent efforts to expunge his conviction.
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You have to hire an attorney; you have to meet with the AG of the state that you are in to see if they will seal or expunge your record.
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He said he dreamed that an invention that sprang from his clinic and his medical device company, which feels more boutique than corporate, would expunge the world of addiction forever.
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He said Trump told him he was going to "expunge the bad wrap you got" and that the President authorized him he could say Trump thought it was an unjust verdict.
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Last year, Ben & Jerry's also turned more serious, asking consumers to call on lawmakers to expunge prior marijuana convictions and press for pardons or amnesty for anyone arrested for smoking pot.
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Cory Booker of New Jersey reintroduced a bill in February that would legalize marijuana nationwide, expunge federal convictions and allow those prosecuted for use to petition the courts for shorter sentences.
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The reason Greylock had a stigma to expunge in the first place was because a rival venture capital firm — the all-male, elite Benchmark — poached Greylock's only female partner, Sarah Tavel.
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Of course, the AM2R program and the Nintendo Power magazine scans are still floating amongst the ether of the internet—you can never totally expunge anything that comes online, after all.
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In other words, if Brown tried to expunge a record to make someone eligible for asylum, the fact that that's why he did it would prevent it from stopping their deportation.
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On a snowy morning last February, a group of volunteer lawyers gathered in the West End to offer help in filling out applications to expunge low-level felonies from state records.
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Given that understanding, the district attorneys need to take another swing at this problem, to expunge the records of others who may have been unjustifiably caught in the zero-tolerance dragnet.
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Hancock chairs the board of Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity, or PLSE, a nonprofit that advocates for people with criminal records and runs monthly workshops on how to expunge those records.
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He instituted a system to automatically expunge past marijuana convictions, which served as a model for other districts, and established a young-adult court to divert more people away from prison.
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As Judge John DeSheplo dismissed the misdemeanor charge of simple assault after briefly questioning Rivas, he also agreed to a request from Familia's lawyer to expunge the arrest from Familia's record.
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Both the Senate and House voided the consumer rule using the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law that gives Congress the power to expunge rules that were created by government agencies.
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Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey last month introduced the pointedly named Marijuana Justice Act, which would remove the drug from the federal list of controlled substances and expunge past convictions.
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Responding to pleas from Arpaio's attorneys to expunge the conviction and give the sheriff a clean criminal record, Bolton ruled that a presidential pardon exempts Arpaio from punishment — but not his conviction.
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Thomas Haldenwang, head of the federal office for the protection of the constitution, responsible for Germany's domestic security, admitted that his agency has yet to expunge the threat of right-wing extremism.
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Now, there&aposs a way to do things, there&aposs a way some of the drug courts, for example, will expunge your record if you complete rehabilitation and they have different steps.
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House Democrats' official campaign arm didn't get its preferred nominee in every race, but it did expunge an embarrassing situation in TX-7, a very strong pickup opportunity in the Houston suburbs.
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Russian authorities, hoping to expunge memories of the Marseille brawls, have pledged to curb violence at the World Cup, to be held from June 14 to July 15 in 11 Russian cities.
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As pleasurable and sometimes necessary as it might be for a Clinton supporter to expunge her Trump-loving cousin from her Facebook feed, social media breakups don't necessarily change hearts and mind.
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It would also expunge federal marijuana use and possession crimes and allow someone serving time in federal prison for marijuana use or possession crimes to petition a court for a re-sentencing.
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Booker has introduced a measure to legalize marijuana at the federal level and to expunge the records of those who have been charged with using or possessing small amounts of pot. Sens.
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Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's commemorated 4/20, a popular day in cannabis culture, with free ice cream and a criminal justice reform campaign calling on Congress to expunge prior marijuana convictions.
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For the past couple weeks, Republicans in Congress have been wielding an obscure but powerful tool known as the Congressional Review Act to expunge recent Obama-era environmental regulations from the books.
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The impulse to expunge all this and turn watching sports into an accounting exercise filled with insider jargon reflects some of the eye-rolling elitism that has entered our national political conversation.
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Caliva said it will donate 85033 percent of all sales from April 20 to the nonprofit Code for America and its Clear My Record program, which works to expunge eligible cannabis records.
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Many also call for legal reform around the country to allow people arrested for prostitution to expunge their criminal records, making it easier for them to get jobs outside the sex industry.
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The oversight board, which is made up of Army civilians, will also consider Golsteyn's request to expunge a letter of reprimand issued in 2014 from his personnel record, the Army spokesperson added.
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" The law defines "expunge" to mean to "physically destroy the records or return them to the petitioner and to obliterate the petitioner's name from any official index or public record, or both.
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"That way we could really dig into the normalization of cannabis and ultimately change the law, reverse convictions, and expunge records of nonviolent criminals that are the true pioneers of this industry."
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The bills have addressed everything from ending the policy of criminalization to providing resources to expunge criminal records to narrow legislation that would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct research trials.
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Under Pahlka's leadership the group has undertaken a number of projects, the most recent of which has been working with counties to help automatically expunge the records of people convicted of marijuana offenses.
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The goal was to use a Code for America algorithm to identify and expunge criminal records that could be cleared by California's Proposition 64, which retroactively eliminated or reduced several cannabis-related crimes.
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Even if the feds decide to start targeting commercial cannabis activity, it likely wouldn't impede California's independent ability to decriminalize the drug and expunge past marijuana convictions on the state level, he noted.
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These days, not only do we have to expunge physical mementos in the aftermath of a breakup, we also have to cleanse our phones of the remnants of the relationship that once was.
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The Firearm Due Process Protection Act introduced Monday would make it easier for people who have been denied a gun because they failed a background check to expunge inaccurate information from their records.
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Absurdly, 11 states even charge to expunge a juvenile record, which is a major obstacle to a young person's ability to get into college, land a job or find a place to live.
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The Supreme Court ruling does not automatically expunge all the drunken-driving convictions, but the justices did note that defendants tested by the affected breath machines could now seek to challenge their convictions.
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New Jersey: The governor and two legislative leaders, all Democrats, have a broad compromise to legalize the drug, expunge some drug-related criminal records and help incentivize businesses owned by people of color.
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" Additionally, Sanders would work to abolish the death penalty and solitary confinement, raise the age to charge children in adult courts to 18, legalize marijuana and "(expunge) past convictions for marijuana-related offenses.
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For residents who have not committed an offense in a decade, the law will expunge several offenses, including marijuana charges affecting the nearly one million individuals convicted of marijuana related offenses since 1990.
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All presidents reach such a moment sooner or later, when the national interest, the requirements of governance and even their own legacies require them to expunge political capital they have spent years building.
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The Marijuana Justice Act would also expunge the records of those who have been charged with a crime for using or possessing it, and direct resources toward re-entry and job training programs.
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He said the harvesting of data was unlikely to get any less invasive and noted that the information that is collected about us is like a "digital tattoo" that is impossible to expunge.
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Mr. Booker has also introduced The Marijuana Justice Act, a bill that would legalize marijuana and expunge the records of those who have been charged with a crime for using or possessing it.
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Particularly starting in the late 19th century, some artists and architects wanted to expunge the differentiation between major and minor art in the creation of a total-art by centering art in human life.
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Cory Booker reintroduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would legalize marijuana on the federal level and expunge the records of those who have been charged with a crime for using or possessing the drug.
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Mr. Sanders introduced his plan to legalize marijuana, a broad proposal that would also expunge many criminal records, provide money for communities affected by the war on drugs and create an independent clemency board.
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Department of Justice guidelines on presidential pardons specifically state that a pardon does not erase or expunge the crime for which the pardon was granted; even the President cannot erase someone's record this way.
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Twitter bans users from buying up followers, not only because it artificially inflates their reach but also because the purchased accounts are often bots or spam accounts, which the platform actively tries to expunge.
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Given that the spam tweet even appeared on NASA Kepler's homepage, it didn't take long for the agency to figure it out and expunge any record of NASA Kepler's brief Twitter foray into porn.
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Microsoft's Windows 7 fixed the worst problems of the awful Windows Vista, but it was mainly a modern, sleeker evolution of the ancient Windows XP, rushed to market to expunge Vista from users' minds.
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Penguins 4, Predators 1 | Pittsburgh leads series, 143-0 PITTSBURGH — Pekka Rinne tries to expunge subpar performances by visualizing good ones, of which he has had plenty for the Nashville Predators during these playoffs.
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ALBANY — New York lawmakers, having fallen short in a push to fully legalize marijuana, have agreed to further decriminalize possession of the drug and automatically expunge many low-level marijuana convictions across the state.
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The backdrop: Seattle's move comes a week after San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said he will retroactively expunge or reduce misdemeanor and felony marijuana convictions of more than 3,000 people, dating back to 1975.
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He has also said he would revisit Nisman's investigation into the previous Argentine government's alleged plan to expunge Iran's involvement in the attack in exchange for closer bilateral diplomatic, economic and perhaps even nuclear ties.
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So thoroughly did M.G.M. expunge Patricia Douglas from the historical record that when I first stumbled upon her story, no reference source whatsoever cited her case, while a Google search of her name yielded nothing.
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The genius of Simpson's lawyers is that they realize they can exploit the latter to completely expunge the former, before Clark and her team can figure out how to use the former to their advantage.
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Op-Ed Contributor Statesboro, Ga. — DEPENDING on whom you ask, political correctness is either an effort to expunge offensive expression from our culture, or it's a weapon fashioned by the left to brainwash the next generation.
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In August, the company launched "The Possible Plan," an effort to expunge the records of people arrested for low-level marijuana offenses, through a collaboration with The New York Times Magazine's slavery feature The 1619 Project.
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Although Congress mandated the software be removed in its annual defense policy bill, the DHS had already issued a directive last September ordering civilian agencies to expunge Kaspersky products from their systems by a December deadline.
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The bill would eliminate marijuana's status as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substance Act and require federal courts to expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession.
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The bill would eliminate marijuana's status as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substance Act and require federal courts to expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession.
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Cory Booker — and a host of other Democratic senators vying for the White House — are re-introducing a bill Thursday to legalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge the criminal records of previous marijuana offenders.
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In Marnò's case, a Columbia panel determined that she had "provoked and contributed to" her professor's actions, and offered to "expunge" Roma's records if the university was not made aware of any similar complaints within two years.
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A report from the AP lays out the details, but the information will come as no surprise to anyone who has tried to fully expunge their location data, or who read the "dark patterns" report from June.
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Julian Castro Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and secretary of Housing and Urban Development under former President Barack Obama, would legalize marijuana and expunge the records of those previously convicted of using the drug.
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Under the deal, lawmakers are drafting legislation to tax pot sales, expunge past convictions for low-level cannabis offenses and create opportunities for minorities and women to enter the business, the governor's office said in a statement.
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There is a powerful and understandable urge, as a consequence of the long-overdue recognition of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse, to expunge the perpetrators, to turn away from their work and scrub it from the canon.
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That legislation would eliminate marijuana's status as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substance Act and require federal courts to expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession. Sens.
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But Ridley Scott had flown in from London with an urgent plea: Would Mr. Plummer help expunge the disgraced Kevin Spacey from Mr. Scott's latest film, one set for theatrical release by Sony in just six weeks?
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Whether or not the signees' call to rename the English department building is heeded, this petition joins a growing chorus at campuses across the country to expunge prominent monuments to slaveowners, Confederate sympathizers, and segregationist public figures.
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Sen. Cory Booker — and a host of other Democratic senators vying for the White House — are re-introducing a bill Thursday to legalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge the criminal records of previous marijuana offenders.
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As part of the plea deals both had negotiated, Davidson County District Attorney General Glenn Funk said in a statement that Barry and Forrest could petition the court to expunge their criminal records if they successfully complete probation.
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That initiative, which was passed by voters in 2014, was designed to allow individuals to retroactively expunge or reclassify certain nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, allowing individuals to become eligible again to work, vote, and receive some government benefits.
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The initiative is the latest attempt by the industry to clean up its image and expunge the scourge of "blood diamonds" blamed for financing conflict, chaos and criminality in poor African countries, such as Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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Trudeau, who teared up as he spoke, also proposed a bill that would let courts expunge the records of people charged with crimes due to their sexuality and urged modern Canada to adopt "forward-thinking and progressive" ideals.
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A criminal justice plan Biden released on Tuesday would decriminalize marijuana, expunge past convictions and legalize it for medical purposes, but stopped short of legalizing recreational usage, which he has said should be left up to the states.
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Trudeau, who teared up as he spoke, also proposed a bill that would let courts expunge the records of people charged with crimes due to their sexuality and urged modern Canada to adopt "forward-thinking and progressive" ideals.
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"The movement to expunge or shield criminal records has been growing over the last couple of years," said Inimai M. Chettiar, the director of the justice program at the Brennan Center for Justice at N.Y.U. School of Law.
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" There was no need to expunge her past Pat sketches from the historical record, she said, but no need to bring Pat into the present day, either, describing the character as a remnant of "a whole other world.
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Washington (CNN)New York's Legislature has passed a bill that would create a path to expunge low-level convictions for marijuana and decriminalize possession of greater amounts of the drug following a failed effort at legalization earlier this week.
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In particular, Warren can see herself attracting millennial and Gen Z voters who mysteriously have not warmed to her thus far, but who will surely be won over by her proposal to have Uncle Sam expunge their college loans.
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Although Congress mandated the software be removed in its annual defense policy bill, the Department of Homeland Security had already issued a directive last September ordering civilian agencies to expunge Kaspersky products from their systems by a December deadline.
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At best, it can give the lawyers time to plead down or expunge what are often minor charges that might count against their client in deportation court, and at worst it allows families time to get an immigration lawyer.
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San Francisco will expunge and dismiss thousands of misdemeanor and felony marijuana convictions for those sentenced prior to legalization of marijuana in California — even if those with prior convictions don't file a petition, District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday.
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As vanguard painting tended increasingly toward abstraction during the first half of the 20th century, Op Art could be seen as a culmination of a drive to expunge imagery, symbolism and personal expression from painting in the interest of formal purity.
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But they "then got a boost from Jeanne Lambrew, the White House's top health reform official, who also sounded alarms the new administration might expunge reams of information from public websites and end access to data," Politco reported, citing researchers.
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This lack of a blocking feature has always annoyed hardcore Spotify Premium users, but it has become increasingly problematic in the #MeToo era, where we have more reasons than ever to want to quickly expunge an artist from our view.
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The #MeToo movement is contesting that presumption of impunity and suggesting that powerful men who commit serious transgressions should suffer the fate of non-powerful people who make serious mistakes — permanent, negative repercussions that are genuinely difficult to expunge and overcome.
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The ex-Knicks star was charged with assault, harassment and criminal trespass ... but accepted an ACD (Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal) -- which would expunge the arrest from his record if he agreed to keep his nose clean for 6 months.
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Although Congress mandated the software be removed in its annual defense policy bill, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had already issued a directive last September ordering civilian agencies to expunge Kaspersky products from their systems by a December deadline.
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But corruption convictions can appear and disappear in split seconds in Pakistan; eventually Bhutto reached a deal with the military to expunge her convictions and returned to Pakistan to contest elections that no one was even sure would be held.
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More importantly, it would also retroactively expunge the criminal records of those who have been convicted for use or possession of marijuana, create incentives for states to change laws, and create community reinvestment funds for communities that have been disproportionately impacted.
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In September, after the president deleted some tweets praising Luther Strange, the incumbent Senate candidate from Alabama who went on to lose the special-election primary runoff, speculation ensued about whether it was illegal for Trump to expunge those tweets.
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How will we accumulate enough good karma to expunge the bad memories of 2018, and 2017, and 2016, until we're back in the good old days when we had a president with a sense of humor and spirit of human decency?
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Fourth, the federal government and every state should automatically expunge criminal records after an appropriate period of time has passed so that those who have paid their debt to society have a fair chance to lead productive and law-abiding lives.
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Ongoing projects are highlighted as well, such as the People's Paper Co-op in North Philadelphia, an organization that works with people to expunge their criminal records, which are then shredded and transformed into handmade paper used for creative projects.
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In North Dakota, a measure to legalize marijuana will definitely not be on the ballot, but there is still a possibility that voters could decide to remove the drug from the list of controlled substances and automatically expunge all marijuana-related convictions.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) will ask Brazilian authorities to expunge records of criminal proceedings against nine athletes who were detained at the Rio Olympics after their accreditation passes were tampered with after an investigation labeled the criminal process "oppressive".
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"It's not going to take Kim Kardashian coming to the White House to expunge people's records," said Mr. Booker, referencing Mr. Trump's close relationship with the reality television mogul who has taken up the cause of criminal justice reform in recent years.
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Details: In addition to removing marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances, the bill would offer states financial incentives to loosen marijuana laws, expunge federal crimes related to the use or possession of marijuana and allow offenders to appeal for shorter sentences.
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Many congressional Republicans held their noses and voted for Trump -- despite their misgivings about his tone and personality -- solely because of their belief that he was the final puzzle piece in their near-decade long quest to expunge the stain of Obamacare.
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"That process should begin as soon as possible with decriminalizing simple possession of small amounts of marijuana and taking action to release from jail, pardon and expunge the records of those whose convictions would not have occurred under more rational standards," Herring wrote.
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It has also generated a momentum that we should capitalize on if we truly want to expunge the jihadist group from Iraqi soil, including from the crucial city of Mosul, and take the first steps toward a meaningful reconciliation for our country.
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Unable to reach agreement on a deal to fully legalize marijuana, lawmakers on Thursday agreed on something of a half-measure, passing a bill that will further decriminalize possession of the drug and automatically expunge many low-level marijuana convictions across the state.
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"We are gratified that prolific Sandy Hook hoaxer and serial harasser of the families of victims Wolfgang Halbig has been arrested," said Mr. Pozner, who founded HONR, a network of volunteers who seek to expunge online content targeting the victims of tragedy.
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Last year the New York Times reported that regulators had circulated a less-than-helpful list of 68 types of material that internet firms were expected to expunge, ranging from media that promote "unhealthy marital values" to posts that blur lines between "beauty and ugliness".
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Seeing how these issues evolved under each president — expansion in the "Northwest" under Harrison to Texas annexation under Tyler to the Wilmot Proviso and Polk — I come away with a richer understanding of how the country came to expunge its original sin on the battlefield.
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Hollywood's swift efforts to expunge Weinstein, Spacey, and C.K. are heartening — especially when viewed alongside parallel cases in politics, such as the horrifying attempts to downplay similarly carefully reported allegations against figures like Senate candidate Roy Moore, accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl.
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"(The NYPD's) vague suggestion that they will agree to expunge some samples provides little comfort to our clients -- including kids as young as 12 -- who are among the tens of thousands of people in the ... index now or may be in the future," Rosenblatt said.
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Her works from that seedbed period tell a gripping tale of borrowed stylistic ideas—redolent of Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and other Abstract Expressionists, and of Johns and Kelly—which she didn't so much follow as test, one by one, and expunge.
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She is also a proud graduate of Mahoning County drug court, one of the most successful of a national network of courts aimed at helping addicts to get clean, get their families, jobs and lives back — and to dismiss or expunge their criminal records.
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States with laws that now allow residents to expunge or reduce their cannabis records include Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, Virginia, Rhode Island, and California, which is leading the charge with a policy of automatic expungement (putting the onus on the state instead of citizens).
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But this sense of grievance is tempered, too, by a recognition that Sousse was different, that the image the reports painted—of sunbathers murdered where they lay, of families pursued through hotel corridors, of Rezgui laughing as he pulled the trigger—will take time to expunge.
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Since 20103, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand and several Australian states have issued apologies to gay and bisexual men and other members of the L.G.B.T. community convicted for consensual same-sex activities before they were decriminalized and have announced plans to expunge the records of their convictions.
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A disagreement existed among lawmakers about how far to go regarding the social justice component in the legalization bill: Fissures grew over whether it was necessary to expunge criminal records for marijuana-related offenses for those found with as much as five pounds of the drug.
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They say they began the effort on their own, and then got a boost from Jeanne Lambrew, the White House's top health reform official, who also sounded alarms the new administration might expunge reams of information from public websites and end access to data, researchers told POLITICO.
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The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019, or MORE Act,would would require federal courts to expunge previous convictions for marijuana offenses, What's next: The bill, which proposes to remove marijuana from a list of federally controlled substances, will now go to the full House.
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Together, as so many of our young people have received criminal records for nonviolent offenses, we have fought to end the war on drugs, and have seen state after state decriminalize marijuana, and have seen communities expunge the criminal records of those arrested on these charges.
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The social media websites must maintain a copy of the illegal material, expunge all other copies from the site, and prevent them from being re-uploaded (a near impossibility, considering the speed and scope of the internet), and explain the reasons for any action, or inaction, to the complainant.
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Later, when the Democrat-led House of Delegates in Tyler's home state of Virginia ordered Tyler to vote to expunge the censure of Jackson (which was the president's punishment for withholding key documents during the Bank Wars), Tyler resigned his seat rather than vote for something he found unconstitutional.
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The bill would also expunge federal convictions for marijuana use and possession from people's criminal records—and these are felony convictions that can affect people's job prospects, ability to access social services, and ability to vote—plus allow people in prison for marijuana offenses to petition for resentencing.
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In Egypt, too, albeit under very different circumstances, the utopianism of 2011 has given way to suffocation and violence, as a new iteration of military despots attempt to expunge collective memories of that brief moment when the ability to shape the world around oneself had fallen into collective hands.
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Supporters of the proposal in New Jersey to expunge criminal records say strict drug laws in the state have long unfairly targeted minorities: A black New Jersey resident is three times more likely to be arrested on marijuana-related offenses than a white resident, a recent study found.
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Trump may well be hinting at a potential return to the broader focus on North Korea's despicable treatment of its own people, not least including the millions held in concentration camps — in many ways similar to the camps its Chinese mentors use to eliminate Uighurs and expunge their culture.
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The coalition that came together on this issue submitted a Public Records Act request to the San Francisco Superior Court and examined the fines and fees charged to clients in their Clean Slate program, which helps people expunge their criminal records so that they can start a new life more easily.
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Mr. Pattinson is clearly set on avoiding obviousness, and this may be why, instructively, he has gravitated toward roles that call for his characters to undergo punishing physical abuse — they've been beaten, throttled, shot and endured a proctologist's probing — as if he were trying to expunge the last trace of Edward.
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Even after being taken advantage of, Diaz stayed in touch with Batres and returned to work for him briefly, both because he had a hard time finding other work and because his former boss said he would hire lawyers and use secret connections to ICE to expunge his imprisoned coworkers' records.
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It would establish a $10 billion fund for black entrepreneurs over five years, invest $25 billion in historically black colleges, legalize marijuana, expunge past drug convictions, reduce the prison population by half and pass a new Voting Rights Act to further empower the federal government to ensure voting access for minority voters.
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"I cannot tell the committee today that we've seen sufficient evidence of China's willingness to truly shut down North Korean revenue flows, to expunge North Korean elicit actors from its banking system or to expel the various North Korean brokers and middlemen who are continuing to establish webs of front companies," Billingslea said.
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In Delaware, this year alone, the state legislature passed laws to expand the use of civil citations instead of criminal charges, to end shackling of youth except where it's necessary for safety, to provide free legal representation to all children charged with a crime, and to make it easier for juveniles to expunge their records.
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The political plotting in the early days of Trump's presidency provides a window into a three-year effort by Trump and his loyalists to identify and expunge suspected "deep state" opponents from the White House and in some cases other parts of the government, a move that was kept at bay until recent weeks.
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Beaudette's decision is not final, and the service said in a statement that it will next have an administrative panel consider whether it should reinstate the Special Forces tab and a Distinguished Service Cross — the U.S. military's second-highest valor award — and expunge a letter of reprimand Golsteyn received in connection with his case.
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The act removes the marijuana plant from the federal Controlled Substances Act, requires the federal courts to expunge prior marijuana-related convictions, and provides grants to communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the drug war to facilitate record expungements, assist local governments in setting up accessible licensing structures that promote consumer safety, and other needed changes.
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The sailors' scrape was truly a case where timing was everything; they went astray only days before the long-anticipated "implementation day" for the nuclear deal, when United Nations certification that Iran has completed its obligations under the agreement will expunge many of the international sanctions that have wreaked havoc on Iran's economy for the past five years.
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To redeem himself in the eyes of God, Yankl has paid to have a Torah scroll created, and his most fervent hope is to find Rifkele a respectable Jewish husband, as if by raising her strictly and setting her up in a traditional marriage, he could expunge the sense of his own sinfulness that festers in his soul.
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Yet supporters of the Hindu-nationalist government of Narendra Modi, the prime minister, dislike the idea of a body headed by the Aga Khan, an Islamic leader, being involved in Indian cultural work; besides, the Hindutva agenda is to expunge Mughal influence from Indian life, as if it were an alien, Muslim carbuncle rather than an intrinsic part of the country's inheritance.
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What We Know About Mail Bombing Suspect Cesar Sayoc Jr.Law enforcement officials arrested and charged 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr. on Friday, in…Read more ReadA Facebook spokesperson said the teams were not relying solely on users to report the content, but would in this case be taking proactive measures to expunge content commending or celebrating the pipe bomber.
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The latest exhibition builds on the Borghese collection, fleshing out the artist's career from his apprenticeship with his father, the sculptor Pietro Bernini (a collaboration that Gian Lorenzo "would later try to expunge," Mr. Bacchi said), with a series of sculptures they crafted in tandem, to his ambition to become an all-around artist, adding architecture and painting to his already considerable skills.
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"All too often, communities of color and low-income individuals are unjustly impacted by our broken drug policies, but by including measures to expunge records and reinvest in the communities most impacted, our state has the opportunity to lead in prioritizing social justice," Cory Booker, a Democratic United States senator from New Jersey who is running for president, said last week.
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Mr. Colombo was a 26-year-old military school graduate in 1971 when he helped persuade the producer of "The Godfather," the sponsors of the network television series "The F.B.I." and even the Nixon administration's Justice Department under Attorney General John N. Mitchell to expunge the term Mafia and its Sicilian counterpart, La Cosa Nostra, from the screenplay, weekly scripts and official lexicon.
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Along with the question of how to issue DUIs for marijuana users, there's debates to be had over whether and how to expunge the records of drug offenders, how licensing should work for legal cannabis businesses, and how to enact laws that actually bring an end to black market weed businesses, which has so far been a struggle in states that have legalized pot.
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A candidate's pledge to "end mass incarceration" can quickly crumble if it's couched in carve-outs: legalize marijuana (but not opioids), automatically expunge criminal records after five years (but only for offenses that are not serious or violent), end sentences of "life in prison without parole" for youth (but only after they've served ten years, and only for crimes committed before their eighteenth birthday).
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When many men showed up wearing Time's Up pins, some women sat back and waited for one of them to get called out as being exactly the kind of creep the Time's Up initiative is trying to expunge — which, as of this writing, has already borne out with allegations levied against Ansari and James Franco, who won the film category's Best Actor in a Comedy.
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After the Civil War, the GOP, as the nation's predominant electoral force, then pushed through the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which meant to expunge the legacy of slavery (though they did not eliminate racial discrimination) and confirmed onto the court generations of Republican justices who provided the legal framework for the same forces of industrialization and economic consolidation that the party promoted in its policy agenda.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersSanders campaign hits back at Biden: 'He is once again peddling dishonest insurance company talking points' Overnight Health Care: House Dems clash over Pelosi drug pricing bill | Senate blocks effort to roll back Trump ObamaCare moves | Number of uninsured children rises Sanders aide says heart attack 'personalized' health issues for voters MORE (I-Vt.) announced a plan last week to legalize marijuana nationally and expunge the records of those with marijuana-related offenses.
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J.) and Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Sanders leads Democratic field in Colorado poll MORE (Calif.), have co-sponsored legislation to eliminate marijuana's status as a Schedule 1 drug and require federal courts expunge the records of Americans who have prior marijuana convictions related to use or possession.
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersSanders campaign hits back at Biden: 'He is once again peddling dishonest insurance company talking points' Overnight Health Care: House Dems clash over Pelosi drug pricing bill | Senate blocks effort to roll back Trump ObamaCare moves | Number of uninsured children rises Sanders aide says heart attack 'personalized' health issues for voters MORE (I-Vt.) on Thursday introduced a plan to legalize marijuana and also expunge the records of people with marijuana-related convictions.
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Booker's proposed legislation seeks to change the consequences of this imbalance as well: It would expunge crimes at the federal level related to the use and possession of marijuana; allow those currently serving time in federal prison for marijuana-related crimes to ask the court for a re-sentencing; and create a reinvestment fund to help communities impacted by the War on Drugs, while funding programs such as job training, health education, youth opportunities, and reentry services.
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Your record will essentially have to pass through five sections of the government in a multi-step process: A state police officer will search through an extensive database and determine which records can be expunged under the new law; a prisoner review board will determine which should be forwarded for a pardon by the governor; the governor then approves or dismisses the pardon; the state's attorney general gets the chance to petition that; and, finally, the police can expunge.
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Trump's rise has stirred fear among people of faith, particularly Muslims, who can stick out by virtue of simply adhering to expected customs of dress; undocumented immigrants who have refused to keep their legal status a shameful secret; women who have been victims of sexual assault and have bravely found their voice in sharing their pain; those living with HIV and other illnesses whose stigmas linger in the face of silence; even liberal journalists and professors whose explicit targeting seeks to expunge their ideas from the light of day.
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