It has turned many parts of the country into black holes, granting immunity to corrupt officials.
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Though rarely used, Congress has the power under federal law to compel witness testimony by granting immunity.
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Had he won even a narrow majority, he could have tried to pass a law granting immunity.
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Prosecutors spend a lot of time developing a case before they ask a judge for an order granting immunity.
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If I was in a world where I could have found all the facts without granting immunity, I would have done that.
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"I think that the federal law granting immunity to gunmakers has become a hot button political issue," Winkler, the law professor, told me.
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"Only a judge may issue an order granting immunity in Pennsylvania," the prosecutor, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele, said in court papers.
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Granting immunity to a witness requires a two-thirds vote of a congressional committee and is subject to a delay by the Justice Department.
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In Alaska, Burns successfully fought for a law granting immunity from prostitution charges to victims and witnesses who make good faith reports of illegal activity.
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The norm granting immunity to ArcelorMittal has been contested by a magistrate in Taranto, and is currently awaiting a final ruling by the Constitutional Court.
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Some Republicans have argued that appointing a special prosecutor would complicate those ongoing investigations, especially when it comes to issuing subpoenas or granting immunity to witnesses.
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Apparently no one has advised Mr. Trump that the federal criminal code does not contain a provision granting immunity from prosecution to a President's early supporters.
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Any congressional committee conducting an official investigation can offer it, provided there's a supermajority vote in favor of granting immunity and that a judge signs off afterward.
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It contained a provision granting immunity to "any potential co-conspirators"; and it was made without informing Epstein's accusers, a violation of the Crime Victims' Rights Act.
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SCHWEIZER: If this reporting is accurate, and I have no reason to believe is not, it&aposs a little bit like granting immunity to Bonnie to get at Clyde.
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"Today's ruling is tantamount to granting immunity to those with power and authority in an organization to use it for sexual abuse," Ms. Bae told reporters outside the courthouse.
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Last week the Michigan Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 275, which seeks to amend the state's 1931 law granting immunity to undercover officers who have sex with sex workers.
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My staff immediately contacted the head of the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice to inquire whether our granting immunity would have a negative impact on the criminal case.
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The S.E.C. has started to mimic the approach taken by the Justice Department by allowing deferred-prosecution agreements for cooperating companies and granting immunity to witnesses who can provide valuable information.
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At least one right-wing party expected to join his new governing coalition has been open about its goal of passing a law granting immunity to Israeli Parliament members, including prime ministers.
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One of her first moves was to issue a presidential decree granting immunity from criminal prosecution to security forces participating in operations to "reestablish internal order," prompting immediate pushback from human rights organizations.
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Perhaps the most controversial aspect of Commissioner Rob Manfred's ruling last month on the scheme was his granting immunity from punishment to Astros players in exchange for their cooperation with Major League Baseball's investigation.
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Ms. Navot, the constitutional law expert, said the parliamentary process of granting immunity is quasi-judicial, requiring evidence to back up the arguments of the person requesting it, and takes place under judicial review.
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Cornyn, the Senate's No. 6900 Republican, pressed Lynch on the Justice Department's role in granting immunity to Bryan Pagliano, a former Clinton aide who is believed to have set up her "homebrew" email server.
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What the Trump administration should do The Trump administration should clarify the US stance on granting immunity from prosecution to third parties assisting the family and friends of hostages that are held by terrorist groups.
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In the DMCA, Congress offered a revolutionary solution to these problems – granting immunity to new, emerging platforms in exchange for reasonable enforcement efforts, including quickly taking down copyrighted materials they learned about and dealing with repeat offenders.
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The Goliaths possess a voting majority, but they don't know that the Davids have three separate advantages: A vote stealer, an idol (granting immunity to its wearer), and an "Idol Nullifier" that makes an opponent's idol useless.
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Most states have passed some sort of "medical amnesty" law granting immunity from arrest and prosecution for drug and alcohol offenses when a person seeks medical attention for another person experiencing a drug or alcohol related medical emergency.
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The lawyers said the decree granting immunity did not make clear what sort of actions could be seen as furthering the aims of the coup, for which civilians carrying out revenge attacks could now be protected from punishment.
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If, for example, the special counsel was deterred from indicting him only by the Justice Department's policy of granting immunity to a sitting president, Mr Mueller might be expected to inform Mr Barr of the charges he would otherwise have brought.
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The Obama administration issued guidelines designed to reassure banks that they would not be punished for serving legitimate marijuana businesses back in 2014, but the policies fell short of granting immunity to prosecution or civil penalties and the drug remains federally illegal.
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He also took the outrageous step of granting immunity to the police officer who should have been the object of the investigation — a clear indication that he had no interest in a thorough investigation and intended to exonerate the officer from the outset.
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But Mr. Dreeben also suggested that as long as the regulation continues to protect Mr. Mueller, the acting attorney general could not overrule the special counsel's decisions on routine actions within the Justice Department's discretion, like granting immunity to a witness, making a plea agreement or issuing an indictment.
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There are three requirements to showing such misconduct: that the government was discriminatory in granting immunity to favorable witnesses while denying it to those who will help the defendant to gain a tactical advantage, the testimony the witness would have given was helpful and important, and the information was not available from other sources.
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"As Israel does not have term limits for members of Knesset or for its prime ministers, granting immunity means an indefinite delay in the legal proceedings and would constitute irreparable harm to the principle of 'equality before the law,'" Yohanan Plesner, the head of the Israel Democracy Institute think tank, said in an emailed statement.
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Must the Congress sit still in the face of the news swirling around the White House and forgo its right and duty to get to the bottom of what may be lurking, simply because granting immunity to someone who may have committed a crime but can point to higher ups (or the higher up) might enable that person to "walk" free after taking that immunity bath?
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Donald 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 campaign on Friday hammered the Department of Justice (DOJ) for granting immunity to a computer specialist who deleted emails for presidential rival 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.
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Its most recent usage was in the opening sequence of the season 16 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Granting Immunity".
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The cabinet approved a law granting immunity to President Saleh. The action forwarded the law to the legislature for its approval.
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Italy), Judgment, ¶139(4) (February 3, 2012) . Dissenting Judge Bennouna said there was a difference between state immunity and state responsibility. Granting immunity does not exonerate one from responsibility. In this case the court should of recognised that Germany admitted to their crimes, and therefore are responsible.
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The agreement has been characterized as granting immunity from prosecution to U.S. military personnel who commit crimes against Filipinos, and as treating Filipinos as second class citizens in their own country. As a result of these issues, in 2006, some members of the Philippine Congress considered terminating the VFA. However, the agreement was not changed.
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Part IV includes changes to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act which include handling of Data collected by CSIS either in a foreign country or within Canada. It also includes provisions granting immunity from prosecution for members of CSIS who utter forged documents in the course of their duties when establishing a covert identity.
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The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed.406 U.S. at 443. The Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve the question of whether testimony may be compelled by granting immunity from the use of compelled testimony and evidence derived therefrom ("use and derivative use" immunity) or if it is necessary to grant immunity from prosecution for offenses to which compelled testimony relates ("transactional" immunity).
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Las Casas was a Dominican, and the Dominicans peacefully converted the Indigenous population. The area was renamed Vera Paz, or True Peace. In 1539 Alvarado returned from Spain, bringing with him royal privileges and concessions granting immunity from the threatened trial and replacing Maldonado as governor. Alvarado was named governor of Guatemala for seven years, and also governor of neighboring Honduras, a position he had not held previously.
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Although the police suspected Burke and Hare of other murders, there was no evidence on which they could take action. An offer was put to Hare granting immunity from prosecution if he turned king's evidence. He provided the details of Docherty's murder and confessed to all 16 deaths; formal charges were made against Burke and his wife for three murders. At the subsequent trial Burke was found guilty of one murder and sentenced to death.
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Gomez & Travaglio, Se li conosci li eviti, p. ? Similar provisions were included in the lodo Alfano Act (2008), granting immunity to the top four representatives of the State, including Berlusconi and the same Schifani as Speaker of the Senate. After being granted immunity Schifani has sued his critics Travaglio and Tabucchi for slander, allegedly claiming 1.3 million from Tabucchi as the author declared in the transmission Annozero on 5 February 2009. The lodo Alfano was declared anti-constitutional in October 2009 as well.
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In 2010, Gooden had no Democratic opponent in his heavily Republican district.Dallas News Kaufmann Herald In 2011, Gooden assisted hotel mogul Monty Bennett in his fight against the Tarrant Regional Water District, pushing legislation to designate Bennett's 1,000-acre ranch as a municipal utility district and granting immunity from a proposed water pipeline through the property. Gooden won renomination to a second term in the Republican primary held on May 29, 2012. He polled 6,385 votes (53.5 percent) to 5,545 (46.5 percent) for his opponent, Stuart Spitzer.
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Schifani and Antonio Maccanico, senator of the centre left L’Ulivo (Olive Tree) political coalition, gave their name to a bill aimed at granting immunity to the top five representatives of the State, including Silvio Berlusconi (although the other four were not facing trial). After extensive revisions of the text of the law by the Senate, Maccanico withdraw his name from the project. The lodo Schifani decree was then approved in June 2003 by the Italian parliament guaranteeing immunity to Silvio Berlusconi. The law was subsequently declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court on 13 January 2004.
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The Lodo Alfano (roughly "Alfano Law"), named after Berlusconi's Minister of Justice Angelino Alfano, was an Italian law, valid between 2008 and 2009, granting immunity from prosecution to the four highest political offices in Italy (the President of the Republic, the two Speakers of the Houses of Parliament and the Prime Minister). It was widely criticized as a copy of the Lodo Schifani, declared unconstitutional in 2004, as it actually aimed exclusively at stopping trials involving Silvio Berlusconi. The Lodo Alfano was declared unconstitutional by the Italian Constitutional Court in October 2009.Sentenza n.
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According to Livy, Valerius brought forward a proposal granting immunity to all who had taken part in the secession during an assembly of the people at the Peteline Grove. A Lex Sacrata ("sacred law") that no one should be struck from the military list against his will was also passed, and furthermore a law that no one who had been military tribune could afterwards be centurion, this law was made due to one Publius Salonius,Otherwise unknown, Oakley(1998), p. 385 who had every year been either military tribune or first centurion, and that the cavalry should have their pay reduced for having acted against the mutineers.Livy, vii.
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Karzai's spokesman Wahid Omar said that amendments were approved by the cabinet and sent to the Ministry of Justice. Karzai could sign a decree on the changes while the parliament had its winter recess. In March 2010 the president's office admitted that it had entered into force without Karzai's signature the National Reconciliation Charter that the Afghan parliament passed in 2007, granting immunity from prosecution to combatants in past conflicts since the Soviet's invasion in 1979 ([in 2005, Human Rights Watch documented one particularly grisly period in 1992–93 in its report "Blood Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity"). This law was not signed off by him because of the many objections that were raised by domestic and international rights groups.
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The panels were responsible for the Fowler Report, that later gave rise to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/56). All countries were called to co-operate with the panel and provide access to information, witnesses, places in addition to guaranteeing its safety and granting immunity under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations. Furthermore, the Council was concerned at the delays in investigating the downing of two United Nations aircraft over UNITA-controlled territory on 26 December 1998 and 2 January 1999, as well as the crash of a plane carrying the Special Representative of the Secretary- General in Côte d'Ivoire on 26 June 1998. Finally, all countries were urged to co-operate towards humanitarian activities in Angola.
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The National Transitional Council adopted laws in early May 2012 granting immunity to former rebel fighters for acts committed during the civil war, confiscating all former regime assets, criminalising "praising or glorifying" Muammar Gaddafi or his regime, and barring criticism of the revolution or the authority of the Libyan government. It also decreed that detained fighters must be charged and tried by 12 July 2012 or else released. It was not immediately clear whether the laws would govern the transitional period only or would else be permanent. Law 37, which prohibits criticism of the revolution and publication of "propaganda", including vocal support for Gaddafi's family or the ideas of the Green Book, is reportedly based on provisions of the Gaddafi-era penal code banning criticism of the 1969 coup that brought Gaddafi to power.
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The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein Significant criticism has suggested these policies are fundamentally anti- democratic, that such rules can only be legitimate if passed by an elected Iraqi government free of foreign occupation.WAR: TRADE BY OTHER MEANS: How the US is getting a free trade agreement minus the negotiations Others argue that the rules merely bring Iraq's economic law into conformity with modern norms of international trade, and that the previous government and its laws were not democratically legitimate since Saddam Hussein's government was not elected. CPA Order 17 granted all foreign contractors operating in Iraq immunity from "Iraqi legal process," effectively granting immunity from any kind of suit, civil or criminal, for actions the contractors engaged in within Iraq. CPA Order 12, amended by Order 54, suspended all tariffs, thus removing the advantage that domestic Iraqi producers had over foreign producers.
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The act replaces certain key oversight bodies, and expands oversight to include a new Agency that reviews the actions taken on behalf of the Government of Canada by its national security agencies, as well as an Officer of Parliament that has quasi-judicial authority to review such actions, and make a report to the Prime Minister and Parliament. It amends certain sections of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Canadian Security Establishment Act, including granting immunity from prosecution employees of CSIS that may present forged documents in the course of establishing a covert identity. It also expands the powers of the CSE to include the ability to launch active cyber operations in defense of the Canadian national interest, as approved by the Minister of National Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs and authorized by the newly created post of Intelligence Commissioner.
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Such misdeeds have not tarnished the record of Free India and I have a diamond-bright, diamond-hard hope that such things will never come to pass." The Commission of Enquiry led by Justice J C Shah later documented how the 'diamond-bright, diamond-hard hope' was belied by setting out a plethora of facts on the arbitrary killings, atrocities and other executive excesses committed under the cover of emergency. H.M. Seervai, said: "The press was muzzled, and so were the legislatures, for the Acts granting immunity to fair reports of legislative proceedings were repealed, and those proceedings could not be reported. Judicial proceedings could not be reported; public meetings could not be held without the permission of the police which was given to "the cringing and the craven" and refused to sober and responsible men; a servile radio and television worked under government orders.
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United Nations Security Council resolution 1423, adopted unanimously on 12 July 2002, after recalling resolutions 1031 (1995), 1035 (1995), 1088 (1996), 1103 (1997), 1107 (1997), 1144 (1997), 1168 (1998), 1174 (1998), 1184 (1998), 1247 (1999), 1305 (2000), 1357 (2001) and 1396 (2002), the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) for a period until on 31 December 2002 and authorised states participating in the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) to continue to do so for a further twelve months. The adoption of the resolution was delayed due to a veto from the United States concerning immunity for its peacekeepers from the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose Statute entered into force on 1 July 2002. The current resolution was approved following the adoption of Resolution 1422 (2002) granting immunity to nationals of countries who were not party to the ICC Statute.
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In 1899, a group of Chinese nationals known as Boxers, rebelled against the Qing Empire in an attempt to expel all foreign influences in China. The uprising, later came to known as the Boxer Rebellion, began as an anti-foreign, anti- colonial, peasant-based movement in northern China, in response to foreign westerners seizing land from locals, concession grabbing, and granting immunity to criminals who converted to Catholicism. The insurgents attacked foreigners, who were building railroads and violating Feng shui, and Christians, who were held responsible for the foreign domination of China. In the summer of 1900, a coalition called the Eight-Nation Alliance comprising Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the United States sent troops to quell the rebellion and forced the Qing government to sign the Boxer Protocol, which required the Qing government to pay 450 million taels of fine silver as indemnity over a course of 39 years to the eight nations involved.
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Critics further contend that the controversial policies are fundamentally anti-democratic in that it is not for the United States or any other country or coalition of countries to determine what trade laws Iraqis must live by, and that such rules can only be legitimate if passed initially by an elected Iraqi government free of foreign occupation and domination.WAR: TRADE BY OTHER MEANS: How the US is getting a free trade agreement minus the negotiations . Zmag.org. Others argue that the rules merely bring Iraq's economic law into conformity with modern norms of international trade, that the CPA should not be under any obligation to run Iraq as a totalitarian state simply because that's what its laws were like before the occupation, and that the previous government and its laws were not democratically legitimate since Saddam Hussein's government was not elected either. CPA Order 17 granted all foreign contractors operating in Iraq immunity from "Iraqi legal process," effectively granting immunity from any kind of suit, civil or criminal, for actions the contractors engaged in within Iraq.iraqcoalition.org/~Status_of_Coalition_Rev_with_Annex_A.pdf.
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In the third film, Leo Barnes is now the chief of security for lawyer-turned-senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell) in Washington D.C., who runs for the presidency with aims to end the Purge after her family was killed (during the events of the first film). Barnes is first seen during a presidential debate where Roan gains a standing ovation after rebutting her rival, NFFA candidate Minister Edwidge Owens, by stating how the Purge only serves to eliminate the poor and benefit the rich and powerful. On the day before the annual Purge, after the NFFA revokes the rule granting immunity to ranking 10 government officials, Leo urges Roan not to stay in her unsecured home instead of moving to a secure bunker, but Roan refuses. Leo revamps security and has the house re-secured with new barricades (James Sandin's security system) and surrounded by secret service agents and SWAT snipers standing watch outside; his partners, Chief Couper and Eric Busmalis; as well as three more secret service agents partly supervising the event from indoors.
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