Having said that, a demand for immunity by a public official may actually be the quickest road to becoming a former public official.
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" She added, "Each allegedly had an extramarital affair with a public official and then exploited her relationship with the public official for personal gain.
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And they weren't directed at just any random public official.
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And Flynn, the former public official, has asked for immunity.
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"No public official I've tweet has grunted," Bogart tells Hyperallergic.
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He's not the only public official who's experienced similar revelations.
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This is the height of irresponsibility from a public official.
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He is not the first public official to do so.
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This type of behavior is unacceptable for any public official.
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Thompson was arrested on felony charges of assaulting a public official.
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No major pro-enforcement organization or public official, such as Sen.
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And if they have symptoms, they should inform a public official.
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He's not the only public official who has experienced similar revelations.
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"In the ICIG's judgment, alleged conduct by a senior US public official to seek foreign assistance to interfere in or influence a Federal election... would also potentially expose such a US public official (or others acting in concert with the US public official) to serious national security and counterintelligence risks with respect to foreign intelligence services aware of such alleged conduct," Atkinson wrote.
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"Impeachment is, like, the death penalty for a public official," she continued.
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Move over, Justin Trudeau, there's a new sexy public official in town.
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Mr. Casado was not the first public official Mr. Zarrab has bribed.
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"That is an unacceptable track record for a public official," she wrote.
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The change would impact impeachment of any public official, not just a president.
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What's it like 2 move from being a public official into civilian life?
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In any event, it's a jarring move for a public official to make.
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Every public official I have spoken to agrees that they should be implemented.
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Abbott is not the only public official traveling abroad to promote this argument.
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No public official has the right to violate Mr. Smollett's due process rights.
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What we're listening to: "Public Official A," a podcast from WBEZ last year.
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That's not too much to ask for in a public official these days.
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Impeachment is literally the worst punishment you can do to a public official.
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Essentially, it means an abuse of power by a high-level public official.
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She is serving a two-year prison sentence for "insulting a public official".
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"The appeal is important because it calls into question when private parties can be liable under the civil rights laws of causing a public official or conspiring with a public official to violate a citizen's First Amendment rights," Mr. Brown said.
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And "every public official I know," he added, considers that to be the case.
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He is a former senior-level public official, with extensive experience in presidential campaigns.
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For instance, what happens if, hypothetically, a public official is abusive on this space?
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On this account, a public official is to be gauged only on public acts.
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If you were a teacher or a public official, they would've fired you automatically.
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Prosecutors contended that Trujillo's role as a public official placed a higher burden on him.
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Hawley's real record as a public official, in other words, is opposition to these protections.
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Thompson was arrested and faces felony charges of assaulting a public official, Sacramento police said.
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Seoul (CNN)If you're dining with a South Korean public official, don't order the lobster.
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"That is what's needed from a public official, from an official government position," said Burton.
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They describe excitement to meet a public official, only to feel disgusted, embarrassed, or angry.
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I hope they will consider running, as I did, to serve as a public official.
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I've been the most transparent public official in modern times as far as I know.
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Loving a public official for an Indian is almost unheard of, as history bears out.
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The public official cannot have a bouncer at the door determining who enters or not.
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Mr. O'Rourke cited Mr. Cruz's sacrifice as a public official working away from his family.
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No public official wanted to hear that Taricani from Channel 10 was on the line.
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Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest.
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Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest.
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"Every public official needs to unblock the public from following them on Twitter," he said.
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Make every single meeting between a lobbyist and a public official a matter of public record.
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But I also felt like I couldn't accept this kind of behavior from a public official.
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It prohibits any financial gift, or emolument, from benefiting a sitting public official, including the president.
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That said, the decision left open a number of questions: Who qualified as a public official?
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When a public official is impeached, it means charges have been formally filed against the official.
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But Morris-Moore had little faith in whoever was state's attorney — or in any public official.
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He is public official who must prove the Times acted with actual malice within the law.
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Her own career as a public official began in 103 on the Overland Park City Council.
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A prosecutor is also often the only public official standing between a defendant and prison time.
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He noted that "every public official I know" believes their election is in the public interest.
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What we're listening to: "Public Official A," a podcast from WBEZ last year about Mr. Blagojevich.
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It was the first time a public official had been prosecuted under Georgia's Open Records Act.
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In 2009, McLean was convicted of threatening a public official and sentenced to two years in prison.
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But Murphy is a public official, and in this case was using the platform for public business.
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You can listen to Public Official A on WBEZ Chicago, Apple Podcasts, NPR, Pocket Casts, and Stitcher.
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If a police officer breaks the law, like any public official, that officer must be held accountable.
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It can cost a public official their job, harm a judge's prestige, or ruin an interest group.
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The first applies to covering live presidential events, which involve mutual trust between journalist and public official.
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As a public official, Waters should be held to a higher standard in her comments and actions.
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As a public official, I have been on the receiving end of tough questions from the media.
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I wish some public official would tell me, but that would require them to have the answers.
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"Every public official I know believes that his election is in the public interest," Mr. Dershowitz said.
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"Threatening assassination of a public official is dangerous to both the individual and our republic," she wrote.
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His belief that a public official could keep those two separate came crashing down Monday when he resigned.
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In a sane world, a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving.
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If any pronouncement from a public official crosses into the realm of an establishment of religion, it's this.
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Mr. Hubbard is not the only public official in the state facing a burst of career-threatening scrutiny.
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The State Department inspector general report last week was the first public official condemnation of Clinton's email arrangement.
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For Mexicans, the sight of a public official accumulating an inexplicable fortune while in office is bitterly familiar.
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The police here said their investigation began when a public official alerted them after receiving a suspicious email.
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Thomas was charged with threat against a public official, unnatural and lascivious act, exposing sex organs and DUI.
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"That is an unacceptable track record for a public official," she said in a statement at the time.
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The advocacy group has stormed several public official offices over the course of the current health care debate.
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She will be both the first nonsitting public official and the first black woman to deliver the rebuttal.
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Let's recognize that no public official in this country, from Barack Obama on down, covered themselves in glory during the foreclosure crisis; to say that Harris failed to prosecute bankers is simply to say that she was a public official with authority over financial services fraud in the Obama era.
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JAMES: If I was a public official, that restaurant owner has every right to voice their concerns to me.
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Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 425.163-80 (1964) (public official must prove actual malice to win libel case); Gertz v.
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While Sanders has made big money for a public official, his 2020 Democratic rivals are no slouches either. Sen.
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The next time a public official, politician, or certain president violates Twitter's rules, the company says users will notice.
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As a public figure and now a public official, Trump would have flimsy prospects of winning a defamation suit.
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When he thinks a public official has misbehaved he fires him on the spot, rather than following due process.
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Mr. Thompson's recommendation infuriated many, including local community members, activists and at least one public official, Assemblyman Charles Barron.
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Gun owners are also more likely than non-gun owners to have contacted a public official about gun policy.
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If this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role.
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Adlai Stevenson was a thoughtful and cerebral public official who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956.
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The legendary public official Robert Moses re-built New York's transportation in the middle of last century for cars.
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Democrats immediately attacked Mr. Kemp as an inept public official whose policies would jeopardize the state's business-friendly reputation.
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For any major public official, leaving town always carries the risk that something eventful might happen during the absence.
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Whether there is a public official in Puerto Rico who meets both those criteria, however, remains to be seen.
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I do not think, however, that accusations alone should be enough to force a public official out of office.
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Even absent a quid pro quo, the Emoluments Clause bans payments to an American public official from foreign governments.
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"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, 'block' a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States," the decision begins.
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REUTERS/Marko Djurica A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official.
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Wrote Reice Buchwald: This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, "block" a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States.
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I think it&aposs really important to understand I&aposm not a public official so I&aposm not making policies.
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More importantly, as the Indianapolis Star first reported, it represents a troubling security lapse by a high-ranking public official.
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There&aposs absolutely no place in the public discourse for threats and that kind of conduct from a public official.
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" Still, Evers said, "the extensive use of personal email by a senior public official raises important questions that merit investigation.
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"He's a public official, he's president of the United States, so it doesn't get much higher than that," Otero said.
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But if a police officer breaks the law like any other public official, that police officer must be held accountable.
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The only time their plight gets highlighted is when somebody has an axe to grind against a particular public official.
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Cochran's openness came off as routine: he was a public official simply talking about a partnership his agency was negotiating.
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Most basically, the Constitution provides that the House can impeach and the Senate may remove from office any public official.
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"Like any other public official, if a police officer breaks the law, that officer must be held accountable," he said.
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"Inaugural Speech" (1997) finds Ms. Fraser adopting multiple roles with cheerful schizophrenic aplomb: curator, trustee, public official and corporate sponsor.
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"She does not want to make it a very public, official homecoming," said Marriyum Aurangzeb, Pakistan's state minister for information.
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The news anchor badgered the governor to provide a single name of a public official who was still supporting him.
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Although Schaaf's warning about potential ICE raids was unusual for a public official, we are not living in normal times.
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If you're a public official, if you enjoy an incredible amount of privilege and influence, transparency is intended for you.
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Bribery as defined by 18 USC 201 includes a public official seeking "anything of value" for influencing a public act.
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For any public official who wishes to live in a scrutiny free society we have one word of advice: move.
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"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, 'block' a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States," Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
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"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, "block" a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States," Judge Buchwald wrote in her decision.
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"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, 'block' a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States," Buchwald said said in her opinion.
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It should go without saying that the life of Malia Obama, who is not a public official, should be off limits.
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US District Judge James Otero ruled that the tweet in question involved a public official and a matter of public concern.
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Nicola Tanner, a 33-year-old public official from the southwestern city of Bristol, took the day off work to demonstrate.
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This could be the most irresponsible tweet I've ever seen from a public official, including my own, which is saying something.
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"It is perfectly appropriate for a public official or a candidate to comment on the merits of antitrust enforcement," Blumenthal said.
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For any president or public official, retweeting an image that seems to make light of violence against women would be questionable.
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Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) in the 49th District, the effort boosted local public official Dianne Harkey and state Assemblyman Rocky Chavez.
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It is easier to be cruel as a public official, because it is easier to see one's victims as an abstraction.
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Any person — public official or private citizen — facing such penalties ought to be entitled to a fair process before being punished.
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Critics of the state's disclosure rules say it would be nearly impossible to hold a public official accountable with self-attestations.
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Do you still believe a public official should be made to answer, in great detail, questions about their private sexual life?
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The problem with a powerful public official having valuable secrets is they can be exploited for more than just financial gain.
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The statute (5 U.S.C. Section 3110) states: A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official.
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"He's been a prosecutor in Connecticut forever," Murphy said of Durham, who has been a public official in the state since 1977.
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He is now a public official following a promotion to a position in the city government, according to Nuril's lawyer Joko Jumadi.
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China and Nepal, the two governments that border Everest, do not keep public official statistics on the number of deaths of climbers.
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He and I have worked together on rail issues in our state and he knows railroading as well as any public official.
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It offers an early glimpse of how Moore's interpretation of the Bible and morality would inform his decisions as a public official.
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The only public official to greet the president at the Tree of Life was Israel's ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer.
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"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest, and mostly you're right," he told senators.
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Knowingly presenting false documents to any public official or agency is a crime, a charge technically known as offering a false instrument.
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No public official, no president, no man or no woman is important enough to sacrifice the founding principles of our legal system.
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The head of the upper house, the Senate, is the second highest public official in the European Union country after the president.
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She gave the party's rebuttal to the State of the Union, the first black woman and nonsitting public official to do so.
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A spokesman for the department declined to comment, saying the agency doesn't weigh in on comments not made as a public official.
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There has never been a president, or even a leading public official, who has lied as often or as dangerously as Trump has.
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It said the First Amendment forbids a public official to operate in such a way on a platform used to conduct government business.
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The group charges that Pruitt violated the Oklahoma Open Records Act for declining to make public official documents it has requested since 2015.
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He died in jail at age 55, secure in the knowledge that he stole more than any American public official before…or since.
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"By putting his country first, John McCain hasn't always been the most popular public official," a spokesman said in response to Clinton's riff.
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"Unlike theory A, this doesn't require the government to prove that a public official was involved—anyone can bribe a witness," Eliason wrote.
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"This case is reprehensible — the perpetrator is a public official, someone who the community entrusted to protect them," Shapiro said in a statement.
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Incompetence is one thing, but making statements that diminish the tragedy of the Holocaust is dangerous and inexcusable, especially from a public official.
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In rare comments about succession by a public official, Chan said whoever took over was unlikely to drastically change the government's policy direction.
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The justices are being asked to decide if a public official lying about their motive for an official action violates federal corruption laws.
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After years of wearing wigs and extensions prior to becoming a public official, the freshman Congresswoman changed her look in a bold way.
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On Staten Island, voters sent Debi Rose to the City Council, making her the first African-American elected public official from that borough.
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"This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, 'block' a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States," wrote US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the Southern District of New York.
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The senator, elected in 2012, is still new to politics, without the trappings of Secret Service or the guard of a lifelong public official.
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With Jones' win, some Republicans on the Hill are looking forward to avoiding more mudslinging and further allegations of impropriety of a public official.
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The use by an elected public official of the IRS, the CIA and the Justice Department to smear political enemies is a criminal act.
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When asked if it's stressful—as a public official, as a woman, as a minority, as an immigrant—to shoulder California's hopes, she resists.
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Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) said Thursday it's not appropriate for a public official to attack a reporter physically, but he offered a caveat.
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That goes for any act by a public official but roughly quadruple so for a hearing about Russia ties featuring the sitting Attorney General.
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As I got to know McCain from 85033 onward, I got to know a rare public official who didn't calculate the advantages to himself.
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He has criticized "so-called" judges who have ruled against his policies and pardoned a public official who violated orders of a federal court.
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"The independent activities of an adult child simply don't create a 'conflict of interest' for the parent who is a public official," he said.
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The ACLU is asserting that if a public official uses that account for any public business, they have automatically made it a public forum.
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Mr. Leyser said that the questions centered on irregularities at the Deodoro event site and that no public official had been accused of wrongdoing.
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"It's wrong for a public official to violate the public trust, but it's equally wrong for an innocent man to be charged," he said.
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Born to an upper-class New England family, he became a war hero, a successful entrepreneur and a public official with wide-ranging experience.
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Even today as our notions of queerness and electability expand, the idea that an openly gay public official can win an election feels radical.
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Gun owners are 80 percent more likely than non-gun owners to have contacted a public official about gun policy in the past year.
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If these are not the normal doings of a typical public official, that is fine with Mr. Williams, who resists the label of politician.
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The Democratic Governors Association swiftly attacked Mr. Lee's business record, and the group's Republican counterpart portrayed Mr. Dean as a fiscally irresponsible public official.
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Mr. O'Rourke gave a straightforward response, citing the sacrifice Mr. Cruz had made being away from his family so often as a public official.
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Of course, the free media also plays a vital role here in exposing misconduct by any attorney general (or any public official at all).
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The health minister also confirmed that an eighth public official who worked onboard the cruise ship during the quarantine had tested positive on Friday.
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Before any public official sends their thoughts & prayers, they should ask themselves how the language & behavior they've been tolerating has contributed to violence against police.
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Public Official A draws some similar parallels, and McKinney muses that at one point, Blagojevich had been considered one of the Democratic Party's rising stars.
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" He described himself as "a private person" but said, "as a public official I thought that this was an important thing for me to do.
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But Assemblywoman Schepisi said she was reasonably certain that John Doe was not Mr. Christie, but another current or former public official or government employee.
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" Gesturing to a slide that included an excerpt from the ethics law, Mr. Hart said, "Once you are a public official, that is the standard.
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A head shorter and directly to Trump's left, Bloomberg is trim, mirthless, and more deeply tan than any public official has a right to be.
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But it should not be difficult for a public official who believes in the rule of law to answer "yes" to the five questions above.
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As a pioneering politician — described as Brooklyn's first elected public official — he became the Assembly majority whip and a champion of laws barring racial discrimination.
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John Kenneth Galbraith, the liberal economist and public official who served in the administrations of FDR, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson, is a favorite of Rorty's.
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Cranston, a long servicing senior executive at the ATO, was issued a court attendance notice for alleged abuse of his position as a public official.
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Republicans have attacked Comey as a biased public official who was working to undermine Trump by, among other things, taking notes on their private conversations.
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Rather, they argue, impeachment was created for precisely a situation in which a self-serving public official defied the public trust — legal violation or none.
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What we're listening to: "Public Official A," a podcast from WBEZ last year about the former Illinois governor whose prison sentence President Trump just commuted.
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Kelly and Baroni are asking the court to decide whether a public official lying about their motive for taking an official action amounts to fraud.
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Eight heavily Democratic states and DC only offer concealed handgun permits on a "May-Issue" basis, requiring demonstration of need to a local public official.
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In fact, my associate has arranged a meeting with a very dangerous and corrupt public official, one with an appetite for expensive contests of chance.
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All of this uncertainty, moreover, helps demonstrate why the impeachment power reaches broadly to allow a public official to be removed for non-criminal acts.
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"We have federal laws that provide a criminal remedy for where states fail to successfully prosecute a public official, usually a police officer," Stinson said.
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It was the strongest statement yet from a public official regarding accusations that the Kremlin had tried to influence the outcome of the presidential election.
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Despite criticism of the Philippine leader's bloody anti-narcotics campaign, Duterte remains wildly popular and is the country's most trusted public official, according to opinion polls.
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If confirmed as VA secretary, the long-time public official could end up steering some of the biggest changes to veterans&apos health care in decades.
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Pawlowski, who has not been charged, is not named in court papers, but he matches the description of "Public Official #3" with whom Dougherty allegedly conspired.
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According to Cooper, Justice Department officials confirmed the investigation but said it has nothing to do with campaign contributions or McAuliffe's conduct as a public official.
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" An Orlando public official emailed Amazon on June 20, noting, "We are seeing an increase in FOIA requests, many of which are from outside our region.
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While that law does cover a son-in-law, it prohibits a public official, which the president is, from appointing a relative to a federal agency.
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After the deadly crash, Ducey—who proceeded to ban Uber's self-driving cars from public roads—wasn't the only public official who underwent an attitude adjustment.
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Public Corruption is involved here for a reason: there must be at least one public official, past or present, involved in the case in some way.
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The prime minister of Iceland, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, linked in the papers to a secret account, on Tuesday became the first public official forced to resign.
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As of 22000, every public official has been required to speak not only Spanish but also the native language of the region in which they work.
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How we make sense of the public official who denies that climate change is happening when just about every respectable scientist says that reality is otherwise?
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Each of the shows starts the same way: The body of a public official is found, cut in half, on the precise border between two countries.
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Now here's the difference; if that same public official holds a fundraising event for their campaign, that is private and not considered a public event anymore.
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Koskinen is guilty of gross negligence, dereliction of duty, and violating the public trust and therefore meets the legal standard for impeachment of a public official.
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However, it could very credibly be characterized as a high crime and misdemeanorNarrator: Which is a general abuse of power by a high-level public official.
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Right now, Gizmodo can't be sued out of existence just because one of our readers decides to libel a public official in the comment section below.
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Yeah, I would argue she's the only public official in the world right now whose testicles have descended when it comes to dealing with Big Tech.
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Counting the deaths from disasters is often politically contentious, and Mr. Trump is hardly the first public official who has been quick to underestimate the toll.
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They arrested 32-year-old Sean Thompson on suspicion of assaulting a public official, which is a felony, the Sacramento Police Department said in a statement.
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No public official has been fired or publicly criticized by the central government for the management of the electrical system since the start of the blackout.
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"He has made proposals that had the potential to reduce tobacco use more dramatically than any other federal public official in U.S. history," Mr. Myers said.
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But as the Hastings precedent shows, a public official may be removed from office by impeachment even if they were previously acquitted in a criminal trial.
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The number of white evangelicals who believe personal moral failings are not disqualifying for a public official rose 42 points, to 72 percent, in 85033 years.
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To a lesser extent, many stories about natural disasters, big product launches, or a public official saying something controversial can become less relevant as they age.
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"I think it's been interesting to see his maturation as a mayor or as a public official that I think he's become perhaps more publicly empathetic."
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"We already live very public lives but to be a public official is very different," Hockley said Tuesday after she met with representatives from the DCCC.
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A public official has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from SNC-Lavalin that landed it the contract to renovate the landmark Jacques-Cartier bridge in Montreal.
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Washington (CNN)Utah's second-highest-ranking public official says the Orlando massacre has prompted him to apologize to the LGBT community for his role in perpetuating homophobia.
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But when it comes to seeking massive amount of money from the very people who are most interested in the decisions you make as a public official?
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Mr Burke could work as a public official, setting policies for companies, while also touting for business with the same clients to submit appeals against the city.
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Kellyanne Conway served up a surpringsily common-sense sound byte over the weekend when she said that any public official who has mistreated women should step down.
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He's the most beloved statewide public official by far, his conservatism matching that of his deep-red state, even if some residents still harbor hostility for him.
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Gus O'Donnell, Britain's former top public official, told the Observer newspaper that the chances of a smooth Brexit were at risk of being derailed by squabbling ministers.
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But as a public official elected to defend privacy and liberty interests of my fellow citizens, I am very sympathetic to arguments made by companies like Microsoft.
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Alexandre Djouhri is wanted by France over a series of allegations including active corruption of a foreign public official, conspiracy to misappropriate public funds and money-laundering.
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"Who here can tell me who is responsible, which public official, which member of this administration, is responsible for zero tolerance and family separations?" he went on.
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By far, the president is the public official least trusted on how to handle the crisis: Just 48 percent of voters say they have confidence in him.
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"At this point, if you're a public official, what you want to be is a trusted source of information for your constituents," Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said.
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As it shows, gun owners and supporters of laxer gun laws are more likely to have recently engaged a public official or political organization on this issue.
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According to the court, President Trump — and by extension any public official — creates a designated public forum on a social media platform when he creates an account.
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If he sues for defamation, he would have to prove as a public official that the outlets acted with actual malice and reckless disregard for the truth.
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"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest," Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz contended in front of the Senate last week.
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Moreover, presenting false documents to a public official with the intent to defraud the government can be a felony, a crime known as filing a false instrument.
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Bribery under Title 18, Section 201 of the U.S. Code occurs when a public official corruptly demands anything of personal value in exchange for an official act.
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The unidentified official "agreed to take official action which would be favorable to three donors who had contributed campaign funds to Public Official #3," the documents said.
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As both a candidate for office and a public official, I should be held to a high standard in my interactions with the press and the public.
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City and state officials had maintained the water was safe, making Del Toral's preliminary report the first instance of a public official addressing public water quality concerns.
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A statute passed in 1967 states no public official -- from the President down to a low-level manager at a federal agency -- may hire or promote a relative.
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Passed in 1967, the law states no public official -- from the President down to a low-level manager at a federal agency -- may hire or promote a relative.
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"This case is particularly heinous because the perpetrator is a public official, sworn to serve and protect the community" Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a statement.
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Donald Trump's entire political career has been a bizarre exercise in large-scale lowering of the bar for what's considered acceptable conduct in a high-ranking public official.
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A public official, including a president-elect, violates the First Amendment if he retaliates or even seriously threatens to retaliate against anybody for exercising the right to speak.
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For the duration of those 17 months, Senator Menendez has continued his role in the Senate, despite the indictment compromising his integrity and trust as a public official.
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"There's always room for improvement in laws, but I think they are pretty clear in forbidding certain lines of payments for benefits to a public official," he said.
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The federal bribery statute -- 22017 U.S.C. § 21962(b)(21962)(B) -- makes it a federal crime for a public official to "collude" in a fraud on the United States.
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Each public official has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution – including the freedom of the press – and it is essential that we honor and protect that ideal.
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In total, 16 pumps were out of service, and in the aftermath of the incident, according to WDSU New Orleans, one public official resigned, and three were fired.
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The evidence suggests he's very wrong about this — yet he's the public official with the most power over what happens to the birth control mandate in the future.
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And about 22 percent of people who want less strict gun laws have contacted a public official, while just 15 percent of people who support stricter laws have.
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However, Cody is not the only public official to make the mistake of touching her face while advising the public to refrain from doing so in recent weeks.
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Since we have probably not seen a public official more desperate for freebies since the Teapot Dome scandal, I think you can guess that the answer was no.
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What's remarkable here is that Mr. Trump is weighing mercy for a public official who did not just violate the law, but who remains proud of doing so.
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To a normal person, a public official making the performance of his or her public duties contingent upon receiving some personal gain looks like solicitation of a bribe.
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And, keep in mind: the whistleblower is in no way a spy, but rather a public official who properly raised a complaint about misconduct through appropriate legal channels.
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It is not easy to transform oneself from a once-powerful public official terminated for cause to the equivalent of a late-night, mud-splattered stray seeking shelter.
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A HUD spokesman declined to comment to the news outlet on Gibbs's past tweets, saying the agency doesn't weigh in on remarks not made as a public official.
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The brutality of the attack and the rarity of such violence against a public official prompted widespread condemnation and calls for justice from across the country's political spectrum.
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" The justices set forth a straightforward rule: "Setting up a meeting, calling another public official, or hosting an event does not, standing alone, qualify as an 'official act.
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And about 22 percent of people who want less strict gun laws have contacted a public official, while just 15 percent of people who support more strict laws have.
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"We want gays to represent gays," Milk told the San Francisco Examiner in 1977, and his position as an LGBTQ public official helped bring the community's issues to prominence.
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" Given that Trump was not yet a public official at that point, Giuliani added, "I don't know if there is much that they could have done at that point.
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"This case is particularly heinous because the perpetrator is a public official, sworn to serve and protect the community," Pennsylvania's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, said in a news release.
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Like when I interviewed Bill de Blasio, he was pushing his public—there's just no circumstance in which a public official figure goes on any forum where they're not.
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But prosecutors said Silver deserved a sentence longer than that of any other convicted New York public official, given his leadership position and the sheer scope of his misconduct.
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In the plea, an individual identified as "Person A" was described as a public official who was used in promotional materials for the group, which may have implicated Brown.
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As we have repeatedly explained, obstruction requires prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a public official acted corruptly in endeavoring to influence or interfere with an investigation.
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"This appears to be rhetorical hyperbole by a public official involving a public figure," U.S. District Judge S. James Otero said at a hearing Monday, according to Bloomberg News.
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William Jefferson (D-La.), who was convicted in 22019, because of a 2016 Supreme Court decision changing what constitutes an "official act" by a public official in bribery cases.
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We asked Mr. Sunstein, a professor at Harvard Law School, to recommend books that might help readers understand the history and process of charging a public official with misconduct.
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Within 24 hours, nearly every major Democratic public official in New Jersey — from the newly elected governor to influential state legislators to powerful county chairs — had pledged their endorsement.
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"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest and, mostly, you're right — your election is in the public interest," Dershowitz had said.
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"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest and, mostly, you&aposre right — your election is in the public interest," Dershowitz said.
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It will put defendants and the public on notice about the details of the corrupt exchange and what benefit the public official was offering in exchange for the bribe.
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Cox told the FPPC he discovered that his wife owned the stock in January while preparing his taxes and his annual disclosure of economic interests as a public official.
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"Ironically, yet fittingly, by abandoning rational discourse and resorting to threats against a public official, the defendant has essentially rendered himself a mute in the political process," Kennedy said.
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Thus, if a legal defense fund registers as a section 527 organization, the public official will not have any tax liability from contributions to or expenditures from the fund.
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"This case is particularly heinous because the perpetrator is a public official, sworn to serve and protect the community," Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania attorney general, said in a statement.
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"We believe that Mr. Samson's crime, which involved a substantial violation of trust by a high-ranking public official, warranted a significant term of incarceration," US Attorney Paul Fishman said.
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Mooppan also argued that the president presented a special situation, and left open the question of whether someone could file this type of lawsuit against a lower-ranking public official.
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Aside from the debates, she has proven to be a public official who can absorb many body blows, still maintaining her standing in the polls and able to attract votes.
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This led to an unprecedented lawsuit alleging the First Amendment allows users to say whatever they want and, as a public official, Trump shouldn't bar them from seeing his posts.
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Any other public official besides Secretary of State Clinton would have been prosecuted for some of the actions that the Clintons have been engaged in for more than four decades.
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And because practically every public official has at some point battled allegations of corruption, our list—ranked by the money stolen in 21970 dollars—includes only proven or admitted misconduct.
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Lawmakers and political officials can use their campaign accounts to pay for attorneys, as long as it stems from any work related to being a public official: http://bit.ly/2yorDsZ.
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"To countenance open defiance even in one instance — much less two, both by a senior public official setting precedent for himself and all agency staff — is ruinous," Mr. Sheehan wrote.
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Thus, Trump will not be able to defend his conduct on the ground that he first became a public official when he was sworn into office on January 20, 2017.
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In our home state of Massachusetts, by law someone requesting a form must show a state driver's license; the public official in question is then notified of the requester's name.
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"Stream of benefits" has been recognized by courts where the private party gives something of value to a public official, who then essentially agrees to help out as opportunities arise.
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"Attending to the disappeared is my main priority, both as a public official and as a human," said Roberto Campa, the subsecretary for human rights in the country's interior ministry.
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Ohio A veteran public official who has also served in both houses of Congress and in multiple statewide offices, DeWine has been quick to shut down social life in Ohio.
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No. When we interview anyone, whether it's a public official or a foreign leader or an artist, The Times isn't saying that we approve of the person's views and actions.
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In the two minutes long video, the public official spoke about her appointment and how it had helped her complete a house she said she started around ten years ago.
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As a previous public official, I have been asking myself what I would do to manage the Coronavirus Disease 203 (COVID-19) pandemic if I were back in public service.
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The shooting has left members of Congress deeply rattled and grappling anew with the risks of being a public official in a time of heightened political tension around the country.
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"You get sick all the time and as a public official you don't tell the press about it," he said, adding that he has been fighting bronchitis for a month.
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Mr. Bentley's complaints and apologies over more than a year did little to quell public outrage in Alabama, where he had cultivated a reputation as an ethically sound public official.
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It says that no public official can hire a family member — including one related by marriage — to serve in an agency or office over which he or she has authority.
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They have done so for good reason: impeachment is a political process that cannot be divorced from the breach of public trust that justifies removing a public official from office.
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" The video prompted backlash, with one Washington rabbi saying it contributed to the growing intolerant environment in the U.S. "This kind of anti-Semitism is unacceptable in any public official.
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"One of the questions is whether the current weighting, whether there are reasons to adjust that," Matsen, the top public official responsible for the sovereign wealth fund, said in an interview.
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Abrams is the first black woman and the first non-sitting public official to give the rebuttal, the New York Times reports*, which speaks to her growing influence within the party.
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Your interpretation must be wrong because the law can't—what I know is the law requires any public servant or public official to protect that data, to protect confidentiality and trust.
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GREGG JARRETT, FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST: It&aposs a crime for a public official like Rod Rosenstein to use his office to threaten anyone, including Congress, for exercising their constitutional duties.
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Mylan is Senator Manchin's second largest individual corporate campaign donor and its CEO is his daughter, which alone presents an uncomfortable cozy relationship between a public official and the private sector.
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" The response: "Manafort's attorneys had argued that Manafort had only edited the piece after receiving it from a former Ukrainian public official whom he knew through his consulting work in Ukraine.
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She is at once a feminist, a secret ally of liberals, her father's better angel, a savvy public official, a mother who loves all the world's children, and an accomplished businesswoman.
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"Prior to my return as a public official, the shares of that company, which were in my name, were transferred to the ownership of my son Javier Jimenez Gutierrez," he said.
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Whether it was true or not, an important feature of disarming any effort to coerce a public official is to tell the official what the enemy might be doing or saying.
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The Allentown Morning Call reported that only Mayor Ed Pawlowski matches the description for "Public Official #3" - an official controlling municipal contracts who announced a bid for U.S. Senate in April.
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Books of The Times If, as a public official, your best solution to a complicated problem is to build a wall, the odds are pretty good you'll eventually smack into one.
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That's a court order demanding that a public official (such as the sergeant-at-arms) deliver a detained individual to the court and show a valid reason for that person's detention.
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Consider this first chart: About 21 percent of gun owners have contacted a public official to express an opinion on gun policy, compared to just 12 percent of non-gun owners.
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Now, you might be saying to yourself that this is ridiculous and no public official would be so reckless with his political standing as to loot the Treasury in this manner.
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"If a public official is approached by a foreign government offering anything of value, the answer is no," said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a close ally of Mr. Trump.
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"When we interview anyone, whether it's a public official or a foreign leader or an artist, The Times isn't saying that we approve of the person's views and actions," she said.
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His resignation, hours after The New Yorker published allegations of physical abuse by four women, was a stunning fall for a public official who prominently allied himself with women's rights advocates.
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"Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest," Dershowitz said on the Senate floor, responding to a question about how presidents conduct foreign policy.
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Rebecca Dalelio, 43, has been charged with one felony count of assault on a public official and one of vandalism stemming from the September incident, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
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" The Biden advisers — Anita Dunn and Kate Bedingfield — argue that "Giuliani is not a public official, and holds no public office that would entitle him to opine on the nation's airwaves.
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If you don't live in Canada, you must work outside Canada as a public official known as a Crown Servant or live abroad with certain family members who are Crown Servants.
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Second, and perhaps even worse, it indicates a public official is willing to put their personal profit above the ethics of investing in a company whose products cause so much harm.
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Until now, Henry M. Paulson Jr., Treasury secretary under President George W. Bush, has been the most prominent example of a public official who has taken advantage of the divestiture certificate.
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In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald deemed that Twitter is a forum where free speech is protected, if a public official uses it as part of their job.
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It is not everyday that a public official uncovers more than five million terrorists living in the United States, including many working in some of the highest offices of the land.
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Consider this first chart: About 21 percent of gun owners have ever contacted a public official to express an opinion on gun policy, compared to just 43 percent of non-gun owners.
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In the 3rd District race, Higgins traded blistering attacks with his fellow Republican opponent, Scott Angelle, a member of the Public Service Commission and well-known public official for nearly 30 years.
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The questions focused on allegations that Netanyahu and his family unlawfully took gifts and other favors from business figures in Israel and abroad, in breach of his position as a public official.
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In fact, there is no legal framework to regulate the bureaucratic process of transitioning, with trans individuals left at the mercy of whichever public official happens to be dealing with their case.
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Any public official — from the attorney general himself to a lowly prosecutor — who makes decisions about a legal case might face legal jeopardy next if such a precedent is set, he wrote.
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Lindberg and Gray also enlisted another public official, who made several calls to Causey on their behalf after they contributed $150,000 to a political committee supporting his candidacy, according to the indictment.
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And in this same world, a public official charged with protecting the environment for the benefit of all Americans turns out to be self-dealing, corrupt and bent on upending environmental protections.
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The court in Istanbul found Merve Buyuksarac, 27, guilty of insulting a public official, but immediately suspended the sentence on the condition that she does not reoffend within the next five years.
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The bride is a paternal descendant of John Hart, a public official in colonial New Jersey who became a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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And supporters of laxer gun laws are nearly 133 percent more likely than supporters of stricter gun laws to have contacted a public official over the issue in the same time span.
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And supporters of laxer gun laws are nearly 60 percent more likely than supporters of stricter gun laws to have contacted a public official over the issue in the same time span.
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"Yet again, a New York jury heard a sordid tale of bribery, extortion, and the abuse of power by a powerful public official of this state," Mr. Khuzami said in a statement.
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"Any candidate or public official casually introducing the possibility of Russian influence without providing any evidence or context creates a specter of interference that makes responding to real interference harder," Brookie added.
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Pushed into retirement by voters who tired of his colorful ways, Mr. Arpaio has gone from being a public official working 14-hour days to a civilian with a mostly empty calendar.
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The Point: Given the overwhelming public sentiment in favor of releasing the full Mueller report, any public official -- Trump included -- who stands in the way of that happening could face serious blowback.
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But Mr. Langevoort said private placements can raise questions if the placement is offered at a steep discount to a public official, and if the offering was intended to influence that person.
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"He wants to govern like Robert Moses, but Republicans won't let him," the source added, referring to the titanic public official known as the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City.
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Despite having a long career as a public official, Kuczynski got a taste of running for elected office in his 70s, when he was a presidential candidate for the first time in 2011.
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It's hard to imagine a public official with more toys than Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, who spent $230 million on Ferraris, a Gulfstream jet, a California mansion and even Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket.
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"For a public official to use the blunt, heavy instrument of law enforcement to try to silence or change coverage by a news department of any company is for me absolutely abhorrent," Sen.
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"While there is no excuse for my failure to fulfill my obligations as a citizen and public official, my only explanation is that I failed to sufficiently prioritize my personal affairs," he said.
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Almost everything you have done and said on the topic of race or on issues that implicate race demonstrate a shocking lack of knowledge for an adult public official in the 21st century.
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The plea, which was offered before Judge Jose L. Linares of United States District Court in Newark, appears to put an end to Mr. Samson's career as a public official and power broker.
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Some forms feature only the loosest of definitions for financial interests: There is no way to tell whether or not a public official has a deep or shallow tie to outside business interests.
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"I think every public official ought to denounce racism, and that is what Secretary Clinton did," Mr. Cohen said, noting that the alt-right ideology opposes the notion that all people are equal.
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The law also establishes "the obligation to report and to sanction the public official who fails to report to the Vatican judicial authority abuses of which he has become aware," except through confession.
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Consider this chart, also from Pew: About 21 percent of gun owners have contacted a public official to express an opinion on gun policy, compared to just 12 percent of non-gun owners.
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You wouldn't tolerate someone in your life -- much less a public official at any level -- who lied multiple times a day, but we all have to live with this President and his decisions.
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The next day, the federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Bill McSwain, blamed the confrontation not on Hill, but on the preeminent public official charged with upholding the law in Philadelphia.
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The latest point of contention is whether a public official can block users who espouse different opinions on their public accounts and where the line between discussion and online abuse comes into play.
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"I don't like it, but it is one reason I'm not a public official, that I'm not running for office," Lemon said to Chris Cuomo as the latter was handing off his show.
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LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The founder of a British seismic equipment company has been acquitted of charges he plotted to bribe a South Korean public official more than $1 million over 13 years.
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Suddenly, an investigator from Orlando is added into the mix to describe an alleged Pearlman scam involving a modeling agency (as well as the bribing of a public official) that never got prosecuted.
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Placed in pre-trial detention for "offending the president" and "defaming a public authority", he was later given a two-year sentence for offence against a public official, according to Human Rights Watch.
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" Josh Earnest, the press secretary, explained, "This is largely an effort to delineate as clearly as possible the public, official governing responsibilities we have at the White House, and separate that from politics.
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" In its editorial on Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press said the allegations marked "the kind of behavior that can never be tolerated in a public official, much less an elected representative of the people.
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"They played popular songs so we could enjoy the concert and it was beyond my expectations," said Jun Sang-sik, a 713-year-old public official who came with his 9-year-old daughter.
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In October 2018, in a café in the shadow of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, a public official who participates in searches, and requested anonymity — for his safety — described the problem.
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" Tristan Pelayes, an the attorney representing the former city employees, said that "to call it a 'politically motivated move' is a typical reaction by a public official when he has nothing truthful to say.
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But even in a country that had at least 170 reported cases of femicide last year alone, the brutality of Peguero's murder, and the implication of a public official, has shocked the Dominican Republic.
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"This is the first time in our history that a public official has been convicted of corruption despite never agreeing to put a thumb on the scales of any government decision," the brief said.
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US District Judge James Otero ruled in October that the tweet in question was protected and not actionable because it involved the opinion of a public official and was not a statement of fact.
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An Istanbul court found model Merve Buyuksarac, 27, guilty of insulting a public official but suspended the sentence on condition she does not repeat the act for the next five years, local media said.
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The court ruled that a public official cannot prevail in a libel suit against a publisher without showing actual malice on the publisher's part, even if the statements in question were false and defamatory.
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Once the president spills information out on his own terms about conversations he had with a public official, he has lost the right to come back and claim executive privilege over those same conversations.
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He said his son's actions in evading the authorities stemmed from a confrontation he had in March 2017 with a former public official in McAdoo, Pa., which his son wanted to bring attention to.
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But Mr. Kemp is the public official who has come in for the most criticism from Georgia liberals and voting-rights activists, who say he has been aggressive in trying to suppress minority voting.
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"Every public official I know believes that his election is in the public interest," said Alan M. Dershowitz, the celebrity defense lawyer and constitutional scholar who is part of the Mr. Trump's legal team.
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A second co-conspirator was identified in the indictment as a public official in Colombia, who prosecutors said had used drug money to buy a $329,000 Lamborghini Huracán Spyder from a Miami car dealership.
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Just as Friedrich wasn't some sucker miner dreaming of finding gold in the river, so his son wasn't some sucker public official clocking in and clocking out in the great age of American governance.
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What Comey's behavior makes clear – and has made clear to observers of differing political stripes – is that a public official can do great harm through the expression of a kind of self-important moral vanity.
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But she thinks that as a public official, she has to do what's best for her town, and that her identity uniquely positions her to change hearts and minds in the GOP from the inside.
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When a public official makes a material misstatement of fact, you might want to do a story about the fact that he is lying or confused or ignorant or whatever you think is going on.
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I became mayor after being defeated twice as a product of assassination, of the mayor being killed and the first openly gay public official in America being killed by a friend and colleague of mine.
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"Almost everything you have done and said on the topic of race or on issues that implicate race demonstrate a shocking lack of knowledge for an adult public official in the 21st century," Richmond wrote.
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She said Mr. Powell's emails had revealed him, a normally stoic public official, to be just as gossipy as everyone else, and added that the gossip, not classified information, was what people feared becoming public.
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"This is largely an effort to delineate as clearly as possible the public, official governing responsibilities we have at the White House, and separate that from politics," said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary.
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And if courts do ultimately rule in the administration's favor, schools and states could lose billions in federal education funding for violating civil rights laws — a position no public official wants to be caught in.
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One of its provisions says that you are required to register as a lobbyist only if you spend at least 20 percent of your time over three months directly contacting more than one public official.
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As the House managers described the horror of a public official using official powers to benefit himself, Menendez sat ready to convict Trump for the same charge he once faced in an actual criminal prosecution.
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" Likewise, the question of whether to remove a public official turns on "whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.
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The changes come as Clinton continues to face political attacks on the foundation, and on whether such a large outside organization can co-exist while being run by the family of a major public official.
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Perhaps Trump should have wanted a prominent lawyer, judge or public official who had no relationship to Trump or his campaign but whom Trump could rely on as if he had made a loyalty pledge.
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"Arpaio is a public official accused of racial profiling, and in the pardon statement, he was praised for his actions," said Michael Waldman, the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
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McCarthy's rise on the back of wild accusations caused some editors to question whether the traditional approach of simply reporting what a public official said was consistent with the larger responsibility of telling the truth.
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Year-long criminal investigations into the presidents of the United States prevent our most powerful and important public official from being able to do his job in foreign policy matters and in domestic policy matters.
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"When you are a public official you are supposed to be acting entirely on behalf of the public and not for self-gain," said Yasha Heidari, former senior legal counsel to the State Ethics Commission.
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"The federal bribery statute makes it a crime for a public official to demand anything of value in exchange for performing an official act," former prosecutor Barbara McQuade wrote for the Daily Beast in September.
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He grew up as the son of a prominent public official in the city — his father, Gil Garcetti, is a former district attorney who became nationally known as the prosecutor leading the O.J. Simpson trial.
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But I've lived in high-density urban neighborhoods my whole life, and I've never heard a voter or public official espouse the goal of making their city a hostile place for poor people and parents.
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It's very obvious to anybody who watches public events with any remote degree of objectivity or insightfulness that Trump is utterly and absolutely incompetent as a leader, as a public official, as a man of judgment.
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He received $8.5 million from its senior executives and officers, the complaint said, money that was deposited into a Hong Kong bank account that Thiam established by concealing his nationality and position as a public official.
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It was Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor representing Mr. Trump, who gave this idea its most outrageous frame: "Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest," he said.
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"As a public official, which is prime minister and minister of finance, used your position for self gratification (for a) total of 42 million ringgit," Attorney General Tommy said referring to the abuse of power charge.
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She has a background in both cybersecurity and private-sector risk, a rarity for a public official at that level of government, where having 10 years or more of cybersecurity experience almost always involves military service.
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Tears streamed down my face as I realized that Virginia had elected its first openly transgender public official in history, and that Roem had just become the first openly trans person elected to a state house.
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The justices ultimately agreed with McDonnell that merely setting up meetings, hosting dinners or calling another public official, without more, cannot constitute an "official act" -- a point Menendez's defense team has leveraged in pre-trial filings.
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Federal law outlines 16 factors juries must consider when debating whether the death penalty is justified, including whether the victim was a "high public official" or the accused committed the crime in a particularly cruel way.
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"While there is no excuse for my failure to fulfill my obligations as a citizen and public official, my only explanation is that I failed to sufficiently prioritize my personal affairs," he said in a statement.
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"This is largely an effort to delineate as clearly as possible the public, official governing responsibilities we have at the White House, and separate that from politics," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told the newspaper.
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Permeating the GOP members' feigned outrage that a convicted liar could address Congress, while they defend a president who lies perhaps more than any other high-ranking public official in a Western democracy, was pretty rich.
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In one post, the public official may be announcing an important policy decision, the next could be an announcement of a campaign rally, and the following a picture of the person spending the day with family.
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A public official at the rally was so moved by Kremer's story, he found Resnick-Day afterward to tell her this was the story they needed to be sharing to show what was needed for Pittsburgh.
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As Minnesotans absorbed the news that their own Senator Al Franken, a Democrat, had become the latest public official to be accused of mistreating women, there was widespread condemnation of his behavior in his home state.
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DeVos — who has made her name in conservative politics as a billionaire donor, not a policy expert or successful public official — has few qualifications for the role, and evinced little knowledge of key debates in education.
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Vice President Mike Pence, the highest-ranking public official ever to personally address the March for Life, promised that the new administration would cut funding to women's health providers and appoint a conservative Supreme Court justice.
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Under long-standing precedent, a public official commits bribery when he or she: (1) seeks or demands; (2) something of value personally; (3) in return for being influenced in an official action; with (4) corrupt intent.
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His father, Stanley, a minor public official, and his mother, Miriam, managed to send him to private school, but he hated it and spent most of his time writing poetry and reading an anarchist weekly newspaper.
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Wilkinson also told the Post this crucial point — that she did what she did because Sanders was a public official and that she has regular customers who are politically conservative and has no problem serving them.
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The French presidential aide who was caught on video beating a protester is going before a judge and could be charged with violence by a public official, illegal use of surveillance video and impersonating a police officer.
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"The 17 men (were) accused of the felony of establishing a terrorist group, joining that group, attempted murder of a public official and training on the use of weapons and explosives," the prosecutor said in a statement.
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Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. asked if a public official who had a bank account insured by the US government would violate the emoluments clauses, since they were receiving a benefit in the form of protected assets.
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Some aren't sure that Koskinen's tenure at the agency reaches the "high crimes and misdemeanors" threshold in the Constitution for impeaching a public official, since he took over after employees were found to target some conservative groups.
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"I want to reassure the citizens of Jefferson that I never abused or misused my powers as a public official, and I'm certainly not afraid of the future because I'm smart enough to never repeat the past."
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On June 26, 2016, the court, in sending the case back to the appeals court, noted that an official act involved a formal exercise of power and (must) be something specific and pending before a public official.
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Prosecutors opened the trial Wednesday by arguing that Menendez had "sold his office for a lifestyle he couldn't afford," casting the senior New Jersey senator's actions as the epitome of bribery and corruption by a public official.
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In what the court called an unprecedented challenge of its authority by a public official, current speaker Yuli Edelstein had disobeyed its order to hold an election for the post - a vote he was set to lose.
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It is terrible to lose a respected public official in this manner, but Mr. Schneiderman was right to recognize that he cannot succeed at his job if he no longer has clear title to the public's trust.
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The fact that the military aid was eventually unfrozen is irrelevant to whether bribery was committed: A public official violates the bribery statute by merely seeking or demanding a bribe, regardless of whether the transaction is completed.
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There has been some excellent reporting on the conflicts of interest, but I think reporters and editorial staff would benefit from some training on how to cover a public official who lies reflexively and assumes no consequences.
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A federal law, known as the bribery statute, makes it a crime for a public official like Trump to corruptly request a thing of value in return for being influenced in the performance of an official act.
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There is no publicly available evidence that Iran is engaging in any illicit activities at undeclared military sites, and no public official of any JCPOA signatory country or of any international agency has made such a claim.
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Within the last month, America's fifth largest city has seen the incarceration of Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, who was the 2628th public official to be a target of a successful corruption probe in roughly two years.
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Trump, however, isn't the first public official in American history to steamroll legal standards, according to Charles Gardner Geyh, a law professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law and an expert in judicial conduct and ethics.
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It would have been a modest act by a private citizen to hold a public official accountable — a way of registering dissent with the way the government conducts itself, in keeping with the Rawlsian view of civility.
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Yeah, we made the argument that the president's Twitter account should be thought of as a public forum under the First Amendment, with the consequence that if a public official blocks somebody from that forum, it's unconstitutional.
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It was written because the current state of public discourse has become so corroded that almost every public integrity case is maligned and questioned in an attempt to spin public opinion away from this simple fact: If the FBI serves a search warrant in a public integrity case, a grand jury is convened, and a federal prosecution of a public official is brought; there is probably significant evidence that the public official in question broke the law…in a manner serious enough to warrant some extremely valuable man-hours.
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Federal Election Commission (2010) Video FREE SPEECH - A public official who falsely claimed to have been awarded the Medal of Honor challenged his prosecution under a federal law making it a crime to lie about receiving military decorations.
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A statement from the Anti-Corruption Commission said the 45-year-old Watson was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to defraud, fraud on the government, conflict of interest and breach of trust by a public official.
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The chair of the Federal Elections Commission released a statement on Thursday condemning any public official who accepts foreign intelligence on their opponents — just 1 day after President Trump said he'd be open to such an information exchange.
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" The next year, Truman was elected to the administrative post of judge in Jackson County, Mo. "Our creditors drove Eddie into bankruptcy," he later recalled, "but I became a public official, and they couldn't do that to me.
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The mayor gave two other statements to the newspaper about his Facebook post, first saying that he didn't remember writing it and then insisting he posted it in his capacity as a private citizen, not a public official.
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In a possible breach of ethics, a lobbyist for a neighborhood group representing the high-income white neighborhoods also discussed how to circumvent the government's scientific analysis and secure a Ceiling in recorded conversations with a public official.
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Forty-six percent of gun owners in the NRA say they have contacted a public official to express their opinion on gun policy compared with 15% of non-member gun owners who say they have ever done this.
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Of all the posts in Trump's Friday night tweetstorm, his whistleblower-related post was the most noteworthy because nearly every public official involved in the impeachment inquiry agreed that the identity of the original complainant should be protected.
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Koval confessed in court to aiding a high-ranking Allentown city official - identified as "Public Official #3" in court documents - to raise money for his political campaigns by identifying city vendors who could be pressured for donations, prosecutors said.
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But the most recent HHS rule defines a public official as someone who is elected to office or appointed to a senior government position, such as a school superintendent or police chief, rather than a teacher or police officer.
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London's Westminster Magistrates Court heard Djouhri was wanted by the French authorities over nine allegations, including use of a fake document, active corruption of a foreign public official, conspiracy to misappropriate public funds and three charges of money laundering.
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Two years ago, Messina published a piece, in L'Espresso , alleging that a prominent doctor had made threatening remarks to a public official about the daughter of Paolo Borsellino, one of the anti-Mafia prosecutors who was killed in 1992.
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"I don't think I ever remember a public official leaving at a time when there is more at stake that will impact whether his legacy is one of extraordinary achievement, or of not doing anywhere near enough," Myers said.
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On Friday, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that Mr. Benalla had been taken into custody for questioning, on possible charges of assault by a public official, illegal impersonation of a police officer and misappropriation of footage from security cameras.
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One version of this offense is when a public official unlawfully obtains something of value, like an illegal fee, from another person by threatening to take or withhold some official action in a way that would harm the victim.
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He accused Democrats of having accepted damaging information from foreign nationals on political opponents and said any public official contacted by a foreign government with an offer of help to their campaign should reject it and inform the FBI.
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If you believe an order or command of a public official violates your right to free speech, assembly, or some other matter, report this to our League leaders and we will in turn report to our attorneys on the scene.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE, of course, is not the first public official to employ populist rhetoric.
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"You don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role," Graham said at the time.
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During a debate in January, Mr. Trump said he would put his holdings in a blind trust, an arrangement in which a public official lets a financial manager control his wealth and does not know exactly how the money is invested.
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Under a 1967 law enacted after John F. Kennedy installed his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general, no public official can hire a family member — including one related by marriage — to an agency or office over which he has authority.
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The Reagan White House didn't grant him a waiver to serve as both a public official and a foreign lobbyist, so instead of registering with the Justice Department or resigning from the federal agency, Manafort avoided the disclosures, prosecutors say.
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According to Stathearn's plea memo, he conspired with Dale Wiles, the city purchasing agent, to make sure that a collections firm and its partner law firm, which had contributed to the campaign coffers of "Public Official #3," received the collections contract.
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For his willingness to meet with Mr. Trump on a day when no other public official would, Mr. Rothfus received a favorable tweet from the president on Wednesday, the mirror image of the slap that Mr. Ryan got for crossing him.
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In one of the most prominent public corruption cases in the state's recent history, against Mayor Sharpe James of Newark, Judge Martini questioned whether Mr. James' actions had been different than what any public official would do for a constituent.
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"The importance of en banc review here is underscored because the panel's novel and mistaken First Amendment reasoning is being applied not just to any public official, but to the President of United States," the department wrote in Friday's petition.
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For example, Section 201 of Chapter 18 of the United States Code, defines bribery as the gift, offer, promise or solicitation of a thing of value in order to influence a public official to perform or omit an official act.
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Obviously, the Senate did not see it that way, but the one senator who should have been sympathetic was Menendez, who was accepting far larger gifts from a doctor who he was helping in various respects as a public official.
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Koval, who was also chairman of the Allentown Parking Authority, is accused of conspiring with a leading city official identified in the charging documents as "Public Official #3" to obtain campaign funds for that unnamed official in exchange for city contracts.
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The important thing to notice is not just the specific distortions of fact here, but also that a 68-year-old man with a lifelong record as a respected attorney and public official would make this performance the capstone of his career.
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The judge in Maryland, US District Judge Peter Messitte, agreed with DC and Maryland's broad interpretation, and rejected the Justice Department's position that it should only cover money that a public official received in exchange for official acts or an employer/employee arrangement.
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"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise-open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," the court held.
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I hope the Governor—whose career as an Army officer, pediatrician and public official has always manifested a commitment to justice and equality for all—now takes the time to listen to those he has hurt and reflect on how to move forward.
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"This is the first time in our history that a public official has been convicted of corruption despite never agreeing to put a thumb on the scales of any government decision," Noel J. Francisco, a lawyer for McDonnell wrote in court papers.
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"This case marks the first time in our history that a public official has been convicted of corruption despite never agreeing to put a thumb on the scales of any government decision," his lead lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices in legal papers.
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A former public official with a powerful wife who never seemed quite convinced that he belonged out of the spotlight, Mr. Weiner was unreluctantly dragged back into it time after time by a public that refused to avert its eyes from him.
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" Reasoning from the judges: "The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees.
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The head of the international division at advertising group Havas Jean-Philippe Dorent was placed under formal investigation for breach of trust and forgery, and he is also assisting as a witness in the corrupting of a foreign public official, the source said.
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The reason for the pre-clearance requirement is that there are many gift laws and regulations throughout the United States that may prohibit or restrict gifts that companies like Wells Fargo are allowed to provide to a public official in that jurisdiction.
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After maneuvering the Sea Watch 3 next to a pier in Lampedusa and colliding with a border patrol vessel, Captain Rackete was placed under investigation for resisting a public official and committing an act of resistance or violence against a military ship.
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The Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday that it had opened an investigation on possible charges of assault by a public official and illegal impersonation of a police officer, and France's interior minister said the police were also opening an internal investigation.
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But in spite of his earnest decoding of phrases like the "applicable median cost benchmark plan," what Nevadans have to say will probably have more impact — especially Mr. Sandoval, the most popular public official in the state, to whom Mr. Heller owes much.
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"He made a fault, an ethical fault, that is to say, as a public official he accepted payments for that work, and he should not have done that," said Laurette Onkelinx, leader of the Brussels Socialist Party and an ally of Mr. Mayeur's.
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" So: Roger Stone, a contemporary conspiracy monger and Trump political consultant; Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher; Niccolò Machiavelli, a Renaissance Italian political scientist and public official; and Hannah Arendt, a 20th century political theorist who coined the phrase, "the banality of evil.
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Eric Feigin, a deputy solicitor general, argued that the two did not have the authority to order the lane closures, so the case was not just a matter of deciding whether a public official is committing fraud by lying about regular policy decisions.
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Woodside said a proposal to introduce a lesser offense of "reckless" bribery, where prosecutors would not be required to prove a payment influenced a public official, might stop Australian companies from investing in some foreign countries altogether, for fear of violating the law.
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KURTZ: Before we go, Sara, I want to ask you about a federal judge&aposs ruling this week, it got a lot of attention, saying that President Trump on his Twitter account, Donald Trump cannot block people because, because he is a big public official.
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"If a foreign government comes to you as a public official and offers to help your campaign, giving you anything of value -- whether it be money or information on your opponent -- the right answer is no," the South Carolina Republican told reporters on Capitol Hill.
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"I think every public official ought to set an example of being against any sort of racism, anti-Semitism, and that's the standard I try to set," Grassley said, according to an interview he gave Wednesday, the audio of which was provided by his office.
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William Strampel, the former dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University who supervised Larry Nassar, was arrested on four counts today: misconduct by a public official, fourth-degree criminal sexual misconduct, and two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty.
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But, Burr, the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee and Warner, the Democratic vice chair, ran a hearing that was the epitome of what people want from their government: Good, hard questions from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to a former public official.
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"It's tough being a public official these days, and I think you ought to be able to have some private time and not be set upon if you go to a ballgame, or if you go to a play or go to dinner," Cohen said.
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In fact, the irony of the whole Kane case is that it seems to stem from her efforts to combat a more stereotypical brand of rotten public official: the back-slapping, Blagojević-type, which apparently pervaded Pennsylvania state politics when she began her political crusade.
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In an Orwellian era when the president's personal lawyer says that "truth isn't truth" and when lies are excused as "alternative facts," a newly released documentary film provides a potent reminder of one public official who wasn't afraid to speak his mind without perverting reality.
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The man, Carlos Bayon, 64, was found guilty in July of retaliating against a public official and making interstate threats for identical messages left at the state offices of Representatives Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 House Republican, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington.
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"There is no legal protocol that defines the way a public official must label events on their calendar, and the Department has taken great strides to publicly disclose all meetings held with individuals or parties other than government entities," Vander Voort said in a statement.
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Suppose that tomorrow, a public official were to say there is a 10 percent chance that we can relax social distancing in three weeks, and a 90 percent chance that we won't be out of the woods until the end of the calendar year.
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Glancing at a piece of paper with numbers on it, Lopez Obrador said he will take home 63,000 pesos a month, which is $5,707 at current exchange rates, and that no public official will be able to earn more than the president during his six-year term.
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He left office, improbably, as a leader in the national party and Governing magazine's Public Official of the Year, seen as both most progressive governor in Virginia history and the best in economic development, bringing to the state a record-breaking $18.7 billion in new capital.
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" And the NCBA president, in a letter to the Denver Post, called out what he saw as biased coverage from the newspaper's editorial board, saying, "This was a public official asking for input from citizens who would be affected by a regulation that his agency is considering.
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"A public official who is acting outside of his or her jurisdiction is abusing their authority, and he does not have jurisdiction over students, or student conduct, or a university rulemaking process," said Hana Callaghan, director of the Government Ethics Program at Santa Clara University's Markkula Center.
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This is great preparation for calling in favors from United States senators who owe you, but it's terrible preparation for the actual work of a public official — which involves a lot of tough questions and skeptical audiences and calming of people who are angry or upset.
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"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," wrote Judge Barrington D. Parker in Tuesday's opinion.
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While much of the Justice Department's court filings allege Menendez enjoyed a "stream of benefits" from Melgen's coffers, legal experts say prosecutors will need to contend with a recent Supreme Court decision that raised the bar on what's now required to convict a public official of bribery.
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In 2007, state-controlled media reported that Anyuan's chairman, Mr. Chen, paid a senior transportation official in Yunnan Province 2000 million renminbi, or $23 million, to obtain roadway-related contracts — an amount one news report described as the largest bribe ever paid to a Chinese public official.
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"There would usually be an ethics agreement whereby the public official relinquishes all control over the political entity (in this case, the PAC), but it can either give the money away, or in theory could keep it with someone else having control over the accounts," Spies said.
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Commander Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz appeared in U.S. District Court in San Diego to answer to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery of a public official stemming from his involvement in a scandal surrounding a contractor who serviced ships in the Navy's Pacific Fleet.
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According to official summaries of sales consultant Elio Moti Sonnenfeld's statements, he received a payment of $3.4 million from Embraer for work he did not perform, and which he passed along as a bribe to a public official in the Dominican Republic, the newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON — When President Trump arrived Tuesday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh to pay his respects to the 11 victims of a mass shooting three days earlier, the only public official standing there to greet him was Israel's ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer.
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Last week, the public official escalated her attacks against the funding organization after a summer stalemate in the DC Council quashed her efforts to turn artist grants into loans that would be available for an expanded pool of applicants, including those in the food and cosmetology industries.
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"Such companies may feel compelled to decline legitimate investment opportunities out of concern that if a foreign public official was indirectly and unintentionally to receive an improper benefit from the company, then the company could still face criminal liability," Woodside said in its submission of May 4.
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The editorial, published Wednesday, primarily cited the controversy over her private email system as an example of her lack of transparency as a public official The FBI is investigating whether Clinton's use of a personal email server during her tenure as secretary of State compromised classified information.
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"The theory is that by performing an official act in exchange for personal gain, a public official defrauds his constituents of his honest services to make decisions and take actions that are in the best interests of the public," McQuade wrote Wednesday on the Just Security blog.
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Virginia's code and the rules for the House of Delegates do appear to offer the House the opportunity to launch an investigation into any public official -- complete with subpoena power, public hearings and proper punishments -- and that investigation may take place without going through the impeachment process.
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"Tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every workingman, every housewife — I urge every American — to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people — and to bring peace to our land," he said during the signing ceremony.
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Both Abbas and his brother Ali have been charged with a string of bribery-related offenses, as well as drug and tobacco importation, while Border Force team leader Craig Richard Eakin has pleaded guilty to aiding the importation of tobacco and receiving a bribe as a Commonwealth public official.
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Darrell IssaDarrell Edward IssaThe Hill's Morning Report — US strikes approved against Iran pulled back Darrell Issa eyes return to Congress Trump's 2020 campaign strategy is to be above the law MORE (R) in the 49th District, the effort boosted local public official Dianne Harkey and state Assemblyman Rocky Chavez.
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"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise-open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," Circuit Judge Barrington Parker wrote, citing several Supreme Court decisions.
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The BBC reported Tuesday that Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson plans to step down from his position at the top of Iceland's government, making him the first public official to step down following a wide-ranging report that accuses a host of public figures of hiding millions of dollars in offshore accounts.
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The BBC reported Tuesday that Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson plans to step down from his position at the top of Iceland's government, making him the first public official to resign following a wide-ranging report that accuses a host of public figures of hiding millions of dollars in offshore accounts.
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"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise-open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," wrote Circuit Judge Barrington Parker, citing several Supreme Court decisions.
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"If a public official is approached by a foreign government offering anything of value, the answer is no — whether it be money, opposition research," said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a close ally of the president who said he spoke with Mr. Trump on Thursday about the matter.
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The news that a New Jersey golf course owned by President Trump, who has made border security and the fight to protect jobs for Americans a cornerstone of his presidency, had been employing undocumented immigrants as housekeepers was far from the first such revelation about a prominent public official.
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He said that Italian law gives private citizens six months to report sexual harassment, but that people harassed by a public official, which he contends that Mr. Tavecchio was because of his connection to the Italian National Olympic Committee, are vulnerable to litigation for up to six years.
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Despite its protracted length, the investigation of Mr. Hynes, 81, who had a stroke in the spring, remained of interest to many in Brooklyn's tight-knit legal world, not least because he had worked as a lawyer and public official in the borough for more than 40 years.
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"I hope the Governor — whose career as an Army officer, pediatrician and public official has always manifested a commitment to justice and equality for all — now takes the time to listen to those he has hurt and reflect on how to move forward," Kaine said in a statement.
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She said she had finished drafting the bill last week, several days before an activist group, Global Witness, released a report on Sunday that said it had caught New York City real estate lawyers on camera discussing ways that a corrupt public official might secretly move money into the United States.
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"I think my view is that if any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation-state or anybody acting on behalf of a nation-state about influencing or interfering with our election, then that's something that the FBI would want to know about," he said.
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Merely arranging meetings and granting access to the levers of power, Mr Roberts wrote, do not constitute official acts: To qualify as an "official act", the public official must make a decision or take an action on that "question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy", or agree to do so.
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But it is even more disturbing when the government fails to take disciplinary action against a public official who violates ethics standards, because public officials are stewards of the public trust, and their abuse of that trust not only undermines the public's confidence in government, but in our democracy as well.
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López Obrador later added that his monthly salary will be 108,000 pesos a month, which is the equivalent of roughly $5,700, according to the AP. The news service added that he also said that no public official will be allowed to make more than he does during his six-year term.
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This is not the first high-profile public official who is being sued for possibly violating constitutional free speech protections; President Donald Trump is also facing a lawsuit in which seven Twitter users say the president is infringing on their First Amendment rights by restricting their access to a government platform.
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"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise-open dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," a panel of three Second Circuit judges wrote in a unanimous opinion.
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"I think my view is that if any public official or member of any campaign is contacted by any nation state or anybody acting on behalf of a nation state about influencing or interfering with our election, then that's something that the F.B.I. would want to know about," Mr. Wray said.
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Kansas Republicans appear to have thumbed their noses at the party establishment on Tuesday in the primary for governor, failing to persuasively back the sitting governor, Jeff Colyer, and instead leaving room to elect Kris Kobach, the state's secretary of state — and quite possibly the most pernicious public official in America.
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"[T]he First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise-open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," wrote Circuit Judge Barrington Parker in the court's ruling, per Reuters.
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Skeptics thus sometimes feel compelled to "connect the dots," even as it relates to a public official of impeccable integrity such as Manhattan's district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. The only remedy for this perception is to bar candidates from directly asking for contributions or knowing the identities of their donors.
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Trump then kindly reminded the press that Vice President Pence might also enjoy this luxury, even though "I don't think he'll need it," a sly dig at the underwhelming business holdings of the former governor of Indiana, a longtime public official and salary man with a net worth of under $1 million.
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"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said in its ruling.
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Sullivan and subsequent cases built on it, or at least chip away at either the definition of "actual malice" or the characterization of a public official or public figure, said Sandra S. Baron, a senior fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project and former executive director of the Media Law Resource Center.
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" Mr. Bentley, who was elected statewide in part because of his reputation as a churchgoing, squeaky-clean public official, said that his conduct had not been "all that egregious," but also said, "All I can say is that I think I let people down, and that disturbs me more than anything else.
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"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said in the ruling.
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The decision by Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York says that no public official may "block" a person from their Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and that the president is no exception to the rule.
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Time spent prosecuting illegal entry in federal court, they argue, is time that can't be spent on other, more serious crimes, including "a terrorist plot, a child human trafficking organization, an international drug cartel or a corrupt public official firearms cases, violent crime cases, financial fraud cases, and cases involving public safety on Indian reservations."
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The judge in Maryland, US District Judge Peter Messitte, agreed with DC and Maryland's interpretation that the term covered a broad range of things of value, and rejected the Justice Department's narrower position that it should cover only money that a public official received in exchange for official acts or an employer-employee arrangement.
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"I think it's safe to say it's an uphill climb, but as lawyers normally do, belt and suspenders approach, when in a suit against a public official or any lawsuit for tort, which is basically what this seems to be, you're going to put down any defense that you think might be successful," Abbott said.
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Black won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk," the 2628 biopic on the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected public official in the U.S. Black has also been an activist on LGBT issues, including as a key player in the fight to overturn California's gay marriage ban Proposition 28503.
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If Trump is found to have done what the whistleblower said he did, large majorities of Americans back serious consequencesRespondents were asked, "What should the consequences be for a public official who encourages a foreign power to intervene in an upcoming domestic election in their favor?" before they were asked about more in-depth detail of the impeachment inquiry.
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No one knows for sure, but after nearly 40 years of being intimately involved, as an academic and public official, with these situations, I can offer an informed guess: The United States gave up most of its trade demands in exchange for a confidential commitment by Mexico to do Washington's dirty work against would-be immigrants and refugees.
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Alan Dershowitz: Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest and mostly you're right, your election is in the public interest and if a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.
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"With as much as 86 percent of RNC's cost for catering and venues being spent at Trump-related properties, this close relationship between the party and the President gives the appearance of the highest public official in the land using that position for personal gain — a practice that violates long standing traditions and norms," McGehee said.
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.) says there has never been a president or leading public official "who has lied as often or as dangerously" as President Trump has.
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" His new bill states: "It shall be illegal for the board of education or school district employees ... to strike or threaten to strike or otherwise close schools or interfere with school operations as a means of resolving differences with the board of education, the State Department of Education, the State Board of Education, the Legislature or any other public official or public body.
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" His new bill states: "It shall be illegal for the board of education or school district employees ... to strike or threaten to strike or otherwise close schools or interfere with school operations as a means of resolving differences with the board of education, the State Department of Education, the State Board of Education, the Legislature or any other public official or public body.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas) and his wife were harassed and driven out of a Washington, D.C., restaurant by protesters, it's what Cruz "signed up for" as a public official.
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It was interesting to note that among these experts — an anthropologist (Margaret Mead, who thought de Beauvoir had some good points but was "too French" and too dismissive of anything positive about motherhood), a writer, a public official, a psychiatrist, an educator — there was also a "housewife": none other than Phyllis McGinley, who would win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
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" In his 1985 birthday speech for Stennis, Biden praised him as "an opponent without hate, a friend without treachery, a statesman without pretense, a victim without any murmuring, a public official without vice, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor, as you all know, without hypocrisy, a man without guilt -- a senator whom future senators can study with profit for as long as there is an America.
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In the social media case, Mueller alleged that the Russians illegally impaired and impeded the FEC's and DOJ's ability to disclose to the American people the Russians' social media influence in the American political system and 2016 US presidential election -- the same type of "collusion" allegations Mueller may well be able to lodge against Trump as a public official under the far more powerful federal bribery law.
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But here is Graham, as one of the GOP's impeachment managers in 21625, talking about what it takes to remove the president from office: "You don't even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job [as president] in this constitutional republic if this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role," Graham said.
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"To me it doesn't seem the right venue to promote divisiveness or to support or encourage a public official refusing to serve the entire public, especially when they've taken an oath to uphold the laws of their state and the Constitution, but again it's the United States and she has as much right to be in that chamber as I do or anyone else does," he told reporters Tuesday.
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Read more: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blocked a conservative news outlet on Twitter, and legal experts say that could be unconstitutional"The First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees," the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said in its ruling.
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So let me ask you, finally, in the minute that we have left — there was this conversation back and forth about loyalty, and I think we all appreciate the fact that an FBI director is a unique public official in the sense that he's not — he's a political appointee in one sense, but he has a duty of independence to pursue the law pursuant to the — the — the constitutional laws of the United States.
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