Deputy Attorney General

President Barack Obama has recently commuted 46 prisoners before his historic visit to a federal prison in Oklahoma. Most of the prisoners he commuted are drug offenders. In a video posted on Facebook, Obama demanded that the punishment of the commuted prisoners was overloaded and overwhelming. In his language- these prisoners are not “hardened criminals,” so “their punishments didn’t fit the crime.” Refferring America as the country of second chances, Barack Obama said, “I believe at its heart

The history of legalization of cannabis in the US, either for therapeutic or recreational ends, is the history of a policy transformation within a prohibitionist regime. This historical path definitely has imposed constraints and has shaped specific policy features for cannabis legalization. By the same token, reveals the extent in which public policy cycles are highly embedded in political debates, worldviews and perspectives upon rights and obligations structures of societies (Chang, 2002: 543)

for the 2016 presidential office. From his humble uprising to becoming a senator, Cruz could be the first Hispanic president of the United States. Cruz Political background has been in the making for more than ten years. He started working as an attorney for some time, Cruz later served as an adviser on the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. In 2012 he won election to the U. Bush. Born on December 22, 1970, American conservative politician

The political disaster of Watergate in the early 1970s marked the first time a president resigned. Essentially, it began when a former Marine, Daniel Ellsberg, who no longer supported war in Vietnam, leaked an analysis of American involvement there to The New York Times, starting in 1971. President Richard Nixon, a very private man, demanded that these Pentagon Papers be kept secret in order to prevent the public from finding out exactly what was going on. The scandal that followed ruined Nixon and

Title: Establishing Border Liaison Office against Transnational Crime Statement of the Issue: • Illicit drugs and psychotropic substances are increasingly being smuggled across the borders and posing not only a serious threat to our young generation but also a national threat. Furthermore, we found the symptoms of terrorist activities in the area bordering with the neighboring country. The porous border between Myanmar and neighboring country is rapidly becoming a conduit of transnational crimes

History reveals the evolution of the augmentation of Federal Agencies for over 100 years. In the beginning, the Executive Branch established a mere five administrative agencies, Department of War, State, Navy, Treasury and the Office of the Attorney General. Thomas Jefferson, personally, paid the salaries of one messenger and a secretary. Later, progression in time would allow for hiring one clerk at a salary of $2,500 in 1857. Subsequently, not until Grant’s presidency had the staffing of the

"good"? The first consideration for an attorney who evaluates a new case is the factual basis of the claim. It would be nice to think that attorneys routinely consider justice as their first and foremost priority, but they can't. In the day-to-day world of legal practice, the first point that attorneys use to evaluate a case is facts, not fairness. The question for the attorney is this: Do the facts justify the client's claim? If they don't, the attorney should not take the case. A case where the

sabotaging the Democratic party’s candidates, and he did nothing about them. Denying everything at first, he, behind the scenes, worked hard to cover up any involvement that he may have had, including issuing out orders to the Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, and Deputy Attorney General, William Ruckelshaus, to fire the lead prosecutor, Archibald Cox, hired to investigate the Watergate scandal. However despite all of this, one of the more famous acts during this scandal involved Nixon and the presidential

Bright red embroidered cherries were scattered all over Jan’s sapphire blue cardigan. She sat on her son’s inky black couch as she recounted what job she wanted to have when she was young, “My father was an architect and he used to talk about how we could set up an architectural practice together. I thought about that although, I think that was a lucky escape. I don’t think I have the spatial ability for it.” Jan Wade was born on the 8th of July 1937 and grew up with her father, mother and younger

There has been many stands for rights in the this chaotic place we call planet earth. As a nation i'm sure it's a goal to be perfectly in sync and to agree on any situation thrown at us. In the Pledge of Allegiance it clearly states “One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” but throughout the decades groups of people have noticed we have separated ourselves into “Us and Them” columbs. Is there really liberty and justice for all? Civil Disobedience is the act of denying