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The first time was just months after the regulations went into effect, when Attorney General Janet Reno appointed John Danforth to investigate the FBI’s role in the raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 1:31 pm by Josh Blackman
Recall that Attorney General Janet Reno gave Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr full support throughout his investigation of President Bill Clinton. [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 10:38 am by Peter Margulies
The Obama administration, in a memo issued by then-Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, had sought to justify all of DACA using a prosecutorial discretion rationale. [read post]
10 Dec 2011, 6:20 am by Jeralyn
As a result of Operation Casablanca, in 1998 Attorney General Janet Reno and Mexico's Attorney General, Jorge Madrazo Cuellar, signed the Brownsville Agreement, in which both countries pledged to notify each other about "sensitive" cross-border law enforcement operations. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 6:53 pm
Attorney General Janet Reno, speaking on behalf of the Department of Justice, opposed the reductions, and the Clinton Administration was able to get a bill introduced and passed in Congress rejecting the proposed changes. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 7:04 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
La Bella, based in San Diego, attracted national attention following the 1996 presidential race when then-Attorney General Janet Reno appointed him to head a task force to investigate possible Democratic fundraising abuses during the campaign. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 4:28 am
As Janet Reno likes to say "do your level best. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 7:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Simpson murder case, officials had to act.After the Justice Department’s inspector general began a review of Whitehurst’s claims, Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis J. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 4:10 am
One group, led by former Attorneys General Janet Reno and Nicholas Katzenbach, stresses the decades during which their Department supported the view that the Amendment did not embrace a private, individual right — and notes that the Department put that argument before the Supreme Court when it last examined the Amendment’s meaning: U.S. v. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 5:07 am by Bill Otis
And the country's first woman Attorney General, Janet Reno, properly sought and obtained the death penalty for mass- murderer Timothy McVeigh. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 2:23 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Once upon a time, Attorney General Janet Reno had fretted about whether the United States had the legal authority to kill the Saudi terrorist Osama bin Ladin, who had never set foot in the United States, but who had publicly declared war on it—demonstrating his grim intentions by planning the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa and the USS Cole. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 5:01 am by Jim Walker
Attorney General, Janet Reno, a Miami resident herself and an environmentalist as well, was not amused. [read post]
28 Jun 2008, 12:35 am
" Dade County Day Care Center Miami-Dade County, Florida state's attorney Janet Reno crafted a "children's rights" approach to the prosecution of several suspected child abusers during her reelection campaign in 1984. [read post]
21 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Armed with an expanded mandate by Clinton’s Attorney General, Janet Reno, Starr and his minions zeroed in on the Lewinsky affair.Whether Clinton had consensual extramarital affairs was not obviously relevant to the Jones case. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding
I’ve spent most of my professional life in the Justice Department — joining fresh from law school to work for Attorney General Janet Reno, the first woman Attorney General (it took us more than 200 years to hit that milestone) — and later serving as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 9:00 pm
James was sentenced to six months of house arrest — a sentence applauded by then-Attorney General Janet Reno — followed by probation. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 1:53 am
He said he will focus on the pardon of fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich; the decision by Holder's then-boss AG Janet Reno not to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Vice President Al Gore's 1996 fundraising activities; and the clemency granted to a group of Puerto Rican nationalists. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 5:06 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Freeh publically sparred with the White House and with Attorney General Janet Reno over any number of issues, most famously the conduct of investigations related to campaign finance. [read post]
At her confirmation hearing, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco declared that:  My first job in the Department was as counsel to Janet Reno, the first woman Attorney General. [read post]