Essays on Attorney General

Sacking of Attorney General

Dana Loesch is a radio personality that is never afraid of speaking her mind. She always says issues as she sees them. In fact, she is one of the most vocal radio personalities in the current generation. In her latest show, which was on Tuesday 31, she raised different issues concerning the several aspects of the contemporary world and the lifestyles of people. In the first part, she criticized the people who are against the sacking of former attorney general of the federal government, Sally Yates (Loesch). In her argument, she states that President Trump did what other presidents ...

Nebraska was the thirty seventh state admitted to the Union. It is located in the middle of the United States and borders the states of South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming. Initially, the state was used mostly as a point of rest as people travelled to the west, but the state eventually became a location for crop growing and cattle raising, ultimately establishing itself as a significant producer of food in the United States. Nebraska is nicknamed the Cornhusker State and has its capital in the city of Lincoln.

Nebraska Government

Separation of Powers Nebraska has three branches of government: ...

Introduction

Gender equality is one of the most controversial and complicated issues that have plagued human societies for many years. In fact, the issue regarding gender equality has been an age-old problem that have prevailed even in the contemporary society. The problem in gender equality lies on the concept of equality itself, primarily because the concept of equality is too broad to be explicitly defined. The case of Stella Bliss, for example, is a manifestation that the concept of equality is subjective and depends on the prevailing perception on equality. According to the merits of the case, Stella Bliss, a ...

Introduction

Watergate was a controversial scandal that rocked the USA in the 1970s, following a burglary attempt at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters located in Watergate Office Complex in Washington D.C. and the alleged involvement of the then US president Richard Nixon in the cover-up. The Watergate scandal marked a historic significance in the US politics as it showed how politicians abused their power to get what they desired. The Watergate scandal brought to the surface an array of secret and illegal activities conducted by the members of the Nixon administration. These activities involved the adoption of unethical means ...

Ideally, forensic health nursing entails the practice of nursing regardless of the region on the global map especially when legal system and health intersect. As such, forensic nurses make a tremendous contribution to the integration of law and medicine. In fact, they are tasked with the provision of specialized care to patients who in most instances are perpetrators or victims of trauma. I agree with the post that the fact that hundreds of employees are always in and around the building reduces the risk of occurrence of crime (Simmons, 2014). However, the presence of the many corners of the ...

Identify the three branches of Texas government and describe their functions.

Texas was admitted as the 28th State back on 29 December 1845. This was nine years after its secession from Mexico in 1836. The current constitution of Texas was adopted in the year 1876 (“Texas State Government at a Glance, n.d.”). As a result, the Texas’ government operates under its Constitution, which comprises a type of unitary democracy for its state government, one that uses the Dillon Rule in addition to governments both at the municipal and county levels (“Abbott, n.d.”). The Constitution of Texas divides the power of state movement into three specific departments namely the legislative, executive ...

Almost US, but still Latin America. This is the brief definition one can give to Puerto Rico. US is actively engaged in cooperation with the archipelago, but the chances that this area ever really become an integral part of the United States are still unclear. More so, it is a unique habitat with its own unique development system, including the judiciary. Puerto Rico is a dependent territory of the United States and has the status of "unincorporated organized territory”, which means that the area is under the control of the United States (and is not an integral part thereof), ...

Introduction

The United States government has the mandate of ensuring the security of the nation by developing and implementing legislations that promote the safety of all citizens. Numerous cases of insecurity experienced in the country over the last few years stretching from drug and human trafficking to terrorists have made the federal government more concerned about the future of the country regarding securing her citizens. Terrorism brings more concerns in the area of homeland security among many security threats facing U.S. The priority of the U.S. Department of Justice is to prevent future terrorist attacks in the country. September 11, ...

FBI VS Jewish Defense League

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been in operation as a major criminal investigation bureau in the US. This national crime-fighting agency of security goal is to protect America and the larger international community from criminal dangers that affect the world today (US Department of Justice, 2011). It was started in 1908 when Theodore Roosevelt was the president of the US by Robert Bonaparte (Weiner, 2013). Robert Bonaparte was the then attorney general of the US. It started as a task force of special agents, whose work was to track the major crimes that were happening in various ...

The Fair Sentencing Act

On August 3, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, for the first time in the History of the U.S (Grindle, 2010). This law was a response to the then claims of racial biases of the law in convicting drug dealers. This Act established new quantity thresholds, which were meant to trigger statutory mandatory minimum and maximum penalties for offenses related to cocaine. By so doing, this law amended the Controlled Substance Act and the controlled import and export of substance. This new law saw to it that the quantities of cocaine that ...

INTRODUCTION

Ethical violations occur in every business field, and the criminal justice system in no different. News reports are not scant concerning individuals in law enforcement, corrections and the courts who have violated ethical codes. Ethical codes exist in the criminal justice field to not only protect the official, but also to protect the public. When an individual in the field of criminal justice violates an ethical code, typically, many people are affected, and it does not matter if the violation was intentional or unintentional, or real or simply alleged.

FACTS

Judge John P. Contini, a judge in Broward County Florida, ...

The CIA has been used to initiate numerous coups in South America including Venezuela whose intent has over time been shown to be to advance the interests of the United States by overthrowing leaders that do not tow its line and replacing them with less reactionary leaders that it can easily manipulate. The involvement of the United States of America in South America has by all means been open, especially following the Cold War. These relations range from diplomatic, trade, security to political engagements as evidenced by the Organization of American States (OAS). However, deeply tacked in the historical ...

Abstract

This paper examines the case of Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, a 5-4 Supreme Court decision that combined the substantive, environmental law question of whether the Environmental Protection Agency erred in its initial decision not to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for motor vehicles with the procedural issue of whether states, cities, and environmental organizations had legal standing (defined as the right to use the courts as opposed to Congress to force governmental action) for the environmental claims at issue in the case. This paper begins with a brief overview of the political, legal, and cultural context for assessing the ...

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This paper puts the legal and ethical issues of physician-assisted suicide in the context of the larger debate on privacy and the right to die, which can be divided into three constituent parts: (1) a patient’s constitutionally protected right to privacy in all matters involving end-of-life treatment decisions. So long as a patient has the mental capacity to make informed consent, the government does not have a legitimate interest to override end-of-life decisions. Critical to the analysis of a patient’s refusal of life-sustaining treatment is the burden of the state to prove a patient did not have ...

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One of the most significant milestone that has been done for the United States’ civil rights platform is enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These rights were enacted on July 2nd, 1964. It is through these rights that the rights of civil servants in the United States were assured of protection against such discriminations based on their sex, race, and religion, place of origin or color of their skin. This paper will in detail examine the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The paper will in detail elaborate on the meaning and significance of the Act as well ...

Introduction

Parliamentary sovereignty is a system of governance, which denotes that Parliament is the supreme legal authority with the sole capacity to make or end any law. The relationship between Parliament and other arms of government go as far as they do not interfere with or overrule legislations passed by Parliament. The concept of supreme Parliament was discussed by the AV Dicey in his 19th-century book “The Law of the Constitution (1885, p. 39-40).” In his view, Dicey believed that Parliament has unlimited power under the English constitution to make or unmake law in whichever way it deem fit and ...

Introduction

Criminology refers to the branches of Sociology and Law which are focused on the way a country comes together to institute their criminal justice system and deal with crime and criminals to ensure the harmony of the society. Every society has its own system of detecting, trying and convicting criminals. The purpose of this essay is to examine the main institutions of the criminal justice system of England and Wales. This will include the identification of the roles of the different institutions and how they work together to achieve control and reduce crime in the country. Officially, the aim ...