Detaining captured enemy combatants is an integral part of the president's ability to prosecute such a war,
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This legislation removes the unfair barriers that currently hinder the ability of battered immigrants to escape domestic violence safely and prosecute their abusers.
I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.
skepticism of the government's ability to prosecute this case in open court.
and we have serious concerns about any reckless and foolhardy effort that may irreparably damage the ability of the state of Ohio to successfully prosecute the person or persons involved in the death of Craig Roberts.
I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.
We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
We can arrest the victim, but we also hate to re-victimize the victim. There is no easy answer to that. Regardless of what happens, we will do whatever we can. The job has been tougher after Crawford, but we will prosecute these cases.
agrees with the defendant's skepticism of the government's ability to prosecute this case in open court in light of the shroud of secrecy under which it seeks to proceed.
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.
Had the court ruled otherwise, instead of giving the president a choice between treating people as criminal suspects or releasing them, it would have dealt a very heavy blow to our ability to prosecute this war, so that basically affirms that the administration is proceeding in the right way.
I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.
Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.