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U S Attorney Watergate Scandal
953 wordsWatergate, designation of a major U. S. political scandal that began with the burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic party's campaign headquarters, later engulfed President Richard M. Nixon and many of his supporters in a variety of illegal acts, and culminated in the first The burglary was committed on June 17, 1972, by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate apartment and office complex in Washington, D. C. Their arrest eventually uncov...
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Racial Profiling African Americans
1,330 wordsNEW JERSEY STATE POLICE RACIAL PROFILING Racial profiling is a law enforcement strategy that encourages police officers to stop and question African Americans simply because of their race. Although not raised as a major issue in the courtroom during the trial of the four police officers who shot Amadou Diallo (who were acquitted in February), racial profiling is often employed by police, officially and unofficially, and was likely a factor in the police shooting of Diallo. Racial profiling took ...
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1,171 wordsThe Watergate Affair, is the worst political scandal in U. S. history. It led to the resignation of the president, Richard M. Nixon, after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. The Watergate Affair refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972, of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment, and office building complex in Washington D. C. The term was applied to several related scandals. More than thirty administration officials, campai...
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1,138 wordsThe Watergate Scandal involved a number of illegal activities that were designed to help President Richard Nixon win re-election. The scandal involved burglary, wiretapping, campaign financing violations, and the use of government agencies to harm political opponents. A major part of the scandal was also the cover-up of all these illegal actions. Watergate, however, differed from most previous political scandals because personal greed apparently did not play an important role. Instead Watergate ...
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George W Bush Terrorist Threat
768 wordsThe viewpoint of the writer on John Ashcroft (Attorney General) is basically to point out on the Patriot Act that brought the latest law to prevent the terrorist. One of the Ashcroft opinion on this articles is "Once detained, these lawbreakers are accorded the rights to which they are entitled. " I think the INS plays an important role to conduct as a front line in the border that guard the US from the terrorist threat, but it might give an uncomfortable feeling for foreigner who has nothing to...
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855 wordsPatriot Act In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11 th, the Bush administration submitted anti-terrorism legislation to Congress. Titled the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 " (with the catchy moniker "USA PATRIOT Act") it became Public Law 107 - 56 on October 26 th. The USA PATRIOT Act contains a mishmash of provisions to expedite law enforcement. Some of these changes eliminate loopholes or u...
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Sexually Explicit Material Langston Hughes
3,344 wordsCensorship of American Media and Music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press. In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by lawmakers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist an...
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Federal Laws Attorney General
817 wordsDepartment of Justice It is the executive department of the United States federal government, created by Congress in 1870 to assume the functions performed until then by the Office of the Attorney General. The department is headed by the attorney general, which is appointed by the president with the approval of the Senate. The Attorney General is Janet Reno she receives 181, 500 a year. The functions of the department include providing means for the enforcement of federal laws and investigating ...
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Socratic Method Fair Trial
1,670 wordsWhat is just and what is unjust The trials of Donald Marshall Jr. and the Guilford Four are two examples of how the system can be wrong at times. These persons were wrongly tried for crimes they didn t commit, as well as being ridiculed by the system. Donald Marshall Jr. , a young kid who served time for a murder that he witnessed, but did not commit. I believe that the system that was set up to protect him destroyed this young teenager as well as The Guilford Four by, an injustice of the justic...
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1,002 words&# 65279; Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice is a member of the executive branch of the U. S. Government. Founded by Congress in 1870 to take the place Office of the Attorney General, the Department is headed by the attorney general, who is appointed by the president with the approval of the Senate. Divided into management offices, litigation offices, and law enforcement offices, The Department of Justice (DoJ) is the nations largest law firm and helps to enforce immig...
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Secretary Of Labor Put In Place
2,428 wordsAnalysis of the Red Scare " The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. " -Kipling, The Recessional Mr. Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with the last cry on the battlefield. World War I certainly did not. After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare, which began in 1919 ...
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2,341 wordsEXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9066 The President EXECUTIVE ORDER AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO PRESCRIBE MILITARY AREAS WHEREAS the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities as defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40 Stat. 533, as amended by the Act of November 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21, 1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U. S. C. ...
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Law Enforcement Officer Violent Crimes
2,006 wordsThe agency now known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was founded in 1908 when Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte appointed an unnamed force of Special Agents to be the investigative force of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Prior to that time, DOJ borrowed Agents from the U. S. Secret Service to investigate violations of federal criminal laws within its jurisdiction. By order of Attorney General George W. Wickersham, the Special Agent force was named the Bureau of Investigation i...
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Harvard Law School U S Court
1,096 wordsIn 1787 Article three of the constitution created the Supreme Court, but not until 1789 was it configured. The way it was originally set up was with one Chief Justice and five associate judges, with all six members being appointed for life. This court serves as the supreme law of the land, it has the power to determine if state or federal laws are in conflict with how the Court interprets the constitution. Presently the supreme court has nine members, which include one Chief Justice and eight as...
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2,249 wordsSection 1. Purposes. The purposes of the rules are: (a) To establish a procedure for the licensing of post secondary education institutions (colleges, universities, correspondence schools offering degrees, etc. ) with the exception of the University of Wyoming and the Community Colleges of Wyoming (21 - 2 - 102 and 21 - 2 - 103) or any post-secondary post secondary education institution possessing current accreditation by a recognized and accepted accrediting agency. (b) To establish minimum sta...
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Law Sex Crime
2,503 wordsSteve Butler and Eric Roos Ms. Johnson Advanced English 10 14 January 2000 Megan? s Law When people think of their neighbors, do they think of violent sex crime offenders? Many people have to deal with this every day of life. There are now laws that inform people of a community when a sex crime offender moves into their town. These laws are said to keep violent sex crime offenders from striking again, but do these laws really work is the question that many people ask? The answer all depends on t...
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Recording Industry Association Industry Association Of America
1,079 wordsThe PMRC was founded in May of 1985. (Tipper) In November of 1985 the PMRC met with the Recording Industry Association of America. The two organizations made an agreement that a label saying Explicit Lyrics-Parental Advisory should be placed on albums containing obscenities, or sexual lyrics. The main parent leading the PMRC is Al Gores wife, Tipper Gore. Tipper Gore seems to be ruining her husbands chances at ever becoming president. The problem is that the entertainment industry, which would m...
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1,053 wordsWatergate Scandal THE WATERGATE SCANDAL Watergate is a hotel in Washington D. C. where the Democratic National Committee held their campaign headquarters. The current president at the time was Richard M. Nixon, who was involved in the scandal himself and which lead to the cause of his resignation. The Watergate scandal should not have happened, but it did and it caused the American people to judge less of their government system. The scandal began on June 17, 1972, with the arrest of five men wh...
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Chief Of Staff Abuse Of Power
2,063 wordsWhitewater vs. Watergate. Both are political sandals that have rocked the nation. As Watergate unraveled, many of Nixon's dirty tactics were learned, including assorted lists of enemies (a number of which became targets of IRS tax audits), wiretapping, political sabotage, burglary, blackballing, and smear campaigns. Similarly, as Whitewater unfolded, the scandal appeared to involve more than just an illegal loan. It touched on possible hush money paid to witnesses and includes the acquisition of...
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Attorney General Souter Court
308 wordsDAVID Hackett Souter was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, September 17, 1939. Souter attended the local public school and was immediately recognized as a student of great promise. Souter's parents sent him to Concord High School, he graduated in 1957. He continued his education at Harvard and later awarded a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford University for two years, he studied jurisprudence at Magdalen College, where he received bachelors and masters degrees. Souter began his career in public ...
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