Sentence examples for authorize prosecution from inspiring English sources

because we refused through the normal channels of international, legal communications, to extradite that individual?' " Bill To Authorize Prosecution of Terrorists and Others Who Attack U.S. Government Employees and Citizens Abroad: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 99th Cong., 1st Sess., 63 (1985).

Eight days after Agnew's resignation came the resignation of Elliot L. Richardson, who as attorney general had authorized prosecution of the vice president.

The new law extended the time in which prosecutions were allowed and authorized prosecutions that the old law's deadline had barred.

Ms. Bond argued that Congress did not have the constitutional power to authorize her prosecution under the law.

In State Supreme Court in Brooklyn yesterday, an assistant district attorney, Heide E. Mason, asked Justice Cheryl Chambers to authorize the prosecution to get DNA samples from the defendants.

The Enforcement Acts were passed by Congress in 1870 1871 to authorize federal prosecution of the KKK and others who violated the amendment.

But that bill clearly states that "nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the prosecution of any woman for the death of her unborn child".

Those who reject criminal prosecution of a sitting president argue that the negative inference of expressly authorizing criminal prosecution of a president once removed from office through conviction on an impeachment is that the president may not be criminally prosecuted before being removed from office.

In this case, that charge has been muted somewhat because the victims were black, as were both the attorney general who authorized the prosecution and the United States attorney.

But the new language only authorizes the prosecution of "alien unprivileged belligerents".

Under the previous 2006 military commissions statute, Kamin was deemed an "unlawful enemy combatant". But the new language only authorizes the prosecution of "alien unprivileged belligerents". Since the government has not alleged that Kamin fits the new category, it is not clear the government has the authority to bring the case to trial.