Santos filed a lawsuit against Frederick County through pro-immigrant groups and sympathetic law firms, claiming that her constitutional rights had been violated when she was arrested.
Under Commons rules, MPs are not allowed to use their expenses to pay rent to a partner, but ministers are sympathetic to Laws's situation and, provided that he is not subject to strong criticism, they expect him to return to office at some point after the inquiry is over.
For those inclined to be more sympathetic to law enforcement, the shooting appears clearly legally justified — since, the police say, Smith had a gun — and the distrust about the police narrative among local residents seems confounding.
In 2015, a publisher sympathetic to Law and Justice brought out a photographic history of the Solidarity movement with the subtitle Years of Struggle, 1980-2015.
It is a decision fraught with legal and political complications, all the more so because Staten Island is home to many police officers and, more than any other borough, is seen as sympathetic to law enforcement.
Even some lawyers sympathetic to law enforcement – including Republican members of Congress, and attorneys for telecom giant AT&T – say this may be granting the government too broad of an authority under All Writs.
But then he couched his statements, as he always does, by remarking that he is also "sympathetic" to law enforcement officers, who say they want a key to everyone's conversations.
Kelly Armstrong, a state senator and the chairman of the North Dakota Republican Party, said the political environment in the state was sympathetic to law enforcement, and concerned about the monetary and reputational cost of the protests.
If this bill passes, a U.S. attorney more sympathetic to law enforcement could thwart those efforts by, for example, charging a high-profile victim of police abuse with the new federal crime of assaulting a police officer.
The St Louis County prosecutor appears sympathetic to law enforcement, the Ferguson mayor is in denial about any racial divisions in his town, and the governor is reticent to exert his powers to appoint a special prosecutor in responding to calls from Ferguson residents and a state senator.
