Even those, like this newspaper, who supported his inquiries, thought his powers to probe every corner of the president's life were excessive beyond the cause of justice.
Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice had sought to levy thousands of dollars in fines against the pro-life activist as well as seeking a permanent injunction banning her from continuing her faithful 20-year ministry outside an abortion clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida.
According to the Washington Times, it "may also charge him later with the more serious charge of treason, which under the Uniform Code of Military Justice could be punished by a maximum sentence of life" in prison.
Even after inmates are released, they remain under the heavy-handed and pricey control of the criminal justice system for years or for life, often legally barred from voting, receiving public housing, food stamps or student loans.
This is a good day for justice, and for the life of Maye, his family, and everyone involved in this terrible tragedy.
Wall Street is playing a guessing game after the surprise announcement in Bristol's earnings release yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a deal Bristol and partner Sanofi-Aventis made to preserve the patent life of their top-selling heart pill Plavix.
"A mother who wouldn't give up", Anne Williams spent the last 23 years of her life fighting to see justice done for her son Kevin, who died in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
"Poor behaviour which would be dealt with within the family should not be an express route into the criminal justice system for children who do not have the benefit of a normal family life, " committee chairman, Lib Dem MP Sir Alan Beith, said.
On the other side, we see numerous examples of drug users and drug dealers on the streets or at some stage of the justice system, and time after time their economic backgrounds and family life echo a similar refrain.
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The concept behind the project is that spreading Mandela's life story will help promote a message of social justice through the world.
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"It is not your free choice" to stay out of the market for life, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during arguments.
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It shall be a government rooted in strong values, the values of justice and progress and community, the values that have guided me all my political life.
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"We believe in a strong defense, work, faith, service, a culture of life, personal responsibility, the rule of law, and judges who dispense justice impartially and don't legislate from the bench, " the Arizona senator said.
"Nino, " as friends and family call him, was the lone offspring of two immigrant Italian families and "the center of their universe, " said Biskupic, who published "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" in 2009.
She represents the greatest college of racial justice in all and human rights around the world and Hillary will be my leader for life.
Perjury and perverting the course of justice carry a maximum sentence of seven years and life respectively.
In fact, his name is Dr. King Schultz, a German portrayed by Christoph Waltz, (spoiler alert) who sacrifices his life in the pursuit of freedom and justice for the black man.
The richly textured populist panorama, with its long-simmering feuds, casual gunplay, corrupt local politics, and the shoddy justice of vigilante mobs, blends the comic hyperbole of long-ago tall tales with the intense melodramatic spectacle of life and death in the daily balance.
Committed intellectual, he did throughout his life the promotion of Pan Africanism, endogenous development, social justice, and peace in Africa.
Sezgin Tanrikulu, a human-rights lawyer, says his burning mission in life is to bring to justice at least some of the 65 policemen and gendarmes accused of carrying out the battering.
Not a preacher, but a writer who drew his readers into contemplating the possibilities of how they might lead a better life with a greater commitment to justice, to civility, to respect, and to simple decency.
When we talk about social justice, we also need to recognise that the inequalities in society affect the life chances of people who don't think of themselves as especially disadvantaged.
And as I reflect on the full sweep of his 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent towards justice.
Lord Lloyd of Berwick said that before the 2003 Criminal Justice Act the home secretary would review a whole-life sentence after 25 years had been served.
The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke recently announced plans to extend mandatory life sentences for many other crimes as part of a plan to do away with indeterminate sentences.
John Marshall, our nation's fourth Chief Justice, led the Supreme Court in deciding several key cases that established the sanctity of contract law and breathed life into the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution.
The ruling by Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks, the first under the state's controversial Racial Justice Act, means that 38-year-old Marcus Robinson now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
It stars a Latin American pope who understands real life and is liberal on issues like clerical celibacy, women priests and the pursuit of social justice, but who wants to keep his church intact.
No one could argue with its cry for justice, but individual stories tend to get drowned out, and the act of watching it comes embarrassingly close to life in the pits a long, hard slog in the dark.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that the former chief justice was able to tell journalists from her car as she left home that her life and those of her husband and son were in danger, despite police attempts to stop her speaking.
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