For all of her business-friendly policies, Rousseff also stays true to her background in social justice.
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To ease the transition, the Justice Department was making FBI background check forms available to cabinet candidates, who must fill them out prior to their appointments.
States are supposed to make mental health records available to the federal background check system and receive more generous Justice Department grants if they do, but many provide little or no such data because of privacy concerns or antiquated record-keeping systems.
He became a QC at 38, and was made Lord Chief Justice, exceptionally, when his background was in commercial rather than criminal law.
He assisted in witness-background profiling in 2008 for the U.S. Justice Dept in a terrorism financing trial.
Lambuth, who was taken off the project in July 1998, has provided an affidavit to Burton's committee that states some of the e-mails contained information regarding various matters under investigation either by Congress or the Justice Department, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation background files controversy, Lewinsky, trade mission information and campaign finance matters.
Settled in his chambers around the corner from Turin's courts of justice, with a stately grandfather clock ticking in the background, Mr Grande Stevens appears every bit the establishment toff.
He has said almost nothing about it since then, but the Justice Department said Friday it has tweaked its system to make background checks more thorough and complete.
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According to Justice Department estimates, the federal and state governments ran 108 million background checks of firearms sales between 1994 when the requirement became law and 2009.
Justice Department officials say the three witnesses will be allowed to provide background information on the Puerto Rican independence organization FALN, and its deadly bombing campaign in the United States, but not on the discussions or recommendations to grant clemency.
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The Court is an extraordinary institution in the work it does and in the work it can do for the American people by advancing the tenets of our Constitution, by upholding the rule of law, and by enabling all Americans, regardless of their background or their beliefs, to get a fair hearing and an equal chance at justice.
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According to the US justice department, up to 40% of gun purchases take place without a background check - those from private sellers and some at gun shows.
According to a Justice Department report, less than 2% of those seeking to purchase firearms were denied because of background checks from 1998 through 2009.
The Justice Department evaluates all airline mergers and acquisitions on competitive grounds with the Transportation Department and FAA chirping in background advice.
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