Epstein Secrets

y was their friend, possibly their only friend. They could work this claim of retroac- tive executive privilege, no matter how loopy, all the way to the Supreme Court. For this plan to work, the president would have to get rid of his inept lawyers. Oh, and he would also have to fire Rod Rosenstein, the deputy at

e Department of Justice often seemed more like a never-ending conflict between armed camps. Bill Clinton could hardly stomach his attorney general, Janet Reno, having to weather the blowback from her decisions regarding Ruby Ridge, a standoff and deadly overre- action between survivalists and the FBI; Waco

MiamiHerald.com 0 Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2008 FBI chief: Gun ruling makes campuses less secure FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, saying it may harm efforts to deter violent crime. Speaking at

filing Reno filing in 2002. Davis pointed out U.S. District Judge Shelby lirighsmith's ruling denying qualified immunity to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno for her role in the raid to seize Elian Gonzalez in 2000. The 11th Circuit reversed the decision in 2003. absolving Reno as a supervisory official.

hat the government cannot rush executions in order to evade judicial review of the legality and constitutionality of its new execution procedure." The Supreme Court's order was the latest setback for the administration's drive to reactivate federal executions at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., after a 16-

er, was overruled by Eric Holder, then deputy attorney general, who convened the Justice Department's death-penalty committee while Attorney General Janet Reno was at a White House meeting, court opinions say. At the penalty phase, federal prosecutors told jurors that Mr. Lee "has another murder under his

basis of race or ethnicity and so structure its selection process as to admit an essentially predetermined proportion of members of certain groups. The Supreme Court’s decision in Bakke accepted our argument against the sort of racial quotas employed by the medical school at issue, but it approved affirmative action

my help is the State Attorney of Dade County Florida, which covers the City of Miami and several smaller cities. Katherine Fernandez Rundle replaced Janet Reno in 19 _, when President Clinton appointed Reno to serve as Attorney General of the United States. She has been repeatedly reelected and served with d

Times, July 6, 1998, at BS. 22 Victims' Rights Amendment. Hearing on S.J. Res. 6 Before the S. Judiciary Comm., 105th Cong. 64 (1997) (statement of Janet Reno, U.S. Att'y Gen.). 30 See www.nveap.org (last visted Dec. 30, 2007). 3! For a comprehensive history of victims' efforts to pass a constitutional ame

in opposition to a plea. The prosecutor refused to convey that information to the court and the trial judge accepted the plea. When the issue reached the Utah Supreme Court, the court concluded that the prosecutor had an ethical obligation as an officer of the court to convey that information to the judge: Prosecutors m

n handedly to both prosecution and the defense. Neither side is required to disclose the address or telephone number of a victim, thus complying with the Supreme Court's instruction that "in the absence of a strong showing of state interests to the contrary, discovery must be a two- 204 See infra notes 528-539 and ac

tion of Justice and the Enforcement of Laws: Dep't of Justice Oversight Hearing Before the S. Judiciary Comm., 104th Cong. 23-24 (1997) (statement of Janet Reno, Att'y Gen. of the United States). See hitp://www.nvean.org. See generally Twist, supra note 2. 6 For a comprehensive history of victims' efforts t

--- Page 21 of 52 2005 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 835, *870 court, and the trial judge accepted the plea. The victim then obtained legal counsel and appealed to the Utah Supreme Court, urging that under the Utah Victims’ Rights Amendment, her right to be heard regarding a plea had been violated. The State responded that the victim

also resided in that state would be incidental. An understanding of the Article II] provision as protecting the community's interest is bolstered by the Supreme Court's decisions on right of public access to trials. In cases such as Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia, 7°4 the Court has held that a guarantee of the