The law didn't criminalize all lying, just "a calculated, factual falsehood" about oneself, said Mr. Verrilli.
He also said the government would seek to criminalize travel abroad for terrorist training.
Again and again, he argued that the state could criminalize behavior simply because it was inherently immoral.
One proposal the panel has considered would criminalize them all, something the U.S. House voted to do last December.
She says she'll push for legislation that will criminalize big businesses that take small business contracts by exacting fines or penalties.
Morales vows to roll back eradication efforts in Bolivia and de-criminalize the coca leaf, though he's backing a zero cocaine policy.
He's a Colorado Republican who has emerged as a leader of efforts to beef up border security and criminalize illegal immigrants.
"They didn't just try to make drivers safer or try to criminalize (drunken) driving -- that alone wouldn't have worked, " Vernick said.
Ellsberg adds that there is no U.S. law that would criminalize what Assange did that would not also apply to the New York Times.
Under our system of laws, if a statute does not criminalize a practice with sufficient clarity, it cannot be the basis of a criminal conviction.
Before rushing to criminalize a new drug, legislators ought to ask: What specific regulatory options would help to reduce the harm to individuals, families and society?
He criticized witnesses for pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit and accused prosecutors of trying to criminalize business decisions that only look bad in retrospect.
But given the Justice Department's desire to criminalize complicity in money laundering--whether deliberate or otherwise--Merrill's mea culpa may be only the start of a long penance.
That is, they often criminalize someone (or at least make them open to huge civil awards) for the types of things plenty of people do everyday without thinking twice about it.
Awaiting discussion is Cuomo's proposed restrictions to the stop and frisk tactic being used by New York City police and the governor's plan to de-criminalize the small amounts of marijuana often found during the frisks.
But commercial news is now at a distinct competitive disadvantage when you have a behemoth like the BBC "giving away" news on the Internet thanks to involuntary taxes that criminalize watching a television without a license.
It would criminalize undocumenteds who are here, but more than that, it criminalizes people who act on very humanitarian values by providing assistance, food, shelter to undocumented, who have them living as their husbands, wives or children.
If elected, he aims to criminalize abortion.
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"Proposals to Criminalize the Unauthorized Disclosure of the Identities of Undercover United States Intelligence Officers and Agents, " Hearings before the Subcommittee on Legislation of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. House of Representatives, 30 January 1980, p. 66.
Ginsberg reasoned that Congress meant the pre-1987 understanding of the term, and meant to criminalize only the taking of bribes and kickbacks in the performance of a job, not any sort of scheme that somehow deprived somebody of honest work.
What makes all this particularly worrying is that the Obama administration is currently helping the Saudis and the multinational lobby they host in Jedda, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a longstanding campaign to criminalize expression that offends Muslims.
Obama said Monday that lawmakers in Congress from both parties were working together on plans that would expand background checks to all gun purchases and criminalize "straw purchases" in which legal gun owners buy weapons for people prohibited from doing so.
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The initial version of the bill was drafted to criminalize physical and sexual abuse, so-called "honor crimes" and marital rape, create specially-trained domestic violence response units within the police, and provide the legal framework for restraining orders to be issued against abusers.
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