The attorney general - the government's senior law officer - must now respond, explaining his decision.
As the government's chief law officer, he was seldom out of the news.
The Lord Advocate is the principal law officer of the Crown in Scotland, responsible for the system of public prosecution.
Mr Grieve, the government's most senior law officer, made the application to the High Court, paving the way for new hearings.
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Meanwhile, Scotland's most senior law officer, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland, has met Mr El-Keib in London to discuss further inquires into the Lockerbie bombing.
Magoon, Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department, wrote a report that Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published.
Reid, who noted he owned guns and was a former law officer, said he opposed the Clinton-era assault weapons ban that expired midway through the Bush administration.
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Like all senior judges, they are in effect appointed by the Lord Chancellor, who is the government's senior law officer and sits in the cabinet, after secret consultations among judges and top lawyers.
Likewise, in 1902 Secretary Elihu Root ordered to be published a report by a Law Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the War Department which dealt with the treaty obligations of extinct States.
Asked on Wednesday if he had the backing of the attorney general - the government's chief law officer - for unfreezing Libyan assets, Mr Hague said the government "based on any legal considerations as well as political considerations are united in this position".
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Although the status-check provision contains no criminal sanctions or authority for the state to hold illegal immigrants without federal permission, it emerged as the flash point of controversy over effectively enlisting every Arizona law officer in a state campaign to "discourage and deter" the presence of illegal immigrants, as the statute says.
We have also launched the new Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability (VALOR) initiative, designed to reduce and prevent law enforcement officer injuries and line-of-duty deaths.
In so doing, a majority in Congress reaffirmed the venerable American principle that no citizen not even the chief law enforcement officer of the country is above the law.
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I'm not sitting here defending Bill Clinton, I'm sitting here saying that our criminal justice system, the top law enforcement officer should be out there protecting and upholding the rule of law.
On average, a law enforcement officer dies on the job every 54 hours, he said.
The TSA then moved to administratively upgrade TSOs uniforms to resemble those of a federal law enforcement officer.
While TSOs may have the appearance of a federal law enforcement officer they have neither the authority nor the power.
After all, who wants to slam the man who may soon be the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country?
And besides, where else is Mr Bush going to find a chief law enforcement officer who is going to be equally pliable?
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Whenever a group wanted a law enforcement officer or squad car for a community event, Bachmann was always the first to volunteer, Hamlin said.
Years would pass before McQueary spoke to a law enforcement officer.
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We'd like to hear if you have an experience with Stop and Frisk, either as a person who's been stopped, as a bystander or as a law enforcement officer.
Using a trust means you do not have to obtain the approval of your local Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) and the application can be sent directly to BATF.
"Although the attorney general is, of course, the federal government's chief law enforcement officer, you have an independent obligation to ensure that the nation's laws are upheld, " Hatch wrote.
As Attorney General, he is the chief law enforcement officer of the state and his office represents Wyoming in all criminal appeals and civil suits before state and federal courts.
"There isn't a law enforcement officer who doesn't go into every situation without suspicions on how that situation could turn on them and pose a threat to them, " Schwartz said.
Dowdy is charged with obstruction of justice for making a false statement to a law enforcement officer following the shooting death of Linda Franklin in Fairfax, Virginia, on October 14.
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My father was an amazing law enforcement officer.
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We're even better reminded that the possibility that the nation's highest law enforcement officer might be held in criminal contempt by Congress means we need not look outside the Constitution for accountability.
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