officer of the law

A plainspoken champion of the outer boroughs, Adams pitched himself as a true moderate, one who had served the city as an officer of the law.

Winston in “New Girl” became a policeman, and now you get to be an officer of the law again in “Fargo.”

“What kind of officer of the law are you?”

As Willis’ response outlines, under Georgia caselaw, a DA is not disqualified by personal interest in a case where he ‘was not acting … for his personal or individual interest, but in his character as an officer of the law specially charged by statute to perform this particular duty.”

In Marbury, Chief Justice John Marshall, still the greatest chief justice in U.S. history, stated that when Congress imposes specific duties on the president, he becomes “the officer of the law” and “is amenable to the laws for his conduct.”