Criminal Justice & Rule of Law

A meditation on Judge Boasberg’s contempt ruling in increasingly run-on sentences.

The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended police detective.

Can the government win a case by losing the plaintiff?

FTO designations, policy changes, and increased resources to “totally eliminate” cartels may be effective, but with collateral consequences.

Before the Senate confirms Ed Martin as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, it should require him to answer some questions.

 Don’t call it repression.

There is ample support for the D.C. Circuit’s jurisdiction in the case. But can it order the return of individuals no longer in the country?

What the first Trump administration carried out slowly, the new administration is doing at once.

Disbanding the team will cause long-term damage to the government’s capacity to prosecute grand corruption and money laundering crimes.

Without a clear statement from Congress signaling that this broad authority extends to LPRs, courts should hold that LPRs are beyond the provision’s scope.