Posted by David Rittgers on June 15, 2010
By David Rittgers
The Heritage Foundation and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) made a stir by announcing their joint report, Without Intent: How Congress is Eroding the Criminal Intent Requirement in Federal Law. The report highlights the growth of federal criminal provisions in the 109th Congress. Many criminal statutes are drafted without the traditional requirement of [...]
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Tags: criminal law, federal crimes, Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy, financial reform, financial regulation, Heritage Foundation, Law and Civil Liberties, national association of criminal defense lawyers, overcriminalization | 
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Posted by David Rittgers on June 8, 2010
By David Rittgers
Quinn Hillyer has an excellent piece at the Washington Times highlighting the simultaneously farcical and frightening use of armed agents in enforcing suspected regulatory violations.
”The government,” wrote 50-year-old Denise Simon, “is too big to fight.” With those words, in a note to her 17-year-old son, Adam, she explained why she was committing suicide (via carbon [...]
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Tags: federal crimes, Heritage Foundation, In the Name of Justice, Law and Civil Liberties, overcriminalization, overkill | No Comments »
Posted by David Rittgers on June 8, 2010
By David Rittgers
Quinn Hillyer has an excellent piece at the Washington Times highlighting the simultaneously farcical and frightening use of armed agents in enforcing suspected regulatory violations.
”The government,” wrote 50-year-old Denise Simon, “is too big to fight.” With those words, in a note to her 17-year-old son, Adam, she explained why she was committing suicide (via carbon [...]
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Tags: federal crimes, Heritage Foundation, In the Name of Justice, Law and Civil Liberties, overcriminalization, overkill | No Comments »
Posted by Tim Lynch on May 20, 2010
By Tim Lynch
Law Professor Michelle Alexander:
Lately, I’ve been telling people that I’m a criminal. This shocks most people, since I don’t “look like” one. I’m a fairly clean-cut, light-skinned black woman with fancy degrees from Vanderbilt University and Stanford Law School. I’m a law professor and I once clerked for a U.S. Supreme Court Justice — not [...]
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Tags: Alex Kozinski, federal crimes, Law and Civil Liberties, law school, liberty, Supreme Court | No Comments »
