What’s a true threat and what’s political hyperbole? A scholar of constitutional and criminal law looks at the charges against James Comey for an Instagram post that said, ‘86 47.’
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Does a seashell arrangement in the form of the numerals ‘86 47’ amount to a criminal threat to assassinate President Donald Trump, as prosecutors suggest?
The dismissals do not mean that these prosecutions are over.
Is former FBI Director James Comey’s attempt to get his prosecution thrown out a legal slam-dunk? It may look like that to the public, but it’s not.
Even when a prosecution fails to convict someone, the process of defending against charges can itself can be a form of punishment.
The former FBI director’s indictment breaks a principle that has protected American democracy for 50 years.
Donald Trump has a partisan ally running the FBI. He’s urged retribution against his perceived enemies. Will today’s FBI repeat the vast, unconstitutional persecutions of the J. Edgar Hoover era?
A department rule advises federal law enforcement officials to refrain from making public comments about ongoing investigations that may impact an election in the 60 days leading up to that election.
Polling shows Joe Biden with a large lead over Donald Trump nationally in the presidential race. But there are many ways that presidential race polling has gone wrong in the past, and could do so now.
Mueller’s report describes more than a dozen times Trump may have broken the law. Here’s how Congress will decide whether the president obstructed justice during federal probes into his presidency.
As the special counsel’s investigation of Trump turns into a partisan battle in Congress, here are four key issues to follow.
Legally, a person can obstruct justice even if he committed no other crime – though it is harder to prove. It all depends on the intent behind pressuring investigators, say, or firing an FBI director.
Will the public ever see a report from Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia? Maybe not. There are big legal hurdles to making it public.
Here are three lessons that former FBI Director James Comey, took from the 20th-century American Christian philosopher, Reinhold Niebuhr.
There’s a trade-off when presidents appoint loyalists. A loyalist may not be as competent as the position demands, but he or she may satisfy the president by carrying out his agenda.
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
Greek tragedies shed light into human nature’s darker corners. They can also illuminate the character of former FBI chief James Comey, whose unbending adherence to principles evokes ancient themes.
But everyone gets fired in the end.
When outrage is misplaced or excessive, it can have negative consequences for a healthy public discourse.
Research shows that context matters for understanding what a person’s words mean – especially when power dynamics are involved.
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