GianCarlo Canaparo is a legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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Rarely does a U.S. attorney general get such blowback for a non-televised speech at a university. Yet that’s what happened to Attorney General William Barr…. Read More
LawCommentary
“It’s pretty simple,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted last March, in calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. “No one is above the law, including the President of the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Democrats and Republicans have been fighting over whether the person who filed a complaint about President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President… Read More
LawCommentary
In the you-just-can’t-make-this-stuff-up category, we interrupt the impeachment proceedings to return to the Jussie Smollett drama. The latest head scratcher is the fact that Smollett… Read More
LawCommentary
Politics is like mud wrestling. No one comes out clean. And as recent comments by Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for… Read More
LawCommentary
Halloween is the spookiest night of the year, when millions of monsters and supernatural creatures of the night (often accompanied by their parents) stalk peaceful… Read More
LawCommentary
The Supreme Court agreed Oct. 18 to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The court will decide whether, by… Read More
LawCommentary
The New York Times on Oct. 4 reported that a second intelligence official “alarmed by President [Donald] Trump’s dealings with Ukraine” is considering whether to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The U.S. Justice Department announced Oct. 10 that the nation’s immigration judges resolved 275,000 immigration cases in fiscal 2019. That’s the second-highest number of cases… Read More
LawCommentary
For years now, Heritage Foundation scholars have argued that, absent extraordinary circumstances, criminal liability should require proof of criminal intent. At least one court has… Read More
