Psychologist Jesus Padilla was forbidden to complete research that could have set many indefinitely committed people free. He died with the work unfinished.
How can prosecuting a black woman for slapping Jews in 2020 be authorized by the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in 1865?
A crime in Monsey leads to a redundant prosecution that hinges on the defendant's anti-Semitism.
Recent revisions to state law will facilitate such duplicative prosecutions of people associated with the president.
The Trump appointee is not impressed by the logic of the "dual sovereignty" doctrine: "Really?"
The bill allows dual prosecutions of people in the president's orbit who receive pardons or commutations.
The federal hate crime charges against John T. Earnest are redundant and constitutionally problematic.
The federal case against the Charlottesville murderer illustrates how hate crime laws punish people for their bigoted beliefs.
The Supreme Court seems disinclined to overturn precedents allowing serial prosecutions of the same crime.
Strong originalist arguments exist for overruling the dual sovereign doctrine in a case being argued before the Supreme Court today.