Category: Const Law Issues

Honest services fraud theories hit by the Supreme Court

The Post looks at some honest services fraud cases in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s recent major decisions on the theory. A Supreme Court ruling last month that gutted an anti-corruption tool favored by federal prosecutors is jeopardizing high-profile investigations into politicians and business executives, including several related to convicted ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according […]

Times agrees with Justice Thomas on free speech issue

Read it here. As Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a related concurring opinion last year, digital technology has actually widened the amount of broadcast spectrum available today, undermining the earlier notion that scarce slices of the airwaves justified stricter free-speech rules for broadcasters. He has made it clear he now favors removing all content regulations […]