…Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and was criticized for being ineffective and using profiling… Is this a sound and effective anti-terrorism tactic? Looking at past anti-terrorism efforts by the US…

…about the methods the Court uses to interpret lengthy, highly complex federal statutes with multiple interconnecting sections and subsections whose purpose is to establish a cohesive policy. The case argued…

…hear a number of cases that challenge on vagueness grounds the constitutionality of criminal statutes. But they are always federal statutes rather than state ones, and almost always are heard…

…company on the jurisdictional issues—are foreign corporations “aliens” within the meaning of the statute, and if so, does the statute limit its reach to cases with ties to the United…

…U.S—rights they have long had here anyway. But this is a very old statute, and apparently predates those rights. The statute itself doesn’t say that it’s limited to circumstances involving…

by Linda Beale Economic Terrorism: the Tea Party/GOP’s Hostage Taking Plan (Tom Tomorrow’s “Giant Killer Robots”) As the New York Times reported on Saturday: Stohlberg, A Federal Budget Crisis Months…

…the indictment charges acts – such as pouring hot water over a victim’s body and administering electric shocks to his genitalia – that are not specifically prohibited by the statute….

…subsidies in federal-run exchanges. “The Court finds that the plain text of the statute, the statutory structure, and the statutory purpose make clear that Congress intended to make premium tax…

…federal statute known as the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (the PLCAA), which Sanders voted for and Clinton voted against, “give[s] immunity to the only industry in America…

…rapid fire with a single function of the trigger. Recognizing the creativity of gun owners and manufacturers, Congress wrote a statute “loaded with anticircumvention devices.” Tr. of Oral Arg. 68….