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Bond v. United States, a Jilted Wife and a Chemical Weapons Treaty Prosecutors used a chemical weapons treaty law on a woman who put irritants on a rival's doorknob. The Court said no, and it speaks to overcriminalization. Myths About Human Trafficking That Make the Real Victims Harder to Find Kidnapping vans, Super Bowl surges and border crossings dominate the story, while the federal definition points somewhere else: force, fraud and coercion. The 9/11 Commission Found a Failure of Imagination, Read Its Real Lessons The 2004 report is a bipartisan, readable record, and its lessons on walls between agencies still hold. What it found, and what Congress ignored. How RICO, a 1970 Law Against the Mob, Became a Weapon Against Gangs RICO was written to break the Mafia and now reaches street gangs and cartels, and the same breadth that makes it powerful is why civil libertarians distrust it. General Warrants Made the Fourth Amendment, and Particularity Is Its Heart The Fourth Amendment was written against the general warrant, and its demand for particular descriptions is the rule that matters most for your phone. How Earned Time Credits Work in Federal Prison, and Who Is Left Out The First Step Act of 2018 wrote its rules line by line: who earns time off, how much, who is shut out, and what the right's skeptics feared. Ted Stevens, Tom DeLay and Rick Perry Were Charged, Then Cleared Three Republican officials were charged in cases that later fell apart. The record shows what one-sided prosecutions cost the accused and the public. Scalia's Lone Dissent in Morrison v. Olson Saw the Independent Counsel Mess Morrison v. Olson upheld the independent counsel law 7 to 1 in 1988. Scalia's dissent proved right enough that Congress let the law die in 1999. Treason Is the One Crime the Constitution Defines, and It Defines It Narrowly The Founders limited treason to war and aid to enemies, and demanded two witnesses to one overt act, because kings used treason against their critics. Prosecutorial Discretion Has Limits, and Blanket Non-Prosecution Crosses Them Choosing which cases to bring is ordinary discretion. Announcing that whole categories of law will go unenforced is a veto the office never had. Richard Jewell and the Trial by Headline of a Security Guard Who Was a Hero A guard who saved lives at the 1996 Olympics was named as the FBI's focus within days. What the Jewell case teaches about leaks, headlines and due process.