https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/free-speech-roundup-33/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/free-speech-roundup-33/comment-page-1/#comment-304829 Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:40 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=48297#comment-304829 A large percentage of scientific misconduct is already subject criminal penalties. Misconduct in research supported by federal funds has been prosecuted as mail fraud.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/free-speech-roundup-33/comment-page-1/#comment-304827 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:45:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=48297#comment-304827 Whatever else one might dislike Eric Holder’s record for, mainstream Republicans are in no position to condemn him as
“the worst Attorney General on press freedom issues in a generation, possibly since Richard Nixon’s John Mitchell.”
The cases adduced by Trevor Timm are national-security leaks, which Republicans also opposed. If there are more prosecutions today, it most likely reflects the increased opportunities to leak on the Internet.

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