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The Supreme Court's dual-sovereignty doctrine allows for separate governments to prosecute the same conduct without violating the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause.
Recent legal fights over the produced a patchwork of wins and losses: state-led lawsuits and district-court rulings returned substantial portions of federalized Guardsmen to state control and blocked ...
The governing precedent is : separate governments (federal and state, or two states) may sequentially prosecute the same conduct without violating the Fifth Amendment’s , a principle reaffirmed most r...
State prosecutions remain legally independent of federal pardons because of the dual-sovereignty doctrine: a presidential pardon covers federal offenses only and generally cannot extinguish state crim...