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The Espionage Act’s retention provisions and criminal statutes addressing the unlawful removal or destruction of records and obstruction.
The FBI seized thousands of government records from Mar‑a‑Lago, including hundreds of documents bearing classification markings and some described as among the nation’s most sensitive national‑securit...
The doctrine that can shield federal officers from state criminal prosecution is rooted in the Supremacy Clause and was first articulated in In re Neagle , but the Supreme Court’s recent decision in M...
18 U.S.C. § 119 criminalizes the public disclosure of certain "restricted personal information" about covered individuals—including federal officers—and, upon conviction, authorizes fines and imprison...
of the Fourteenth Amendment bars anyone who, having taken an oath to support the Constitution as a federal or state officeholder, “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or “given aid or comfort” to en...
Public reporting does not supply a single, sourced list of “ in the 2023 federal indictment” with statutory citations, so a definitive per-count penalty table cannot be assembled from the provided mat...
If convicted on the federal classified‑documents counts, the statutory maximum for most willful‑retention/Espionage Act counts is 10 years per count, while the highest sentence in the election‑obstruc...
Journalists and courts apply a layered set of standards—technical verification, editorial public‑interest tests, and legal risk assessments—before publishing or admitting , balancing accuracy and fair...
-employees-payroll-records-privacy">’ payroll records are principally governed by the , which restricts agency disclosure of personally identifiable records in a “system of records” absent narrow stat...
case relied principally on physical evidence seized at and a federal indictment that lists dozens of counts under and related statutes; prosecutors allege willful retention of national‑defense informa...
of an illegal website—loading pages without downloading, interacting, or bypassing access controls—generally does not itself create criminal liability , but important exceptions exist where the act of...
Publishing federal personnel data can trigger a mix of civil, administrative and criminal consequences: disclosures may be blocked or exempt under FOIA and regulatory rules (exposing publishers to civ...
When classified intelligence is headed into U.S. criminal trials—especially those implicating foreign leaders—the law threads three overlapping regimes: criminal statutes that forbid mishandling or di...