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21 Jan 2007, 8:36 pm
Wal-Mart seems able to unite blue collar union members, small business owners, commercial banks and business-hating intellectual elites in a way that folks like Nancy Pelosi and Denny Hastert can only dream about. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 2:25 am by Michael Lowe
  Read our posts on the Bill Cosby limitations defense here as well as the limitations defense that applied in the sex abuse allegations against Dennis Hastert. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:45 pm
The problem with Dennis Hastert was simply rank unsuitability for the office of President. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 11:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
Notably, Speaker Dennis Hastert’s Chief of Staff, Scott Palmer, is given near-universal praise for his efforts in salvaging negotiations and crafting a compromise bill. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 3:07 am by Michael Lowe
 We’ve pointed out how the federal prosecutors used some financial tricks to build a case against Dennis Hastert, in a similar strategy, since the sex crime allegations had long passed their statutes of limitations. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 7:53 am by Michael Lowe
For more on public officials entering into plea agreements, read our past discussion in “Dennis Hastert Plea Deal: My Prediction Coming True and The Impact on Future Prosecutions” and “Texas Judge Suzanne Wooten Found Guilty of Bribery, Money Laundering & Plea Deal, No Jail Time. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
Sometimes lawyers are right about the law and wrong about the proper path.Our elected officials have to stop the wink and a nod to Hollywood, the bishops, the powerful boarding schools, pro sports, the United States Olympic Committee, and their own, like Dennis Hastert. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In a sense, the Republicans in the US House of Representatives have already mimicked that approach by adopting the so-called Hastert Rule (named for the disgraced child abuser and former Speaker Dennis Hastert, although the rule was actually introduced by his predecessor Newt Gingrich). [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
This is not like the Dennis Hastert scandal where everyone could pretend his problems from the past don’t affect Republicans now.Starr, the son of a minister, was a literal star in the Republican firmament: he clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger, was appointed a federal appellate judge of the powerful Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1983-89), and then served as the solicitor general (1989-93). [read post]
23 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Grant Hayden
Or, of course, they could just prey on little boys like Jerry Sandusky and Dennis Hastert, both of whom used all-male locker-rooms as their hunting grounds. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 4:42 am
  House Speaker Denny Hastert (R-IL) already has indicated that he will not remain in leadership, but Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has made no statements about his continued ambitions. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 2:48 pm by Michael Lowe
Criminal defense attorneys practicing here in Texas, both in state and federal court, know all too well that it is a common practice for the government to punish defendants for exercising their rights – especially their right to a trial. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 7:30 am by Robert Chesney
CTIIC: Learning from the Choices and Challenges that Shaped the National Counterterrorism Center Prof. [read post]