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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

JonathanTurley

JULY 24, 2021

While the government can encourage criminal conspirators, the courts ask whether the offense was induced by a government agent and whether “the defendant was disposed to commit the criminal act prior to first being approached by Government agents.” Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Bryon White ruled that. In Jacobson v.

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Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified

JonathanTurley

MARCH 11, 2022

But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. Not only that, but four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications; a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v.

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Could The Arrest of FBI Agent Undermine The Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified

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