The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. It signed, then unsigned, and has spent two decades constructing a legal and diplomatic wall against the institution the statute created. The current confrontation — sanctions on court officials, visa bans, statutory authorization to extract Americans held at The Hague — is not an improvisation. It is the enforcement phase of a position Washington has held since 2002. That position rests on four arguments.

A federal judge in Delaware dismissed Raymond Epps’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News on May 8, marking the second time U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Hall has thrown out the case. The ruling ends Epps’ second attempt to hold the network accountable for broadcasts that portrayed him as a government agent who helped stage-manage the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot on behalf of federal authorities. Epps, a former Marine and onetime Trump supporter, brought the lawsuit after Fox — most prominently through Tucker Carlson’s prime-time program — repeatedly promoted the theory that Epps was an undercover FBI operative or government plant deployed to instigate the insurrection and redirect blame away from Trump supporters.

The Justice Department’s sustained effort to criminally prosecute former FBI Director James Comey has now produced a measurable institutional cost: more than a half-dozen prosecutors have been demoted or pushed out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, others are weighing departures, and at least one major case has been disrupted. The campaign against Comey, spanning two separate indictments across nine months, has accomplished less legally than it has damaged the office pursuing it.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ – The National Police Association (NPA) has filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Captain Manuel Adams, Jr., a law enforcement officer challenging his inclusion on a “Giglio” list—an unregulated registry of officers whose credibility has been called into question, effectively barring them from future employment in law enforcement. The case, Adams v. City of Harahan, Louisiana, seeks review of a Fifth Circuit ruling which determined that Captain Adams could not pursue a due process claim despite being terminated and added to a Giglio list based on false allegations.

Boeing’s decision to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge marks a watershed moment in the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into the deadly crashes of two 737 MAX aircraft. These accidents, which claimed 346 lives in Indonesia and Ethiopia between 2018 and 2019, exposed critical flaws in Boeing’s safety practices and led to a worldwide grounding of the 737 MAX fleet. The plea deal, which entails a $243.6 million fine and requires judicial approval, would result in Boeing being labeled a convicted felon, carrying significant repercussions for the company on multiple fronts.