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The dangerous loophole turning U.S. attorney’s offices into political instruments

In February 1897, all criminal prosecutions in the District of Columbia stopped. Trials were postponed. New arrestees unable to post bond faced indefinite detention. A wanted fugitive captured in another state could not be extradited. For 22 days, no prosecutorial authority existed in the nation’s capital. The cause of this disruption? The absence of a...

The dangerous loophole turning U.S. attorney’s offices into political instruments

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