... theory for why we should expect the priorities and preferences of the president, Congress, and a U.S. Attorney’s local public to affect prosecutorial behavior. We argue that principal-agency theory provides a useful tool to understand how political principals like the president and Congress can influence...

... on whether U.S. Attorneys bring violent crime prosecutions. Armstrong Chris Decision to prosecute Hampton Aaron Selective prosecution U S v Armstrong 1996 Declination decisions Discretion of U S Attorneys Flemmi U S v 1996 Heckler v Chaney 1985 O’Neill Michael Edmund Clinton Hillary Frase Richard...

...The Politics of Federal Prosecution. Christina L. Boyd, Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, and Ethan D. Boldt, Oxford University Press (2021). © Christina L. Boyd, Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, and Ethan D. Boldt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197554685.003.0008 When do U.S. Attorneys...

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...1 Introduction In February 2016, while testifying in a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a Barack Obama appointee, promised that her department would act with independence in investigating Hillary Clinton s usage of a personal email server during her...

... of federal justice have always been tightly intertwined. Moreover, the enlargement of federal law since the Civil War has brought with it the an increase in the size of the federal prosecutorial machine, the DOJ, and the role of the U.S. Attorney General. Using data from the DOJ, we illustrate the growth...

... intellectual property over the Internet. A cyber attack could have an enormous, possibly devastating, impact on the economy as well as to cripple individual businesses and services. The chapter describes the some of the work that assistant U.S. attorneys in the Southern District of New York have been doing...

... Meissner on prosecutorial discretion relies on the U.S. Attorneys’ Manual’s Principles of Federal Prosecution, a document published by the Department of Justice. While there are similarities between the criminal and immigration systems, there are two sharp differences raised by this chapter. First...

..., and prosecutors themselves have repeatedly maintained that federal prosecutors have vast independence when carrying out their jobs. Despite this, we argue that federal prosecutors are constrained by the federal and local political environments in which they serve. U.S. Attorneys, the chief federal prosecutors...

... explore the selection and appointment of federal prosecutors. We review the historical development of the Senate confirmation process for U.S. Attorneys, emphasizing that these officials are a rare federal office in which all three branches of government play a role in the staffing process. We then turn...

...The Politics of Federal Prosecution. Christina L. Boyd, Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, and Ethan D. Boldt, Oxford University Press (2021). © Christina L. Boyd, Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, and Ethan D. Boldt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197554685.003.0004 Why do U.S. Attorneys...

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