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Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, [1] even by merely ...
Many legal scholars have criticized the continued use of the doctrine of falsus in uno to discredit a witness' entire testimony. [17] For example, Judge Richard Posner once remarked that falsus in uno was a "discredited doctrine" based on "primitive psychology".
Texas' top appeals lawyer, who would usually argue the state's cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, notably did not join Paxton in bringing the election suit. The high court threw it out .
Texas Department of Public Safety, 597 U.S. 580 (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) and state sovereign immunity. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2022, the Court ruled that state sovereign immunity does not prevent states from being sued ...
The conservative-majority Supreme Court threw that suit out three days after Paxton filed it, and the Texas State Bar has sought to discipline the attorney general for what a Bar disciplinary ...
A portion of a controversial law championed by Texas Republicans as a supposed voter fraud deterrent was overly vague. Texas AG’s Voter Fraud Probes Are 'Unconstitutional' And Must Stop, Judge Rules
Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court overturned the fraud conviction of petitioner Billy Sol Estes, holding that his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights had been violated by the publicity associated with the pretrial hearing, which had been carried live on both television and radio.
Texas v. Pennsylvania, 592 U.S. ___ (2020), was a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the administration of the 2020 presidential election in four states in which Joe Biden defeated then-incumbent president Donald Trump.