"If the statute of limitations had passed, that would have been very disheartening".
It is said that if the statute extends to such a case it must be unconstitutional.
That is enough if the statute does not infringe the 14th Amendment.
"Unfortunately they have to toe the line" if the statute passes.The logic of capping bonuses looks appealing.
But even if the statute were ambiguous, the scienter requirement adopted here "alleviate[s] vagueness concerns" under this Court's precedents.
If the statute stood alone, there is nothing in it in conflict with the act of Congress.
It seems doubly odd now that, if the statute of limitations for the corruption charges had indeed expired, it wouldn't have been an issue beforehand.
Archbishop Marx said the church had a moral obligation to investigate reports of abuse even if the statute of limitations had expired.
"If the statute were simpler, and spoke more in principles, the courts would feel a broad mandate to enforce the law and honor the intentions of lawgivers".
It all depends: "If the statute is genuinely ambiguous, such that overturning the officer's judgment requires hard interpretive work, then the officer has made a reasonable mistake.
And, convicting someone of a crime if the statute does not make clear which activities will be illegal does violate the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
