sarah palin

Election season is just starting to kickoff again, so of course we're going to get yet another series of stories about musicians complaining about politicians (that they disagree with) using their music at campaign events.

Orin Kerr has an interesting blog post, discussing how the government has been rejected in an attempt to turn a misdemeanor email hacking case into a felony, by finding two overlapping laws to charge the guy with for the single action.

Kerr nicely summarizes the issue as follows:

Federal criminal law has two overlapping misdemeanor criminal offenses that prohibit hacking into an e-mail account.

The first, 18 U.S.C.

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