Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Attorney General: Not every violation of the law is a crime.

“But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”

... As last month’s report from the inspector general acknowledged, the hiring abuses by former Justice Department officials represented a violation of federal Civil Service law, but not of criminal law, he said.

... Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, speaking at the American Bar Association in New York on Tuesday, said officials will not be prosecuted in the Justice Department's political hiring scandal. - nytimes

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Law violating is non criminal.

1 comment:

Collin County Criminal Defense Attorney said...

Given that we're speaking about things within the region of Attorney General: Not every violation of the law is a crime. Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff), With a history extending back to Aristotle and other early philosophers, the natural law theory has traditionally linked the law with religion and an innate sense of justice, rather than the more pragmatic approaches of some other theories. Although this might sound rather basic, the principals have been developed and refined through academic debate for centuries ultimately leading to a far more sophisticated theory of the nature of law.