Sometimes, when I read about federal law enforcement, it seems like they have magical superpowers that allow them to blow past any need to prove guilt in a courtroom. Congress has been passing so many criminal laws, and federal criminal procedure seems so slanted, that merely being investigated by the feds is the equivalent of a guilty verdict at the state level.
I am reminded of this by a post at Simple Justice about what happens when corporations are under investigation. The government can extract all kinds of concessions without proving that anybody did anything wrong. It’s not really the kind of power I want our government to have.
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