DOJ’s resistance to environmental groups’ effort to radically expand overcriminalization under the Endangered Species Act shows the long-term impacts of earlier, successful challenges to overcriminalization.
Tag: mens rea
Should you go to jail if you can’t recognize every endangered species?
[Update: since this post, we’ve asked the Court to rule against this radical attempt to expand the criminal reach of the … More
Overcriminalization is rampant in environmental law
This week, the Daily Caller published my article on the overcriminalization of environmental law. Recently, the Department of Justice announced … More