Tobacco and asbestos sought congressional immunity from liability and failed.
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The Justice Department can delay a congressional immunity deal, but cannot not block one entirely.
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If he gets Congressional immunity it will put in grave doubt any future prosecution of him.
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McCabe, the former deputy FBI director has asked for Congressional immunity for any further Congressional testimony.
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Authorities had sought to remove Guevara's congressional immunity so that he could be tried for instigating violence.
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Federal law allows the Justice Department to delay a congressional immunity deal but not block it outright.
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And I have [congressional] immunity to say that I'm homophobic, yes, and very proud of it if it is to defend children in schools.
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To understand where Wright is coming from, you need to understand a little bit about the way congressional immunity works in the US legal system.
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Flynn might be hoping that, like Oliver North during the Iran-Contra affair, a combination of congressional immunity and grandstanding testimony could sharply limit any legal liability he faces.
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Former speaker Eduardo Cunha has been stripped of his seat for lying about secret bank accounts in Switzerland and also faces arrest now that he has lost his congressional immunity.
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Lawmakers typically "deconflict" committee investigations with any concurrent Justice probes to avoid trampling on prosecutorial turf — by providing congressional immunity to someone Justice may later wish to pursue, for example.
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Blanco, Zambrano and De Grazia were among 10 lawmakers stripped of congressional immunity by the Supreme Court this week, which said the legislators should be investigated for crimes including conspiracy, treason and rebellion.
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As vice president of the executive branch and president of the Senate, Kirchner will vacate her Senate seat but retain congressional immunity from any charges that emerge from the ongoing corruption investigations she faces.
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Both Reagan aides were later found guilty of multiple felonies tied to their roles in the scandal, but their convictions were overturned by appeals courts that found that their Congressional immunity had undermined their prosecutions.
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His motivations for doing all this are a bit murky, but he seems to be angling for either a cooperation agreement with prosecutors or a grant of congressional immunity (neither of which is particularly likely).
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He lied to Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russians, lobbied on behalf of Turkey while an adviser to the Trump campaign, and is now seeking congressional immunity in exchange for his testimony about Russia and the election.
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I've been writing about litigation for long enough to have seen the concept of regulation-by-litigation wax and wane, from state attorneys general beating the tobacco industry into compliance to gun companies receiving blanket Congressional immunity in the face of a plaintiffs' lawyer onslaught.
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Doctors blamed overwork and his hectic lifestyle. He was later transferred to a private facility in Towson, Maryland, but escaped and fled to Washington, where he received congressional immunity.
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Under his leadership he promoted the so-called Ethical Package, a set of measures aimed at moralizing parliamentary action. Neves led the vote of the end of congressional immunity for common crimes, the establishment of a code of ethics and propriety and the Ethics Committee. He also provided the processing and votes of bills on the Internet so that the public could monitor the processing of the legislative process. He also cut congressional spending and sent saved money back to the federal government.
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He also supported a variety of programs proposed by the Eisenhower administration following the Republican landslide in the 1952 elections, including the abolition of racial segregation in the District of Columbia, and the expansion of Social Security. An outspoken opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti- Communist campaign, Hunt challenged McCarthy and his senatorial allies by championing a proposed law restricting Congressional immunity and allowing individuals to sue members of Congress for slanderous statements. In June 1953, Hunt's son was arrested in Washington, D.C., on charges of soliciting sex from an undercover male police officer (homosexual acts were prohibited by law at the time). Several Republican senators, including McCarthy, threatened Hunt with prosecution of his son and wide publication of the event unless he abandoned plans to run for re-election and resigned immediately, which Hunt refused to do.
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