Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Nov 19, 2024 | lawandcrime.com | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration is starting to take shape, with high-profile loyalists apparently being granted high-ranking roles. Trump’s announcement that he plans to pick Matt Gaetz as the next U.S. attorney general has also raised many eyebrows, as Gaetz has been the target of numerous investigations and was the subject of an ongoing House Ethics Committee probe when he abruptly resigned from Congress.

Oct 22, 2024 | storytel.com | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Listen and readStep into an infinite world of stories Read and listen as much as you want Over 1 million titles Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals 7 days free trial, then €9.99/month Easy to cancel anytimeTry for freeDuration 9H 32minLanguage EnglishFormatCategoryEconomy & BusinessDonald Trump's false claims of election fraud and the violence of the Capitol riot have made it unavoidably clear that the future of American democracy is in peril.

Sep 27, 2024 | washingtonmonthly.com | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

On Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of Eric Adams, making him New York City’s first sitting mayor to be indicted while in office. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday.

Sep 25, 2024 | lawandcrime.com | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Back in Holland in the 1600s the market went wild for tulips — and then crashed in a spectacular fashion. As Syracuse law professor Christian Day wrote, “when the markets crashed … society often rejoiced in schadenfreude.”Today the craze is crypto. And one of the reasons to take this more seriously than Tulip Mania is that cryptocurrency companies — and their evangelistic boosters, often referred to as “crypto bros” — are spending big money in the 2024 elections to influence American voters.

Aug 5, 2024 | kentuckylantern.com | Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

The U.S. Supreme Court is deregulating corruption, with arguably grim consequences for American democracy. The latest example of this troubling trend was the case known as Snyder v. United States. At first glance, this may have seemed like a narrow, wonky case about whether a part of the U.S. criminal code that outlaws bribery also covers “gratuities.”Yet the court’s decision, issued on June 26, 2024, kneecaps federal prosecutors’ power to go after corrupt government officials.