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This list consists of American politicians convicted of crimes either committed or prosecuted while holding office in the federal government.It includes politicians who were convicted or pleaded guilty in a court of law; and does not include politicians involved in unprosecuted scandals (which may or may not have been illegal in nature), or politicians who have only been arrested or indicted.
Government review will look at using technology to place criminals in a ‘prison outside prison’
Chia Thye Poh, a former leftist populist Member of Parliament, was arrested without charges and held under detention without trial between 1966 and 1989 under the Internal Security Act for allegedly conducting pro-communist activities against the government, with the intention of causing a communist revolution. 22 years later, he was released ...
The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed its first major piece of legislation of the new Congress, the Laken Riley Act, to mandate immigration officials detain illegal immigrants who ...
The Speech or Debate Clause is a clause in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 6, Clause 1).The clause states that "The Senators and Representatives" of Congress "shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their attendance at the Session of their Respective Houses, and in going to and from the same; and for any Speech or ...
More than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide in the U.S. or abroad are living outside of immigration in the U.S., according to data ICE provided to Congress.
Threats have been made through YouTube videos [27] and Twitter (which hosted direct threats of violence against Members of Congress such as Representative Bob Goodlatte, and Senators Roy Blunt and John Hoeven). Concern has been voiced in the press over Twitter's failure in some cases to promptly remove threats made against Members of Congress.