Did Donald Trump Jr just break the law by meeting with Viktor Orban?
Did Donald Trump Jr just break the law by meeting with Viktor Orban?
Exclusive: Experts say the former president’s son may have violated the Logan Act during his visit to Budapest this week, Katie Hawkinson reports
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From the article: "It is unlikely the Department would ever pursue action against anyone using the Logan Act, given no one has been convicted of violating the 1799 law"
End of story.
Why have a law on the books that does absolutely nothing...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/logan-act-michael-flynn-trump-russia/516774/
From this interview in the Atlantic, looks like the guy being interviewed thinks it's probably not constitutional as written. Basically it could run afoul the first amendment and they'd have to write a more specific law to enforce it.
Because you don't update the entire law system every year. Some laws were forgotten and no longer in use and that's normal.
What?!? Every law isn't changed every year? Thanks for letting me know I had no idea.