Fifth Amendment. Stop Ignoring Double Jeopardy The Supreme Court should reconsider the misbegotten "dual sovereignty" doctrine. Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2018 12:01 AM ...

There is some dispute about exactly how old the dual sovereignty doctrine is, because the Supreme Court alluded to the idea as early as 1847 and enunciated it more explicitly in 1852 but did not ...

Critics are bemoaning the recent Supreme Court decision upholding the dual-sovereignty doctrine in Gamble v. United States.

Analysis 'Gamble v. United States' and the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine Cyber Crime columnist Peter A. Crusco writes: With the newest Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court seated, court watchers are ...

The dual sovereignty doctrine isn’t just a legal technicality; it’s a gateway for multiple layers of punishment. For drivers ...

Update: On Dec. 6, 2018, the Supreme Court hears oral argument in Gamble v.United States, which seeks to eliminate the so-called “dual sovereignty” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. The ACLU ...

In its ruling today in Gamble v. United States, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 7 to 2, affirmed 170 years of precedent applying the dual-sovereignty doctrine to the Fifth Amendment’s Double ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to overturn a longstanding doctrine on whether an individual can be prosecuted for the same crime twice under federal and state laws. The justices, in a 7-2 ...

The Court rejected his arguments, holding the dual-sovereignty doctrine is not an exception to the double jeopardy right but follows from the Fifth Amendment’s text. Justice Alito wrote in the ...