{ "id": "RS20064", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RS20064", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 102445, "date": "1999-02-17", "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:46:59.896941", "title": "Justice Department Ethics and the McDade-Murtha Citizens Protection Act", "summary": "This is an abridged version of Justice Department Ethics and Section 801 of the Omnibus\nAppropriations Law for Fiscal Year 1999 , CRS Report RL30060(pdf) , without the citations,\nfootnotes,\nauthorities and appendices found in the more detailed presentation.\n Section 801 of the omnibus appropriations law, a proposal originally offered by Congressmen\nMcDade and Murtha and passed in October of 1998, P.L. 105-277 , requires federal prosecutors to\nfollow state and federal rules of professional ethics in effect in the states where they conduct their\nactivities. It also continues in place the sixty year old directive that federal prosecutors follow the\nethics rules promulgated by the states in which they are licensed to practice. Proponents claim the\nchange will confirm that federal prosecutors must follow the same ethical rules as other lawyers and\nwill enhance the prospect of some protection against wayward federal prosecutors. Opponents\ncharge that it will implicitly undermine the Attorney General's authority to preempt state laws that\nconflict with federal law enforcement interests and that in doing so it will jeopardize the use of\nundercover techniques against terrorists, drug kingpins and child predators. \n Sec", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RS20064", "sha1": "32e1eb51aa10d261068a2f58cb7f7a27bd82c5fc", "filename": "files/19990217_RS20064_32e1eb51aa10d261068a2f58cb7f7a27bd82c5fc.pdf", "images": null }, { "format": "HTML", "filename": "files/19990217_RS20064_32e1eb51aa10d261068a2f58cb7f7a27bd82c5fc.html" } ], "topics": [] } ], "topics": [ "American Law", "Appropriations" ] }