You don't have to be a spy to violate the Espionage Act – and other crucial facts about the law Trump may have broken
- Written by Joseph Ferguson, Co-Director, National Security and Civil Rights Program, Loyola University Chicago
Former President Donald Trump, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Aug. 6, 2022, in Dallas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesThe federal court-authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate has brought renewed attention to the obscure but infamous law known as the Espionage Act of 1917. A section of the law...





