Sentences with phrase «thus punishable»

This abolition was accomplished in a typically «legal» way: Legislative speech is still privileged, but only in the actual chamber; if reported elsewhere, it may be judged «subversive» and thus punishable.

Not exact matches

Technical offenses - such as «stock parking,» net capital, or margin rule violations (to give only examples from the federal securities laws)- are thus potentially punishable under the same statutory provisions that prohibit fraud.

Justice Souter thought the more natural reading omits the long pause, and thus covers only state - law crimes that are punishable as felonies under the CSA.