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Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

jshapiro@washingtontimes.com

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is an investigative journalist and former Washington, D.C. prosecutor who served as a White House appointed senior official at the U.S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting from 2017-2021. Mr. Shapiro has investigated and written about domestic and international criminal cases, conflicts and legality with an emphasis on Cuban and Russian affairs. He is now the assistant commentary editor for The Washington Times. He can be reached at jshapiro@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

The Diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that a diocesan priest may be forced to break the Seal of Confession. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

SHAPIRO: Supreme Court strikes down expanded abortion clinic buffer zone

It started out as a hotly contested case that revived the decades old pro-choice vs. pro-life argument, but on Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law that banned protestors within 35 feet of entrances, exists and driveways of abortion clinics.

June 28, 2014
News media crews wait for decisions in the final days of the Supreme Court's term, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, in Washington. The justices ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices. The justices said by a 6-3 vote that Aereo Inc. is violating the broadcasters' copyrights by taking the signals for free. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

SHAPIRO: Cellphone ruling offers hints for surveillance cases

Wednesday’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling prohibiting warrantless cellphone searches may foreshadow how justices will review and ultimately decide upcoming cases that examine the constitutionality of NSA mass surveillance programs, legal experts say.

June 25, 2014

SHAPIRO: Experts say Redskins can win case in U.S. District Court

Legal experts say that the executive agency that stripped the Redskins of its trademark will face the very difficult task of proving that a reasonable person of ordinary sensibilities in the Native American community would view the name and logo as offensive once the suit is heard in federal court.

June 20, 2014
"Age of Delirium" deconstructs the spell and false promises that communism held sway over Russians for nearly a century. The film is narrated by David Satter, a Russian-speaking American journalist expelled from the country by the Kremlin last December. (Associated Press)

New documentary re-examines fall of USSR

Few American journalists know how life in Vladimir Putin's Russia embraces the atmosphere of fear, secrecy and corruption that flourished in the Soviet Union.

June 5, 2014