Liberals write letter to Kim Jong Un urging him to reject talks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Forty-seven Senate Republicans may have broken the law this week. But no one's losing any sleep over it. Pundits and legal scholars are raising questions over whether Sen. Tom Cotton and the 46 Senate Republicans violated the Logan Act when they penned a letter to Iran's leaders on Monday, undercutting President Barack Obama's efforts to negotiate a nuclear agreement with those same leaders. The law, passed in 1799, forbids any U.S. citizen -- acting without official U.S. authority -- from influencing "disputes or controversies" involving the U.S. and a foreign government. https://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/tom-cotton-iran-letter-logan-act/index.html