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JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito were a distressingly hollow ritual that reflected poorly on the nominee, the Senators questioning...

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Vladeck of the University of Miami School of Law says that for all the issues presented at various junctures by the Jose Padilla case, none is more important - nor, at this point, more politically sensitive...

In a scathing and fiery speech in Washington Monday on eavesdropping and excesses of executive power, former Vice-President and 2000 Democratic Party nominee Al Gore declared that the US Constitution was in "grave danger" and...

US President George Bush on Friday defended the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay , calling it "a necessary part of protecting the American people". Bush's comments came during a White House press conference with German Chancellor...

JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Graber of the University of Maryland School of Law says that the Alito hearings have demonstrated yet again that political polarization has impoverished the judicial confirmation process... The fourth day of the Alito hearings highlighted the...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Richard Davis of Brigham Young University says that at the end of four days of Senate confirmation hearings, Judge Samuel Alito appears to have succeeded in his political task of securing enough swing votes to avoid...

Seven federal appellate judges who have worked with US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday on the fourth day of his confirmation hearings, saying that...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee completed its questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito on Thursday, the fourth day of its confirmation hearings for the Third Circuit jurist. Alito, who appears...

Ligue Iteka , a human rights group in Burundi, on Thursday criticized this week's release of 673 political prisoners held for alleged crimes related to Burundi's 12-year civil war . Ligue Iteka director Jean...

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Gilles of Quinnipiac University School of Law says that after a third day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito seems to be on his way towards confirmation given his performance...