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JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that Senators considering the nomination of Judge John Roberts, Jr. as Chief Justice of the United States should not overlook his potential administrative responsibilities, including leadership...

In a 1985 memo to White House counsel Fred Fielding released Monday, US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts stated that the Court's ruling in Wallace v. Jaffree , striking down an Alabama law mandating a one-minute...

Leading Thursday's international brief, two of Africa's most prominent Nobel laureates have called for the African Union to impose sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for his continued program of mass evictions in Operation Murambatsvina...

GOP House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner abruptly adjourned a Committee hearing on the Patriot Act Friday, leaving Democrats objecting into dead air after their microphones had been turned off. The hearing had been called at...

Political parties in Spain are in an uproar after the ruling Socialist Party Wednesday initiated a process for officially pardoning victims of former fascist Spanish dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde . Franco signed orders for...

Iran's Supreme Court has lifted a ban that has kept reformist newspaper Neshat from publishing since 1999. The newspaper was shut down after it criticized the country's penal system, which is based on Islamic...

Lawyers for former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien filed a motion in Canada's Federal Court Thursday to remove Justice John Gomery from the chairmanship of a judicial commission of inquiry [Gomery...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will face trial in a reinforced metal cage, much like the one used for the character Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film, the Silence of the Lambs, London's Sun reports in its Monday edition....

The president of Germany's Constitutional Court said Sunday that despite the failure of past government efforts, the extreme right-wing National Democratic Party (NPD) could still be banned under German law, renewing interest in outlawing the...

Jama v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Supreme Court of the United States, January 12, 2005, [ruling that a refugee living in the US could be deported after receiving a criminal conviction, even if their country of destination does not consent...