Army reports indicate abuse caused Afghan prisoner deaths in 2002
The New York Times reported Saturday that as-yet-unreleased investigative reports obtained by Human Rights Watch reveal that the 2002 deaths of two Afghan prisoners in US custody resulted from them being chained and beaten by American soldiers...
International brief ~ Zimbabwe Supreme Court says voting not 'fundamental right'
In Thursday's international brief, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe held Wednesday that while voting was constitutionally protected in the country, it was not a "fundamental right." The ruling was made at a hearing for Zimbabweans who are petitioning the...
New York District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet ruled Thursday that the New York Times can protect the confidentiality of its sources under the First Amendment , refusing to dismiss the paper's lawsuit against the...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Bush taps Negroponte as new intelligence czar
CBS News is reporting that President Bush is naming John Negroponte , US ambassador to Iraq and former US ambassador to the UN, as the nation's first National Intelligence Director [White House background briefing on position; Congressional Research...
DC Circuit upholds contempt ruling against reporters in CIA name leak case
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has upheld a contempt ruling against two reporters who refused to disclose their sources to investigators looking into the leak of an undercover CIA agent's name to the...
Ukraine President calls opposition blockade "gross violation of law"
In televised remarks, outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma Sunday condemned the continuing blockade of government buildings by supporters of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko as a "gross violation of law" and urged that compromise in the dispute over last...
Why the Supreme Court is Not an Election Issue, and Why It Should Become One
JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of Cumberland Law School at Samford University says that although the US Supreme Court has not been a significant issue thusfar in the current Presidential campaign, the likelihood of Presidential appointments to the Court...
JURIST Guest Columnist and international law scholar Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that legal responsibility for the Abu Ghraib prison abuses extends beyond the few soldiers currently subject to investigation and prosecution... There has been...
