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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged Israeli President Moshe Katsav to step down Wednesday in the face of possible charges of rape and sexual harassment . Haaretz quoted Olmert as saying that "In these circumstances there...

The office of Israeli Attorney General Menahem Mazuz said Tuesday that there is enough evidence to indict Israeli President Moshe Katsav on various charges, including rape, sexual harassment, abuse of power and obstruction of justice...

The French National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, passed by voice vote Tuesday a bill authorizing the impeachment of a French president but otherwise conferring legal immunity...

JURIST Guest Columnists Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen of New England School of Law say that whatever policy intentions the US executive branch may have with regard to a nuclear Iran, its foreign affairs and national security discretion is and...

Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have reached across the Atlantic in last-ditch legal bids to stop US authorities from handing their client over to Iraqi officials for expected execution . On Wednesday, UK-based Saddam defense lawyer Giovanni di Stefano...

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo , and Vice President Atiku Abubakar filed competing lawsuits in the capital city of Abuja Wednesday over whether Abubakar should resign from office after accepting a presidential nomination from a...

The Nigerian Supreme Court has ruled that an attempt to remove regional governor Rasheed Ladoja from his position was unconstitutional. Ladoja, governor of Nigeria's Oyo state, was impeached in January 2006 after being accused of corruption and...

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that while the US federal judiciary has much to be thankful on this Thanksgiving, it and the nation will be even better off if Democrats and...

JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that Democrats taking over Congress in the wake of the mid-term elections should begin by reasserting constitutional checks and balances in a wide range of critical...

Israel's Supreme Court has demanded that Israeli President Moshe Katsav explain within a week why he has not resigned or suspended his functions while facing a possible indictment for rape, sexual harassment, wire-tapping, and other...