FOIA Army CID records on prisoner abuse by US personnel in Iraq [ACLU] News
FOIA Army CID records on prisoner abuse by US personnel in Iraq [ACLU]

Log of (and links to) Army CID reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Iraq, US Department of Defense, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, March 4, 2005 [covering 13 investigations into prisoner abuse that resulted in no charges due to insufficient evidencen, but mentioning a DVD entitled "Ramadi Madness," a compilation of recordings made by a unit of the Florida National Guard posted to Iraq in 2003 and early 2004]. Read the full text of the reports here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.