House Republicans said Friday they will resist a Senate amendment to a $445 million military appropriations bill that would require the US military to follow stricter rules when conducting detainee interrogations. The amendment, approved by...
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US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday rejected an emergency appeal filed by the ACLU on behalf of Connecticut libraries seeking to overturn a gag order that prevents a library involved in...
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected a Bush administration interpretation of EPA requirements that weakened the EPAs ability to monitor air pollution from industrial sources. The appeals court held that a 2004...
The White House issued a brief statement Friday withdrawing the nomination of corporate attorney Timothy Flanigan to be US Deputy Attorney General. Flanigan forwarded a letter to President Bush Friday requesting that the nomination be recalled, citing concerns...
Attorneys for Tom DeLay, (R-TX) have filed a motion to dismiss grand jury indictments against the former House majority leader. DeLay's legal team alleges that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle and his staff engaged...
Hamilton v. Morial, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Loiusiana, October 5, 2005 . Read the...
US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday that the date for the start of the trial of Saddam Hussein will not be changed from October 19, despite reports from a British...
A Turkish court Friday sentenced the editor of Agos , a weekly bilingual Turkish and Armenian-language newspaper, to six months in prison for "insulting and weakening Turkish identity in the media" in several articles he published...
President Bush Friday expressed confidence that US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will be confirmed as a justice, despite Republican senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) saying she will have to get past the "Souter factor" with...
In Friday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency and Hawaii Department of Health have settled a case against the Hawaii Department of Transportation (DOT) for violations of the federal...
