In response to mounting criticism of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program , White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Tuesday took time during his daily press briefing to react to the two lawsuits filed...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Wednesday, including a decision in Will v. Hallock , where the Court ruled that a refusal to apply the judgment bar in the Federal...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the constitutionality of a New Hampshire abortion law. In a unanimous decision in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England [Duke...

A New Orleans judge said Tuesday that criminal trials in New Orleans could resume by March when the courts will try to deal with the 3,000 trials pending before Hurricane Katrina swept through the...

News agencies in Italy reported Tuesday that Italian prosecutors plan to charge a US soldier with murdering Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari and the attempted murder of an Italian journalist during a shooting at a US checkpoint in...

Switzerland's foreign affairs committee on Tuesday voted against denouncing the United States over purported secret CIA prisons in Europe for terror suspects after members concluded they lacked sufficient evidence. Committee head Luzi Stamm told reporters that...

Democratic Senator Ben Nelson (NE) on Tuesday became the first in his party to show his support for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito . Nelson, seen as a moderate leader in Congress, said...

Center for Constitutional Rights et al. v. George W. Bush et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, January 17, 2006 [complaint alleging that privileged attorney-client communications were intercepted by the National Security Agency and...

ACLU v. National Security Agency, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, January 17, 2006 [complaint seeking a declaration that the NSA warrantless wiretaps program is unconstitutional under the First and Fourth Amendments, and seeking a permanent...

A US District Court judge ruled Tuesday that David Wittig , former CEO of Westar Energy has violated the terms of his release from prison and will be immediately returned to detention. Wittig, who was found...