USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis, Congressional Research Service, March 24, 2006. Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Below the Radar: Secret Flights to Torture and 'Disappearance', Amnesty International, April 5, 2006 . Read the full text...

Entertainment Software Association v. Granholm, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, Judge George Caram Steeh, March 31, 2006 [striking down a Michigan law prohibiting the sale of certain violent video games to minors, ruling...

The US Central Intelligence Agency hid its rendition of terrorism suspects to various foreign countries by using private air carriers and "front" companies, according to a new report released by...

A US military judge presiding over one of the military commission proceedings that resumed at Guantanamo Bay Tuesday appeared unsure of exactly what body of law would be applied in the...

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said in a press conference Tuesday that he likely does not have the 60 Senate votes required to overcome the expected procedural maneuverings of conservatives who oppose his bipartisan guest-worker plan, supported by...

During a US House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy spoke against a bill that would permit public broadcasting of Supreme Court oral arguments. The justices told lawmakers...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and 22 others pleaded not guilty to treason charges Tuesday at the opening of their trial in Kampala. The charges allege that the men plotted to forcefully overthrow the...

King Gyanendra and the royal government of Nepal on Tuesday banned all public meetings in the cities of Kathmandu and Lalitpur, a move the opposition has vowed to fight. The ban, which...

French demonstrators staged a fifth day of protests Tuesday against the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) , a labor law that would create an age-based exception to traditional French labor regulations by...