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US lawmaker urges criminal probe against NYT for disclosing terror finance program
Jaime Jansen
June 26, 2006 01:03:00 pm

US Rep. Peter King (R-NY) , chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee , encouraged the Bush administration in a FOX News interview on Sunday to press criminal charges against the New York Times, The...

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UN rights expert demands investigation into death of Saddam lawyer, assails court
Jaime Jansen
June 26, 2006 12:33:00 pm

UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Leandro Despouy has called for the Iraqi government to begin an independent investigation into the murder of Khamis al-Obeidi , a lawyer representing Saddam Hussein in...

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UK in talks with US on release of British residents from Guantanamo Bay
Jaime Jansen
June 26, 2006 11:45:00 am

The UK Foreign Office has begun talks with the US on the potential release of eight UK residents detained at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay into the custody of British authorities. The...

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Mauritania approves constitutional change, preliminary results show
Jaime Jansen
June 26, 2006 10:30:00 am

Mauritania citizens have approved changes to the country's constitution in a Sunday referendum by 80 to 90 percent, according to preliminary results announced Monday by the Interior Ministry. The changes are...

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Supreme Court strikes down Vermont campaign finance law
Jeannie Shawl
June 26, 2006 10:22:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday handed down decisions in five cases, including Randall v. Sorrell , consolidated with two other cases, where the Court struck down Vermont's Act...

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Philippines president faces second round of impeachment challenges
Jaime Jansen
June 26, 2006 09:35:00 am

Opponents of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo filed a new impeachment complaint against Arroyo on Monday, exactly one year after opponents filed an impeachment complaint on three other charges. The Philippine constitution allows only one...

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Spain judge begins investigation in Guatemala genocide case
Jaime Jansen
June 26, 2006 09:06:00 am

Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz has begun his investigation into atrocities committed during Guatemala's 1978-86 armed conflict that included a 1980 military assault on the Spanish Embassy, killing 37 people. Pedraz traveled to Guatemala Saturday in response to a case...

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China court hands down death sentence for executive convicted of embezzlement
Jaime Jansen
June 26, 2006 08:59:00 am

Li Rongxing, a former oilfield chief, has been sentenced to death in China after being convicted of taking bribes and embezzling over $4.6 million in the people's intermediate court in Tai'an , newspapers in Beijing reported...

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Nepal commission summons former royal ministers in democracy crackdown probe
Kiran Chapagain
June 26, 2006 08:20:00 am

A high-level Nepalese commission probing the crackdown on the pro-democracy uprising in April of this year that eventually led to the restoration of parliamentary government summoned three former royal ministers Sunday, including a top...

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June 26, 2006 08:00:00 am

Several US senators condemned parts of a national reconciliation proposal designed to end the Iraqi insurgency and facilitate reconstruction, which was unveiled to the Iraqi parliament Sunday by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki . US lawmakers...

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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.

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