The Bush Administration will from now on submit all domestic surveillance requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for review and approval under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to a letter [PDF text; US DOJ...
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A US military judge ruled Tuesday that 1st Lt. Ehren Watada , a US Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq because he felt the war is 'unlawful,' cannot argue that point in...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Smith v. Texas , 05-11304, where the court must decide whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was...
Former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan will be sentenced to death at a hearing before the Iraqi High Tribunal now scheduled for January 25, according to a court spokesperson speaking to the press...
The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an alien convicted for aiding and abetting a theft offense can be deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) . In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez [Duke...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the European Parliament at a session in Strasbourg Wednesday that EU member nations should ratify the European constitution before...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used the occasion of a Wednesday speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute on the perils of judicial activism to suggest that judges are not the appropriate agents to rule...
Spain's National Court has reissued a warrant for the arrest of three US soldiers who killed Spanish Telecinco cameraman Jose Couso in 2003 when their tank opened fire on a hotel in Baghdad....
US Defense Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson apologized Wednesday for remarks he made last week criticizing lawyers at top US law firms for representing Guantanamo detainees pro bono. In a letter published...
President Bush Tuesday offered his strongest criticism yet of the Iraqi government's handling of the execution of Saddam Hussein , saying in a PBS Newshour interview with Jim Lehrer that it resembled...
