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Democrats take Justice Department to court over US Attorney firing FOIA request
Michael Sung
April 20, 2007 09:27:00 am

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice Thursday, seeking the disclosure and release of DOJ records in accordance with the DNC's March 19, 2007 Freedom...

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Former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio was convicted Thursday by a federal jury on 19 of 42 counts of insider trading. Nacchio illegally sold 1.33 million shares valued at $52 million dollars in conjunction...

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Gabriel Haboubi
April 20, 2007 07:25:00 am

The US House of Representatives passed the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act (HR 1905) Thursday, which could increase official House membership for the first time since 1960. The bill, which passed 241-177 [roll...

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that a Korean executive at Samsung Electronics has pleaded guilty to a large conspiracy that fixed the price of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), affecting...

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April 19, 2007 07:16:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sought the dismissal of all pending Guantanamo Bay detainee habeas corpus cases in the US District Court for the District of Columbia ....

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April 19, 2007 05:56:00 pm

The state of Washington emerged as another opponent to the REAL ID act Thursday, with Governor Chris Gregoire signing state legislation rejecting the controversial federal law. Washington is now the fifth state to pass such a...

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April 19, 2007 05:54:00 pm

Two former administrators at a Texas juvenile prison pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of improper sexual conduct with six students. Former West Texas State School principal John Paul Hernandez and former assistant superintendent Ray...

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April 19, 2007 05:04:00 pm

Cuban anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles posted bond and was released from a New Mexico jail on Thursday after ongoing debate about his release. Carriles, 79, a former CIA operative trained by the US...

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April 19, 2007 04:34:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Thursday rejected a call for his resignation made by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the US Attorney firing scandal . Gonzales faced hours of...

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April 19, 2007 04:06:00 pm

US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and other leading members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees on Wednesday introduced the Patent Reform Act of 2007 , which would overhaul current US patent...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus

On April 27, 1861, US President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland and parts of several midwestern states during the American Civil War. Lincoln took this action to address draft riots and the threat of secession by Union states bordering the Confederacy. The President maintained his suspension even after it was overturned by the federal judiciary in Ex parte Merryman 17 F.Cas. 144 (1861). Learn more about Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus.

War crimes trials of WWII Japanese leaders began

On April 27, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East began its trials in Tokyo, Japan, ruling on the indictments of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 associates.

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