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News Armenia president declares state of emergency after election protests
Armenia president declares state of emergency after election protests
Steve Czajkowski
March 1, 2008 04:03:00 pm

Armenia President Robert Kocharian declared a state of emergency Saturday, as police forced approximately 15,000 demonstrators to disperse from the capital city of Yerevan. The protests are the result of the contested February 19 presidential election in...

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News Pakistan police file charges against Taliban leader in Bhutto assassination
Pakistan police file charges against Taliban leader in Bhutto assassination
Steve Czajkowski
March 1, 2008 03:17:00 pm

Pakistani police on Saturday filed preliminary charges against Baitullah Mehsud , the top Taliban leader in Pakistan, and four others in the assassination of former prime minister Benzhair Bhutto . The charges were filed...

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News Iraq appeals court overturns conviction of US citizen facing death penalty
Iraq appeals court overturns conviction of US citizen facing death penalty
Nick Fiske
March 1, 2008 11:42:00 am

An Iraqi appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction and death sentence of Mohammad Munaf , a US citizen and former translator charged with orchestrating the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists held for 55 days...

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News Haditha Marine squad leader court-martial postponed
Haditha Marine squad leader court-martial postponed
Nick Fiske
March 1, 2008 11:18:00 am

The court-martial of US Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich was postponed indefinitely on Friday to allow prosecutors time to appeal a judge's decision to throw out a subpoena for unaired footage from a CBS interview with Wuterich....

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Myanmar charges rights activists under security law
Kiely Lewandowski
March 1, 2008 11:17:00 am

The military government of Myanmar on Friday brought charges against 20 pro-democracy dissidents under a new security law, charges which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. The dissidents were charged under the...

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News Spain court to drops ‘Dirty War’ genocide case against Argentina ex-naval officer
Spain court to drops ‘Dirty War’ genocide case against Argentina ex-naval officer
Nick Fiske
March 1, 2008 11:13:00 am

Spain's National Court on Friday said that it will drop its prosecution of former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo and extradite him back to his home country where he will stand trial for...

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News Virginia high court upholds first US felony spam conviction
Virginia high court upholds first US felony spam conviction
Kiely Lewandowski
March 1, 2008 10:32:00 am

The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday upheld the nation's first felony conviction for computer spamming, rejecting admitted spammer Jeremy Jaynes' appeal of a lower court ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming statute does not violate...

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John Marshall declared US judicial supremacy over states

On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."

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