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News Cuba travel legislation introduced in US House
Cuba travel legislation introduced in US House
Jake Oresick
February 11, 2009 11:52:00 am

A bill has been introduced into the US House of Representatives that would end the ban on travel by US residents to Cuba. The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act, introduced last week by Representative William...

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State Department defends silence during UN rights reviews
Devin Montgomery
February 11, 2009 11:29:00 am

US State Department spokesperson Robert Wood on Tuesday defended the silence of the US delegates during the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of potential rights abuses, saying that...

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News Afghan justice ministry attacked by Taliban
Afghan justice ministry attacked by Taliban
Caitlin Price
February 11, 2009 10:25:00 am

Taliban insurgents on Wednesday targeted the Afghan Ministry of Justice , the Prisons Directorate and other government buildings in coordinated attacks in the capital city of Kabul. Early estimates reported 28 killed and more than...

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News Europe court dismisses challenge to data retention directive
Europe court dismisses challenge to data retention directive
Devin Montgomery
February 11, 2009 08:22:00 am

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to a European Commission directive requiring telecommunication companies operating in European Union (EU) member countries to retain phone...

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News Obama administration to reverse Bush offshore drilling policy
Obama administration to reverse Bush offshore drilling policy
Andrew Gilmore
February 11, 2009 07:42:00 am

US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced plans Tuesday to reverse offshore drilling policies established by former US President George W. Bush at the end of his presidency. The move comes...

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News South Korea appeals court affirms landmark right-to-die ruling
South Korea appeals court affirms landmark right-to-die ruling
Andrew Gilmore
February 11, 2009 06:59:00 am

A South Korea appellate court on Tuesday upheld a landmark lower court ruling authorizing removal of life-support from a comatose woman. Tuesday's decision by the Seoul High Court affirmed the December ruling of the Seoul Western...

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Solicitor General nominee Kagan pledges to be ‘true to the rule of law’
Andrew Morgan
February 10, 2009 05:31:00 pm

US Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan said Tuesday that she was committed to being "true to the rule of law" in confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee . Kagan, currently the Dean at Harvard...

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DOJ urges court not to define ‘enemy combatant’
Safiya Boucaud
February 10, 2009 01:21:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday to refrain from addressing the definition of an enemy combatant , an exercise which the DOJ argues...

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News Italy legislature to hold right-to-die vote despite comatose woman’s death
Italy legislature to hold right-to-die vote despite comatose woman’s death
Devin Montgomery
February 10, 2009 01:13:00 pm

Italian lawmakers have said they still plan to vote on legislation that would make it a crime to remove a feeding tube from a comatose patient, despite the death Monday of...

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Senate judiciary chair Leahy calls for ‘truth commission’ to investigate Bush policies
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February 10, 2009 12:02:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Monday called for a South Africa-style truth commission to investigate controversial actions by the George W. Bush administration, including justifications for the Iraq war, the treatment...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Congress set minimum federal sentences for drug offenders

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders.

Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).

Balfour Declaration issued

On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the United Kingdom's formal statement regarding Jewish people in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration was later endorsed by the World War I Allied Powers. It stated the British intention to support a national homeland for Jewish people and became a cornerstone of the Zionist movement.

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