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News HRW: Tunisia has failed to deliver justice for unlawful killings during uprising
HRW: Tunisia has failed to deliver justice for unlawful killings during uprising
Alison Sacriponte
January 12, 2015 01:27:18 pm

Tunisia has failed to bring to justice those responsible for the use of excessive force by police during the uprising four years ago, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday. The 52-page report, "Flawed Accountability: Shortcomings of...

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News Supreme Court declines to rule on Louisiana same-sex marriage
Supreme Court declines to rule on Louisiana same-sex marriage
Alison Sacriponte
January 12, 2015 12:37:28 pm

The US Supreme Court decided Monday not to take on a case to review Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage. The ban was upheld by a federal trial judge in New Orleans in...

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News Federal appeals court hears arguments on Texas abortion law
Federal appeals court hears arguments on Texas abortion law
Alison Sacriponte
January 8, 2015 04:00:44 pm

Federal appeals court judges heard arguments Wednesday on a restrictive Texas abortion law that critics say would close more than half the state's remaining abortion clinics. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...

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News Cambodia Khmer Rouge tribunal restarts genocide hearings
Cambodia Khmer Rouge tribunal restarts genocide hearings
Alison Sacriponte
January 8, 2015 03:22:40 pm

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Thursday restarted genocide hearings against the former Khmer Rouge regime's surviving leaders. Proceedings had been postponed since November, when defense lawyers refused to participate because...

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News Pakistan court acquits four death row convicts
Pakistan court acquits four death row convicts
Alison Sacriponte
January 5, 2015 01:00:50 pm

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday acquitted four death row convicts who were sentenced for their involvement in a 2002 Rawalpindi suicide attack that killed 19 people. After being sentenced by an Anti-Terrorism Court in 2004,...

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News Two men charged in US in Gambia coup attempt
Two men charged in US in Gambia coup attempt
Alison Sacriponte
January 5, 2015 12:21:49 pm

Two men have been charged in the US with conspiring to help overthrow the government of The Gambia. According to the complaint, Cherno Njie and Papa Faal traveled last month from the US to The...

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News Pennsylvania top court strikes down law on juvenile sex offenders
Pennsylvania top court strikes down law on juvenile sex offenders
Alison Sacriponte
January 3, 2015 05:47:34 pm

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled 5-1 last week that the requirement that all sex offenders who were juveniles at the time of their crimes must remain on the Megan's Law Registry for life is unconstitutional....

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News US embassy bombing suspect dies in hospital
US embassy bombing suspect dies in hospital
Alison Sacriponte
January 3, 2015 04:54:27 pm

Alleged al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al Libi, accused of involvement in the bombings of US embassies in Africa, died in a US hospital Friday. Al Libi was captured by US military special forces in Libya in...

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News US to release five Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Kazakhstan
US to release five Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Kazakhstan
Alison Sacriponte
December 31, 2014 11:57:49 am

On Wednesday the US Department of Defense said five prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will be released to the Kazakhstan government as part of an effort by the Obama Administration to expedite the closing of the...

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News Palestinians aim for ICC after failed UN vote
Palestinians aim for ICC after failed UN vote
Alison Sacriponte
December 31, 2014 11:36:25 am

Palestinian leaders will meet on Wednesday to plan actions after the UN Security Council rejected a resolution on Tuesday to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories within three years. Palestinian officials said they could set...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Carter authorizes Chrysler bailout

On January 7, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 (Public Law 96-185) into law. The act granted to Chrysler $1.5 billion to save the company from bankruptcy. Twenty-eight years later in 2008, President George W. Bush authorized $17.4 billion to again bailout Chrysler in addition to the other two major American automobile manufacturers, Ford and General Motors.

Anglo-Irish Treaty ratified

On January 7, 1922, Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Signed on December 6 of the preceding year, the treaty ended the Irish War of Independence against Great Britain. The British Parliament voted to approve the treaty on December 16, 1921. Ratification was completed on January 14, 1922, when the House of Commons of Southern Ireland became the third and final party to approve the document. The Anglo-Irish treaty effectively split the island into its current state. While the lower counties of Ireland were granted autonomy under the treaty, Britain insisted that the six Protestant counties of Northern Ireland be allowed to determine their own future. On the day after the treaty was signed, these counties elected to remain part of Great Britain. Today, they remain part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

New York State Assembly expels five socialist assemblymen

The New York State Assembly, the state's lower house, expelled five duly elected assemblymen from the Socialist Party over their political affiliation on January 7, 1920. The US was in the midst of the first Red Scare, a panic resulting from the ascendancy of the Bolsheviks in Russia, which resulted in the repression of socialists across the country. The result of the expulsion vote was 140-6. Thus, Assemblymen August Claessens, Samuel A. DeWitt, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon and Louis Waldman were removed from their posts. Learn more about the expulsions from the Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York.

Rehnquist sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

On January 7, 1972, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Read a short profile of Chief Justice Rehnquist here.

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