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News Togo constitutional court confirms Gnassingbe election as president
Togo constitutional court confirms Gnassingbe election as president
Elana Kornblit
May 3, 2005 02:18:00 pm

Togo's constitutional court Tuesday confirmed ruling party candidate Faure Gnassingbe as the official winner of the disputed April 24 presidential election. According to the court, Gnassingbe won by 60.15 percent of the vote. The constitutional...

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News Vatican workers take oaths of secrecy as conclave nears
Vatican workers take oaths of secrecy as conclave nears
Elana Kornblit
April 15, 2005 08:11:00 pm

Housekeepers, elevator operators, workmen and others who might come in contact with Roman Catholic cardinals as they meet in secret conclave at the Vatican next week to choose a new pope took an oath of secrecy and signed written secrecy...

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News Egypt judges threaten to boycott elections
Egypt judges threaten to boycott elections
Elana Kornblit
April 15, 2005 07:44:00 pm

Egyptian judges have threatened not to supervise presidential and parliamentary elections due later this year unless the government amends laws which limit judicial power and prevent the convening of free and fair elections. The judges say that...

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News Judge strips former Nazi camp guard of US citizenship
Judge strips former Nazi camp guard of US citizenship
Elana Kornblit
April 8, 2005 08:46:00 pm

US District Judge Robert Pratt ruled Friday that a former Nazi guard who became a US citizen must relinquish his naturalization papers and passport. John Hansl of Des Moines Iowa, now 80, came to the United States under a...

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News New England serial killer requests execution next month
New England serial killer requests execution next month
Elana Kornblit
April 8, 2005 07:18:00 pm

Michael Ross testified Friday at a hearing that he wants to be executed next month, defending his right to give up his death-row appeals. Ross says that he wants to spare his victims' families additional agony, but...

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News Nuclear terrorism treaty presented at UN
Nuclear terrorism treaty presented at UN
Elana Kornblit
April 1, 2005 09:37:00 pm

A United Nations committee Friday adopted a draft of a new treaty to fight nuclear terrorism after years of negotiations. The draft defines acts of nuclear terrorism and strengthens the framework to combat it. The text now...

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News Berger pleads guilty to taking classified documents, loses security clearance
Berger pleads guilty to taking classified documents, loses security clearance
Elana Kornblit
April 1, 2005 08:49:00 pm

As anticipated , former US National Security Advisor Sandy Berger pleaded guilty Friday to illegally taking and destroying classified documents from the National Archives . The former Clinton Administration official acknowledged that he intentionally took and...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.

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