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Oklahoma AG asks court to permit health care law challenge
Jaimie Cremeans
July 28, 2012 12:14:45 pm

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday filed a motion asking the US District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma to lift a stay on the state's challenge to the...

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Jaimie Cremeans
July 28, 2012 11:19:24 am

Pakistan Ambassador to the US Sherry Rehman on Friday called on the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to stop using drone strikes in a video conference debate with White House War Adviser Douglas...

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Jaimie Cremeans
July 25, 2012 09:22:47 am

The African Union (AU) and the government of Senegal agreed on Tuesday to create a special court to try ex-Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for killing and torturing thousands of political opponents...

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Jaimie Cremeans
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Massachusetts resident Rezwan Ferdaus entered his guilty plea in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Friday to charges of plotting to attack the Pentagon using small remote-controlled airplanes carrying explosives. Ferdaus...

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Jaimie Cremeans
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Attorneys in two cases challenging the constitutionality of the 2006 renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) filed petitions on Friday with the US Supreme Court asking it to settle the issue in its upcoming...

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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on sulfur dioxide emissions that restrict levels to 75 parts per billion over a...

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Jaimie Cremeans
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed into law a bill that labels all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that engage in political activity as "foreign agents" and requires them to register with the Justice Ministry before receiving any...

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The US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday ordered that the state's new abortion law could take effect, but ordered that the state not prosecute the plaintiff, Jackson Women's Health...

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July 15, 2012 03:05:27 pm

Scottish police on Friday arrested Benat Atorrasagasti Ordonez, a member of the Basque separatist movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) who has been wanted by Spain authorities since 2001....

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Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Saturday she would send Friday's ruling by the Constitutional Court to the Council of State to determine what the next steps will be in amending the country's constitution. The Constitutional...

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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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