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News House postpones debate on lobbying reform
House postpones debate on lobbying reform
Jeannie Shawl
April 27, 2006 08:54:00 pm

The Republican leadership of the US House of Representatives on Thursday postponed debate on the Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 in order to allow more time for the bill's supporters to secure...

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News Specter considering legislation to block funding for NSA domestic wiretaps
Specter considering legislation to block funding for NSA domestic wiretaps
Jeannie Shawl
April 27, 2006 03:18:00 pm

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that he is considering proposing legislation that would suspend funding for the NSA domestic surveillance program if the Bush...

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News Federal judge denies motion to dismiss Libby charges
Federal judge denies motion to dismiss Libby charges
Jeannie Shawl
April 27, 2006 01:50:00 pm

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Thursday rejected a motion to dismiss criminal charges against former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in connection with the leak of former...

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News Thousands of public records wrongly reclassified: National Archives audit
Thousands of public records wrongly reclassified: National Archives audit
Jeannie Shawl
April 27, 2006 11:35:00 am

Over one-third of documents held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that have been removed from public access since 1999 should not have been reclassified, according to an audit conducted by...

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News Supreme Court considers lethal injection challenge, RICO case
Supreme Court considers lethal injection challenge, RICO case
Jeannie Shawl
April 26, 2006 06:25:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all...

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News ICTY trial begins for Bosnian Croat leaders charged with ethnic cleansing
ICTY trial begins for Bosnian Croat leaders charged with ethnic cleansing
Jeannie Shawl
April 26, 2006 03:16:00 pm

The trial of six former high-ranking Bosnian Croat officials began Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The defendants, including the former prime minister of the Croat region of Herceg-Bosna Jadranko...

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News EU investigator says CIA kidnapped terror suspects, conducted over 1000 secret flights
EU investigator says CIA kidnapped terror suspects, conducted over 1000 secret flights
Jeannie Shawl
April 26, 2006 02:12:00 pm

The US Central Intelligence Agency has used extraordinary rendition to kidnap terror suspects in Europe and transfer them to countries known to use torture and has operated over 1,000 secret flights in European territory,...

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Federal judge strikes down Forest Service regulations limiting public comment
Jeannie Shawl
April 26, 2006 01:38:00 pm

US District Judge Donald Molloy has issued an injunction striking down three US Forest Service regulations that would have limited the public's ability to comment on proposed rules. The injunction came in response...

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Fourth Circuit orders hearings on wiretap evidence in Islamic scholar conviction
Jeannie Shawl
April 26, 2006 12:44:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ordered US District Judge Leonie Brinkema to hold hearings on whether the National Security Agency used warrantless domestic wiretaps to...

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Supreme Court decides tax sale, retaliatory prosecution cases
Jeannie Shawl
April 26, 2006 10:34:00 am

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down decisions in two cases, including Jones v. Flowers , 04-1477, where the Court held that before a state can sell property for failure...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Phillip III of Spain expels Muslim converts to Christianity

Phillip III of Spain began the expulsion of the country's "Morisco" (Muslims who converted to Christianity and their descendants) population on April 9, 1609, based on the Crown's fears that the Morisco population retained Muslim beliefs. Hundreds of thousands of Moriscos would be expelled from the country from 1609-1614. The expulsions took place just over 100 years after Spain's Jewish population was expelled in 1492. Learn more about the expulsion of the Moriscos.

Senate approves purchase of Alaska

On April 9, 1867, the U.S. Senate voted to ratify the Treaty with Russia for the Purchase of Alaska and thereby approve the purchase of the territory from Russia for $7.2 million. Initially, the purchase was made to keep Alaska away from the British. It was politically unpopular with many Americans who denounced it is "Seward's Folly", after U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, who had lobbied for the purchase. Seward was later vindicated by the discovery of gold and oil in Alaska.

Learn more about the Alaska Purchase from the U.S. State Department.

Last beheading in England

On April 9, 1747, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, became the last man to be beheaded in England when he was executed on Tower Hill for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1745. Learn more about the legal history and practice of beheading.

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