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News Top Russian judge warns of weak judiciary, dictatorship
Top Russian judge warns of weak judiciary, dictatorship
Krista-Ann Staley
January 23, 2006 02:11:00 pm

Russia's most senior judge has predicted that the Kremlin's growing power will eventually result in a dictatorship if it remains unchecked by the country's judiciary. Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery...

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News Turkish court orders Pope gunman back to prison
Turkish court orders Pope gunman back to prison
Krista-Ann Staley
January 20, 2006 12:48:00 pm

A Turkish appeals court on Friday ordered Mehmet Ali Agca , the man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, to return to prison and Agca was subsequently taken into custody in Istanbul. Agca was...

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News Japan PM to introduce bill allowing female monarchs
Japan PM to introduce bill allowing female monarchs
Krista-Ann Staley
January 20, 2006 12:22:00 pm

Japanese Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party leader Junichiro Koizumi pledged to introduce a bill to reform the 1947 Imperial Household Law , allowing women to ascend to the country's imperial throne during his annual...

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News Canada deports ‘millennium bomb’ co-conspirator
Canada deports ‘millennium bomb’ co-conspirator
Krista-Ann Staley
January 13, 2006 01:10:00 pm

Canada has deported Samir Ait Mohamed, an Algerian terror suspect accused of plotting to blow up the largely Jewish Montreal neighborhood of Outremont, to an undisclosed location Wednesday. Canadian authorities detained Mohamed when he attempted to enter the US...

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News Alito hearings end with testimony from legal experts
Alito hearings end with testimony from legal experts
Krista-Ann Staley
January 13, 2006 12:02:00 pm

Witness testimony at the confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito before the US Senate Judiciary Committee concluded Friday with experts both supporting and opposing the Supreme Court nominee. Duke Law School professor...

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News Congress policy analysts question legal justification of NSA surveillance
Congress policy analysts question legal justification of NSA surveillance
Krista-Ann Staley
January 7, 2006 11:44:00 am

The Congressional Research Service , the non-partisan public policy research arm of the US Congress, reported Friday that although the legality of the NSA warrantless surveillance program could not be determined due to...

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News Pentagon says number of Gitmo hunger strikers down, but criticism continues
Pentagon says number of Gitmo hunger strikers down, but criticism continues
Krista-Ann Staley
January 7, 2006 10:49:00 am

The number of hunger strike participants at the Guantanamo detention facility has decreased from 84 to 40 since a late-December spike US military authorities announced Friday. Thirty-two of the remaining 40 hunger...

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News Federal judges to testify for Alito
Federal judges to testify for Alito
Krista-Ann Staley
January 7, 2006 10:01:00 am

Seven present or former members of the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals will testify on behalf of colleague and now US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito at his confirmation hearings beginning Monday according...

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News Peru asks Chile to extradite Fujimori on rights, corruption charges
Peru asks Chile to extradite Fujimori on rights, corruption charges
Krista-Ann Staley
January 3, 2006 11:23:00 am

Peru formally requested the extradition of former president Alberto Fujimori from Chile Tuesday so that he can face 12 charges including authorizing an illegal death squad, abuse of power and corruption. The...

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News Turkey charges journalists, rights workers with aiding Kurd separatists
Turkey charges journalists, rights workers with aiding Kurd separatists
Krista-Ann Staley
January 3, 2006 10:47:00 am

Turkish state prosecutors charged nine journalists and human rights activists with promoting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Monday. According to the indictment, the defendants used a Reuters reporter's observation of a PKK handover of an...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Gorbachev becomes USSR leader

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. He soon announced that he would hold arms-reduction negotiations in Geneva with the United States. Gorbachev also used his tenure to liberalize the economy and social structure of the USSR, eventually leading to the abatement of the Soviet Union. In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Read documents and interviews from the 1990 USA-USSR Summit.

Confederate Constitution adopted

On March 11, 1861, seven former US states adopted the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, which closely followed the language, if not necessarily the purport, of the original US Constitution. Section 9 (4) of the Confederate Constitution read "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed," enshrining the right to own slaves as fundamental law.

ICC holds first meeting

The war crimes court known as the International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in its first batch of judges on March 11, 2003. The meeting took place eight months after the ratification of the court's Rome Statute. Then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said of the occasion: It has taken mankind many years to reach this moment. By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these 11 men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures and legal traditions, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective conscience. Learn more about the work of the ICC.  

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