A report, submitted Thursday to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on the results of an independent UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri links high-ranking Syrian officials...

Rep. Tom DeLay will appear in an Austin courtroom Friday morning to answer charges that he helped funnel corporate donations to GOP candidates for the Texas Legislature in violation of Texas state law. The appearance...

AP is reporting that Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, a defense lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants who was kidnapped by 10 masked gunmen Thursday evening in Baghdad, has been found dead, according to a senior Iraqi lawyers'...

State v. Limon, Kansas Supreme Court, October 21, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that K.S.A. 2004 Supp. 21-3522 , the Kansas unlawful voluntary sexual relations statute, does not...

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, October 20, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that the District has...

Notice of temporary emergency amendments to sentencing guidelines, United States Sentencing Commission, October 19, 2005 . Read the full text...

Letter from US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to US Senator and ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, October 19, 2005 . Read the...

Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act 2005, passed in the US House of Representatives October 20, 2005 . Read the full text of the legislation as previously passed...

Senators predicted Thursday that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , scheduled to begin November 7th , will probably not finish before Thanksgiving as hoped for by the White House. Senator Arlen...

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) , chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee , introduced new legislation Thursday to split the US Ninth Ciruit that would create a new US Twelfth Circuit Court of Appeals covering Alaska,...