European Commission investigators have again asked EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes to formally charge computer chip maker Intel with antitrust violations, according to a Wall Street Journal report Wednesday. In October, investigators first announced that they had gathered enough evidence to prosecute Intel on antitrust charges, and brought their information to Kroes, but an internal [...]

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Ben Davis : "Charles 'Cully' Stimson has had a hard week. On January 11, 2007 he made shocking comments on the pro bono lawyers who are working on behalf of Gitmo detainees, calling for corporate CEOs to blacklist the firms at which these lawyers work. As we all saw, an uproar ensued and today he [...]

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The Bush Administration will from now on submit all domestic surveillance requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for review and approval under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to a letter sent Wednesday by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The letter explained that the a member [...]

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Former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan will be sentenced to death at a hearing before the Iraqi High Tribunal now scheduled for January 25, according to a court spokesperson speaking to the press on Tuesday. Ramadan was convicted in November in connection with crimes against humanity committed in the town of Dujail in 1982. [...]

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The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an alien convicted for aiding and abetting a theft offense can be deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) . In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez , Luis Alexander Duenas-Alvarez, a legal permanent resident, pleaded guilty to the unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle in violation of California [...]

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the European Parliament at a session in Strasbourg Wednesday that EU member nations should ratify the European constitution before the next round of European Parliament elections scheduled for June 2009, saying "failure would be a historic mistake." Merkel emphasized the advantages of the proposed constitution, including the clear demarcation of [...]

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US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used the occasion of a Wednesday speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute on the perils of judicial activism to suggest that judges are not the appropriate agents to rule on national security issues, and that they should otherwise exercise extreme caution when declaring executive and legislative action as unconstitutional. [...]

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