US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a memo saying that its officers are now required to obtain a judge's approval before a deportee can be sedated in order to facilitate his or her removal from the country. The memo, written by ICE Director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations John Torres [...]

US Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby , commander of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, was reassigned Friday after only six months at that position. The date of Buzby's departure for the Virginia-based US Fleet Forces Command has not been publicly released. According to a brief Pentagon statement , Rear Adm. David M. Thomas will [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that NASA cannot compel low-risk contract employees working at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory to undergo intensive background checks. NASA has been conducting background checks of employees since it was founded in 1958, but contract employees were only included after the agency revised its Security [...]

Shafiq Rasul et al. v. Richard Myers, Air Force General et al., January 11, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa will charge Jackie Selebi , chief of the South African Police Services (SAPS) and President of INTERPOL , with corruption and defeating the course of justice, a NPA spokesman said Friday. Selebi's charges relate to payments he received from a his friend Glenn Agliotti , a convicted [...]

Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into a survivor organization formed after the 2004 Beslan school siege , according to the organization's chairwoman, quoted by AP Friday. The Voice of Beslan , is accused of extremist activity . Prosecutors point to a 2005 Voice of Beslan statement criticizing Russian President Vladamir Putin as evidence [...]

REAL ID Final Rule, US Department of Homeland Security, January 11, 2008 . Read the full text of the final rule. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari in four cases , including Davis v. Federal Election Commission (07-320) , in which the Court will consider whether the so-called millionaire's amendment , part of a 2002 campaign finance law that allows political candidates to accept larger contributions from supporters if an opponent is able to [...]

A federal jury in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Friday convicted three former leaders of defunct Muslim charity Care International Inc. (not to be confused with CARE ) were convicted Friday of illegally obtaining tax-exempt status by hiding the group's pro-jihad activities. Care International Inc. purported to help war orphans, widows, [...]

Seventy-one people were arrested at the US Supreme Court Friday during a protest calling for the closing of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . Protesters were arrested inside and outside the building and charged with violating an ordinance that bars demonstrations of any kind on court grounds. The court building had to [...]