Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Establishing a Constitutional Process, US Senate Judiciary Committee, July 11, 2006 . Read the full text of witnesses' prepared statements. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Geoffrey Corn : "Today it was reported that the Department of Defense has officially acknowledged that Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda. In fact, the Memorandum issued by Gordon England specifically directs the military departments to ensure that all Department of Defense (DOD) personnel adhere to [...]

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday directed that US District Judge Royce Lamberth , the outspoken jurist presiding over the 10-year old Indian Trust case involving the alleged mismanagement of American Indian money by the US Department of the Interior , be removed from the proceeding. A three-judge panel agreed with US Department [...]

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Tuesday asked a federal district court judge to block a Minnesota law taking effect August 1 that imposes fines of up to $25 on minors who purchase games rated for adults and requires retailers to post notice of the fines. The ESA claims that although the law targets consumers rather [...]

A lawyer for the US Department of Defense (DOD) told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that US military treatment of detainees complies with Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions , even though the Bush administration had insisted until last week that detainees designated as enemy combatants were not entitled to Geneva protections. Responding to [...]

A group of Sunni legislators known as the Iraqi Accordance Front announced plans Tuesday to end their boycott of the Iraqi parliament after Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for unity. Members of the Front – the largest Sunni bloc, holding 44 of the 275 seats in the National Assembly – will return to legislative sessions [...]

Defense lawyers argued that Croatian journalist Josip Jovic should not have been prosecuted for contempt as his trial began Tuesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Jovic, editor of Slobodna Dalmacija , has pleaded not guilty to contempt of court charges for violating an ICTY injunction against publishing [...]

The government of Italy was not involved in and did not know in advance of the CIA's alleged extraordinary rendition of an Egyptian cleric , an Italian defense official told legislators Tuesday. The official, Giovanni Lorenzo Forceri, told Italian Senate committees investigating the alleged kidnapping that Italy has never "accepted or practiced" such techniques of [...]

A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups and excludes "white" groups such as the Ku Klux Klan . Rocco Galati asked that the bail hearing for his client, [...]

President Bush again urged the US Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation allowing him to use a line-item veto to weed out what the White House has labeled wasteful spending. In White House remarks on the Office of Management and Budget's Mid-Session Review for 2006, Bush called for the Senate to approve the line-item veto [...]