Monica M. Goodling, on leave from her post as special counsel to the US Attorney General, told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that she will not speak to the committee about her role in last year's firing of eight US attorneys . Committee members said that a voluntary interview would forgo the need to [...]

US v. David Matthew Hicks, Offer for a Pretrial Agreement, US Office of Military Commissions, March 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the plea agreement]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) on Tuesday unexpectedly vetoed a bill that would have required girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. AP reported that Richardson, who last month announced his intention to sign the bill , said the legislation's June 15 enactment date would not have given [...]

Dhiren Barot , a British man who pleaded guilty in October to planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, filed an appeal in London’s Court of Appeal Criminal Division Tuesday. Barot was sentenced to life in prison in November after pleading guilty to conspiracy to murder for his role in the "Gas [...]

The anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanon parliament on Tuesday approved a petition asking UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to create a tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . Members of the parliamentary majority say that Syria was responsible for the assassination and that its allies in the Lebanese government are stalling [...]

President Bush urged Congress on Tuesday to adopt his proposed targets for alternative fuel use as a way of combating greenhouse gas emissions a day after the US Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate automobile emissions. Speaking at a Rose Garden [...]

US District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California approved the release Tuesday of jailed video journalist and blogger Josh Wolf , who was imprisoned for 226 days, longer than any other journalist, for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The judge agreed to Wolf's release after he complied with a subpoena [...]

United States intelligence agents from the FBI and the CIA have been using secret prisons in Ethiopia to conduct interrogations, according to AP Tuesday. The report alleges that men, women, and children from the neighboring African nations of Somalia and Kenya have been secretly transferred to Ethiopia for questioning by US officials, hunting Muslim extremists. [...]

Shane Kadidal : "On April 2, 2007, the US Supreme Court denied cert in our appeal of the D.C. Circuit's decision denying federal court jurisdiction over habeas corpus petitions of Guantánamo detainees. Justices Breyer, Souter, and Ginsburg dissented, with the first two also stating that they would have granted an expedited hearing this May. The [...]

A meeting to sort out remaining differences over the rules governing the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal in Cambodia has been delayed after the Cambodian Bar Association (BAKC) refused to compromise on fees for foreign lawyers. The Bar Association has demanded that foreign defense counsel pay $4,900 to participate in the first year of hearings, despite [...]