Two Republican senators proposed legislation Monday dealing with the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo . Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced an amendment to a pending defense bill that would officially authorize the government to hold prisoners at Guantanamo. Graham expressed concern about federal courts interfering with the process, although the most recent Guantanamo ruling upheld [...]

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US District Judge for the District of Nebraska Laurie Smith Camp ruled Monday that Union Pacific Railroad discriminated against women by covering a range of preventive drugs, but not contraception, in its health care plan. Planned Parenthood supported the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, alleging that the failure to cover contraception violated the federal Civil Rights [...]

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The Bush adminstration said Monday that it will release documents related to Judge John Roberts and his time in the White House counsel office and earlier position at the Attorney General's office, but not documents from his tenure as principal deputy solicitor general. The release fulfills a request by Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), [...]

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