European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called on all European Union (EU) member states to collaborate in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants. On Thursday, Barroso wrote a letter to the heads of the 25 countries of the EU, stating that "the massive arrival of illegal immigrants to the European Union, mainly to the [...]

Michael J. Kelly : "President Bush recently acknowledged the existence of the long-suspected C.I.A. detention facilities that the U.S. has used to interrogate and possibly torture high-value foreign members of al Qaeda captured abroad. This acknowledgement, even as the facilities are being shut down in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. [...]

The Military Commissions Act of 2006 would allow CIA agents and others to use interrogation techniques not condoned by the US Department of Defense and would restrict federal courts' ability to enforce prisoner rights guaranteed by the Geneva Conventions , according to legal experts quoted in Friday's New York Times. On Wednesday, the Pentagon released [...]

A federal judge in Oregon has allowed a lawsuit by the US branch of the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation to proceed against the US government over the warrantless wiretapping of communications between the foundation and its attorneys. On Thursday, Judge Garr King of US District Court in Portland denied the government's motion to dismiss [...]

Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon , who was certified as the winner of Mexico's disputed presidential election earlier this week, said Thursday that he will advocate for US immigration reform to allow Mexicans currently in America without papers to work in the US legally. The US Congress reconvened this week, and on Wednesday, US Senate Majority [...]

A federal judge issued a preliminary ruling and injunction on Thursday to prevent the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from selling oil and gas leases to land near Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska to oil companies. US District Court Judge James Singleton ruled that if the rights to drill for oil on the land were [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that President Bush's acknowledgement that high-level terror detainees have been held in secret CIA prisons should be the beginning of a cleansing process in which leaders of the American executive, legislature, and judicial branches of government and the American people as [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Leonard Baynes of the St. John's University School of Law says that to remedy racially-stereotyped reporting of events such as the 2005 Katrina disaster, the Federal Communications Commission should implement policies to increase the number of minorities who own and are employed by broadcast stations… During Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, viewers saw pictures [...]

President Bush's recent acknowledgement of secret CIA prisons for important terror detainees was motivated by the personal urgings of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to release all British prisoners, and from pleas to close the sites from other US allies, along with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who suggested to Bush that the secret [...]

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage personally admitted to leaking the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson during a phone interview on Thursday. Armitage apologized for the leak, which he maintains was unintentional. Armitage said the admission came during interviews with reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Nowak, when asked why Mr. Wilson, an [...]