Majority Republicans on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence agreed Tuesday to establish a new seven-member subcommittee to oversee surveillance methods utilized by President George W. Bush's domestic spying program , but passed up a proposed full-scale investigation of National Security Agency eavesdropping on US citizens. Democrats on the Committee opposed the oversight plan [...]

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan questioned the legality of the "arbitrary detention" of thousands of Iraqis by Coalition and Iraqi forces in his latest periodic report to the UN Security Council on the situation in Iraq released Tuesday. Annan suggested that although international law allows for internment in situations requiring 'imperative reasons of security', actions by [...]

UK Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells has warned that operations at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba threaten democracy and has urged the closing of the facility in order to restore faith in the "shared values" of Britain and the US. The outspoken minister, charged with overseeing British policy in the Middle East [...]

USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, Congress of the United States, March 2, 2006 . Read the full text of the Act . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Prepared Remarks by US Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the International Institute for Strategic Studies London, England, March 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the speech. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Case of Evans v. The United Kingdom, European Court of Human Rights, March 7, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

In re Iraq and Afghanistan Detainees Litigation, Arkan Mohammed Ali, et al., v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, Defendant's and the United States' Motion to Dismiss, March 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the motion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A new report released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that the total number of illegal immigrants in the US has risen to some 12 million, despite US government attempts to crack down on inflow. The US House of Representatives passed a controversial bill late last year to tighten border security, but the Pew [...]

Gordon Goldsmith : "Greetings from the Bayou and the ACORN team, consisting of Hannah Burke, Gordon Goldsmith, Robert Lionel Hawkins, Marni Richman and Pete Vitelli, all 2L and 3L law students from the University of Pittsburgh. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a national non-profit program designed to assist low-income families [...]

The US House of Representatives has approved renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act , sending the reauthorization bill to President Bush for his signature. The US Senate approved the USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2005 last week. Sixteen key provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire at the end of [...]