US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , has said that the committee may recall US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify about the administration's domestic surveillance program . Gonzales testified before the committee last month and later followed up that testimony with a letter , which Specter said suggests [...]

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday that Israel would consider resorting to targeted killings of Hamas leaders if the group resumes attacks in Israel. Hamas , regarded by much of the international community to be a terrorist group, took control of the Palestinian Legislative Council this week after a surprise victory in January's elections. [...]

The French Conseil d'Etat , the country's highest administrative tribunal, held Monday that Sikhs have to remove their turbans to be photographed for driver's licenses as a matter of public security. The ruling overturned an earlier decision by the same tribunal made on procedural grounds in December, when the Council held that a directive by [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been found not guilty of rape by a High Court judge who ridiculed the disarray of the prosecutor's office in presenting jumbled and often mislabeled evidence and even implied that the woman accusing Besigye was dishonest, saying that while one might forget the day of [...]

US government lawyers on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two rights groups against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. The American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First filed the suit on behalf of nine former detainees , alleging that Rumsfeld and other [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke is expected to propose legislation that would allow the use of wiretap evidence in British courtrooms, specifically in cases of organized crime and terrorism, according to British press reports Tuesday. The practice is already common in the US, Australia, and other European countries to secure convictions. There has been a [...]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Monday that her cabinet had approved a new bill to jump-start the biggest constitutional reform in Germany since 1949. The bill is meant to undo the entanglement of federal and state governments that was created after World War II as a check on central power and to speed up the [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke protested the failure of the United States to ratify the latest US-UK extradition treaty , ratified by the UK parliament in 2003, at a meeting Monday with visiting US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales . Since ratifying the treaty itself, the UK has extradited 12 offenders to the US, whereas the [...]

Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006, White House, March 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Supreme Court of the United States, March 6, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.