US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced Friday that he will vote to confirm US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito , while most, if not all, of the eight Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are expected to vote against Alito. Alito appears on his way to confirmation, but Democrats are seeking to [...]
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Turkey's Minister of Justice Cemil Cicek said Friday that Mehmet Ali Agca , the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, may have mistakenly been released from prison eleven months early for the murder of Turkish journalist Abdi Ipekci . Agca shot the Pope after escaping from a Turkish military prison in [...]
US President George Bush on Friday defended the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay , calling it "a necessary part of protecting the American people". Bush's comments came during a White House press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel , who urged Bush to shut down the facility. Bush said that there were "misperceptions" about Guantanamo [...]
A US Department of Justice spokesperson on Friday confirmed that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the NSA domestic surveillance program at the request of committee chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) . Gonzales, who served as White House counsel when Bush authorized the spying program, will discuss the administration's [...]
New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Codey on Thursday signed several bills, including one which creates a special commission on the death penalty and places a moratorium on capital punishment until at least 60 days after the task force releases its findings. The New Jersey Legislature passed the bill , which makes New Jersey the first [...]
Canada has deported Samir Ait Mohamed, an Algerian terror suspect accused of plotting to blow up the largely Jewish Montreal neighborhood of Outremont, to an undisclosed location Wednesday. Canadian authorities detained Mohamed when he attempted to enter the US in 2001, three weeks after "Millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam testified that they conspired in a plot [...]
Witness testimony at the confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito before the US Senate Judiciary Committee concluded Friday with experts both supporting and opposing the Supreme Court nominee. Duke Law School professor Erwin Chemerinsky and former NARAL Pro-Choice America president Kate Michelman both took strong positions against the nomination. According to Chemerinsky, Alito's opinions from [...]
Aegis Insurance Services v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Alvin Hellerstein, January 12, 2006 . Review the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Pentagon records made public Thursday by the ACLU through ongoing FOIA requests show that the US Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year without questioning any Americans involved in the case, ultimately finding no reason to believe the detainee's allegations. The unnamed detainee, a relative of a former [...]
A study commissioned by the Canadian Justice Department and obtained by Canadian Press has urged the Canadian federal government to legalize polygamy to help protect women and children in those relationships. Section 293 of the Canadian Criminal Code currently bans polygamy, although a few Canadian provinces give limited recognition to foreign polygamous marriages for spousal [...]
