A document released Monday by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library reveal that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in 1985 that he was proud of helping the government argue that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." Part of more than 100 pages on Alito [...]

At the close of a three-day meeting in Brussels Monday, the leaders of eight Bosnian political parties failed to reach an agreement on a new draft constitution for the country. Representatives of the three main nationalities in Bosnia , Muslims, Serbs and Croats, agreed to disagree and to extend negotiations into next week, when they [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that parents who challenge special education programs for not meeting their children's needs must bear the burden of proving the programs' inadequacies, and not school officials. The case, Schaffer v. Weast , is a loss for a Maryland family that challenged a special education program for their son who [...]

A court in Uzbekistan has found 15 men guilty of terrorism, attempted overthrow of the government, hostage taking and murder. The defendants, who all pleaded guilty, were accused of leading an uprising in the town of Andijan in May. The uprising was sparked by the Uzbek government's controversial trial of 23 Muslim businessmen for extremism [...]

Capital Punishment 2004, US Department of Justice, November 13, 2005 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Courts in Spain, Italy and Germany are considering inquiries into CIA operations in Europe, specifically its rendition program, where suspected terrorists are kidnapped and sent to countries that will torture them. The Spanish investigation began in March when a Majorcan newspaper reported that CIA planes were visiting the island's international airport . A Spanish national [...]

New court documents have been released outlining potential arguments to be made during the penalty phase of proceedings against 9/11 suspect Zacarias Moussaoui . According to the transcript of an October hearing recently unsealed, prosecutors will argue Moussaoui deserves the death penalty because he "lied to federal agents to allow his al Qaeda 'brothers' to [...]

Callixte Kalimanzira, Rwanda's interior minister during the 1994 genocide , pleaded not guilty to three counts of genocide and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday. Kalimanzira surrendered to the tribunal voluntarily on November 8. Prosecutors allege that he incited the genocide in his public speeches, distributed weapons to [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales promised his Australian counterpart Philip Ruddock Monday that Australian terror suspect David Hicks would receive a fair trial before a military commission , but refused to give a time frame for when the trial is likely to occur. Preliminary hearings in Hicks' trial are scheduled to begin on November 18 [...]

Last week's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights upholding Turkey's ban on headscarves in public universities, has led to confrontation between the Islamic government and the law's secular proponents. Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer , who supports the ban, says the court's ruling was "binding" and should end the controversy. The country's Prime [...]