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Commentary FISA, Sunday talk, and an interesting omission
FISA, Sunday talk, and an interesting omission
JURIST Commentator - Justia Law School - MV, California
February 13, 2006 08:49:00 am

Geoffrey Corn : "The domestic surveillance debate took center stage on Meet the Press (Sunday, February 12th), as Senator Pat Roberts, former Senator Tom Daschle, and Representatives Peter Hoekstra and Jane Harman participated in a debate...

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Torture and the scope of employment
JURIST Commentator - Justia Law School - MV, California
February 7, 2006 08:07:00 pm

Steve Vladeck : "Is torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment (CIDT) within the scope of government employment? At least somewhat surprisingly, according to this decision by Judge Urbina in the D.C....

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Commentary Using nuclear weapons against Iran?
Using nuclear weapons against Iran?
JURIST Commentator - Justia Law School - MV, California
February 4, 2006 01:42:00 pm

Anthony D'Amato : "Today, February 4, 2006, Senator John McCain speaking in Munich said that military action against Iran must remain an option if it did not bow to international demands to halt its nuclear activities....

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Commentary Youngstown revisited:  external threat no excuse for internal power grab
Youngstown revisited: external threat no excuse for internal power grab
JURIST Commentator - Justia Law School - MV, California
February 2, 2006 05:07:00 pm

Michael J. Kelly : "President Truman used American involvement in the Korean War as justification for seizing privately owned U.S. steel mills when a labor strike threatened to cripple that industry and bring production to a...

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Commentary Arguments for increased government surveillance based on myth
Arguments for increased government surveillance based on myth
JURIST Commentator - Justia Law School - MV, California
February 2, 2006 09:30:00 am

Brian J. Foley : "In response to the revelations about presidential spying, several Administration officials, including President Bush and Attorney General Gonzales, have argued that the electronic surveillance program -- which appears to exceed the limits...

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Coretta Scott King
JURIST Commentator - Justia Law School - MV, California
January 31, 2006 02:07:00 pm

Benjamin G. Davis : "Thank you Coretta for all of your good works helping humanity progress in the United States and around the world. You were a person of action and gentleness. Martin and you...

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The judicial capacity to try Saddam
JURIST Commentator - Justia Law School - MV, California
January 30, 2006 10:12:00 pm

Michael J. Kelly : "Each new session of the Iraqi High Criminal Court, convened last year to try Saddam Hussein and his henchmen for the massacre of over a hundred Shi'a at Dujail in 1982, brings...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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