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Commentary President Bush and Partisan Judicial Selection
President Bush and Partisan Judicial Selection
JURIST Staff
October 6, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says that while purporting to have improved the judicial selection process, President Bush has in fact perpetuated and even exacerbated the counterproductive dynamics of allegations and countercharges,...

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Commentary Title IX and the Constitution: Can a Federal Statute Take Away Constitutional Rights?
Title IX and the Constitution: Can a Federal Statute Take Away Constitutional Rights?
JURIST Staff
October 1, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Deborah Brake of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that important choices about our constitutional structure and the relationship between statutory and constitutional rights are at stake in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee, one of...

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Commentary Act of Commission: Iraq's New Provincial Elections Law and the Problem of Kirkuk
Act of Commission: Iraq's New Provincial Elections Law and the Problem of Kirkuk
JURIST Staff
September 30, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the new Iraqi provincial elections law's creation of a commission to determine the appropriate power-sharing arrangement for the northern Kirkuk region may actually hinder...

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Commentary The End of History:  The Vice President and the Presidential Records Act
The End of History: The Vice President and the Presidential Records Act
JURIST Staff
September 25, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnists Victor Hansen and Lawrence Friedman of New England School of Law say that if Vice President Dick Cheney is permitted to avoid the requirements of the Presidential Records Act, the door is left open for a future...

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Commentary Prosecuting High-level Americans for War Crimes
Prosecuting High-level Americans for War Crimes
JURIST Staff
September 22, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says "the whole world is watching" efforts in the United States - highlighted at a recent conference at Andover - to bring U.S. high-level civilians and/or generals...

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Commentary The End of the Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan?
The End of the Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan?
JURIST Staff
September 16, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that in the wake of the election of Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the President of...

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Commentary The Anthrax Case: Congress Must Demand an Independent Inquiry
The Anthrax Case: Congress Must Demand an Independent Inquiry
JURIST Staff
September 15, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist David Harris of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that in light of questions about the FBI's public identification of the late Dr. Bruce Ivins as "the only person responsible" for the 2001 anthrax attacks,...

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Commentary The Draft Iraqi Oil Law: Making a Mockery of Sovereignty
The Draft Iraqi Oil Law: Making a Mockery of Sovereignty
JURIST Staff
September 8, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnists Nancy Wohlforth and Fred Mason, Co-Convenors of U.S. Labor Against the War, say that the proposed Iraqi oil law would put effective control of most of Iraq's vast oil resources into the hands of foreign companies...

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Commentary The Hamdan Trial: Can Three 'Rights' Correct a 'Wrong'?
The Hamdan Trial: Can Three 'Rights' Correct a 'Wrong'?
JURIST Staff
September 4, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.), a former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters and currently a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that Salim Hamdan's recent...

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Commentary Presidency and the Constitution in Post-Musharraf Pakistan
Presidency and the Constitution in Post-Musharraf Pakistan
JURIST Staff
August 26, 2008 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the nomination of Asif Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to contest Pakistan's next presidential election in the wake of General Pervez Musharraf's...

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Ford pardoned Nixon for Watergate

On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford, in a televised address to the American people, pardoned ex-President Richard Nixon for any offenses committed in association with the Watergate break-in.

Read the full text of Ford's address, or listen to him read the pardon (via Watergate.info).

Treaty of San Francisco signed, officially ending WWII in the Pacific

On September 8, 1951, the Treaty of San Francisco was signed between 49 nations and Japan, ending World War II in the Pacific region. In addition to dismantling the Japanese Empire, the accord also provided for compensation to be paid by Japan to prisoners of war and civilians who were victimized by Japan during the War. Communist China did not participate in the San Francisco negotiations and thus signed the separate Treaty of Tapei with Japan.

Ford pardoned Nixon

On Sepetmber 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office. Read President Ford's remarks explaining the pardon.

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