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News Russia Constitutional Court begins work in St. Petersburg
Russia Constitutional Court begins work in St. Petersburg
Andrew Gilmore
May 13, 2008 11:01:00 am

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation began work at its new location in St. Petersburg Monday. The move from the Court's former home in Moscow began in February and is expected to...

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News Japan House of Representatives approves bill militarizing space program
Japan House of Representatives approves bill militarizing space program
Andrew Gilmore
May 13, 2008 10:10:00 am

The Japanese House of Representatives , approved a bill Tuesday that would allow the country's space program to be used for defense purposes, including the development of spy satellites. A lower house committee approved the bill...

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News US military drops charges against so-called ’20th hijacker’
US military drops charges against so-called ’20th hijacker’
Andrew Gilmore
May 13, 2008 08:38:00 am

The US Department of Defense has dropped criminal charges against Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi Arabian citizen being held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay . Al-Qahtani was known as the...

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News Serbia ex-militants charged with war crimes in Kosovo massacre
Serbia ex-militants charged with war crimes in Kosovo massacre
Andrew Gilmore
April 21, 2008 07:11:00 pm

Serbia's war crimes court has charged four former members of a notorious Serbian paramilitary organization with war crimes stemming from their alleged involvement in a 1999 massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in the Kosovar village of Podujevo, the Serbian...

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News Former DOJ official charged in connection with Abramoff scandal
Former DOJ official charged in connection with Abramoff scandal
Andrew Gilmore
April 21, 2008 06:46:00 pm

Federal prosecutors on Monday accused the former deputy chief of staff of the Department of Justice Criminal Division of criminal conflict of interest charges connected to his relationship with disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff ....

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Russia NGOs hampered by increasing state regulation: rights groups
Andrew Gilmore
April 16, 2008 07:10:00 pm

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia are chafing under increasingly strict regulations implemented under legislation signed into law in April 2006 by Russian President Vladimir Putin , rights groups told AP Wednesday in the wake of a...

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News US military releases AP journalist detained in Iraq after last charge dismissed
US military releases AP journalist detained in Iraq after last charge dismissed
Andrew Gilmore
April 16, 2008 06:23:00 pm

Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was released from custody Wednesday by US military forces in Iraq. Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, deputy commanding general for detainee operations for the Multi National Force–Iraq ,...

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News UK Home Secretary presses case for  42-day terror detention without charge
UK Home Secretary presses case for 42-day terror detention without charge
Andrew Gilmore
April 14, 2008 07:12:00 pm

UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Monday urged the passage of a new anti-terror bill that would increase the number of days a terror suspect can be detained without charge to...

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News Federal appeals judge appointed to top post at FISA review court
Federal appeals judge appointed to top post at FISA review court
Andrew Gilmore
April 14, 2008 06:37:00 pm

Bruce Selya , a senior circuit judge for the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has been designated as presiding judge of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review . The designation was made...

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US House committee issues subpoena for EPA-White House communications
Andrew Gilmore
April 9, 2008 06:51:00 pm

The US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a subpoena Wednesday to compel the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to turn over documents relating to White House involvement in the EPA decision...

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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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