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News Rights group calls for Afghanistan war crimes court
Rights group calls for Afghanistan war crimes court
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 04:45:00 pm

New York-based monitoring group Human Rights Watch Wednesday issued a new report calling for Afghan President Hamid Karzai to establish a Special Court to try high-level government officials and others accused of...

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News ACLU sues on behalf of American held without charge by US forces in Iraq
ACLU sues on behalf of American held without charge by US forces in Iraq
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 03:43:00 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the US government Wednesday on behalf of a US citizen detained by US forces in Iraq since May 17. Cyrus Kar, a 44-year-old filmmaker ,...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Miller ordered to jail for refusing to testify in leak probe
BREAKING NEWS ~ Miller ordered to jail for refusing to testify in leak probe
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 03:22:00 pm

A federal judge has ordered New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, called the order...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ TIME reporter Cooper agrees to testify before grand jury, Miller balks
BREAKING NEWS ~ TIME reporter Cooper agrees to testify before grand jury, Miller balks
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 02:31:00 pm

AP is reporting that TIME magazine reporter Matthew Cooper has agreed to comply with government demands to testify before a grand jury investigating the identity leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame . TIME previously turned over...

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News New Spanish gay marriage law runs into judicial roadblock
New Spanish gay marriage law runs into judicial roadblock
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 01:36:00 pm

A Spanish court Wednesday blocked the marriage of a Spanish man to his Indian partner because India bans same-sex unions. The ruling by a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Catalonia is the first snag on Spain's...

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Bush names former senator Thompson to help guide court nominee
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 01:16:00 pm

President Bush Wednesday named former Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) as an "informal adviser" to help guide his future Supreme Court nomination through the Senate. Thompson, perhaps better known for his acting career , was...

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News Watergate-era FBI director Patrick Gray dies at 88
Watergate-era FBI director Patrick Gray dies at 88
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 01:04:00 pm

L. Patrick Gray , a Nixon loyalist and acting FBI director during the Watergate investigation who ended up resigning after he admitted destroying relevant documents, died Wednesday in Atlantic Beach, Florida, at 88. Gray said in...

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Sudan unanimously approves new constitution
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 11:16:00 am

Sudan's National Assembly on Wednesday unanimously approved a new constitution that moves the country away from pure Islamic rule. It provides that Islamic law will not be applied in largely Christian areas, generally in...

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News Head of Saddam defense committee quits, hands over to former US AG Clark
Head of Saddam defense committee quits, hands over to former US AG Clark
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 10:46:00 am

Jordanian lawyer Ziad Khasawneh , the head of the Committee for Defending Saddam Hussein, announced Wednesday that he is quitting the group, turning full control of the former Iraqi president's defense over to a team led by maverick...

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Spanish trial for 9/11 suspects wraps up
David Shucosky
July 6, 2005 10:35:00 am

The trial of 24 people accused by Spanish authorities of aiding the 9/11 attack on the United States concluded Tuesday after 10 weeks of testimony and evidence. The defendants include Immad Yarkas , the alleged head of an...

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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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