Wire services are reporting that after intensive negotiations lasting several days US senators late Wednesday agreed to extend the Patriot Act for six months. The White House and the Senate Republican leadership had previously...
Jose Padilla v. C.T. Hanft, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, December 21, 2005 [denying the Bush administration's request to transfer Jose Padilla from military to civilian law enforcement custody, and also denying the government's request that...
Tammy Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District et al., United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Judge John E. Jones III, December 20, 2005 [ruling that "intelligent design" cannot constitutionally be taught in biology classes...
Press Briefing by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and General Michael Hayden, Principal Deputy Director for National Intelligence on the legal issues surrounding the NSA authorization of domestic surveillance, December 19, 2005. Read the full text of the briefing. Reported...
Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), International Court of Justice, December 19, 2005 [ruling that Uganda violated the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Congo during a 1998-2003 war...
Second report of the International Independent Investigation Commission established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595 (2005) and 1636 (2005), December 12, 2005 [latest report of the probe headed by Detlev Mehlis looking into the February 14, 2005 bombing in Beirut...
Terrorism Risk Insurance Extension Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives, December 17, 2005 [extending for two years the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, under which the federal government guarantees insurance coverage for catastrophic losses caused...
Anti-Terrorism Act (No. 2) 2005, An Act to amend the law relating to terrorist acts, and for other purposes, published as approved by royal assent December 16, 2005. Read the full text of the act....
Jose Padilla v. C.T. Hanft, Supreme Court of the United States, December 10, 2005 [US DOJ brief arguing that as Jose Padilla has been indicted on 11 criminal counts by civil authorities the case of his military custody is now...
Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives, December 16, 2005 [legislation tightening illegal immigration controls, including plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and...
