Second and Third Periodic Report of the United States of America to the UN Committee on Human Rights Concerning the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, US Department of State, submitted October 21, 2005 [reporting on US compliance with...

Anti-Terrorism Bill 2005, introduced in the Australian House of Representatives by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, November 3, 2005 . Read the full text...

AP is reporting that US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has announced that confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito will start January 9, 2006. Earlier this week Democrats called for January...

James Fields et. al v. Palmdale School District, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Judge Stephen Reinhart, November 2, 2005 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by parents who were angered by a sex survey given to their students in...

Who is Responsible? Phase 1 Report, Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, Justice John H. Gomery, Commissioner [report of the Canadian judicial inquiry into the "Sponsorship Scandal" saying that former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien must...

Resolution 1636 (2005), United Nations Security Council, October 31, 2005 . Read the full text of the resolution and a synopsis of member statements....

Wire services are reporting that President Bush will nominate Judge Samuel Alito of the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals to fill the US Supreme Court seat left vacant...

Supplemental Report on Bayoil Diversions of Iraqi Oil and Related Oversight Failures, US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Relations Committee Subcommittee on Investigations, October 31, 2005 [released October 28; Democrat minority staff report on the UN Oil-for-Food scandal claiming that...

American Civil Liberties Union v. Alaska, October 28, 2005 . Excerpt:The governmental interests of cost control, administrative efficiency, and promotion of marriage are legitimate, but the absolute...

Transcript of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's Press Conference, October 28, 2005 . Read the full transcript of the press conference via...