US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' responses to the US Senate Judiciary Committee nomination questionnaire, released October 18, 2005. Read the full text of the answered questionnaire . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.ALSO ON JURIST Op-ed: Two Cheers for Harriet...

Crime in the United States 2004, Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 18, 2005 [reporting that the number of overall violent crimes fell by 1.2 percent and property crimes dropped 1.1 percent; US crime is at a 30-year low and the...

Dora B. Schriro, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections v. Robert Douglas Smith, Supreme Court of the United States, October 17, 2005 [ruling that death row inmates do not have an automatic right to a jury trial to determine whether or...

AP is reporting that the Iraqi electoral commission says it will recheck "unusually high numbers" in constitutional referendum results from certain areas of the country to make sure the poll meets international standards. A Sunni leader Sunday...

The Former Iraqi Government on Trial, Human Rights Watch, October 17, 2005 . Excerpt:The first trials before...

A spokesman for the UN-Afghan Joint Election Management Body said Sunday that "approximately 50" Afghan election workers had been dismissed under suspicion of fraud committed in last month's parliamentary elections . Some 680 ballot boxes alleged...

Military prosecutors have re-charged US Army Second Lt. Erick Anderson in connection with the killing of a wounded Iraqi teenager in August 2004, according to Anderson's uncle. Anderson and the other soldiers involved in what witnesses described as a...

US and local Iraqi sources suggested Sunday that the draft Iraqi constitution was heading towards approval after initial vote counts in Saturday's referendum . No formal results have as yet been issued, but local election...

New York Times reporter Judith Miller wrote in an extensive article published on the Times website Saturday that although the special prosecutor investigating the leak of the identity of CIA analyst Valerie Plame ...

Toledo Ohio police arrested at least 60 people Saturday after rioting broke out following the cancellation of a planned march by American Nazis through a Toledo neighborhood. The march by the National Socialist Movement, which calls itself "America's Nazi...