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News French judge recommends Rwanda president face war crimes trial
French judge recommends Rwanda president face war crimes trial
Holly Manges Jones
November 21, 2006 07:53:00 am

French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere has recommended that Rwandan President Paul Kagame stand trial for the 1994 killing of former president Juvenal Habyarimana , which sparked the country's genocide [HRW backgrounder; BBC...

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News Mexico election challenger swears himself in as parallel president
Mexico election challenger swears himself in as parallel president
Holly Manges Jones
November 21, 2006 07:19:00 am

Losing leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador held a ceremony Monday to establish himself as the "moral" president of Mexico in his latest attempt to develop a parallel government for...

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News Former HP head pleads not guilty in ‘pretexting’ case
Former HP head pleads not guilty in ‘pretexting’ case
Holly Manges Jones
November 16, 2006 08:40:00 am

Former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four felony charges stemming from her role in the corporate spying scandal . Dunn is one of five...

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News German appeals court finds Moroccan guilty of aiding 9/11 attacks
German appeals court finds Moroccan guilty of aiding 9/11 attacks
Holly Manges Jones
November 16, 2006 07:22:00 am

The German Federal Court of Justice Thursday found Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq guilty of assisting the men who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the US. The...

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Bush renominates controversial appeals court candidates
Holly Manges Jones
November 16, 2006 07:20:00 am

US President George Bush on Wednesday renominated six candidates for federal appeals court judgeships, at least four of whom Democrats have already rejected . Senate rules require nominations to be resubmitted after a recess longer...

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Lebanon president rejects Hariri tribunal approval
Holly Manges Jones
November 15, 2006 12:20:00 pm

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud Wednesday rejected his cabinet's approval of a UN draft proposal for an international judicial tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik...

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Criminal justice reform tops new UK legislative agenda
Holly Manges Jones
November 15, 2006 11:16:00 am

The Labour Party government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Wednesday to "put victims at the heart of the criminal justice system support the police and all those responsible for the public's safety" in its new legislative...

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Vatican calls US plans for Mexican border fence ‘inhumane’
Holly Manges Jones
November 15, 2006 10:46:00 am

The US decision to build a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexican border is "inhumane," a senior Vatican official said Tuesday while delivering Pope Benedict XVI's yearly message on migrants . Cardinal Renato Martino, head...

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DOJ asserts MCA bars enemy immigrants, Gitmo detainees from judicial review
Holly Manges Jones
November 14, 2006 11:25:00 am

The US Department of Justice argued Monday that immigrants arrested while in the US and labeled as enemy combatants under an expansive definition in the new Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA)...

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Rumsfeld war crimes complaint filed in Germany
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November 14, 2006 10:01:00 am

Eleven former Abu Ghraib detainees and one Guantanamo detainee all claiming to have been victims of US torture initiated a criminal complaint in Germany...

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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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