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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Federal judge rules domestic spying program unconstitutional
BREAKING NEWS ~ Federal judge rules domestic spying program unconstitutional
Jeannie Shawl
August 17, 2006 12:14:00 pm

AP is reporting that US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has ruled that the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program is unconstitutional and has ordered the National Security Agency to immediately...

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News UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution to halt Middle East hostilities
UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution to halt Middle East hostilities
Jeannie Shawl
August 11, 2006 08:32:00 pm

The UN Security Council late Friday unanimously approved a resolution to end the current Middle East conflict , calling for Hezbollah to stop all attacks immediately and for Israel to cease “all...

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News UK freezes assets of suspects in transatlantic plane bombings plot
UK freezes assets of suspects in transatlantic plane bombings plot
Jeannie Shawl
August 11, 2006 08:48:00 am

British banking officials froze the assets Friday of 19 suspects believed to be involved in a terrorist plot to blow up multiple planes traveling from UK airports to various destinations in the United States, while...

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News Federal judge rules Espionage Act constitutional in lobbyists leak case
Federal judge rules Espionage Act constitutional in lobbyists leak case
Jeannie Shawl
August 10, 2006 08:26:00 pm

US District Judge T.S. Ellis has upheld the constitutionality of the 1917 Espionage Act , refusing to dismiss charges against two former lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee . Steven Rosen...

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News Federal panel sends consolidated NSA surveillance suits to San Francisco judge
Federal panel sends consolidated NSA surveillance suits to San Francisco judge
Jeannie Shawl
August 10, 2006 06:17:00 pm

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered that seventeen cases challenging the legality of the NSA's domestic surveillance program be transferred to the chief judge of the US Northern District of...

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Gonzales announces reform plans for US immigration courts
Jeannie Shawl
August 9, 2006 04:19:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will implement new rules to improve the performance of federal immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals [DOJ...

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News Yushchenko averts Ukraine constitutional crisis by accepting rival as PM
Yushchenko averts Ukraine constitutional crisis by accepting rival as PM
Jeannie Shawl
August 3, 2006 02:59:00 pm

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday accepted the nomination of political rival Viktor Yanukovych to serve as the country's prime minister, ending weeks of speculation that Yushchenko's rejection of the nomination...

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News Specter hits back at surveillance bill critics
Specter hits back at surveillance bill critics
Jeannie Shawl
July 25, 2006 10:58:00 am

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday defended his proposal to subject the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program to review by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ,...

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News Saddam absent from court as Iraq trial resumes
Saddam absent from court as Iraq trial resumes
Jeannie Shawl
July 24, 2006 08:22:00 am

The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad on Monday, though the former Iraqi leader was not in court due to his weekend hospitalization after collapsing in jail on the sixteenth day...

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News DOJ political appointees changing Civil Rights Division hiring, focus
DOJ political appointees changing Civil Rights Division hiring, focus
Jeannie Shawl
July 23, 2006 10:34:00 am

Less than half of lawyers hired to work in the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division since 2003 have a background in civil rights, according to resumes obtained by the Boston Globe through a Freedom of...

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On December 19, 1998, a divided US House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

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