The US Senate has invoked cloture , voting 72-25 to end debate and cut off any filibuster on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court. A vote on whether to approve the...
AP is reporting that the chief lawyer for Saddam Hussein has said that Hussein and his defense team will boycott trial proceedings when they resume Wednesday. The trial resumed briefly Sunday under new...
Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the criminal trial of former Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling on conspiracy and fraud charges . Defense lawyers for...
The Washington State Senate on Friday passed a landmark gay civil rights bill that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, lending and employment. The legislation was approved by...
US military forces in Iraq have detained wives of suspected insurgents in an attempt to "leverage" their husbands' surrender on at least two occasions, according to documents released by the military to the ACLU under the rights group's ongoing...
Marvin Bieghler was executed in Indiana Friday morning after the US Supreme Court overturned a stay ordered by the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Bieghler was convicted for the 1981 deaths of Tommy Miller, who Bieghler...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging federal airport regulations that require passengers to show identification before boarding airplanes. Libertarian activist John Gilmore ...
Lawyers representing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff indicted in the CIA leak case , have asked the federal judge presiding over the case to force prosecutors to...
CNN is reporting that Democratic Senator John Kerry, joined by Edward Kennedy and perhaps other Democrats will attempt a filibuster to block the US Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito . Kerry, currently in Switzerland attending...
An effort to increase the detention period for terror suspects in the UK from 28 days to 60 days was defeated Wednesday in the House of Lords by a vote of 210-108. Under current law [Criminal Justice...
