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Senators have conflict questions for nominee Roberts
Jamie Sterling
August 24, 2005 04:13:00 pm

Senators Charles Schumer and Russ Feingold said Wednesday that they expected US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to address why he chose not to recuse himself from the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [PDF...

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Khodorkovsky begins prison hunger strike
Jamie Sterling
August 23, 2005 04:02:00 pm

Jailed Russian oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky , announced in a statement Tuesday that he will go on a hunger strike in support of his jailed business partner, Platon Lebedev. Lebedev was placed in an...

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News Bush urges Sunnis to embrace draft Iraq constitution
Bush urges Sunnis to embrace draft Iraq constitution
Jamie Sterling
August 23, 2005 03:48:00 pm

President Bush urged Sunni Arabs on Tuesday to embrace the proposed Iraqi constitution in an effort to bring peace to a country on the verge of civil war. When asked about a Sunni negotiator's warning that...

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News Saudi minister satisfied with negotiations over Gitmo detainees
Saudi minister satisfied with negotiations over Gitmo detainees
Jamie Sterling
August 23, 2005 03:19:00 pm

Negotiations for the return of Saudi Arabian detainees from US custody at Guantanamo Bay have reached "an advanced stage", according to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal speaking at a press conference in Jeddah Tuesday. There...

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Saddam Hussein confirms sacking of legal team
Jamie Sterling
August 23, 2005 02:51:00 pm

In a meeting Tuesday with his lawyer and the judge investigating charges against him, ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein confirmed that he has reduced his legal team to one lawyer. As previously claimed in a statement...

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Military interrogator pleads guilty to Afghan detainee assault
Jamie Sterling
August 23, 2005 02:16:00 pm

A US Army interrogator pleaded guilty Tuesday to dereliction of duty and assault of 22-year old Afghan detainee Dilawar , who died in December 2002 at Bagram Control Point near Kabul. Spc. Glendale...

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Kenya releases final draft of new constitution
Jamie Sterling
August 23, 2005 01:24:00 pm

The Kenyan government released the final draft of the country's new constitution Tuesday, amidst protests from those upset with President Mwai Kibaki for his failure to limit any of his over-reaching presidential powers in the...

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Japan to propose new resolution for Security Council bid
Jamie Sterling
August 18, 2005 01:57:00 pm

Japan announced plans Thursday to revise the so-called G-4 plan for expansion of the UN Security Council after the African Union rejected their previous proposal . The new plan will be presented to...

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News Nigerian Senate asks executive to abolish war crimes pact with US
Nigerian Senate asks executive to abolish war crimes pact with US
Jamie Sterling
August 18, 2005 01:32:00 pm

The Nigerian Senate has passed a resolution calling for the executive to abolish a pact made with the United States that said neither country will turn over suspected war criminals to the Hague's International Criminal...

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Witness testifies that dogs bit Abu Ghraib detainees
Jamie Sterling
July 26, 2005 02:35:00 pm

A witness testified at a military Article 32 hearing Tuesday that dogs handled by two American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison bit and injured two Iraqi detainees. Pvt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II, who...

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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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