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News Four US soldiers to be court-martialed in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
Four US soldiers to be court-martialed in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
James M Yoch Jr
October 18, 2006 03:41:00 pm

Four US soldiers implicated in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") area in March have been referred to trial by general court-martial,...

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Hicks to challenge US military commissions law
James M Yoch Jr
October 18, 2006 03:20:00 pm

The father of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has said that Hicks' defense team will challenge the Military Commissions Act of 2006 signed into law by President Bush...

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News Arab-American rights group sues DHS for immigration profiling data
Arab-American rights group sues DHS for immigration profiling data
James M Yoch Jr
October 18, 2006 02:15:00 pm

The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , claiming the agencies illegally employed information...

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News Pentagon orders probe into Marine’s report of Guantanamo detainee abuse
Pentagon orders probe into Marine’s report of Guantanamo detainee abuse
James M Yoch Jr
October 13, 2006 12:10:00 pm

The US Department of Defense Inspector General on Friday announced that the armed force's Southern Command has been ordered to investigate allegations that detainee abuse is occurring at the military facility at Guantanamo...

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Ohio congressman pleads guilty in Abramoff scandal
James M Yoch Jr
October 13, 2006 11:35:00 am

US Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) on Friday pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in connection with his involvement with lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Ney accepted money and gifts...

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US soldier disputing Iraq war legality pleads guilty to AWOL charge
James M Yoch Jr
October 13, 2006 11:09:00 am

US Army Sergeant Ricky Clousing , a paratrooper and interpreter who disputed the legality of the war in Iraq , has pleaded guilty to going absent without leave for 14 months. A court-martial...

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Sadat nephew faces Egypt military court after assassination allegations
James M Yoch Jr
October 11, 2006 03:23:00 pm

A nephew of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat who is now an Egyptian opposition MP associated with the Ahrar party appeared before an Egyptian military court Wednesday on charges of making defamatory remarks regarding the...

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India high court says presidential death row pardons subject to review
James M Yoch Jr
October 11, 2006 02:52:00 pm

The Supreme Court of India Wednesday ruled that the power of the country's president to pardon a person convicted of a capital offense in Article 72 of the Indian Constitution is subject to judicial review in...

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Supreme Court asked to hold California sentencing rules unconstitutional
James M Yoch Jr
October 11, 2006 02:10:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Cunningham v. California , 05-6551, a case that asks justices to decide whether judges can exercise discretion to...

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Missouri high court considers voter photo ID cases
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October 4, 2006 02:44:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Missouri heard oral arguments Wednesday in two appeals challenging the September 14 ruling that a state law requiring voters to show a Missouri-issued photo...

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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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