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DOJ charges 4 in alleged JFK Airport terror plot
Natalie Hrubos
June 3, 2007 12:41:00 pm

Federal authorities arrested three men Saturday and are still searching for a fourth after foiling a terrorist plot to bomb John F. Kennedy International Airport . The complaint charging the four men claims the plot was...

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News Connecticut legislature approves eminent domain restrictions in wake of Kelo battle
Connecticut legislature approves eminent domain restrictions in wake of Kelo battle
Natalie Hrubos
June 3, 2007 11:24:00 am

The Connecticut House of Representatives approved a bill Saturday night that prohibits the state from from taking property solely to boost property taxes. The measure, approved by the state Senate last week, reflects a compromise between the state...

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Blair calls for stronger UK terror laws
Natalie Hrubos
May 27, 2007 12:18:00 pm

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday in an op-ed published in the Sunday Times that the country has chosen to protect the civil liberties of foreign nationals over national security and therefore...

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News Suspended Pakistan CJ lauds judicial independence in high court address
Suspended Pakistan CJ lauds judicial independence in high court address
Natalie Hrubos
May 27, 2007 11:40:00 am

Thousands of Pakistanis rallied outside the Supreme Court of Pakistan Saturday in support of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry , who returned to the court building for the first time since being suspended...

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Ukraine leaders make election deal in bid to end constitutional standoff
Natalie Hrubos
May 27, 2007 10:57:00 am

Ukrainian political rivals President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych agreed Sunday to hold elections on September 30 in a move intended to end an escalating constitutional crisis in...

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Romanians reject referendum bid to impeach president
Natalie Hrubos
May 20, 2007 12:34:00 pm

Romanian voters Saturday rejected a referendum proposal to impeach reformist President Traian Basescu . Basescu was suspended by the opposition-dominated parliament last month for allegedly abusing his powers. Earlier this month, the...

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Hicks transferred to Australia to finish Guantanamo sentence
Natalie Hrubos
May 20, 2007 12:11:00 pm

Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison near his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia Sunday to serve the remainder of his nine-month prison sentence. In March, a...

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Texas to release 226 juveniles whose sentences were improperly extended
Natalie Hrubos
May 20, 2007 11:38:00 am

The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) will release 226 inmates from its juvenile prison system after an investigation revealed that their sentences were improperly extended. Commission Special Master Jay Kimbrough, appointed early this month by Texas...

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French appeals court acquits one in landmark paedophilia case
Natalie Hrubos
April 21, 2007 03:18:00 pm

A French appeals court Saturday acquitted one of 12 individuals who appealed their convictions in a 2005 child prostitution case, one of the biggest criminal trials in the country's history . Sixty-two men and women were...

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April 21, 2007 02:57:00 pm

The Shiite head of Iraq's Debaathification Commission said Friday he would fight a proposed law allowing former Baath party members to return to their previously held government positions. Despite provisions in the proposal...

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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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