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News Federal judge grants bail for Michigan militia suspects
Federal judge grants bail for Michigan militia suspects
Steve Dotterer
May 3, 2010 02:52:05 pm

A federal judge on Monday granted bail for nine individuals accused of crimes committed as part of a "Christian warrior" militia called Hutaree . Judge Victoria Roberts of the US District Court for the Eastern...

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Oklahoma AG agrees to court order blocking abortion law enforcement
Steve Dotterer
May 3, 2010 02:07:22 pm

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson agreed on Monday to delay the implementation of a new state law requiring women seeking an abortion to consent first to an ultrasound. The Center...

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US to transfer non-Afghan Bagram detainees to home countries: report
Steve Dotterer
April 27, 2010 11:54:53 am

A US military official has said that the US is in negotiations to transfer non-Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Base back to their home countries, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. The military intends to...

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US to transfer non-Afghan Bagram detainees to home countries: report
Steve Dotterer
April 27, 2010 11:34:00 am

A US military official has said that the US is in negotiations to transfer non-Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Base back to their home countries, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. The military intends to...

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Indonesia opens first prison for corruption crimes
Steve Dotterer
April 27, 2010 11:00:54 am

Indonesia's justice minister announced Tuesday the opening of a prison wing intended to confine individuals convicted of corruption. The new wing, part of Cipinang Penitentiary in East Jakarta, is designed to hold up to 256 inmates, although only 10...

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Indonesia opens first prison for corruption crimes
Steve Dotterer
April 27, 2010 10:27:00 am

Indonesia's justice minister announced Tuesday the opening of a prison wing intended to confine individuals convicted of corruption. The new wing, part of Cipinang Penitentiary in East Jakarta, is designed to hold up to 256 inmates, although only 10...

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UK court hears London transit bombing lawsuit
Steve Dotterer
April 26, 2010 01:18:27 pm

Lawyers for victims of the July 7, 2005 London transit bombings argued on Monday in the Royal Courts of Justice that UK authorities possessed information that could have helped them prevent the attacks. The theory for...

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UK court hears London transit bombing lawsuit
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April 26, 2010 12:02:00 pm

Lawyers for victims of the July 7, 2005 London transit bombings argued on Monday in the Royal Courts of Justice that UK authorities possessed information that could have helped them prevent the attacks. The theory for...

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Obama criticizes proposed Arizona illegal immigrant law
Steve Dotterer
April 23, 2010 12:58:00 pm

US President Barack Obama on Thursday expressed opposition to a pending Arizona bill that would require any individual suspected of being an illegal immigrant to present valid identification to law enforcement officials. In remarks...

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Kyrgyzstan provisional government pledges constitutional reform
Steve Dotterer
April 19, 2010 02:36:00 pm

Kyrgyzstan's provisional government on Monday announced a plan to institute democratic reforms, including a referendum on a new constitution. The plan seeks to move Kyrgyzstan toward a parliamentary republic with increased checks and balances and a reduction...

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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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