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News DOJ: Indiana ban on Medicaid funds to abortion providers violates federal law
DOJ: Indiana ban on Medicaid funds to abortion providers violates federal law
Sarah Posner
June 18, 2011 12:00:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday urged the court to grant an injunction to stop the enforcement of an Indiana abortion law , which seeks to deny Medicaid funding to organizations that...

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Morocco king announces constitutional reforms
Sarah Posner
June 18, 2011 10:00:00 am

King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Friday announced changes to the constitution which would transfer some of the political power held by the king to elected officials. The proposed changes would instill more authority in the...

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Al Qaeda operative suspected in US embassy bombings killed in Somalia
Sarah Posner
June 12, 2011 11:18:01 am

Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was killed last week by security forces at a checkpoint in Somalia. Mohammed was on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists Lists for his involvement in the 1998 US...

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Minnesota legislature approves ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage
Sarah Posner
May 22, 2011 12:51:09 pm

The Minnesota Legislature on Saturday approved adding a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage to the November 2012 ballot. The Minnesota House of Representatives voted 70-62 to approve the proposed amendment. In...

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Bahrain court upholds 2 death sentences for police killings
Sarah Posner
May 22, 2011 10:59:28 am

Bahrain's Appeal National Safety Court on Sunday unanimously upheld death sentences for two men convicted of killing police officers during anti-government protests in March. The court reduced the death sentences of two others to life...

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US lawmakers release draft online child privacy act
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May 8, 2011 12:53:37 pm

US Representatives Edward Markey (D-MA) and Joe Barton (R-TX) released a draft bill Friday that would restrict companies from tracking the Internet activity of minors without parental consent. The Do Not Track Kids Act of...

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ICC has evidence of Gaddafi war crimes: prosecutor
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May 3, 2011 12:01:07 pm

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo revealed that investigators have evidence that Libyan leader Mummar Gaddafi committed crimes against humanity. During an interview with the Associated Press, Ocampo said he...

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Sudan releases opposition leader al-Turabi
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May 3, 2011 10:40:08 am

Sudanese opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi was released from jail Tuesday, nearly four months after his January arrest. Al-Turabi was jailed for calling on the Sudanese people to start a popular uprising, similar to Tunisia [JURIST...

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India high court urges end to practice of honor killing
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April 20, 2011 12:53:15 pm

The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday urged an end to the practice of "honor killing" , calling the customary ritual "wholly illegal." The court said that officials who are aware of the practice...

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April 19, 2011 12:19:31 pm

The Syrian legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that, if signed by President Bashar al-Assad , will end the country's 48-year-old state of emergency. Prime Minister Dr. Adel Safar chaired the legislative session, which voted to end...

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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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