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News Supreme Court hears argument in racial gerrymandering cases
Supreme Court hears argument in racial gerrymandering cases
Taylor Isaac
December 6, 2016 07:34:41 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in racial gerrymandering cases from Virginia and North Carolina. The first case, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections is analyzing a...

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News Greece court allows three Turkish soldiers to remain in country pending asylum hearings
Greece court allows three Turkish soldiers to remain in country pending asylum hearings
Taylor Isaac
December 6, 2016 06:48:40 am

A court in Greece on Monday ruled against extradition of three Turkish soldiers, determining that the soldiers should be released from protective custody pending a final ruling on their asylum applications. The soldiers, along with five others, fled to Greece...

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Supreme Court hears argument on immigration detention procedures
Taylor Isaac
December 1, 2016 07:20:30 am

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in an immigration case that will determine the permissible length of detention before a bond hearing is necessary, if one is required at all. Jennings v....

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News Supreme Court hears argument on sentencing guidelines
Supreme Court hears argument on sentencing guidelines
Taylor Isaac
November 29, 2016 07:22:14 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Beckles v. United States , a case analyzing whether the residual definition of "crime of violence" in §4B1.2 of the US Sentencing Guildelines (USSG) ...

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Israel parliament gives preliminary approval to bill allowing West Bank settlements
Taylor Isaac
November 17, 2016 08:50:22 am

The Israeli parliament on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to the Formalization Bill, which would legalize settlement outposts in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had planned for the bill to be delayed in efforts to...

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Federal appeals court affirms dismissal of Oklahoma botched execution case
Taylor Isaac
November 17, 2016 07:30:16 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of a case involving the 2014 botched execution of Clayton Lockett, a death row inmate in Oklahoma. Lockett's brother filed...

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UN rights group says US ignoring rights of Native Americans protesting Dakota Access Pipeline
Taylor Isaac
November 15, 2016 08:11:40 am

A United Nations (UN) rights group released a statement earlier this month expressing concerns that the US government is ignoring treaty rights, as well as human rights, of Native Americans that are protesting the Dakota Access...

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News Supreme Court hears arguments on citizenship of children born abroad to unmarried parents
Supreme Court hears arguments on citizenship of children born abroad to unmarried parents
Taylor Isaac
November 10, 2016 08:11:02 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that will determine the constitutionality of citizenship statutes that set different requirements based on whether a child was born to unmarried parents with a...

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EU prosecutors clear former Kosovo judge of corruption allegations
Taylor Isaac
November 8, 2016 09:41:27 am

Prosecutors for the EU have determined that a former judge for the EU's Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) did not solicit or accept bribes. Judge Francesco Florit had been accused of taking bribes to...

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Supreme Court hears argument on president’s power to fill agency vacancies
Taylor Isaac
November 8, 2016 09:08:17 am

The US Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case that will impact the president's power to temporarily fill vacant agency positions. began as an...

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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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