US President Barack Obama on Wednesday directed heads of executive departments and agencies that a sufficient legal basis is required to preempt state laws and that any legitimate state prerogatives should be fully considered, marking a...

A Canadian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda before a federal court. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, a Canadian citizen of Somali descent, was charged with...

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to the US could pose a threat to national security, even...

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 361-64 to pass the Senate version of the Credit Card Holders' Bill of Rights . Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called the...

UN rights investigator Richard Goldman said Wednesday that his fact-finding mission into possible human rights violations during the recent Gaza Strip conflict will continue despite objections by Israel. Goldman said that he...

Authorities in Myanmar on Wednesday granted 39 foreign diplomats and journalists limited access to the trial of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi . Suu Kyi met briefly with representatives of Thailand,...

Spain's Congress of Deputies , the lower house of the Spanish parliament, passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday aimed at limiting the exercise of universal jurisdiction over foreign nations in Spanish courts to those cases in which...

Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, signed by President Obama May 20, 2009 . Read the full text of the legislative materials. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, The White House, May 20, 2009 [directing that a sufficient legal basis is required for federal authorities to preempt state laws and that any legitimate state prerogatives should be fully considered,...

A US military judge on Tuesday granted a government motion to postpone hearings for Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi . Chief judge for military commissions Colonel James Pohl granted...