The Washington Post reported Saturday that a group of former aides and other Republicans are quietly boosting the Supreme Court nomination of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by shoring up his reputation among conservatives. Former...
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Supporters push Gonzales conservatism as high court nomination looms
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Talabani insists no civil war in Iraq if draft constitution rejected
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UK security chief says civil liberties might have to be "eroded" in anti-terror campaign
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President signs executive order suspending wage law in Katrina wake
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Judge lifts gag order against ID’ing librarians queried under Patriot Act
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Britain pushing EU to break anti-terror law deadlock
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City attorney says New Orleans "fully secured"
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Merck denies comprehensive plan to settle Vioxx lawsuits
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Australian lawyers group opposes proposed terror laws as ‘draconian’
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Judge revokes bail for ex-Klansman in 1964 civil rights murder case
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani , now on a visit to the United States, insisted Friday at a Washington press conference that if the draft Iraqi constitution is not adopted in a referendum next month there...
The head of UK security service MI5 has warned that civil liberties might need to be "eroded" in order to protect the British people from terrorism after the "shock" of the London bombings . Dame...
President George W. Bush has issued an executive order allowing federal contractors working to rebuild areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina to pay lower wages, effectively suspending regulations under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act...
US District Court Judge Janet Hall Friday agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union that a gag order shielding the identity of librarians who had received an FBI demand for records about library patrons under...
Fresh from talks this week with other justice and interior ministers of the European Union , British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said Friday that Britain, currently holding the EU presidency, wants the EU to implement a...
New Orleans city attorney Sherry Landry said Friday that the city is now "fully secured" following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the disorder that broke out afterwards. She told a news conference that "Fourteen...
Pharmaceutical company Merck. said Friday that it has no plans to make a comprehensive deal to settle the thousands of cases against the company concerning side effects of its arthritis drug Vioxx [Merck consumer website; JURIST news...
An Australian lawyers group is describing new anti-terrorism legislation proposed by Australian Prime Minister John Howard as "draconian" and has called on regional governments to reject it. The Law Society of New South Wales [profession...
A Mississippi judge on Friday ordered Edgar Ray Killen to return to prison while he appeals his conviction for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon revoked Killen's bail ...
