A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on Friday dismissed two challenges to campaign financing schemes for Wisconsin Supreme Court elections. Wisconsin Right to Life and the Wisconsin Center for Economic Prosperity challenged the Impartial Justice Act saying the law violates their First Amendment rights and had sought a [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called on the UN to retract the Goldstone Report following statements made by Richard Goldstone in a Washington Post op-ed . The Goldstone Report, which found that Israel committed war crimes in Operation Cast Lead after a fact finding mission, was called into question Friday by Goldstone’s article, [...]
US Undersecretary of Defense Clifford Stanley on Friday testified that the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) is on track to be complete midsummer. Nine percent of the military was trained in the past month without resistance, Stanley told the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Military Personnel at the hearing. Stanley [...]
Reporters Without Borders seconds the United Nations’ call on the Turkish government to “guarantee freedom of opinion and expression,” as the imprisonment and punishment of journalists on charges of challenging and acting to ‘overthrow government via conspiracy’ are ridiculous and unacceptable. In accordance with the UN, Reporters Without Borders believes it is inherent that Turkey [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that the former CEO of mortgage company Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) pleaded guilty on charges of fraud related to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) . Paul Allen pleaded guilty to making false statements and conspiring to commit bank and wire fraud for his role [...]
Germany urged the European Union (EU) on Friday to impose an export ban on a drug used for lethal injections in several US states. Germany’s human rights commissioner, Markus Loening, requested that the drug sodium thiopental be placed on the list of drugs that require governmental consent prior to export. Sodium thiopental is one of [...]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Saturday reported the deaths of at least 800 civilians in the Ivory Coast town of Duekoue as a result of intercommunal violence that took place on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the ICRC condemned the violence, which has been ongoing in the area since last Monday: “We [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a federal suit against former Somali prime minister and defense minister Mohamed Ali Samantar . Lawyers for Samantar argued that the case should be dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired and because the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos N. Guiora of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah says that new guidelines regarding questioning terrorism suspects undermine fundamental constitutional protections… The Obama Administration just issued new guidelines to allow more extended questioning of terrorism suspects – before giving Miranda warnings. Individuals suspected of domestic terrorism [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday urged all parties to show restraint in the Ivory Coast . OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville acknowledged that OHCHR had received unconfirmed reports that the Ivory Coast Republican Forces had “engaged in looting and extortion, as well as serious human rights violations such [...]
