US authorities on Saturday filed charges against a Nigerian national for allegedly attempting to set off an explosive device on an airplane bound from Amsterdam to Detroit on Friday. According to an affidavit filed by Special Agent Theodore Peissig of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab detonated a device thought to [...]
The US Senate on Thursday approved a measure raising the federal borrowing limit by $290 billion. The bill was passed pursuant to recommendations by officials at the US Treasury Department that additional funding was necessary to continue government operations. HR 4314 , which passed 60-39 , amends 31 USC § 3101 to authorize the federal [...]
The Pakistani Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan said on Friday that the government was considering increasing the size of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to deal with the backlog of cases created by the Court's overturning of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) earlier this month. The decision removed the amnesty granted [...]
Chinese rights activist Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday on subversion charges. Liu was tried on Wednesday in a trial that lasted only two hours and was closed to foreign diplomats. The trial was called "a travesty of justice" by international human rights groups. Human Rights Watch said before the [...]
Former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian was indicted Thursday along with his wife and 20 other family members and prominent business leaders on charges of corruption and money laundering in relation to Chen's financial reform program. Chen and his wife are accused of taking bribes from banks and financial institutions that sought to protect themselves during [...]
to make quality, affordable health care available to all Americans, reduce costs, improve health care quality, enhance disease prevention, and strengthen the health care workforce, and for other purposes, US Senate, December 24, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on health care reform.
Dan Stein : "Reading through H.R. 4321, Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity (CIR ASAP), what is immediately evident is that the bill will deliver neither reform, nor security, nor prosperity for Americans. The legislation introduced December 15 by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) would dismantle whatever vestige of meaningful immigration enforcement that the [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday released the detailed judgment on the July 2007 decision to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry . The July 2007 ruling came in response to the suspension of Chaudhry from the court by then-president Pervez Musharraf in March 2007. In the judgment explaining the 10-3 decision, the court [...]
The US Senate passed a health care reform bill on Thursday in a 60 – 39 vote that split down party lines. The legislation would expand affordable access to health care to more than 30 million Americans and overhaul the private health insurance system . Senate Republicans have vowed to continue to fight and amend [...]
The military prison at Guantanamo Bay may have to remain open until 2011 to allow an Illinois prison time to prepare for the arrival of the detainees, according to Wednesday reports . A spokesperson for Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that the government's plan to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois and refit it [...]
