Federal immigration agents conducting home raids have committed numerous constitutional violations, according a report released Wednesday by the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Cardozo School of Law. The report found that, since 2006, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents routinely entered private homes in the middle of the night without warrants and seized residents [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on world leaders to take new steps to combat genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other human rights abuses, introducing a report detailing a new campaign against the offenses. Called the "Responsibility to Protect" , the campaign focuses on holding states responsible for preventing the abuses from [...]

Convicted murderer Marvallous Keene on Tuesday became the 1000th person to be executed by lethal injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1976 case of Gregg v. Georgia . In 1993, Keene was found guilty of five counts of murder based on his participation in a series of six killings [...]

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded Tuesday that the US Department of Defense (DOD) did not violate prohibitions on propaganda by having retired military officers (RMOs) offer public support to the Bush administration's war policies. The GAO found that the DOD was not in violation of Pub L No 110-417, § 1056(c) , which [...]

Lithuanian Justice Minister Remigijus Simasius said Tuesday that the country does not plan to increase the amount of restitution it will pay to Jewish Holocaust survivors in the country, according to the Associated Press. The ministry has recommended that approximately $53 million be paid to the country's 5,000 remaining Jews as restitution for property seized [...]

International corporations that purchase minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo are responsible for prolonging the conflict in the African country, according to a report issued Tuesday by human rights group Global Witness . The report was critical of several specific corporations, including Amalgamated Metal Corporation, Afrimex, and Traxys , for "turning a blind-eye" to [...]

The US House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday delayed action on legislation that would create a consumer financial protection agency, slowing progress on a key Obama administration project. The delay was granted at the behest of financial industry leaders, who on Monday sent a letter to the ranking members of the committee requesting a more [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has implemented a law requiring the country's Internet service providers to retain records of users' incoming and outgoing data for at least three months, according to a Monday report by the state-run PressTV news agency. The government said the law is designed to help catch those who illegally steal others' personal [...]

The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday delayed a vote on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at the request of Senate Republicans. The vote on whether to send the nomination for consideration by the full Senate is now scheduled for July 28 . Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said that he was [...]

Department of Defense—Retired Military Officers as Media Analysts, United States Government Accountability Office, July 21, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.