Patrick J. Michaels : "When the US Environmental Protection Agency determined that carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases "endanger public health and welfare," they virtually guaranteed that the Executive Branch will be responsible for promulgating and enforcing mandatory reductions in the use of fossil fuels, without the advice and consent of Congress. When EPA Administrator [...]
A Russian court Tuesday ordered the release on parole of Svetlana Bakhmina, the former lawyer for Russian oil firm OAS Yukos Oil Co. . Bakhmina was convicted of embezzlement and tax evasion in 2006 for her part in a scheme to strip assets worth over $300 million from a Yukos subsidiary. As a lawyer for [...]
Alleged Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, captured by US forces following an attempted attack on the container ship Maersk Alabama , was charged Tuesday and will be tried as an adult following a ruling by federal magistrate judge Andrew Peck of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York . Muse, whose [...]
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out the possibility of prosecuting lawyers responsible for authoring memos released last week outlining CIA interrogation policies. Obama had previously said that he would not pursue prosecutions of CIA interrogators , a pledge which drew sharp international criticism . Obama confirmed Tuesday that he [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases. In Safford United School District No. 1 v. Redding , the Court will consider whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits public school officials from conducting a strip search of a student suspected of possessing and distributing a prescription drug on campus in violation of [...]
A Spanish judge on Tuesday charged Jurdan Martitegi Lizaso , the alleged leader of the Basque separatist group ETA with murder for allegedly executing a car bomb in May 2008 that killed a Spanish policeman. Three other ETA members were also charged in connection with the incident. Martitegi and three others were arrested last Saturday [...]
The lawyer for imprisoned US journalist Roxana Saberi on Tuesday appealed her recent conviction for espionage . A spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary reportedly said that he hoped her eight-year sentence would be changed . On Monday, Iran's top judge Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrud urged a fair appellate process . On Sunday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]
US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan to deal with detainees at Guantanamo Bay once the facility closes. McConnell, speaking before the Senate, called the facilities at the military prison "safe and secure" and said that the administration "doesn't know what to do with" the [...]
Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of money laundering and embezzlement. Khodorkovsky made two statements to the court, one reflecting his opinion on the charges, and the other specifically refuting each charge. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office filed these new charges against Khodorkovsky [...]
The US Supreme Court issued three opinions Tuesday. The Court ruled in Ministry of Defense and Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Elahi that the brother of dissident Cyrus Elahi, assassinated in Paris in 1990, cannot collect on a default judgment he holds against Iran by attaching a $2.8 [...]
