Alan Gura : "Fear and disinformation have long been the hallmarks of the movement to end private gun ownership. Not surprisingly, the D.C. Circuit's decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, confirming that people have an individual right to keep and bear arms, has elicited outrageous predictions of doom from gun prohibitionists. The Violence Policy [...]
The White House said Saturday it would cooperate with the US Senate Judiciary Committee in choosing an independent consultant to recover lost administration emails wanted to the Senate's US Attorney firing probe. On Wednesday, US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) blasted the White House for failing to turn over all documents, including [...]
Russian police Saturday arrested about 200 activists, including former chess great and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov , for participating in an anti-Putin protest in central Moscow. More than 9,000 police agents were dispatched to prevent the protest there. After the arrests Saturday, law enforcement authorities warned others not to participate or risk [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday that he is dispatching UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicholas Michel to assist the Lebanese government and "the country's other political leaders to end their political impasse and set up a special tribunal as soon as possible" to bring the suspected plotters behind the high-profile assassination of former Lebanese [...]
An Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) report released Saturday concludes that a US Marine Corps Special Forces unit under the command of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) violated international humanitarian law by using indiscriminate and excessive force in its response to a March 4 suicide bombing against the unit's convoy in Nangahar [...]
Former US vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , convicted in March of perjury and obstruction of justice , will be appealing the verdict according to documents filed in court Friday. Libby's defense team had previously planned to request a new trial, bids for which are rarely granted. Libby's appeal may focus on a decision [...]
The Bush administration Friday officially proposed amendments to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would subject more people to electronic surveillance within the United States. The proposed legislation, submitted a week before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on government surveillance slated for April 17, would allow US intelligence agencies to monitor foreign nationals [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) took federal prosecutors' political activities and connections to the conservative Federalist Society into account in deciding whether to retain or dismiss them, according to documents released Friday by the DOJ to the US House Judiciary Committee. Among the 2394 newly released pages of e-mails, schedules and memos were a [...]
Poland's parliament Friday rejected constitutional amendments that would have strengthened the country's anti-abortion laws. Poland's current 1993 abortion law is already one of Europe's strictest, allowing abortions only when the woman's health is threatened by pregnancy, the baby is likely to be handicapped, or the pregnancy is the result of rape. The conservative ruling League [...]
The US Senate Committee on Finance has approved a bill which would provide the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the authority to negotiate drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries with drug manufacturers, insurers and pharmacies. The Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act , which passed in the committee by a [...]
