Letter to members of Congress from retired federal judges, September 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the letter . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Secure Fence Act of 2006, passed by the US House of Representatives, September 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
At a press conference in the Rose Garden Friday, President Bush urged members of Congress to approve his proposed legislation authorizing the use of military commissions for terror detainees and enemy combatants, currently competing for passage with another bill approved Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee . Bush said:The bill I have proposed will [...]
US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez said in a speech Friday that Cuba should hold a referendum on democracy as a countervailing force to the ongoing dictatorship of Cuban President Fidel Castro . Gutierrez, a Cuban-American, suggested that the Organization of American States could sponsor the referendum in a manner recalling its successful campaign to [...]
One week after US President Bush confirmed the existence of secret prisons for high-value terror suspects run by the US Central Intelligence Agency abroad, top-level members of the Council of the European Union publicly criticized the program Friday. According to an EU press release: Ministers reiterated their commitment to combating terrorism effectively, using all legal [...]
Ben Davis : "The President in his televised press conference today framed the discussion of the draft bill on Military Commissions in terms of whether Congress was going to permit "the Program" to go forward. He made it clear that Americans working in the intelligence community would not violate the law. He did not want [...]
While noting that "many of our nations are making progress on human rights," UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged nations belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement Friday to "fulfill their obligations to their people at home" by ending the suppression of opposition groups, guaranteeing a free press and fighting corruption. Speaking at the NAM summit in Cuba [...]
A former lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission has said the agency ordered the destruction of a 2004 draft working paper that examined the effect of corporate group ownership on local television news coverage. Adam Candeub , who was an attorney-advisor in the FCC's Media Bureau before joining the Michigan State University law faculty, told [...]
An Italian military tribunal in Rome has indicted three Italian soldiers for a 2004 attack on an ambulance in the town of Nasiriyah in Iraq that resulted in the deaths of four civilians, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported Thursday. The three soldiers fired on an ambulance they say they mistook for a vehicle containing [...]
The US Supreme Court will provide copies of oral argument transcripts on the Court's website the same day that cases are heard when the Court begins its new term on October 2, the court announced Thursday. In the past, the Court has offered same-day transcripts only in the rarest of cases with overwhelming public interest, [...]
