US governors attending the annual meeting of the National Governors Association that got under way Saturday in Charleston, South Carolina, are opposing a bill in Congress that would allow the president to take over the National Guard without the consent of governors during emergencies. The House version of the National Defense Authorization Act includes a [...]
A Bolivian constitutional convention championed by President Evo Morales was set to open Sunday with the goal of rewriting the country's constitution . Morales and his Movement Towards Socialism party have urged constitutional changes designed to benefit the majority indigenous Indian population and consolidate greater state authority to benefit poor Bolivians. Because Morales' party failed [...]
Mexico leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to continue with street demonstrations after the Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday rejected his request for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2 presidential election , which Obrador lost by less than a percentage point to conservative Felipe Calderon . [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law explores the terms of the draft UN Security Council Middle East ceasefire resolution, but doubts that peace can be achieved without negotiations involving the key interested parties – not just Israel and Lebanon, but also Hezbollah, Syria and Iran… France and the United States [...]
Draft resolution for a Middle East ceasefire presented by France and the United States, UN Security Council, August 5, 2006: The Security Council, PP1. Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982), 1559 (2004), 1655 (2006) and 1680 (2006), as well as the statements of its President [...]
Mexican presidential election recount rulings, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, August 5, 2006 . Review the full text of the rulings on a range of specific complaints. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Israeli security forces late Saturday detained the speaker of the Palestinian parliament after surrounding his home in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Aziz Dweik is a senior member of Hamas , the movement now in control of the Palestinian government, and an Israeli army spokesman told Reuters that "Since Hamas is a terrorist organization, [...]
Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins, Vermont Supreme Court, August 4, 2006 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Interior Ministry of Iran has prohibited a human rights group led by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi from operating in the country, saying the group has neglected to obtain an appropriate permit, according to Iranian media reports Saturday. The Defenders of Human Rights Center was created four years ago by six lawyers [...]
Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday rejected a request by leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full ballot-by-ballot recount of all votes cast in the July 2 presidential election , which Obrador lost by less than a percentage point to conservative Felipe Calderon, instead authorizing a partial recount of returns at 11,839 [...]
