The US District Court for the District of Arizona has rejected a bid by Latino and voter-advocacy groups to temporarily halt a requirement that voters show government-issued identification to prove that they are US citizens when they register to vote. The measure, which was approved in 2004 in an effort to stop voter fraud, is [...]
A former federal civil servant found guilty earlier this month of defrauding the Canadian government of more than $1.6 million in the so-called sponsorship scandal that helped bring down Canada's Liberal Party government in January was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison Monday. After seven days of deliberations, a jury in Montreal convicted Chuck Guité [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation encountered "numerous systemic problems" during its investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks , "ranging from poor individual performance to more substantial systemic deficiencies that undermined the FBI's efforts to detect and prevent terrorism," according to a report first written in 2004 but released publicly Monday [...]
Newly released Pentagon documents provide evidence of "desperate and immoral conditions" at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay prior to the three suicides there earlier this month, according to ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday released over 1000 pages of documents obtained from the military last week [...]
The Israeli government said Monday that it will review the path of the West Bank security barrier after the High Court of Justice last week ordered the state to take down a five-kilometer section of the barrier . The court ordered that the section surrounding the illegal Israeli settlement of Tzofit be dismantled because the [...]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was transported out of Sierra Leone to the Netherlands Tuesday to await trial by the Special Court for Sierra Leone , according to Sierra Leone Vice-President Solomon Berewa . Taylor's transport comes just one day after the SCSL authorized the transfer . The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously agreed [...]
Observers say President Bush could issue a pardon for former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby following last week’s revelation that Karl Rove , Bush's top political advisor, will not face criminal charges in the three-year investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name . This leaves Libby the only person indicted by Special [...]
Samson v. California, Supreme Court of the United States, June 19, 2006 . Read the Court's 6-3 majority opinion per Justice Thomas along with a dissent from Justice Stevens, who was joined by Justices Souter and Breyer. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The US Office of Military Commissions has delayed a pretrial hearing for Omar Khadr , a Canadian citizen and Guantanamo Bay detainee charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, due to security issues that have emerged since the suicides of three Guantanamo prisoners . A spokeswoman for the US military said that [...]
Egyptian police Monday arrested 31 additional members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, bringing the total number of members arrested to 700, according to officers speaking on condition of anonymity. The members were arrested for allegedly holding meetings in apartments located in Marsa Matrouh, which is approximately 325 miles from Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood is [...]
