Immigration Law Sanctions and Enforcement in Selected Foreign Countries, Law Library of Congress Directorate of Legal Research, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Supplemental Submission to the Committee Against Torture, Huamn Rights Watch, April 2006 . Read the full text of the submission. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad, American Civil Liberties Union, April 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encouraged the US on Friday to lead the world in advancing human rights in a speech at George Washington University, and criticized the Bush administration for deciding not to seek a position to the new UN Human Rights Council . Annan noted that the first members of the Human Rights Council [...]

JURIST , the non-commercial legal news and research service powered by law students led by Professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law , is in a dead heat with US legal television network Court TV in the final hours of public polling for the annual Webby Awards "People's Voice" award for [...]

US Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) , chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, released a report by the Law Library of Congress on Friday showing that several countries have harsher policies for illegal immigrants and their employers than the US. Sensenbrenner, the primary sponsor of a House-passed immigration bill that has sparked protests across the country, [...]

Michael J. Kelly : "With Porter Goss's resignation as CIA director, President Bush is presented with an opportunity to make real and lasting changes to a broken intelligence system. The cosmetic changes of two years ago (putting John Negroponte into a newly independent oversight post of Director of National Intelligence and blurring some of the [...]

John Allen Muhammad , representing himself, began questioning witnesses Friday in his second trial involving the three-week shooting spree in the Washington, DC area in 2002. Jury selection in the trial began on Monday . In his opening statement, Muhammad portrayed himself as a distraught father who was in Maryland to search for his children, [...]

US Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards on Friday criticized new Bush administration rules that make it easier for law enforcement officials to wiretap Internet phone calls during arguments in front of the federal appeals court in Washington, DC. The Federal Communications Commission created the new rules last year, which mandate standards to allow wiretaps of [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke was dropped from Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet in a major cabinet shuffle Friday and was replaced by John Reid , who formerly served as Defence Secretary. The shuffle, which also saw UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw replaced by Margaret Beckett , followed poor local election results for the Labour [...]