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Ashcroft, Rice approved harsh interrogation methods: Senate committee report
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday released a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicating that former attorney general John Ashcroft and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2002 approved the use of wate (More) |
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Senate declassifies report implicating Bush officials in harsh interrogation policies
The US Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Tuesday declassified a November 2008 report [text, PDF; JURIST report] detailing the extent of top Bush administration officials' involvement in implementing severe interrogation techniques empl (More) |
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Not the Better Part of Valor: Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that President Obama's expressed intent to immunize CIA employees who violated US laws banning torture and cruel treatment while interrogating prisoners breaches the (More) |
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Obama distances himself from Holder statements on race in US
US President Barack Obama has distanced himself from remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder in which he characterized the US as a "nation of cowards" on race matters, according to an interview with the New York Times published Saturday (More) |
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Federal judge orders journalist to address call to name sources
Judge Robert Cleland of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday ordered journalist David Ashenfelter to attend a second deposition to answer questions regarding unnamed sources he used in connection with a 2004 articl (More) |
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AG Holder to DOJ: US still faces racial divide
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that, despite landmark court decisions and legislation bolstering the official recognition of racial equality, the US remains a country that has not truly resolved its racial divide. Holder, who is th (More) |
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Banning Torture is Not Enough
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that President Barack Obama should follow up his executive order banning torture and inhumane interrogation by fulfilling treaty-based and customary international le (More) |
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Contesting Impunity: Damages Against Senior Officials in National Security Cases
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law says that the cases of Arar v. Ashcroft, heard en banc by the Second Circuit last Tuesday, and Iqbal v. Ashcroft, argued before the US Supreme Court last Wednesday, rev (More) |
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Supreme Court hears Ashcroft immunity, pregnancy discrimination cases
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; briefs] Wednesday in two cases. In Ashcroft v. Iqbal , the Court heard arguments on whether high-ranking US officials are protected by qualified immuni (More) |
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Second Circuit rehears Arar rendition case
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in an en banc rehearing of Arar v. Ashcroft . Canadian citizen Maher Arar [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] is seeking a declaratory judgment against US government of (More) |
Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott
On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially-integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation.
Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
