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The Politics of Ignorance: Election Day Reflections
JURIST Guest Columnist Ilya Somin of the George Mason University School of Law says that while political ignorance among voters is more the byproduct of rational calculation than laziness or stupidity, one way to address the problem is to reduce the (More) |
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Escondido anti-immigration ordinance lawsuit [ACLU]
Garrett v. City of Escondido, American Civil Liberties Union, November 3, 2006 . Read the full text of the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Saving the Rule of Law in Iraq: Move Saddam's Appeal Abroad
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and a prominent Middle East human rights lawyer who in 2003 turned down an invitation to join the Iraqi Special Tribunal that would judge Saddam Hussein, says that even (More) |
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The Saddam Hussein Verdict: An Abuse of Justice
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, an American member of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team and a professor of law at An-Najah National University on the Palestinian West Bank, says that the Dujail trial was one of the worst abuses (More) |
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Hussein execution could be delayed by appeals process until 2007: Iraqi judge
Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants may not be executed until early 2007 because there is no specific time limit for the appeals process, chief investigative judge Raed Juhi said on Sunday after death sentences were handed down by the Iraqi High (More) |
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Lawyers fan out for US mid-term elections
Thousands of lawyers working for political parties, government and interest groups are preparing to go into action across the United States Tuesday when Americans vote in mid-term elections. At stake is control of Congress and a series of key state (More) |
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Rights groups sue to block local California anti-immigrant ordinance
The ACLU, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) , and other rights groups filed a lawsuit Friday attempting to block an ordinance in Escondido, California , designed to prevent landlords from renting to illegal immigran (More) |
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Thailand drops charges against Muslim protesters
The new government of Thailand has dropped charges against 92 Muslim participants in a 2004 anti-government protest. The news comes a day after interim Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud [official website, BBC profile] apologized to Muslim leaders i (More) |
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Military Commissions Act habeas challenge [US DC]
Boumediene v. Bush, US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, November 2, 2006 . Read the full text of the brief for the petitioners. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Thailand to probe human rights violations by former government
Thai interim Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud [official website; BBC profile] Thursday promised to investigate allegations of human rights violations by the government of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . Speaking to Muslim leaders in the (More) |
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