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Top Bush administration officials speak out against media shield bill

April 4, 2008 07:49:00 AM

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff joined forces Thursday to speak out against the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 in...

March 13, 2008 05:18:00 PM

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to compel the US government to release unredacted transcripts of military hearings conducted at Guantanamo Bay in early 2007...

September 13, 2007 03:24:00 PM

The US Department of Defense released censored audio recordings of the March 9 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Thursday after months of controversy. The recording...

September 10, 2007 03:04:00 PM

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell Monday urged senators to pass long-term legislation to "modernize" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , contending that a permanently-revised FISA is critical to fighting...

August 24, 2007 12:05:00 PM

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has confirmed that telecommunications companies have provided vital cooperation to the warrantless domestic wiretapping program , the New York Times reported Friday. In an interview with the...

August 9, 2007 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that new Congressionally-approved revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act give the Bush administration wide discretion to illegally spy on American citizens...Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration,...

August 2, 2007 07:57:00 AM

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sent a letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday in response to a request that Gonzales clarify testimony provided last week. Gonzales maintained...

July 26, 2007 12:46:00 PM

Four Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Solicitor General Paul Clement Thursday asking Clement to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "may have misled Congress or...

May 30, 2007 09:37:00 AM

The US Department of Defense will not release audio recordings of the March 9 Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay due to concerns that it could be used...

May 4, 2007 03:56:00 PM

Guantanamo Bay detainee Gouled Hassan Dourad has denied accusations of involvement with al-Qaeda, according to a transcript of his April 28 hearing before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) released...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).