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Holder stresses rule of law in national security speech

April 16, 2009 12:12:00 PM

US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that America needs to renew its commitment to the rule of law in fighting international terrorism and protecting national security. In an address to the...

April 6, 2009 08:17:00 AM

US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) has released a final version of a report reiterating his allegations that the Bush administration engaged in numerous abuses during the "war on terror"...

March 4, 2009 03:38:00 PM

Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-VT) called for the creation of a truth commission to investigate the national security policies of the George W. Bush...

February 26, 2009 11:52:00 AM

US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced on Wednesday that the Committee is set to begin hearings on the creation of a truth commission charged with investigating the national security policies of the George W....

February 22, 2009 10:28:00 AM

The Iraqi government has reopened the prison formerly called Abu Ghraib , promising to operate the prison by international standards and allow inspections by humanitarian groups. In a tour for members of the media Saturday,...

February 10, 2009 12:02:00 PM

US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Monday called for a South Africa-style truth commission to investigate controversial actions by the George W. Bush administration, including justifications for the Iraq war, the treatment...

February 9, 2009 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Horowitz, Research Director at human rights and public interest investigation firm One World Research, says that notwithstanding the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and all the publicity surrounding that, if the US government...

January 23, 2009 10:11:00 AM

The prison formerly known as Abu-Ghraib will be reopened as soon as renovations are completed, and will be renamed Baghdad Central Prison, officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Justice in Baghdad announced on Thursday....

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Banning Torture is Not Enough

January 23, 2009 08:01:00 AM

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 legal obligations to either initiate prosecution...

January 21, 2009 08:31:00 AM

US President Barack Obama has an obligation to bring charges against former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for ordering illegal interrogation methods at Guantanamo...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

House Judiciary Committee opened impeachment hearings against Richard Nixon

On May 9, 1974, the US House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Peter Rodino (D-NJ) opened hearings into the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon in connection with the Watergate scandal. The Committee voted to impeach Nixon on three counts on July 30. Chairman Rodino died in 2005 at his home in New Jersey. He was 95.

Australia Parliament opened

On May 9, 1901, the Parliament of Australia convened for the first time in Melbourne. The Australian Parliament also held its first meeting in the new capital of Canberra 26 years later on the same day 1927. Finally, on this day in 1988 Australian opened its new Parliament House in Canberra. Read the Constitution of Australia.