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New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has chosen Adam G. Ciongoli, a former counselor to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft as one of his five law clerks. Ciongoli, 37, who currently serves...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales late Monday concluded a day of testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration's controversial domestic surveillance program . Although Gonzales maintained that...

JURIST Guest Columnist Valerie Vollmar of Willamette University College of Law says that the recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law is a major step towards ensuring dignified choices to terminally ill Oregonians... On January 17, 2006,...

Six non-US citizens who were arrested and detained on visa violations as "persons of interest" in terror investigations after the Sept. 11 attacks return to the United States this week to give depositions in a lawsuit filed against detention...

The father of John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, called on President Bush Thursday to grant his son clemency and commute his 20 year sentence in...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's Death with Dignity Act , rejecting federal efforts to prevent doctors from assisting patients in taking their own lives. In 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft...

President Bush on Sunday defended the NSA warrantless surveillance program , saying the program was "limited" and was not a violation of civil liberties. Answering questions about the program during a visit to wounded troops at the...

An attorney for John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, said Tuesday that Lindh has again asked President Bush to commute his 20-year prison sentence . Lindh was sentenced...

Dr. Rafil Dhafir, an oncologist in the Syracuse, New York area, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Thursday after being convicted of 59 charges in February, including mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, tax evasion and money laundering....

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments on whether the federal government can halt doctors from assisting patients in taking their own lives under an Oregon statute allowing the practice. The justices...