Guantanamo military commission hearings to resume

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Guantanamo military commission hearings to resume

January 8, 2006 03:30:00 pm

[JURIST] US military commission proceedings against two of a handful of charged prisoners at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], originally scheduled to restart Tuesday, have been pushed back to Wednesday in recognition of the the Feast of the Sacrifice, a Muslim holy day. Canadian Omar Khadr [US DOD chargesheet, PDF; DOD press release] will face his second commission hearing on his conspiracy and attempted murder charges, and Yemeni citizen Ali Hamza Bahlul [US DOD chargesheet, PDF; DOD press release], alleged to have produced al-Queda propoganda videos, will have an administrative hearing. The commission proceeding against Australian detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive; advocacy website] has been stayed [JURIST report] pending a US Supreme Court decision in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfield [JURIST report] on the constitutionality of the US military commission process. The Miami Herald has more.

South Africa becomes first country on continent to legalize same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriages became legal in South Africa on November 30, 2006 as the country's Civil Union Act, 2006 went into effect, making South Africa the only country on the African continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Read the Civil Union Act, 2006.

Justice Samuel Chase impeached

On November 30, 1804, US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial in the Senate for "arbitrary and oppressive conduct of trials." He was acquitted in March 1805. Read a C-SPAN interview with Chief Justice William Rehnquist on his 1992 book Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. Review a chronological list of impeachments of federal judges.