US officials have dismissed a call from UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay used to detain terror suspects, saying that the US is working to release...
UK Terrorism Legislation in an International Context, Lord Peter Goldsmith at the Royal United Services Institute, May 10, 2006 [reviewing UK terrorism law in the context of similar initiatives elsewhere and calling for the closure of the US prison for...
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday against issuing a stay of removal in the case of a British citizen with US permanent resident status who had been convicted of marijuana possession, domestic violence and resisting arrest...
Christian Civic League of Maine, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission, et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, May 9, 2006 [upholding the electioneering communication ban in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that prohibits TV...
Alliance for an Open Society International et al. v. United States Agency for International Development et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Victor Marrero, May 9, 2006 [ruling that the federal government is...
US Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) said Wednesday that General Michael Hayden , the Bush administration's nominee for CIA director replacing Porter Goss, has suggested that he might welcome a modification to the 1978 Foreign...
Maurice Vellacott , a Conservative Party member of the Canadian Parliament , resigned Wednesday from his position as chairman of the House of Commons Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Committee after...
British Attorney General Lord Goldsmith , already a critic of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , Wednesday made a forceful public call for the shutdown of the facility. Making a speech ...
British doctors belonging to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have said they oppose a bill now before the UK House of Lords that would...
Judge J. Michael Luttig , 51, of the Richmond, Virginia-based US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit resigned from the bench Wednesday to accept a position as senior vice-president and general counsel ...