Lawyers for Republican members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that President Bush's nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court was uniformly unpopular among committee staffers, and that some questioning...

Former French UN ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee is expected to appear before a French judge Wednesday after having been detained by authorities investigating allegations of fraud and corruption in the UN Oil-for-Food program . Merimee was...

New York Times reporter Judith Miller is set Wednesday to go back for a second round of testimony before a federal grand jury probing the 2003 leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame [JURIST...

Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the independence of judges and lawyers, August 31, 2005, released October 10, 2005 [assailing the independence of the Iraqi Special Tribunal and saying that US and UK anti-terror...

Lawyers representing Rep. Tom DeLay Tuesday subpoenaed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle in order to show that the Texas prosecutor acted improperly with grand jurors in seeking indictments against DeLay on...

In what some Iraqi officials are calling a "breakthrough," Shiite and Kurdish leaders of the Iraqi government have agreed to allow the country's parliament to review possible future amendments to the Iraqi constitution [JURIST news...

Israel is depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights using security as an excuse, a top United Nations official told reporters Tuesday. Hina Jilani , special representative of Secretary General Kofi Annan , accused Israel...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, a coalition including medical professionals from the University of Missouri and Washington University, the American Diabetes Association and the Parkinson's Action Network proposed a Missouri constitutional amendment that would specify that stem cell...

The Environmental Protection Agency and the US Justice Department announced on Tuesday that ExxonMobil will spend an estimated $571 million to settle a lawsuit with the federal government and three states over alleged violations of...

Nepal's King Guyanendra has approved a new ordinance tightening oversight of the country's media. Among other provisions, the newly-enacted bill authorizes imprisonment and increased fines of individuals who publish "banned items," prohibits publication of stories that inspire...