Two Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that they plan to seek a vote of no-confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales . Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that only President Bush remains confident in...
Thomas Wilner, et al. v. National Security Agency and Department of Justice, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, May 17, 2007 [Center for Constitutional Rights, on behalf of 16 ex-Guantanamo Bay lawyers, filing a Freedom of...
Key US senators from both political parties and White House cabinet officers reached a tentative agreement on immigration reform on Thursday, after weeks of negotiations. The proposal, which President Bush calls "secure, productive, orderly, and fair"...
A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney urged a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame against members of the Bush administration, arguing that the lawsuit is...
Australian authorities have released British-born Jack Roche on parole 3 years after sentencing him in 2004 to nine years in prison for plotting to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Canberra , according to...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday denounced the poor conditions of prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during a visit there, deploring in particular overcrowding and inadequate access to...
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted Thursday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will resign from his post at the conclusion of current investigations into the allegedly-political firings...
Ivan Dombrovsky, chairperson of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine , resigned without elaboration Thursday as the 18-judge court continued to deliberate the constitutionality of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's April 2 decree dissolving...
The UK Court of Appeal Thursday restored a control order on a terrorist suspect identified only as "E". The court held that a prior ruling wrongly required Home Secretary John Reid to consider...
The African Commission on Human and People's Rights will review alleged human rights violations committed by Zimbabwe after African non-governmental organizations placed the issue on the agenda of ACHPR's 41st session, which began Wednesday....