A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the US Courts said Friday that creating an inspector general for the federal judiciary to investigate possible ethical violations by federal judges "would be a serious incursion into judicial independence" and was unnecessary, as the judicial branch was already subject to congressional oversight and had internal procedures for [...]

In the latest legal assault on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , conservative business organization the Free Enterprise Fund has asked former US solicitor general and Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , former US assistant attorney general Viet Dinh, and 2000 Bush legal team member Michael Carvin to challenge provisions of the law that set up the [...]

The UN Security Council Friday passed a wide-ranging resolution on duties to civilians in armed conflict that included a landmark affirmation of an international responsibility to protect in the face of war crimes, genocide and ethic cleansing when their own countries refuse to take action. The Council specifically invoked two key sections of the final [...]

A Review of the FBI's Investigative Activities Concerning Potential Protesters at the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Political Conventions, Special Report, US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, April 2006. Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Army announced late Friday that it has charged Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, former head of interrogation operations at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison , with seven violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice , including disobeying a superior commissioned officer, dereliction of duty, failure to obey a regulation, false swearing, cruelty and [...]

President Bush Friday called on Sudan to resolve the conflict in its troubled Darfur region , asking the country's government to act in “full compliance with the international desire for there to be peace.” The President’s remarks came just ahead of a meeting with activists lobbying on behalf of victims in Darfur, as well as [...]

The Miami federal judge presiding over the trial of terror suspect Jose Padilla on Friday rejected prosecutors' attempts to require Padilla’s defense attorneys to sign a "memorandum of understanding" regarding the security of secret evidence the prosecution intends to use in its case. The memorandum, promulgated by the US Justice Department, would have required all [...]

The US Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General reported Friday that the FBI did not use the threat of terrorism investigations to intimidate political protesters at the 2004 Democratic and Republican national conventions in Boston and New York, but rather followed up on credible threats of violence, investigating 17 threats, determining that six of [...]

South Korean prosecutors in Seoul arrested Hyundai Motors Group CEO Chung Mong-koo Friday on charges of embezzlement, misappropriation and bribery. Prosecution spokesman Kang Chan-woo made the arrest announcement shortly after Seoul District Court Judge Lee Jong-seok issued an arrest warrant. Authorities were concerned because of the “heavy” nature of the allegations and the fear that [...]

The constitutional reform process in Bosnia and Herzegovina appears in disarray after the lower house of the Bosnian parliament voted earlier this week to reject a set of proposals backed by the US and the European Union and initially agreed to by Bosnia's eight political parties that would have seen certain governmental functions shift from [...]