JURIST Contributing Editor Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that instead of censuring the president, Congress should restrain the foreign excesses of the Bush presidency and restore respect for international law by cutting off funds for any US military adventure in Iran… However great my admiration for Sen. Russ Feingold [...]

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The Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia has increased lobbying efforts to convince national leaders that Liberia needs to set up its own war crimes court in response to the controversy surrounding the trial of former president Charles Taylor , who faces trial in the UN-supported Special Court for Sierra [...]

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Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli said Wednesday that the Italian government would not validate Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro's request to extradite from the United States 22 CIA agents allegedly responsible for the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric Moustafa Hassan Nasr . Castelli, who denounced the pressure from Spataro to forward the extradition [...]

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