Following President Bush's nomination Monday morning of Harriet Miers to the US Supreme Court, Senators and various conservative and liberal interest groups are weighing in on the selection. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has welcomed the nomination , saying "With this selection, the president has chosen another outstanding nominee to sit on our nation's [...]

The Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) warned Monday of the possibility for new political crackdowns by the royalist government of Nepal against critics of King Gyanendra . The ICJ, issuing a statement at the end of a four-day visit to Nepal for talks with government officials and civil society groups, expressed "deep concern that [...]

The number of criminal investigations conducted by the FBI has almost been cut in half since 2000, due to the fact that the bureau made fighting terrorism its top priority after September 11, according to a new audit by the US Department of Justice . According to Inspector General Glenn Fine, the most declines were [...]

Switzerland has decided to extradite Russia's former nuclear minister to the US to face conspiracy, money laundering, and tax evasion charges, an official from the Switzerland Justice Ministry said Monday. The Russian government has been fighting Yevgeny Adamov's extradition to the US because they are fearful that Adamov might disclose the country's nuclear secrets. Adamov [...]

Yemeni Judge Mohammed Al Baadani on Monday acquitted four Iraqis who were accused of spying for the government of Saddam Hussein and planning to bomb the American and British embassies in Sanaa. The men were arrested in 2003 with bags of explosives in their possession. Three of the defendants pleaded not guilty, arguing they had [...]

Sunni Arabs and independent politicians Monday slammed efforts by Shiites and Kurds that will make it much more difficult to defeat the draft Iraqi constitution in the October 15 referendum . In a parliamentary session Sunday the Shiite and Kurd majority in the National Assembly voted to interpret Iraq's interim constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law [...]

Human Rights Watch said Monday that insurgent groups are committing war crimes in Iraq by targeting civilians and other non-combatants. In a new report , HRW documents attacks against civilian targets and other insurgent attacks HRW says violate the laws of war: The laws of war, binding on government armed forces and non-state armed groups, [...]

Lynndie England , who was sentenced last week to 3 years in prison for her role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, said she knew of "worse things" happening at the Iraqi military prison. In an interview with MSNBC's Dateline Sunday, England said the pictures taken of her did not reflect the extent of [...]

Nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, President George W. Bush, October 3, 2005. Excerpt: This morning, I'm proud to announce that I am nominating Harriet Ellan Miers to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. For the past five years, Harriet [...]

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani , a Kurd, called for the resignation of Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari Sunday. Talabani blamed the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance for the country's political deadlock, accusing the majority party of monopolizing power and refusing to move ahead on a key issue for Kurds , the resettlement in Kirkuk. Azad Jundiyani, [...]