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Law« Previous EntriesBritish NASA hacker to face U.S. trialWednesday, July 30th, 2008LONDON (Reuters) - A British computer expert faces up to 70 years in jail after losing his fight on Wednesday against extradition to the United States, where he is accused of "the biggest military hack of all time". Gary McKinnon was arrested in 2002 after U.S. prosecutors charged him with illegally accessing computers, including Pentagon, U.S. army, navy and NASA systems, and causing $700,000 (353,500 pounds) worth of damage. McKinnon told Reuters ... tagged Law and NASAJustice report faults illegal use of politics in hiring federal prosecutors, judgesMonday, July 28th, 2008RAW STORY | A new Justice Department report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges, and largely lays the blame on top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Monday's report singles out the department's former White House liaison, Monica Goodling, for violating federal law and Justice Department policy by discriminating against job applicants who weren't Republican or conservative loyalists. The full 146-page Justice Department ... tagged LawCourt Backs Bush on Military DetentionsWednesday, July 16th, 2008By ADAM LIPTAK | President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority of the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled that ... tagged Bush and LawSweden passes ‘Big Brother bill’Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Press TV | Swedish lawmakers vote in favor of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored over 'security issues'. Lawmakers voted late on Wednesday on one of the most divisive subjects in Sweden in recent years.
The bill was narrowly passed after a few revisions were made with 143 votes in favor, 138 opposed and one ...
tagged Big-Brother, Law and World-NewsLAW SCHOOL TO ORGANIZE BUSH WAR CRIMES TRIALTuesday, June 17th, 2008 By Sherwood Ross | A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover .
"This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred," said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of ...
tagged Bush, Law and USA-NewsHigh Court: Gitmo Detainees Have Rights in CourtSaturday, June 14th, 2008 By MARK SHERMAN | The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. ...
tagged Guantanamo, Law and USA-NewsJohn Major to speak against 42 day terror lawSaturday, June 7th, 2008 By Rosa Prince | Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister, is preparing to make a rare intervention into domestic policies by speaking out against Government plans to increase detention without trial to 42 days.
In private, Sir John has been telling friends for some time that he believes the plans to be profoundly illiberal and counter productive in the campaign ...
tagged Law, Terrorism and World-NewsU.S. defends removal of Guantanamo judgeTuesday, June 3rd, 2008 By Michelle Shephard | The military judge in charge of the U.S. war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay is defending the removal of the army colonel who presided over Omar Khadr's case as critics of the process and the Canadian suspect's lawyers continue to cry foul.
In a statement yesterday, Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann said Col. Peter Brownback ...
tagged Guantanamo, Law and USA-NewsNew High In U.S. Prison NumbersMonday, June 2nd, 2008 By N.C. Aizenman | More than one in 100 adults in the United States is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year and the federal government $5 billion more, according to a report released yesterday.
With more than 2.3 million people behind bars, the United States ...
tagged Law and USA-NewsStudents Denied Legal AidTuesday, May 27th, 2008 SchNews | Reckon students are all bone-idle skiving filth who haven’t even got the wit to tie their shoelaces properly? Well then you’d be in disagreement with Judge Parsons (of Brighton magistrates). He’s just refused legal aid to seven students up in front of his bench for ‘aggravated tresspass’ (punishable by up to three months inside) on the grounds ...
tagged Law and UK-NewsBush Administration Sued for Allowing Use of PesticidesMonday, May 12th, 2008 By Jo Hartley | Environmental and farm worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals.
The suit challenged the Environmental Protection Agency's 2006 decision to reauthorize the four pesticides used on fruit and ...
tagged Health-News, Law and USA-NewsBush Administration Policies Making Work Less SafeMonday, April 28th, 2008 By Leo W. Gerard | In the heart of Pennsylvania, while the media still relentlessly plagued Senators Obama and Clinton about flag pins and memory lapses just before the primary, a machine at an ArcelorMital plant in Steelton crushed Roger H. Prichard to death. He was 58.
It was April 18, three days before the Pennsylvania primary. It occurred just five ...
tagged Bush, Law and USA-NewsWhite House Influence Is Cited in Corruption TrialThursday, April 24th, 2008 By Eric Lipton |
A prominent Illinois Republican Party leader may have tried to use his friendship with the former White House political aide Karl Rove to push for the ouster of the United States attorney in Chicago, a federal prosecutor said in court on Wednesday.
The accusation came in the trial of a Chicago-area political fund-raiser and businessman, Antoin Rezko, who is facing ...
tagged Law, USA-News and White-HouseBush Using NAFTA to Eliminate LawsMonday, April 21st, 2008 By Greg Palast |Psst! George Bush has a secret. While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico.
You’re not supposed to know that – for two reasons:
First, the summit planned for the N.O. ...
tagged Bush, Law and USA-NewsShould flawed war-crimes court be scrapped?Monday, April 21st, 2008 McClatchy-Tribune News Service | The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, April 17: The boycotts of hearings by terror suspects is the latest challenge to the war-crimes court at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So many issues have cropped up, you would think that this court was charting unknown territory. It is not. Look no further than the case of Zacarias Moussaoui.
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