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• The Wrong Song - Judges Cant Do That

  
  University of Alberta Faculty of Law Blog — Authority: 132
  Judges, by virtue of their status as judges and role in the legal system, have to watch what they say, how they say it, and where they say it, far more than many others. For example, the nature of the position puts some constraints on the judges ability to express views on political issues, and the the propriety - in ...
  11 hours ago

• Blame game starts over Ruchika case, Moily for ‘revisit’ (Roundup)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi/Chandigarh, Dec 25 (IANS) A political blame game began Friday among Haryana politicians over the 1990 molestation case of teenager Ruchika Girhotra while Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily said the matter needs to be “revisited”.Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala denied promoting former top ...
  21 hours ago

• Back in Prison – Liu Xiaobo Short Bio

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), president of the Chinese Independent Pen Center, once a lecturer at Beijing Normal  University,  and political commentator, has been sentenced to eleven years in  jail for “inciting subversion of state power” (煽动颠覆国家政权). Liu co-published the Charter 08 (零八宪章). He ...
  21 hours ago

• Ruchika molestation case needs to be revisited: Law minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Law Minister Veerappa Moily Friday said the molestation case of teenager Ruchika Girhotra needs to be “revisited”.He, however, added that the “rule of law should not be interfered by any one”.“The case of this nature has been mistreated and whoever is responsible has to be ...
  23 hours ago

• Whistleblow justice: 9 torturers jailed due to 1 tortured womans 33 years of courage

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 461
  Twenty-five years after Patricia Isasas prison release and struggle for justice, threatening phone calls prompted her entering the Argentine Witness Protection, a protection measure seldom offered to American whistleblowers or political targets. In the interview [with Adele Nieves for RootsWire], Isasa was asked ...
  1 day ago

• Medical Marijuana Makes Gains in MA

  
  The Impolitic — Authority: 434
  You wont be able to access this link unless youre a subscriber, but its very good news that Hampshire County Sheriff Robert Garvey came out in support of MA House Bill 2160 which would legalize medical marijuana for various classes of illness. "Its restrictive enough so there will not be any abuses of the drug," ...
  1 day ago

• Beyond the Constitution: The Healthcare Bill Violates the Rule of Law » The Foundry

  
  Eastaustinvoice's Weblog — Authority: 115
  Beyond the Constitution: The Healthcare Bill Violates the Rule of Law » The Foundry . Posted December 23rd, 2009 at 2.03pm in Health Care . Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has pointed observers to a problematic section of the health care legislation now before the Senate that proposes (in Section 3403) to ...
  1 day ago

• Obamas executive order to give diplomatic immunity to Interpol

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 156
  President Obama has issued an amendment to Executive Order 12425 , designating the international law enforcement agency Interpol as a “public international organization,” thus extending diplomatic immunity to the law enforcement group The amendment to the Executive Order — which does not need to be ...
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• Mark Lynas: “How China wrecked the Copenhagen Deal”

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Mark Lynas, correspondent with the Guardian, gives his account on the defining hours of the Copenhagen Accord on December 18th. According to his report, China only agreed to the Accord on the condition that the OECD countries would not commit to any binding target, not even unilaterally. If true, the rift wasn’t ...
  2 days ago

• Judge rejects necessity defense in abortion case

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 461
  A judge ruled Tuesday that Kansas law doesnt allow a so-called necessity defense in the trial of a man charged with killing one of the nations few late-term abortion providers. The decision was another blow to lawyers for 51-year-old Scott Roeder, who has confessed to shooting Dr. George Tiller on May 31 and says it ...
  2 days ago

• DISAPPEARING PEOPLE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES - Americas Policy of Secret Prisons within USA

  
  Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture — Authority: 106
  "If you dont have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think hes illegal, we can make him disappear." Words spoken by James Pendergraph, executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination in August 2008. Secret sites across the United States are ...
  2 days ago

• Hu Jia: Two Years in Prison

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Hu Jia (胡佳) will have served two years of his prison sentence on December 27. When his wife Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕) told a Vietnamese friend some time ago that Hu would probably be released on June 26, 2011, her friend sincerely congratulated her. Her enthusiasm sort of grabbed Zeng, and encouraged her to be ...
  2 days ago

• CRI: Developed Countries’ Copenhagen Positions Inconsistent with Previous Agreements

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 128
  The Copenhagen Accord is not the end, and the whole world should take responsibilities on a long road to come, writes Chen Tian (陈天), a commenter with China Radio International (CRI). Although all countries acknowledged the existence of climate change and the urgency of reacting to it, the duties of burden-sharing ...
  2 days ago

• If This Smug, Self-Serving Bastard Gave Me This Christmas “Message”, He’d Hate My Reciprocation

  
  Taxes, Stupidity, and Death — Authority: 121
  “As this debate draws to a close and my colleagues and I prepare to vote on a health care reform bill, I recognize the long hours and tense negotiation have left some nerves and tempers frayed,” Burris said. “That’s why I come to the floor today. Although our work keeps us away from our family and friends for ...
  3 days ago

• Relocating Guantánamo: Silence of the Lamb-like Lawyers: By Paul Craig Roberts

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 461
  Obama’s dwindling band of true believers has taken heart that their man has finally delivered on one of his many promises--the closing of the Guantanamo prison. But the prison is not being closed. It is being moved to Illinois, if the Republicans permit. -- In truth, Obama has handed his supporters another defeat. ...
  3 days ago

• Recommended reading for non-Malays: I, too, am Malay by Zaid Ibrahim

  
  *SUSAN LOONE's Blog* — Authority: 418
  You can read my interview with him here.I just finished reading Zaid Ibrahim’s “I, too am Malay”, the English translation from his now quite famous book “Saya pun Melayu”, and I must say this is one book that all Malaysians must read, if only to break your stereotypes about what the Malay race is or [...]
  3 days ago

• Obama Signs into Law Restriction on Arbitration Clauses

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 461
  The provision is included in the 2009-10 spending bill for the U.S. Department of Defense, and it touches on an issue that has been a high priority this year for trial lawyers and for consumer groups. They say that clauses mandating the use of arbitration deny employees an impartial hearing in open court, while ...
  3 days ago

• Human Rights Round Up

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 116
  With the holidays coming up and getting the 2009 Year in Review together, we have been a bit light on posting. However here are some links to a few of the human rights stories from this past week. Detained in Iran, Russia, and China Last week NPR reported on three human rights stories from Iran, Russia, and ...
  4 days ago

• The Individual Mandate : Unconstitutional, and an Alarming Precedent

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 461
  If Congress can compel the purchase of insurance from a for profit insurance company, it can compel the purchase of any commodity if there is an arguable public policy to support it... If Congress gets away with this, there is no stopping point and Big Business will have succeeded in making Americans into involuntary ...
  4 days ago

• Travails of a young war criminal

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 461
  "Now, I realize that you must be wondering why I am devoting all this space to a discredited ex-leader whose country once played a minor role in the invasion of a midsized Arab country. The war is mostly over now, the dead cannot be brought back to life, and we have lots of new things to worry about. Former president ...
  4 days ago

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