APRIL 28, 2010 International Law and Order Step by tentative step, the Obama Administration is getting closer to embracing the International Criminal Court. The White House won’t join the Hague-based body soon, but that’s its logical endpoint. Answerable to virtually no one, the ICC was created by the 1998 United Nations’s Rome Statute to prosecute […]
April 5, 2010, Panel: Justice stonewalling on Panthers Jerry Seper President Obama or Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. should declare publicly whether executive privilege has been invoked in the Justice Department’s refusal to release documents showing why voter-intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party were dismissed, says the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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April 7, 2010 Court blocks push to regulate internet traffic Kara Rowland and Stephen Dinan THE WASHINGTON TIMES A federal appeals court on Tuesday undercut the government’s push for “net neutrality” when it said the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to tell Internet service providers how to manage the traffic on their
APRIL 24, 2010 Wisconsin and the Voter Fraud Agenda Excerpt from the article: Three decades ago absentee and early ballots were only 5% of all votes cast nationwide. In 2008, they exceeded 25%. Wisconsin’s bill would also have allowed voters to register on the Internet without supplying a signature–thus removing a valuable protection against
The Weekly Standard Falling for the Spin of the Gitmo Bar Why do reporters keep whitewashing the records of al Qaeda detainees? BY Thomas Joscelyn April 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 30 On March 27, the Christian Science Monitor published an article (“Defending due process for Guantánamo detainees”) extolling the virtues of the attorneys who
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APRIL 17, 2010 Berkeley’s Judge A liberal nominee of illiberal temperament. For a preview of the pitfalls facing President Obama if he nominates a liberal to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, yesterday’s hearing for Goodwin Liu is instructive. As a nominee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the 39-year-old Berkeley law
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Wouldn’t You Like to Know The ‘most transparent administration in history’ stonewalls. BY Stephen F. Hayes March 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 25 At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee last fall, Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, asked Attorney General Eric Holder to produce a list of Department of Justice employees who had
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MARCH 23, 2010 In Holder’s Woes, a Déjà Vu Same Terror Issues Undermined the Career of Bush Attorney General Gonzales By EVAN PEREZ Eric Holder has spent much of his first year as attorney general trying to reverse a series of Bush administration policies. But the controversies provoked by his decisions threaten to derail his
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Carolina Journal Exclusives Stam: Lawsuit Coming Over Health Plan Abortions Republican Leader says Wake Dems following a path to ‘minority status’ By David N. Bass March 16, 2010 RALEIGH — Republican House Leader Paul “Skip” Stam has a message for local governments that plan to keep funding elective abortions with taxpayer dollars: a lawsuit is
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MARCH 15, 2010 Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers By Debra Burlingame And Thomas Joscelyn On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of
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