Tag: law
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maine revolts against digital US ID card
from reuters: Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to demand repeal of a federal law tightening identification requirements for drivers’ licenses, a post-September 11 security measure that states say will cost them billions of dollars to administer. Maine lawmakers passed a resolution urging repeal of the Real ID Act, which would…
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death sentence for saddam upheld
from bbc: Iraq’s Appeals Court has upheld the death sentence against ousted President Saddam Hussein. The court rejected an appeal by Saddam Hussein’s lawyers and confirmed that he would be hanged, court spokesman Raed Juhi told the BBC. The appeal was launched after an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death on 5 November for…
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cheney to take the stand in plamegate case
from raw story: A segment on this morning’s CNN broadcast discussed Vice President Dick Cheney’s planned testimony as a defense witness in the Justice Department’s perjury case against former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby. CNN broadcaster Soledad O’Brien remarked that “it can be kind of confusing” but that “the big take away from this…
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UK report says robots will have rights
from financial times: The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day where it may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we might even find ourselves standing next to the next generation of vacuum cleaners in the voting booth. Far from being extracts from the extreme end…
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judge weighs torture claim vs rumsfeld
from ventura county state: A federal judge on Friday appeared reluctant to give Donald H. Rumsfeld immunity from torture allegations, yet said it would be unprecedented to let the departing defense secretary face a civil trial. “What you’re asking for has never been done before,” U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan told lawyers for the…
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suing rumsfeld
from raw story: In this video clip, CNN interviews Cyrus Kar, an Iranian-American filmmaker, who is suing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for wrongful imprisonment and the violation of his Constitutional rights. In Iraq to film a historical documentary, Kar was charged with being a terrorist and placed in the notorious prison at Abu Ghraib.…
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american prison camps are on the way
Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush’s “unlawful enemy combatants.” Americans are certain to be among them. from alternet: The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush…
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pledge of defiance
“The court concludes that it is bound by the Ninth Circuit’s previous determination that the school district’s policy with regard to the pledge is an unconstitutional violation of the children’s right to be free from a coercive requirement to affirm God,” Judge Lawrence Karlton wrote.