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Holder condemns waterboarding as torture in AG confirmation hearings [JURIST] US Attorney General nominee Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] in confirmation hearings [materials] Thursday that he believes waterboarding [JURIST news archive] constitutes torture and that it could take a long time to close... [full story]

UK foreign minister says terrorism must be fought through law, not war

[JURIST] UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband said Thursday in a Guardian editorial that the "war of terror" embraced by the US and UK governments in recent years was a "misleading and mistaken" term and that.... [more]

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	Federal judge grants Guantanamo habeas petition, orders detainee release		5:31 PM ET
	Supreme Court hears plea agreement, RICO cases		2:56 PM ET
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	Judge rules Obama administration must get access to DOJ attorney firing documents		11:08 AM ET
	Supreme Court rules no evidence suppression required for police negligence		10:08 AM ET
	House Judiciary Committee chair urges probe into Bush administration abuses		9:26 AM ET
	DOJ official engaged in discriminatory hiring practices: report		8:34 AM ET
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	Rumsfeld sued for wrongful death of Guantanamo detainees		2:50 PM ET

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	Holder condemns waterboarding as torture in AG confirmation hearings	4:01 PM ET
	UK foreign minister says terrorism must be fought through law, not war	3:52 PM ET
	Sudan opposition leader arrested after calling for Bashir to surrender to ICC	3:34 PM ET
	Venezuela parliament approves amendment abolishing presidential term limits	11:32 AM ET
	Kazakhstan parliament approves legislation requiring two-party representation	11:01 AM ET
	ICC lacks jurisdiction to investigate Israel war crimes in Gaza: chief prosecutor	10:17 AM ET
	Iraq signs on to chemical weapons ban	6:18 PM ET
	Federal judge grants Guantanamo habeas petition, orders detainee release	5:31 PM ET
	Spain court to try 14 Salvadorans accused of Jesuit killings	12:08 PM ET
	Military commissions overseer says torture tactics used in Guantanamo interrogation	12:04 PM ET

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After Bush: Taking Meaningful Steps Towards Accountability

V. Hansen/ L. Friedman
New England School of Law

Good and the Legal Future of 'Light' Cigarettes

Micah Berman
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President Bush has used pardon power modestly compared to predecessors

1/13

Gerald L. Baliles [former Governor of Virginia; Director, Miller Center of Public Affairs]: "The lineage of the pardon power and executive clemency generally runs to ancient Rome. British practice in the colonial period and before, itself drawing on antiquity, was the immediate precedent for the presidential pardon power found in the Constitution. The power is broad, based on British royal ...." [more]

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Martin Luther King Jr. born

On January 15, 1929, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University and listen to a clip from King's 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC....." [more]

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