As a branch of government it is unique from the other two branches of government – the legislative. and executive branches – in that the supreme Justices are arbiters of what is allowed or prevented by the US Constitution as the ultimate source of the rule of law in America.
Law and Justice
Saleh v. Bush involves claims by an Iraqi woman, Sundus Shaker Saleh, that former President George W. Bush and other high ranking Bush-era officials broke the law when they planned and waged the Iraq War.
The case, Saleh v. Bush, involves claims by an Iraqi mother that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz — waged a war of aggression against Iraq in 2003,
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February 17, 2016
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February 16, 2016
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February 15, 2016
Say No to War: A New Bill to Abolish the U.S. Military Draft
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February 15, 2016
UK to Ban Public Bodies from Boycotting Israeli West Bank Goods
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February 15, 2016
The International Criminal Court (ICC): When Will Western Leaders be Indicted for War Crimes?
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February 13, 2016
Amaral Duclona: Bogeyman of Haiti’s Foreign Occupation
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February 12, 2016
White House Publishes Petition Which Calls Obama To Be Tried For ‘War Crimes’ In The Hague
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February 12, 2016
Israel’s International Conspiracy
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February 10, 2016
Alleged Assassin of Bobby Kennedy: RFK Friend Raises Doubts about Sirhan Guilt at Parole Hearing
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February 10, 2016
To my Fellow Israelis: We Can Stop This
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February 09, 2016
150 Years of US Civil Rights Legislation and the Struggle for Black Power
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February 09, 2016
Ivorian Oil Workers Strike as ICC Trial of Former Leaders Continues
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February 09, 2016
Netanyahu Wants an Arab-Free Knesset
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February 09, 2016
War Crimes Tribunal Finds Bush and Blair Guilty
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February 08, 2016
Why the Assange Ruling is not ‘Ridiculous’
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February 08, 2016
American Aggression against China
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February 08, 2016
The U.S. Labor Movement’s “Pearl Harbor Moment”. The Supreme Court’s Hearing of Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association
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February 07, 2016
Ten Facts Why Netanyahu is a Criminal and that Israel is a “Rogue State”
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February 07, 2016
Complicity in Torture – the Truth Britain Doesn’t Want to Face. When will the UK Obey its Own Laws?
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February 07, 2016
No Fair Hearing for Assange at the Guardian
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February 06, 2016
Academic Freedom, Challenging Media Propaganda: Professor James Tracy’s Legal Defense Fund
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February 06, 2016
Julian Assange, the UN and the Meaning of “Arbitrary Detention”
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February 06, 2016
Yemen: UK Parliamentary Committee Calls for Halt to Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia, Moots International Inquiry into Alleged International Law Abuses
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February 06, 2016
Clinton, Petraeus, Snowden and Manning: The Tail of the Two Americas
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February 05, 2016
Legalising Cruelties: The Australian High Court and Indefinite Offshore Detention
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February 05, 2016
Freeing Julian Assange: The Last Chapter
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February 05, 2016
Countries Sign The TPP… Whatever Happened To The ‘Debate’ We Were Promised Before Signing?
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February 04, 2016
As Yemen Bleeds, British Profits from Weapons Sales “Bury Human Rights”
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February 04, 2016
West Coast US Cities Sue Monsanto over Toxic Chemicals
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February 03, 2016
Alaska and Hawaii Ask United Nations to Recognize U.S as “Occupiers”
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February 02, 2016
The Ethics of Exposure: Whistleblower Thomas Tamm, the DOJ and Bush Era Rampant Surveillance
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February 02, 2016
Voting Rights Organizer Targeted by the Ku Klux Klan for Liquidation Prompting the Black Power Movement
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February 02, 2016
Victors’ Justice: The International Criminal Court (ICC) Begins Trial of Ousted Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo
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February 02, 2016
Jeremy Corbyn and Britain’s Trident Nuclear Missile Question
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February 01, 2016
Israel Launches Electronic War Against ‘Global Boycott Movement’
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February 01, 2016
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Life Sentence for Truth in Media: Turkish Journalists Face Life Sentences after Uncovering Arms Supply to Syria Terrorists
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January 29, 2016
Denmark, Decency and Decay
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January 29, 2016
UN Security Council to Consider defining all Israeli Settlements in Occupied Territories as Illegal
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January 29, 2016
While Flint Was Being Poisoned, State Workers “Quietly” Provided Water Coolers
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January 29, 2016
Obama’s War Against the First Black Republic
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January 29, 2016
Cameron Desperate to Stop Scandal as Secret Plans to Sell the National Health Service are Discovered
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January 29, 2016
Summit of Latin American and Caribbean States Aims At Peace, Social Justice and Sovereignty
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January 28, 2016
Above the Law: UK Government Drops investigations into Iraq War Crimes
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January 28, 2016
Ban Ki-Moon’s Duplicitous Criticism of Israel
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January 27, 2016
Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians With U.S. Bombs
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January 27, 2016
Military Escalation: The US Congress is Writing the President a “Blank Check for War”
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January 26, 2016
How the Supreme Court Could Legalize Direct Bribery: An Innocent Behind Bars, A Guilty Man Free
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January 25, 2016
Tony Blair Queried, Again, Over Nature of Burma Dealings
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January 24, 2016
State-Sponsored Murders at Guantanamo. Extrajudicial Assassination of Prisoners
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January 24, 2016
European Court of Human Rights Refuses MH17 Victim’s Case against Ukraine Government, Imposes Secrecy Blackout on Evidence
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January 23, 2016
Hillary Clinton: A Deplorable Choice for President. “The Most Dangerous of the Bunch”
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January 23, 2016
China Backs Establishment of Independent State of Palestine with Jerusalem as Its Capital
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January 22, 2016
MH-17: Kerry Pressed for Evidence by Father of Sole American Citizen on Flight
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January 22, 2016
Guantanamo Guard: ‘CIA Killed Prisoners and Made it Look like Suicide’
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January 21, 2016
“The Criminalization of Peace”: American Grandmother Jailed for Peacefully Protesting the US Drone War
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January 21, 2016
The Legal Basis for Australia Joining the US Bombing Campaign in Syria
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January 21, 2016
The Flint Water Crisis and the Criminality of American Capitalism
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January 20, 2016
Political Assassinations: Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy
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January 19, 2016
EU Slaps Down Netanyahu Government as Europe Condemns Israel’s Misleading Labelling of Goods
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January 19, 2016
Martin Luther King also had A Nightmare
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January 18, 2016
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Will Governments Agree to Pass Massive Powers to Transnational Capital?
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January 17, 2016
The FBI’s Two-Pronged Investigation of Hillary Clinton
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January 17, 2016
The FBI’s Criminal Investigations regarding Hillary Clinton. Two Smoking Guns: Espionage and Corruption
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January 17, 2016
Venezuela Plunges Into Constitutional Crisis. Supreme Court Declares National Assembly Void
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January 16, 2016
Dissent from Within at the Supreme Court of Canada: 2015 Year in Review
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January 15, 2016
Israel Sued in US over Flotilla Attacks. Civil Law Suit against the State of Israel
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January 15, 2016
Swiss Court Orders Israel to Pay Iran $1.1 Billion in Oil Pipeline Dispute
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January 15, 2016
Revoke ExxonMobil’s Corporate Charter for Climate Destruction and Cover-Up
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January 14, 2016
Rise Up Americans… Poem for Martin Luther King Day. MLK Stood Up against War and Racism
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January 14, 2016
It’s Not Too Late For Trade Unions to Win Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association (CTA)
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January 13, 2016
Killer Cops and the Militarization of “Law Enforcement” in America: Defending the Movements, Challenging the Police
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January 13, 2016
The South China Sea Crisis and the “Battle for Oil”
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January 13, 2016
UK Investigatory Powers Bill: NSA Whistleblower Tells British Parliament “Snooper’s Charter” Is Deadly
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January 13, 2016
Britain and Saudi Arabia: Collusion in Barbarism
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January 11, 2016
Cameron Government Threatened with Legal Action over UK Arms Export Licences to Saudi Arabia
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January 11, 2016
Another Brutalized Guantanamo Victim Freed
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