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,
Saudi Arabia Initiates a Court Devoted to Human Rights, NOT Satire!
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February 29, 2016
“Promote the human dignity, justice, equality and the rule of law”? Will any Saudi official involved in human rights violations not to mention State support of terrorist organizations in Syria, Iraq, be called to account to the Court?
Canadian “Peacekeeping” Troops in Afghanistan: Keep Pearson out of it
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February 05, 2008
Kosovo secession linked to NATO expansion
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February 03, 2008
Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women’s rights
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February 02, 2008
VIDEO; American Justice – To the Dark Side
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February 02, 2008
Ante-room to Peace : Recognizing the FARC as Belligerents
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January 31, 2008
I.Q . Testing Damages Self -Worth of Test-takers and Reduces their Opportunity for Success
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January 30, 2008
The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America
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January 28, 2008
Cheney Impeachment Gains Traction in House Judiciary Committee
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January 22, 2008
Italian judge seeks trial of 140 over Operation Condor repression
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January 18, 2008
Canada puts U.S. on torture watch list
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January 17, 2008
The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go?.
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December 26, 2007
The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go?
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December 26, 2007
On ‘Israel’s Right to Exist’
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December 23, 2007
“The Directives to Torture come from the Top”: What Is Probably in the Missing Tapes
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December 23, 2007
Lawyers Stepping Up
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December 22, 2007
“Black Site” Survivor Relates Horrific Tale: Enforced disappearance and torture at several CIA “black sites”
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December 19, 2007
Canada: Judge rules the return of political refugees to the US illegal
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December 19, 2007
East Harlem: Fighting for Justice, One Building at a Time
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December 05, 2007
Guantanamo Detainees’ Fate at Stake
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December 05, 2007
A Change Ain’t Gonna Come: Democrats Openly Embrace Aggression and Torture
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December 02, 2007
US House passes Democrat-crafted “homegrown terrorism prevention” legislation
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December 02, 2007
Fear-mongering legislation: The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
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December 01, 2007
“Thousands” Illegally Rendered By Bush Administration for Interrogation, Torture
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November 29, 2007
Canada’s Supreme Court opens door to deportation of US “war resisters”
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November 29, 2007
The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes That Would Land Anyone Else in Jail
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November 28, 2007
Remembering Victor Rabinowitz: Legal Giant of the Left
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November 25, 2007
French prosecutors throw out Rumsfeld torture case
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November 24, 2007
Law and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the People’s Response
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November 22, 2007
Musharraf Plays Bush for a Fool
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November 20, 2007
Re: Criminals’ literary profits, Open Letter to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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November 20, 2007
Bush’s Clever Cognitive Dissonance
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November 18, 2007
Muslim Charities: Denial of Due Process to Muslims Disgraces Us All
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November 18, 2007
Torturing Palestinian Detainees
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November 14, 2007
International Bar Association calls upon the world’s bars and law societies to support lawyers and judges in Pakistan
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November 08, 2007
National State of Emergency in Pakistan condemned by National Lawyers Guild
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November 07, 2007
Warning, this film could make you very angry
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November 04, 2007
Big Brother: House passes the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”
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November 02, 2007
It’s Time to Fire Washington!
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November 02, 2007
Congressional Shame and Duplicity
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November 01, 2007
Kosovo and the Westphalian Order
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October 29, 2007
Michael Mukasey: Another Loyal Bushie
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October 22, 2007
The Economic Sanctions Against Cuba: the Failure of a Cruel and Irrational Policy
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October 08, 2007
Torture Endorsed, Torture Denied
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October 08, 2007
Licensed to Kill
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October 07, 2007
Why Not Impeachment?
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October 07, 2007
“Unrecognized” Palestinians
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September 09, 2007
Luis Posada Carriles, the White House terrorist
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September 07, 2007
Departing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Favorite Memory: Gonzo on Habeas
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August 29, 2007
Alberto Gonzales and the Coup Against Democracy
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August 11, 2007
FISA Revised: A Blank Check for Domestic Spying
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August 10, 2007
U.S. Government’s Role in Torture: House of Death continues to haunt Bush Administration
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August 09, 2007
Violation of International Law: The Security and Prosperity Partnership must be declared Null and Void
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August 09, 2007
Reviewing Marjorie Cohn’s “Cowboy Republic”
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August 09, 2007
Time for an Independent Counsel
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July 30, 2007
Showdown Looming Over Executive Privilege
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July 24, 2007
Reining In an Out-of-Control Executive
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July 16, 2007
No Inquest into the Death of Dr. David Kelly
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July 15, 2007
The Opportunistic Commuter-in-Chief
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July 06, 2007
Libby and Vanunu
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July 06, 2007
The freeing of Lewis Libby: Government criminality and the class nature of American “justice”
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July 05, 2007
The Libby Cover-up Completed
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July 05, 2007
Targeting Dissent: FBI Spying on the National Lawyers Guild
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June 26, 2007
Blair could face Trial for War Crimes
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June 15, 2007
Sailing to Gaza
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June 08, 2007
“Unlawful Enemy Combatants” and the International Criminal Court
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June 08, 2007
No Unlawful Enemy Combatants at Guantánamo
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June 06, 2007
Jail Sentence for Scooter Libby
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June 05, 2007
As part of CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program: Boeing subsidiary accused of profiting from torture
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June 03, 2007
The Unitary King George
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June 01, 2007
Revisiting the ‘Rwandan Genocide’
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June 01, 2007
Polonium and Politics
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May 25, 2007
U.S. Real ID Act Poses Real Threats
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May 20, 2007
Bush Justice Department cover-up unraveling
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May 17, 2007
The moral bankruptcy of the European Union in its policies towards Cuba
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May 14, 2007
The Bollyn Trial: The Destruction and Withholding of Evidence
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May 12, 2007
Fighting Terror Selectively: Washington and Posada
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May 10, 2007
Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Corruption of International Justice
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May 06, 2007
Lawyers taking Rumsfeld war crimes case to Spain after German rejection
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April 29, 2007
Immigrants Used to Justify a Homeland Security Police State
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April 23, 2007
Alberto Gonzales: Tip of the Iceberg
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April 21, 2007