Law and Justice

Rule of Law
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.
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,
“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?
America’s War on Islam By Stephen Lendman, December 31, 2008
National Lawyers Guild Condemns Illegal Israeli Massacre in Gaza By Global Research, December 30, 2008
Time To Strike Hoover’s Name Off FBI Headquarters By Sherwood Ross, December 22, 2008
Thousands at Congress Affirm Palestinian Right To Return By Sara Flounders, December 22, 2008
Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine By Stephen Lendman, December 22, 2008
Key witness in Rove probes killed By Michael Carmichael, December 21, 2008
Kosovo, the United States, and International Law By Lenora Foerstel, December 20, 2008
Rwandan Military Leaders Found Not-Guilty of Conspiracy and Genocide Planning By Association of Defense Lawyers, December 18, 2008
Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, December 18, 2008
Ramsey Clark receives UN Human Rights Award 2008 By Global Research, December 16, 2008
The paramount war criminal Tony Blair – For Virtue, Vibrio and God By Dr. David Halpin, December 15, 2008
Tough Case to Prove Against Illinois Governor By Sherwood Ross, December 14, 2008
Cluster Bomb Treaty and the World’s Unfinished Business By Ramzy Baroud, December 13, 2008
Somebody Should Arm the Senate Armed Services Committee By David Swanson, December 12, 2008
How Two Federal Judges Invoked “Secrecy” to Block Access to Bush Torture Data By Sherwood Ross, December 11, 2008
Obama: Ratify the Women’s Convention Soon By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, December 05, 2008
Fallacy of American Justice By Dr. Elias Akleh, December 02, 2008
Criminal Injustice Against the Holy Land Foundation Charity By Stephen Lendman, December 01, 2008
America’s Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces By Sherwood Ross, November 29, 2008
The Legal Advice to Wage War on Iraq was not just “sexed-up”, it was concocted By Dr. C. Stephen Frost, November 28, 2008
You Cannot Pardon a Crime you Authorized By Lawrence Velvel, November 27, 2008
“Rwanda’s Deadliest Secret: Who Shot Down President Habyarimana’s Plane?” By Tiphaine Dickson, November 24, 2008
Guantánamo Justice After Seven Years By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, November 24, 2008
Unfinished Business for America: Torture crimes committed by high level civilians and generals By Prof. Benjamin G. Davis, November 22, 2008
Congress Opposes Bush Pardons: Bush Pardons of His Own Subordinates for Crimes He Authorized By David Swanson, November 21, 2008
How Guantánamo Can Be Closed By Andy Worthington, November 20, 2008
Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2008
U.N. Condemns U.S. Embargo Of Cuba By Portia Siegelbaum, November 15, 2008
National Lawyers Guild Calls on President Elect: Close Guantanamo By Global Research, November 13, 2008
Miscarriage of Justice: Who was behind the October 2002 Bali bombings? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 13, 2008
Guantanamo: Military Oaths Confront the Constitution in the Omar Khadr Case By Floyd Rudmin, November 11, 2008
Palestine: Testimony of 12-year-old beaten and imprisoned with adults By Global Research, November 10, 2008
Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, November 09, 2008
Democratic Caucus in New Senate Will Have Between 53 and 63 Members By Andrew First, October 30, 2008
How the Government Spies on and Prosecutes Peace Activists By Joy First, October 30, 2008
Black Panthers. Targeting Dissent: The San Francisco Eight By Stephen Lendman, October 29, 2008
Bush’s Preemptive Self-Pardon: Pardon Me, Congress? By David Swanson, October 24, 2008
Chapter Eleven of NAFTA Remains a Threat to National Sovereignty By Dana Gabriel, October 22, 2008
NSA Spying and the Shredding of the Constitution By Tom Burghardt, October 18, 2008
Accused of “providing material support for Al Qaeda”: Justice for Yemini Sheik By Stephen Lendman, October 08, 2008
The Essential Lessons of the Rosenberg Case By Michael Meeropol and Robert Meeropol, October 05, 2008
Announcing Plans to Prosecute Bush in Vermont By Global Research, September 16, 2008
Holding US Officials Responsible for War Crimes termed a Matter of Urgent Importance By Sherwood Ross, September 16, 2008
Unaccountable Secret Government: Most Serious Constitutional Crisis in American History By Sherwood Ross, September 15, 2008
What You Can Do to Put Bush and Cheney Behind Bars By David Swanson, September 14, 2008
John McCain Supports Torture By David Swanson, September 12, 2008
Why We’re Planning To Prosecute Cheney And Bush By David Swanson, September 07, 2008
The Bush Administration Is an Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law and U.S. Domestic Law By Prof. Francis A. Boyle, September 02, 2008
Rwanda: obscuring the truth about the genocide By Barrie Collins, August 20, 2008
Transfer and Torture of Iraqi Prisoners By Sherwood Ross, August 19, 2008
Blockades: Acts of War By Stephen Lendman, August 18, 2008
Marching Off Into Tyranny By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, August 05, 2008
Justice Department authorized CIA to torture prisoners in its custody By Global Research, July 30, 2008
ICC files Arrest Warrant for Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir By Ramzy Baroud, July 28, 2008
VIDEO: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder By Vincent Bugliosi, July 26, 2008
Conference to Lay Plans to Prosecute High Level US War Criminals By Global Research, July 25, 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey calls on Congress to take dramatic steps to subvert the Constitution. By Caroline Fredrickson, July 24, 2008
Mukasey to Congress: Defy the Rule of Law By Stephen Lendman, July 23, 2008
Canadian Government reaffirms support for Khadr’s Guantánamo Bay detention and prosecution By Graham Beverley and Keith Jones, July 20, 2008
Bush Adminstration Sued Over Unconstitutional Dragnet Wiretapping Law By American Civil Liberties Union, July 18, 2008
Torture As Official US Policy By Stephen Lendman, July 18, 2008
Prosecution of George W. Bush by the International Criminal Court By David Swanson, July 17, 2008
Some 140 federal and State Attorneys could prosecute Bush for Murder By Sherwood Ross, July 17, 2008
Sami Al-Arian: From Exoneration to Criminal Indictment By Stephen Lendman, July 14, 2008
Let the Lawsuits Begin: Banks Brace for a Storm of Litigation By Ellen Brown, July 13, 2008
Judge orders stun gun references removed from autopsies By Global Research, July 11, 2008
Numerous Bush Administration officials committed crimes involving the torture of prisoners captured in the Middle East By Sherwood Ross, July 10, 2008
Supreme Court, Inc.: Supremely Pro-Business By Stephen Lendman, July 07, 2008
Abu Ghraib: The Outsourcing of Torture By Tom Burghardt, July 06, 2008
Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts? By Prof. Patrick Bond, July 06, 2008
Spanish court examines war crimes case against Israeli military brass By Global Research, July 05, 2008
Monsanto has to Accept Full Responsibility for Genetic Contamination By Global Research, July 03, 2008
International Justice and Impunity: The Case of the United States By Kim Petersen, July 02, 2008
Attorneys File First New Habeas Petitions Following Historic Supreme Court Ruling Protecting Guantánamo Detainees By Center for Constitutional Rights, June 30, 2008
Victor’s Justice Vs. Morality By Patrick J. Buchanan, June 26, 2008
Subversion of the Rule of Law: Bush’s Torture Attorneys By Tom Burghardt, June 24, 2008
Canada: A consistent pattern of violence directed against First Nations By Ieriwa’on:ni, June 22, 2008
”The Hunt: “Me and Military Criminals” By Elena Guskova, June 22, 2008
Carte blanche to illegally spy on Americans By Tom Burghardt, June 21, 2008
Mumia Abu-Jamal: appeal denied, but a silver lining in judge’s dissent By Luma Nichol, June 20, 2008