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?
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
Harvard’s Kangaroo Law School
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April 21, 2007
U.S. Attorneys and Voting Rights: The New Watergate
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April 12, 2007
Executing political opponents & their lawyers: Imminent threat to Iraqi Defense Attorney Badee Izzat Aref
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April 09, 2007
Guantánamo and the US Supreme Court: Coming Up Short on Habeas for Detainees
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April 03, 2007
Showdown between Britain and Iran: Is Mediation Possible?
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March 30, 2007
Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
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March 28, 2007
Thousands of right-wing settlers try to re-occupy dismantled illegal settlement in West Bank
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March 27, 2007
Some Questions regarding the Bullying of Iran
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March 25, 2007
Bush Paves the Way for Martial Law
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March 21, 2007
Judicial Crisis in Pakistan: Musharraf goes after the Supreme Court
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March 19, 2007
Tony Blair faces prospect of an International Criminal Court investigation for war crimes in Iraq.
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March 18, 2007
Political Purging and Spying on Americans
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March 12, 2007
Three Iraqi women who face imminent execution: update
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March 10, 2007
Dr David Kelly’s unnatural death: Murder of the Law
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March 09, 2007
Yugoslavia: Human Rights Watch in Service to the War Party
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March 09, 2007
Washington jury convicts top Cheney aide of four felonies
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March 07, 2007
Conscientious Objector Faces Court-Martial: The Case of Augustín Aguayo
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March 06, 2007
Worldwide Mobilization: Second update on efforts to stop the Summary execution of three Iraqi women
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March 03, 2007
The death sentence pronounced on three Iraqi women alleged to be members of the resistance
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March 03, 2007
Iraq: New Martial Law Powers Threaten Basic Rights
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March 02, 2007
US-installed Iraqi government imposes a culture of death and derogation of women’s rights
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February 28, 2007
The Court Martial Mistrial of Lt. Watada
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February 27, 2007
The War on Canadian Civil Liberties: Government told by Supreme Court to rewrite Law
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February 26, 2007
Routine Practices of Torture by US Forces in Iraq: Testimony of Abbas Z. Abid to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission
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February 23, 2007
Canada-Afghanistan detainee agreement allows torture: rights groups
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February 23, 2007