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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President Trump’s Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Says Do Not Prosecute Julian Assange
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Demand Transparency in Medicare for All
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Trump Administration Indicts Chinese Nationals on Alleged Cyber Espionage Charges
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Federal Court Blocks Trump Asylum Ban Again
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Federal Court Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional
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December 14, 2018
Federal Judge Orders Mueller to Turn over Flynn Material
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Seven Decades after UN Resolution 194 on the “Right of Return”: Why Haven’t Palestinian Refugees Returned Home?
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December 13, 2018
Plan A+: Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Withdraws Rival Brexit Plan after Charity Watchdog’s Investigation
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Clinton Foundation CFO Spills Beans to Investigators
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Nikki Haley: Cheerleader for Apartheid Israel, Swan-song at the United Nations, an Embarrassment
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In Early Holiday ‘Gift to Polluters,’ Trump Guts Protections for 60 Percent of Nation’s Streams, Wetlands, and Waterways
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An Historic Opportunity to Transform Trade: Reject NAFTA II
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Senior Israeli Lawmaker Calls for Killing All Palestinians, “Because they are just Nazis Anyhow”
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Jewish Voice for Peace Targets CNN over Dr. Marc Lamont Hill Firing, for Having Defended Palestinian Rights
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