Judge Reinstates Rules on Sonar, Criticizing Bushâs Waiver for Navy
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The decision to restore a series of provisions meant to protect whales was a rebuke to an effort by the Bush administration to exempt the Navy from those rules and from federal law.
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President Bush cannot exempt the Navy from environmental laws banning sonar training that opponents argue harms whales, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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The Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo puts the brakes on what has been a sharp expansion of executive powers and raises fresh questions about other aspects of President Bush&#039;s war-on-terror policy.
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A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
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Departing Attorney General John Ashcroft, dealt several court defeats over US anti-terrorism policies, on Friday derided what he called judges&#39; second-guessing of the president&#39;s decisions.
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A ruling by a U.S. Army panel could lead to the overturning of one of the largest courts-martial of World War II.
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to limit judges' authority to scrutinize evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
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A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ruled a portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional, the first time one of the antiterrorism law&#39;s controversial police surveillance provisions has been struck down.
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A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to
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President Bush will renominate a group of judicial nominees who were blocked by Senate Democrats during his first term, the White House said Thursday.
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In a blow to the Department of Justiceâs post-Sept. 11, 2001, powers, a federal judge said the governmentâs ability to conduct secret and unchallengable searches of Internet and telephone records violates the Constitution.
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Surveillance powers granted to the FBI  under the Patriot Act, a cornerstone of the Bush  Administration's war on terror, were ruled unconstitutional by  a judge on Wednesday in a new blow to U.S. security policies.
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President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The government's new system for trying Guantanamo detainees was thrown into turmoil yesterday, when military judges in separate decisions dismissed war-crimes charges against two detainees.
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The Bush administration's plan for prosecuting foreign enemy combatants was sidetracked Monday by a federal judge's ruling, the latest in a string of legal defeats for the government.
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Surveillance powers granted to the FBI under the Patriot Act, a cornerstone of the Bush Administration&#39;s war on terror, were ruled unconstitutional by a judge on Wednesday in a new blow to US security policies.