Judge rules Bush statements pose no threat of jury taint
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- A military judge ruled yesterday that statements by President Bush and military leaders about alleged Abu Ghraib abuses do not appear specific enough to taint the jury pool for next month's trial of a reputed ringleader in the case.
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A federal judge has ruled that the Bush administration exceeded constitutional authority - and ignored the Geneva Conventions - when it set up military commissions to try terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.
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A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the
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Kerry said he would not appoint judges who would overturn the Supreme Court&#39;s 1973 abortion rights decision of Roe v. Wade. Bush said he had no litmus test for judges and reiterated his support for the ban on so-called partial birth abortion.
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President George W. Bush on Monday spared former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby a prison term, enraging Democrats who accused Bush of abusing power in a case that has fueled debate over the Iraq war.
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President Bush told House Democrats that he did not question the patriotism of those who disagreed with his Iraq strategy.
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President Bush on Thursday refused to criticize a U.S. security company in Iraq accused in a shooting that left 11 civilians dead, saying investigators need to determine if the guards violated rules governing their operations.
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A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights.
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Voting rights are not denied to those who use punch-card ballots, a federal judge ruled in the nation's first trial to challenge the system blamed for woes in Florida in the 2000 presidential election.
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A federal judge said Thursday he will not delay a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the CIA leak case, a ruling that could send the former White House aide to prison within weeks.
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A US military judge has ruled that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cannot be forced to testify in the court-martial of an Army reservist charged with abusing inmates at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison.
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THE judge in pop icon Michael Jackson&#39;s child abuse case tentatively ruled today that scores of items of evidence seized at his Neverland Ranch could not be used against him in evidence.
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The federal judge who struck down President Bush's warrantless surveillance program turned aside a government request for an indefinite stay Thursday but said the government could have a week to appeal.
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A federal judge presiding over the perjury trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff expressed doubt this morning about defense arguments that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was scapegoated by the White House in 2003 as the furor grew over the leak of a CIA officer's identity to the media.
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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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President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he would not rule out a full pardon for Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a day after he spared the former White House aide prison time for his perjury conviction in the CIA leak case.
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A federal judge said that tribunals like the one the suspect is facing are contrary to principles of American justice.