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Iowa Court of Appeals interviews begin today

By | 05.09.11 | 12:55 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

The State Judicial Nominating Commission will begin interviews to fill a vacancy on the Iowa Court of Appeals at 1 p.m. today. Fourteen of the 26 applicants will be interviewed this afternoon.

The vacancy was left by Judge Edward Mansfield, who is now on the Iowa Supreme More…

Court Overturns Hazletown, Pa., Anti-Immigration Law

By | 09.09.10 | 6:05 pm

A federal appeals court struck down today a Hazleton, Pa., ordinance that criminalized anyone who rented to or hired an illegal immigrant. The ordinance was a precursor to Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law and other copy-cat anti-immigration legislation, and may signal what is to come for laws accused More…

Sen. Sessions Wants Indefinite Detention for Terrorism Detainees

By | 03.12.10 | 1:16 pm

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)  – last seen slandering Justice Department lawyers and then distancing himself from Liz Cheney’s similar slanders — goes way further than Sen. Lindsey Graham’s objections to a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He writes in a New York Daily News More…

U.S. Court System Outmatches 9/11 Conspirator

By | 01.04.10 | 5:33 pm

From Reuters:

Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court on criminal charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, lost a bid on Monday to overturn his guilty plea and his sentence of life in prison.

A U.S. appeals court rejected arguments by Moussaoui,

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Gitmo Prisoners Pose Thorny Problem for Obama

By | 11.20.08 | 1:15 pm

When word leaked last week that advisers to President-elect Barack Obama were suggesting he create special national-security courts to try high-level Guantanamo detainees, a firestorm erupted among civil-rights advocates and lawyers who’ve represented prisoners there.

By the next day, the Obama camp had issued a statement backing away from the More…