Recent Updates
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White House disagrees with Gitmo trial ruling
Legal News Feed 06/05/2007[##_1L|1238731727.jpg|width="150" height="100" alt=""|_##]The White House on Tuesday said it disagreed with rulings by U.S. military judges to drop all war crimes charges against two Guantanamo prisoners facing trial, and that the Defense Department ...
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Congresswomen Rallying Against High Court Ruling
Legal News Feed 06/01/2007[##_1L|1113295168.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Democratic congresswomen moved quickly this week in an attempt to counter a Supreme Court ruling on equal pay. On Tuesday, the court said an employee could not bring a pay discrimination case ...
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Actor/Politician Fred Thompson May Run for President
Legal News Feed 05/31/2007[##_1L|1216845435.jpg|width="110" height="133" alt=""|_##]Thompson's entry will have an immediate impact on the battle for the GOP nomination, adding a fourth candidate to the field's top tier, which includes former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani...
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Congress votes to raise minimum wage
Legal News Feed 05/25/2007[##_1L|1334176476.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The US Congress passed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 Thursday, raising the federal minimum wage for the first time in almost a decade. The provision was introduced as an amendment to the I...
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Bush appointments may dominate court
Legal News Feed 05/20/2007[##_1L|1340600753.gif|width="135" height="114" alt=""|_##]In the years since President Bush took office, he has picked three of the seven U.S. District Court judges in Colorado and The Pueblo Chieftain has learned he will have the chance to pick two ...
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CA Gov.proposes new death penalty protocol
Legal News Feed 05/17/2007California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger submitted a capital punishment proposal Tuesday in an effort to persuade US District Judge Jeremy Fogel to lift a moratorium on executions in the state. The proposal includes the construction of a new execution c...
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Connecticut's civil unions law heads to court
Legal News Feed 05/14/2007[##_1L|1074239149.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The state Supreme Court on Monday took up the issue of gay marriage in Connecticut, the first state in the nation to pass a civil unions law without court intervention. Eight gay and lesbian c...
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Bush Threatens To Veto Expansion Of Hate-Crime Law
Legal News Feed 05/04/2007[##_1L|1154057407.gif|width="135" height="114" alt=""|_##]In what would be his second veto in as many days, President George W. Bush threatened to veto legislation that would expand the federal hate-crime law to include violent acts motivated by a vi...
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Goldman hires US Assistant Secretary of State
Legal News Feed 05/03/2007Dina Habib Powell, a senior aide to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, resigned Wednesday to join a Wall Street investment bank, State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said. Powell, 33, was assistant secretary of state for educational and...
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New York governor unveils gay marriage bill
Legal News Feed 04/28/2007[##_1L|1089090544.jpg|width="140" height="112" alt=""|_##]New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (D) introduced a bill Friday to legalize gay marriage in New York. In a press release, Spitzer said: Under current law, partners unable to enter into a civil ma...
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Bush Vows To Veto Troop Withdrawal Plan
Legal News Feed 04/27/2007[##_1L|1139731698.gif|width="135" height="114" alt=""|_##]President Bush warned Congress Friday that he will continue vetoing war spending bills as long as they contain a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Speaking a day after...
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U.S. congressional committee subpoenas Rice
Legal News Feed 04/26/2007[##_1L|1076629695.jpg|width="137" height="110" alt=""|_##]U.S. congressional committee on Wednesday ramped up its investigation of the Bush administration, subpoenaing the testimony of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ccording to congressional vo...