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...will provide a new trial for McVeigh. But if Matsch rejects the motion, McVeigh's chief attorney, Stephen Jones, can also appeal the sentence and the conviction to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. The Court of Appeals, unlike the Supreme Court, cannot choose to ignore a request for an appeal...
...their free speech. Last fall Clinton boosted his efforts to pass the McCain-Feingold bill that would curb soft money and give candidates cheap TV time, but now it's pretty much dead. Two weeks ago, he asked the Federal Election Commission to ban soft money by regulation, a request most reformers regarded as only a gesture. The Justice Department is now eyeing some pending cases from the Midwest, hoping one might be the ticket to persuade the court that unbridled spending is so corrosive to democracy that its First Amendment absolutism is outmoded. Court watchers...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fearing political unrest in Cambodia, the United States has moved to extradite Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot to stand trial before an international tribunal even before receiving official confirmation of his capture. The United States has already asked Canada to request the extradition of Pol Pot under a Canadian law against genocide, The New York Times reported today, and has offered to provide a military escort to transport Pol Pot out of Cambodia. Under the plan, which Canada has yet to accept, the 69-year-old guerrilla leader would be held in Canada until a United Nations tribunal...
...which was, essentially, that Clinton, who was then Governor, noticed her at a desk in the lobby of the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock, where she was handing out name tags for a conference, had a state trooper bring her to a private room, and there made a crude request for oral sex, in the process giving her a look at what she would later call the "distinguishing characteristics" of his genital area. In fact, the idea that Clinton would drop his shorts in front of a woman he had just met initially sounded unbelievable, even to Gennifer Flowers--though...
...alumnae called Knowles' report "a divisive strategy" and asked to meet with Rudenstine, a request to which the president has not yet responded...