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...Iraqi government blindsided its U.S. legal advisers when it announced it was removing the lead judge in Saddam Hussein's second trial Tuesday night. Officials in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office had become increasingly impatient with Judge Abdullah al-Amiri in what they perceived as his lenient and overly deferential treatment of Saddam in court. Explaining the move, Iraqi officials cited Al-Amiri's indulging Saddam's lengthy political speeches during three-week prosecution of the Anfal case, smiling at him, calling him "Mr. President" and recently telling him, "You were not a dictator...
...When the deputy judge stepped in on Wednesday morning, the defense walked out, after reading a statement attacking the move. "The decision to sack the judge at the orders of the government shows that this trial lacks the standards of a fair trial," the defense said. The judge later ejected Saddam from the court when he refused to sit down and stop speaking out of turn. The removed judge will likely be transferred to a court that meets outside the fortified Green Zone - where there will be no guarantee he will have the same level of security around...
...Constitution sheds on such questions, and the light that such questions shed on the Constitution.” Such a talk has particular relevancy as the U.S. Senate debates legislation about the White House’s power to reinterpret a provision of the Geneva Convention regarding the trial of terrorists contained at Guantanamo. Last year on Constitution Day, Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 gave a talk on the future of the U.S. Supreme Court under Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76. But the new holiday seems not to have reached...
...Wednesday, satisfaction over the verdicts has been tempered by frustration over the delay in delivering them. "It's a sign of complete failure that it's taken so long," says Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management, a New Delhi-based security think tank. While the trial was carried out by a special terrorism court meant to sidestep India's notoriously clogged judicial system, it still took more than a decade to plow through 26,000 pages of evidence and testimony from 600 witnesses. In the meantime, 12 defendants have died, while the alleged masterminds?Bombay mobsters...
...right on social issues. He got a 96% rating from the American Conservative Union last year, and a zero from NARAL Pro-Choice America. As a House member, Graham caught the nation's attention playing corn-pone puritan as a House manager in Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. "Where I come from," Graham memorably drawled during the trial in the Senate chamber, as he described a phone call the President made to Monica Lewinsky, "you call somebody at 2:30 in the morning, you're up to no good." But in the Senate, Graham has become one of Hillary Clinton...