If filed, this case would be the first test of the United States Genocide Accountability Act of 2007
Senator Roland Burris refusing to resign despite urging from fellow Illinois Senator, Dick Durbin.
In spearheading the enactment of the GAA, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), had in mind the cases of U.S.
The yeas are 60; the nays are 38.
I hope that that will be part of the conversation.
I would like to see in light of the intervening Supreme Court decision if we can go back to this and see if it needs to be modified.
which prohibited cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
I would not attempt to define in the abstract the limit of a President's constitutional powers.
I think that is absolutely wrong and that Congress clearly has the authority to make torture a crime.
If the President desires only a rubber stamp, the Office of Legal Counsel will have to struggle mightily to provide an effective check on un...
The means by which we fund Federal infrastructure need to be carefully reexamined.