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scotusblog.com - 1/12/2009
The Week Ahead
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On Monday, the Court will release the remaining orders from the Justices’ private conference last Friday. (Click here for the January session hearing list.) Following the release of orders, the Court will hear argument in: Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, ...
julescrittenden.com - 1/14/2009
About That Torture Thing
— julescrittenden.com — There's a lot of fretting over whether Obama will do the right thing about Guantanamo, and whether... the CIA will barred from using harsh interrogation methods in the GWOT.* Greenwald's having a snit. Now a Guantanamo judge comes forward, says she ... (more) About That Torture Thing

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Khalilzad's "Exit Interview"
undispatch.com - 1/14/2009
Khalilzad's "Exit Interview"
— undispatch.com — Just returning from and event at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC in which Steve Clemons... played host/inquisitor/moderator to a discussion with outgoing United States ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad. Khalilzad ... (more) Khalilzad's "Exit Interview"

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longwarjournal.org - 1/16/2009
US sanctions senior al Qaeda members sheltering in Iran
— longwarjournal.org — Osama bin Laden’s son and three other senior al Qaeda members living in Iran have been designated... as terrorists by the US Department of the Treasury. Sa'ad bin Laden, Mustafa Hamid, Muhammad Rab'a al Sayid al Bahtiti, and Ali Saleh Husain have ... (more) US sanctions senior al Qaeda members sheltering in Iran

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ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society:  Justices To Hear Argument In Right to Counsel Case

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Justices To Hear Argument In Right to Counsel Case
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... involving the Clean Water Act, the right of prisoners to have federally funded counsel during clemency proceedings, the Speedy Trial Act and ineffective counsel in a case involving a plea of insanity. See ScotusBlog for more information about these cases and ...

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