Recent Updates
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TX legislators move to rescind governor's HPV vaccine order
Legal News Center 02/21/2007Lawmakers in Texas advanced a bill Wednesday to rescind the governor's executive order requiring that school-age girls receive a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. The House of Representatives' Public Health Committee voted 6-3 in favor of the bill,...
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Final arguments heard in Libby trial
Legal News Center 02/20/2007Lawyers made their final arguments in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Tuesday, with the defense arguing that Libby was a scapegoat for presidential aide Karl Rove's disclosures. In its final remarks, the prosecution argued that Libby wa...
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Anit-Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit Launched
Legal News Center 01/31/2007[##_1L|1003898138.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Wan J. Kim, announced today the creation of the Human Trafficking Prosecution (HTP) Unit with...
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US begins court bid to extradite two in drugs case
Legal News Center 01/31/2007A BID to extradite two people to the United States over an alleged international operation to produce an illegal drug got under way yesterday. Brian Howes, 43, and Kerry Ann Shanks, 29, are wanted by the American authorities to face 82 charges over t...
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Maine says 'No' to Real ID Act
Legal News Center 01/26/2007[##_1L|1115888411.jpg|width="90" height="119" alt=""|_##]Both the Maine House of Representatives and Senate approved a joint resolution Thursday refusing to implement the federal Real ID Act. The resolution had broad support across both parties, with...
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Lawmakers react to president’s speech
Legal News Center 01/24/2007U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, said Tuesday that President Bush’s State of the Union address was bipartisan in both approach and appeal."I think the president understands, for him to get something done in the next two years, he is going to have ...
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US House votes to strip felon lawmakers of pensions
Legal News Center 01/23/2007The US House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Tuesday to deny retirement pensions to any member of Congress "convicted of any of certain offenses," including fraud, bribery and perjury. Currently, federal lawmakers can only be stripped of...
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Libby trial jury selected for CIA leak case
Legal News Center 01/22/2007[##_1L|1064760577.jpg|width="110" height="126" alt=""|_##]A twelve-person jury was selected Monday to sit in the CIA leak trial of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Even though jury selection began last Tuesday and was supposed ...
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Supreme Court takes campaign issue ads cases
Legal News Center 01/20/2007The US Supreme Court Friday granted certiorari in five cases and ordered all briefings on a challenge to the limits on pre-election advertisements introduced as part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) upheld by the Supreme Court in 2003 to ...
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Ethics reform bill approved by Senate
Legal News Center 01/19/2007[##_1L|1289219447.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The US Senate passed the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 by a 96-2 vote Thursday, but declined to create a Senate Office of Public Integrity to investigate ethics breac...
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Ethics reform bill approved by Senate
Legal News Center 01/19/2007The US Senate passed the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 by a 96-2 vote Thursday, but declined to create a Senate Office of Public Integrity to investigate ethics breaches. The bill was the first major initiative taken by the ...
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Terror watch list to be culled: TSA official
Legal News Center 01/18/2007The "no-fly" terrorist watch list now used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is being redrafted and will likely be cut in half, according to testimony given by TSA Administrator Kip Hawley during a Thursday Senate Commerce Committee...