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Kurdish officials have harshly criticised a draft law approved by Iraq’s cabinet in August that would have given the Arab-dominated central government in Baghdad more control over the nation’s oil reserves, the world’s fourth largest.

… Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation “The state should not be using women’s bodies as political pawns, as this law clearly seeks to do.” The judge, nominated by President Obama last year, allowed other parts of the law … Continue reading →

Jan Michiel Otto, a Dutch law professor who led a recent study of how 12 Muslim countries apply sharia, said political Islam covers a broad spectrum of approaches. “If sharia is introduced, you don’t know what you’ll get,” said the … Continue reading →

The push by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society … is being coordinated by the center but involves a wide array of participants, including the government, libraries, museums, foundations, and academics.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress and President Barack Obama want to scrap a law aimed at pressuring scofflaw government contractors to pay their back taxes, and it’s not because the problem has gone away. On the contrary, government investigators in …

Proponents of the law, passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature … The First Amendment prohibits government directives on “both what to say and what not to say,” she wrote. She added: “The Supreme Court has historically taken a dim …

It never happened. Five years later, both parties and President Barack Obama want that law repealed in the name of jobs — despite hundreds of millions in taxes still going unpaid by scofflaw government contractors. The provision signed into law … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – The government hasn’t offered to help Alabama put in place a strict immigration law that the Obama administration is challenging in court, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday. The administration has sued to …

Mustafa Abdul Jalil, leader of the transitional Libyan government, said during the weekend that a liberated Libya has adopted Shariah — Islamic law — as the main law of the land. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said from Tripoli … Continue reading →

All law enforcement personnel recognize the need to constantly train with their firearm in order to be the marksmen they are called to be. However, with the cost of ammunition, training can eat up a big part of any law … Continue reading →