Word: lawyering
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...Israeli army, his security forces cracked down brutally on fellow Palestinians protesting the Israeli offensive. Palestinians ask why Abbas did not go to Gaza during the fighting to show solidarity with its residents, or organize blood or food help for Gaza's victims. Says Diana Buttu, a lawyer and ex-adviser on the Palestinian team that negotiated with Israelis, "The problems of Palestine are much bigger than Fatah versus Hamas, but Abbas tried to turn it into that. He couldn't see beyond the petty differences, even as his people were dying in Gaza...
...Zardari for lifting the restrictions imposed on him by his predecessor, Pervez Musharraf. Zardari may have been averse to the international criticism likely to come from restoring Khan's freedom of movement, but it was a government clarification that was key to the court's decision. A government lawyer told the court some weeks ago that Khan was not under formal house arrest but merely kept under tight security for his own protection. Seizing on that admission, the court said that since there are no charges - and since Khan was pardoned by Musharraf soon after his confession - he should...
...Holder faces huge challenges and a ticking clock as the nation's top lawyer. The most urgent is how to implement President Barack Obama's decision to close the brig at Guantánamo in a year and try some 250 alleged terrorists who have been kept there indefinitely. Some of their cases are so sensitive that presenting evidence in open court could compromise national security. As details of Bush-era practices on rendition, torture and wiretapping become known, Holder will have to rewrite some of the most secret rules of engagement used by the U.S. against al-Qaeda while balancing...
...dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute corrupt officials as a Justice Department lawyer, piling up the convictions of a Philadelphia judge, a Florida state treasurer and crooked FBI agents. In 1988, Ronald Reagan appointed him to the D.C. superior court, the front line for those fighting drug and gang violence in the nation's capital. Holder quickly earned the nickname Judge Hold 'Em among...
...time when investors around the world are having doubts about India's standards of corporate governance, the manner in which the Rajus managed to forestall questioning by SEBI raises questions about the government's earnestness to bring the guilty to justice. SEBI's lawyer told the Supreme Court earlier this week that the regulatory body issued summons to Ramalinga Raju to appear before it in Hyderabad on Jan. 9, two days after Raju publicly confessed to falsifying the company's profits. But that same day, Raju surrendered to state police and once he was in custody, SEBI investigators couldn...