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...occur internally. “It is upon us Iranians to resolve these issues. It is not the job of foreign soldiers,” Ebadi said, speaking through an interpreter before a crowd of nearly 200 at the First Parish Church. Ebadi, an Iranian who is also a lawyer and one of the first female judges in Iran, became in 2003 the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Prize. “Iran and the U.S. must bring an end to their disputes through dialogue and negotiations which are public, open, and direct...
...anyone can tell, the Justice Department has never before raided a Congressional office. And the "speech or debate" clause in the Constitution is unusually explicit in protecting the work of members of Congress. "It's never been done before and its never been legally tested," says top Republican ethics lawyer Jan Baran of the raid. He predicts that if any useful evidence was gathered it will immediately be subject to attack by Jefferson's lawyers. "The Congressman can assert that the evidence was obtained unconstitutionally," Baran says...
...seems as though Avakian had the right pedigree to become a modern revolutionary. Like the big man himself, Karl Marx, Avakian was the son of a lawyer and grew up in a decidedly bourgeois household—family vacations and all. Raised in Berkeley during the ’50s and ’60s, Avakian grew out of a culture where subversive was the new chic...
...Pence, a lawyer and former radio and television host, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, but the group did not offer the plan because it?s split on how to handle immigration overhaul. Pence?s official biography calls him ?a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order...
...DIED. Mustafa Ozbilgin, 64, one of Turkey's most senior judges, after being shot in court by a lawyer; in Ankara. Alparslan Arslan, 29, from Istanbul, shouted Islamic slogans as he opened fire on a morning meeting at the Council of State, fatally wounding Ozbilgin and injuring four other court officials. Arslan, who was arrested immediately after the attack, told police that he was punishing the court for ruling against the promotion of a female teacher who wore an Islamic headscarf...