Word: legalism
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Comparing gay and straight relationships is like comparing apples and oranges simply because straight couples are formed by people who have been exposed to religious, social, familial, legal and cultural promotion of and support for such unions. Gay couples don't get any such reinforcement. In fact, they get the opposite, to the point of being attacked and demonized. Zeke Sutherland, TAMPA...
...days of legal immunity for civilian contractors in Iraq may be numbered, as Washington and Baghdad prepare to renegotiate a long-term bilateral security agreement. Ahead of negotiations on the issue, which could begin in two weeks, the Bush Administration is trying to hammer out its positions on key issues such as authority over combat operations and detentions, as well as other elements of the mission over the next 24 months and beyond. And top of the list of deal-breakers for the Iraqis, is contractor immunity...
...less than meets the eye. Some outside observers say immunity is based not on current legal arrangements, but on the unwillingness of the U.S. to prosecute the contractors. Human Rights First argues that the initial rule that provided immunity to the contractors expired when the authority that adopted it - the Coalition Provisional Authority - closed up shop. The U.S. could subsequently have brought contractors to trial in courts in Iraq, the U.S. or elsewhere, says Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution, but "the political will to use them has been completely absent." By that measure, any fix to the rules...
While there was some relief at this week's Danish police action, the Intelligence Agency's swift arrest of the three men in the country's second-largest city, Aarhus, has raised legal questions. Two of the men, Tunisians ages 36 and 25, were to be administratively extradited, an extra-judicial shortcut that would avoid taking them through a trial. Meanwhile, the third man, a 40-year-old naturalized Dane of Moroccan origin, was released for lack of evidence, also without a trial. The security service explained that it had achieved its goal: to prevent a murder. It said that...
...plans to extradite the two Tunisians, however, met with strong criticism in Danish media and among legal and political experts. "It is very unfortunate that there will be no trial in a Danish court. This means that all evidence against them is kept secret by PET. That is against the most fundamental principles of a community governed by law," Moller told TIME. He argued that extradition in itself is a punishment and must be imposed by a court...