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...largest producer of alcoholic drinks, indefinitely postponed its stock listing after Buddhist monks led a blockade of the Stock Exchange of Thailand building in Bangkok. Thais in favor of prohibition also cheered the passing of an alcohol-control act that took effect in February last year. It raised the legal drinking age from 18 to 20, banned alcohol-related advertising, and - at a time when Britain was liberalizing its licensing laws to allow for round-the-clock drinking - restricted the sale of alcohol to only two periods: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to midnight. But Thailand...
...applies the Internet in a way that hasn’t been done before,” Wohn said. “By being denied the webcast, Joel is losing his constitutional right to a public trial.” The Tenenbaum team will continue to pursue all available legal avenues and cannot yet view this reversal as a setback, said Nesson, who told the Boston Globe that he intended to appeal the Web-casting decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. “We’re going forward with the same issues as we would have in January...
President Obama recently took significant steps to repair the damage done to American justice by the Bush administration, issuing an executive order banning torture and releasing three previously classified memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel—a group of lawyers who provide binding legal advice to the executive branch. However, in order to truly close the book on the dark days of America’s endorsement of torture, Obama should go further and see that those who committed torture are held accountable for their actions...
...Under President Bush, the OLC memos regarding national security and detainee issues had been classified. Since these are legal documents, however, and not intelligence reports, they constituted a form of secret law under which the United States government operated for seven years. The Obama administration’s decision last Thursday to declassify and release four additional memos represents an important step toward transparency. For shedding light on some of the government’s worst abuses, President Obama deserves commendation...
...However, the release of the memos was accompanied by a statement declaring “it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel expanded on this statement in a weekend interview, declaring that the president “believes that [those who devised policy] should not be prosecuted either, and that’s not the place that we go.” We find this...