Military Law

Video of Marine Atrocities Highlights Split Between Right Wing and Our Military

Jon Soltz | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Marines, Military, Afghanistan, Pamela Geller, David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, Guantanamo, Detainee Abuse, Allen West, Military Law, Counterinsurgency, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan War, World News
Jon Soltz

There are no words to express my disgust at the video making the rounds today, of U.S. Marines apparently urinating on the dead bodies of the Taliban.

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A Pyrrhic Victory

Bruce Fein | Posted 11.03.2011

Read More: Anwar Al Awlaki, Military, Military Law, Assassinations, Due Process, Terrorism, Politics News
Bruce Fein

The United States' extra-judicial killing of United States citizen Anwar al-Awlaki off the battlefield and unengaged in active hostilities against the...

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War Zone Pregnancy Punishments Dropped

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military Discipline, United States Military, Military-Law, Military, U.S. Military, u.s. Toops, War Zone Pregnant, War Zone Pregnancy, Military-Pregnancy-Policy, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A recent military policy that added pregnancy to the list of reasons a soldier could be disciplined in a war zone will be rescinded...

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Constitutional Coup Averted In Illinois

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice President, Supreme Court, Law, Impeachment, Greg Harris, Cabinet, Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Military Law, Legal, I'm in Charge Here, President, Governor, Reagan, Blagojevich, Acting President, Amendment XXV, Succession, Constitution, Illinois, Impeach, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, Depose, Acting Governor, Chris Weigant, Rod Blagojevich, Al Haig, Coup, Unfit for Command, Lisa Madigan, Haig, Madigan, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The Illinois Supreme Court has just rejected what was in essence a coup attempt by the state Attorney General, which would have installed the Lt. Governor in Blagojevich's place.

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